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Ai And Graphic Design: Unleashing Your Creativity

May 21, 2023 No Comments

Discover how AI can enhance your graphic design skills and unlock new levels of creativity. Maximize your potential today!

Strategies for Increasing Your Website’s Visibility

April 27, 2023 No Comments

We'll discuss strategic use of keywords, content optimization, email marketing and more for increasing your website's visibility

How to Create An Effective Website Design for Your Small Business

April 26, 2023 No Comments

The Basics of planning and designing an effective website design. We talk about domain names, templates and selection of hosting partner

May 2021 Newsletter – Artificial Intelligence Edition

May 24, 2021 No Comments

You are receiving this newsletter because you are a client or associate of Grey Visual

Marketing is Work, But Wait!

Yes, marketing is hard …and it’s even harder with the increased competition in the digital age. The good news is that artificial intelligence (AI) tools can help you cut your marketing time in half and create better content that ranks higher in the search engines.

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April 2021 Security Roundup

April 18, 2021 No Comments

Online Security

I’m running across so much security information that I felt compelled to share a few resources. I’m keeping it simple so as not to overwhelm you.

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6 Simple Ways to Get Your Customers Talking

April 13, 2021 No Comments

FROM JOHN JANTSCH: The best word of mouth starts with “word of listen.” Call your customers up and ask them why they buy, why they stick around, and why they tell their friends about you.

The five critical components of a real-time customer experience – from Search Engine Land

April 6, 2021 No Comments

FROM SEARCH ENGINE LAND: The most important thing that customers want from brands today is to feel like they’re cared for,” said LeClair. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is nothing people want more than to feel connected and understood.

May 2017 WordPress Roundup

May 1, 2017 No Comments

With approximately a quarter of the internet's websites built on the Wordpress foundation, there's never any lack of news about Wordpress plugins, themes and techniques. This is the first of our monthly Wordpress news roundups. Hope you find it useful.

Grey Visual April Marketing Newsletter

April 6, 2017 No Comments

In the coming months, we'll be looking at various ways to develop content for your blog or newsletter. One of these content exploration tools is Flipboard (flipboard.com). Do yourself a favor and watch the following videos and read about it..... then go and look it over, using your computer, smartphone or tablet, and start a free account.

Email-Driven Conversions Highest on the Weekend

March 25, 2017 No Comments

For email marketers, mid-week may provide the best engagement rates, but the weekends are when conversions are highest. That’s according to Yesmail, which included a day-of-the-week analysis in it latest quarterly benchmarks report

Editorial Calendar Plugins for WordPress – Get Your Content Organized!

March 23, 2017 No Comments

Posting consistently to your blog and social accounts is no easy task, but with one of the following editorial calendar plugins for Wordpress, the task becomes way easier and even fun! WordPress editorial calendar plugins come in free and paid versions, depending on the features included. If you only need bare bones planning, then a free version may serve your purposes. If you’d rather work with a more attractive interface and more comprehensive features… then the premium plugins may be your choice.

Content Marketing Ideas – 3 Proven Ways to Get More Traffic & Shares

March 21, 2017 No Comments

If you struggle with finding content marketing ideas that really crank up the traffic....there's a great guest post on the Duct Tape Marketing blog that will make it a little easier for you to create posts that return a volume of traffic to your site. I've included an excerpt below from each of the 3 methods to get you started thinking. But make sure you click through to the whole article. Lots of examples and additional recommendations. Great stuff for bloggers.... or would-be bloggers. Read onward!

The Best WordPress eCommerce Child Themes for Divi

September 4, 2016 No Comments

Developing an eCommerce site can be time-consuming. The time spent uploading products might not give you enough time to design the website itself. The easiest and fastest way to create an eCommerce site with Divi is to use a pre-made child theme.

Improving SEO with the right meta description – from Yoast

September 2, 2016 No Comments

The meta description is a ~160 character snippet, a tag in HTML, that summarizes a page’s content. Search engines show the meta description in search results mostly when the searched for phrase is contained in the description. Optimizing the meta description is a very important aspect of on-page SEO.

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Designing a Senior-Friendly Web Site – Some Tips

February 4, 2015 No Comments

As the internet has become an integral part of modern life the stereotype that older generations tend to avoid using the web has become less and less relevant. However a new study shows that senior citizens still find websites difficult to use and have a significantly lower success rate when it comes to completing tasks online.

What is a Blog…and What Does it Do?

February 3, 2015 No Comments

First of all....Blog is short for weBLOG, in case you were wondering. When I talk about blogging, so many business owners and middle managers ask "Why should I do that? It takes too much time and, besides, I already have a web site!". A traditional web site has its advantages: Flexibility of design and ability to program complex

Ai And Graphic Design: Unleashing Your Creativity