“How much does a website cost to operate?”

Plain vs Fancy Web Design: Which one works best for a small business?

Ugly Website Design
Does your website have to look impressive to get results?

“Can a ‘plain’ website out perform a prettier one?”

If you own a small business site then you have probably gotten sales pitches like this in your email inbox before:

“Hello, my name is {blank} and I wanted to reach out and ask if there is anything that you would like to change about your website?

I am a web developer with {blank} and my team can do just about anything you can imagine. My forte is helping clients get the look and feel they want out of their websites as well as making sure they can be found online.”

Sounds like a good deal right? Get an impressive looking website, and get be found online.

Yet, we all know this is not the complete truth.

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How to Create a WordPress Site for Your Business in 5 Simple Steps

The step-by-step checklist I will share with you below will help you remove the guesswork and show you how to create a website using one of the most trusted (and free) website-building tools in the world.

Create a WordPress Site

Create a WordPress Site for Your Small Business – FAST!

I’m going to share with your the 5-step system that I use all the time to create business websites with WordPress – that are both nice-looking and affordable.

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How to Change a Theme on WordPress Website – Even You’ve Got No Web Skills?

How to Create a Website with WordPress
“Hey anyone can change a WordPress website theme !”

How to Change a WordPress Website Theme in 6 Steps

Jill’s feeling great. Her designer got her new WordPress website up and running a few months ago.  Now she has found what looks like a great new WordPress theme.  All the members of her business group are raving about it.

Jill called up her web guy but he is tied up and she knows from experience it might be days ( or weeks) before he gets back to her.

She really wants to try out that new theme right now! But she’s just gotten used to writing blog posts. She’s afraid she just doesn’t have the web skills for the job.

Well  if you are like Jill and a lot of  other small people, you are probably interested in using a WordPress website to promote yourself online.

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3 Excuses For Not Having a Website That Make You Look Dumb

You need more then just your storefront to survive.

I have to admit it; I really have a super cool job!

My work as a web developer and online marketing specialist lets me help small business people learn how to market and promote their organizations online.

I really like this – not because I’m some kind of “Uber-Internet-Marketing-Guru” but because in my travels, I get to meet some way cool local writers, artists, retailers, entrepreneurs and other small business folk.

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