As a business owner, are passionate about your business and get all gooey inside over the prospect of landing new customers. But one thing you did not sign up for was contact form spam; emails that come from your very own website and land smack at the top of your very own inbox. You love and
Fear-of-website-hackers is a relatively new syndrome. Some entrepreneurs don’t even realize they have it until it’s too late… You work hard to make your small business a success. You put in long hours and are always on the lookout for new opportunities. You take calculated risks that often pay off but you hate events that
Wandering through a giant grocery store all alone is a magical experience. My husband, who usually does the food shopping, is home and nervous as hell. He REALLY doesn’t like setting me loose in a grocery store, because apparently I buy strange things. Not true. I buy interesting things. A can of organic pink beans
By the time I finished college, I was sick of academics. I could have graduated on time with a degree in Philosophy, but had a bit of an existential crisis my junior year once I realized just how in-demand philosophers actually were. That is to say, they weren’t. As I pondered what to do with
We were about to leave the gate at Charlotte International Airport after a great Thanksgiving with family. We were all settled in our seats, buckled up, overhead luggage bins slammed shut, devices stowed away in airplane mode, all that. There was not a seat to spare when the pilot’s calm voice crackles over the loudspeaker,
One of the best ways to grow a service business is through a steady flow of great referrals. In our business, people who are interested in a new website come to us from all over the country. But compared to those who found us on their own, small business owners who have been referred to
Today we are sharing with you a classic family recipe, keyword stuffing, that will bring rave reviews from all the has-been “website SEO experts” sitting around your Thanksgiving table. Here’s the recipe: Wash and pat dry your turkey as you want to make sure the keywords stick. Open an online thesaurus and begin copying some
As the pandemic began to wind down, my husband and I drove our neglected SUV out onto the open road. Along with millions of other newly-freed Americans, we added almost 4,000 miles to the odometer, taking backroads from Westport, CT to Naples, Florida and back via Nashville. We stopped at pretty beaches and replaced lunch
It was the early eighties when I left California for a new job in The Big Apple. Henry Wolf, a world-famous photographer from Vienna, had just renovated a dilapidated, east side carriage-house into a state of the art photo studio. I was going to be one of his workhorse workaholics. I loved my new job
Or, how stories can help grow your business! I recently started jogging each evening because I have a dream of running a 5K in under 24 hours. I run at the local beach because there’s a graveled path that’s easy on the knees and always empty except for the resident geese. Canadian, big, black &
