
Instagram Roundup | May-June 2017
Instagram has gathered a lot of momentum lately and it’s a fun way to interact with your local business community as well as friends and relatives. This roundup is part of my exploration into the mysteries of Instagram.

May 2017 Twitter Social Media Marketing Roundup
For some reason, Twitter has always been my Social Media “friend”. Always liked it better

May 2017 WordPress Roundup
With approximately a quarter of the internet’s websites built on the WordPress foundation, there’s never

Grey Visual April Marketing Newsletter
Hi again and thanks for hanging with us as we issue our first few newsletters.

Email-Driven Conversions Highest on the Weekend
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!
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
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
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
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.

Pinterest: Tips for Journalists and Writers
Pinterest has recently caught on as THE trendy photo sharing site. But it would be

WordPress Checkup – What’s Slowing Down Your Site?
Since Google now considers web site speed in its ranking calculations, it’s not a bad

Designing a Senior-Friendly Web Site – Some Tips
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?
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
“Reinventing You” Brand Marketing Guidebook
This sounds like a fantastic book from Dorie Clark. With this “brand-crazy” environment we’re marketing
WordPress Plugins to Assist with Google’s Panda Update
I’m always interested to keep up with the goings-on at Google. The Panda update was