OK. Time for some guy fun. It's like I keep trying to explain to my wife. From a guy's perspective, things that go Whoosh! or Booom! are cool. Period. Past Job It's probably time for a little confession, for those of you who don't know. The reason I have this airplane photo set as my Twitter … Read more about Guy Fun With a Micro Cannon
Blogging for Your Business – 13 Masters Show You How
Last year, David Frey and Maruxa Murphy invited me to be a part of a new telesummit series they were putting together. The topic at the time was Twitter Masters. If you are still trying to get your mind around how to tap into Twitter the info there is still relevant and worth the price of admission … Read more about Blogging for Your Business – 13 Masters Show You How
How to Come Up with a Steady Stream of Content Ideas for Your Business Blog
"But how am I going to come up with that many blog posts? I don't have that much to say." That was what one of my clients said to me recently when our conversation about strategy got to the part about how often I recommended they post on their business blog to meet their traffic goals. A lot … Read more about How to Come Up with a Steady Stream of Content Ideas for Your Business Blog
Choosing the Best WordPress Permalink Structure
One of the strengths of WordPress is that it does very well in the search engines right out of the box. And then there are a ton of things you can do to give and extra boost to that natural SEO strength that WordPress has by default. One of the easiest things to do is change the default WordPress … Read more about Choosing the Best WordPress Permalink Structure
Zombies Are Invading Sears
I don't know if you've noticed but last night I saw that Zombies are taking over Sears. Sears has also created a new ZombieShopper YouTube channel. The first video was uploaded last week. This morning they uploaded the third video. They've got over 100,000 total channel views as of this … Read more about Zombies Are Invading Sears
Sesame Street Parodies Successful Social Media Marketing Campaign
How about something a little lighter today? You know something's successful when folks start making parodies of your work. And the recent Old Spice social media marketing campaign was very successful. So successful in fact that Sesame Street put together a parody of one of the main Old Spice … Read more about Sesame Street Parodies Successful Social Media Marketing Campaign
How to Get 97% More Inbound Links and 55% More Visitors to Your Business Website
Take a look at the picture to the left here. Which street more closely represents how much traffic your business website gets? Is your website more like the little side street on the left with only a trickle of traffic and not really helping out the bottom line of your business? Or is it more … Read more about How to Get 97% More Inbound Links and 55% More Visitors to Your Business Website
Top 10 WordPress Plugins for Small Business Websites
One of the great things about WordPress is how easy it is to add custom functionality just by installing plugins, which are simply packages of code that can easily be added and removed from a WordPress installation. There are currently well over 11,000 plugins available for free in the WordPress … Read more about Top 10 WordPress Plugins for Small Business Websites
TV News Interview – Cyber Bullying
I was interviewed recently on one of our local TV news stations, WJCL, as part of a story they did on the recent cases of cyber bullying. Here is the story: http://www.viddler.com/explore/ChrisCree/videos/46/ Now "bullying" probably isn't much of an issue for the average business, online or … Read more about TV News Interview – Cyber Bullying
Content Delivery Networks – Not Just for the Big Guys Anymore
A Content Delivery Network, or CDN, is a powerful way to dramatically improve the performance of your website while still keeping costs manageable. Not too long ago CDNs were only practical for really big websites that were getting massive amounts of traffic. But the technical and price barriers … Read more about Content Delivery Networks – Not Just for the Big Guys Anymore
Why the Genesis Theme Framework for WordPress is Great For Small Business
You may have noticed that I recently re-themed SuccessCREEations here using the Genesis Theme Framework from StudioPress. There are several reasons why I did this. But before I get into them I want to say one thing. Even though I decided to change this site, I still believe Headway is a great … Read more about Why the Genesis Theme Framework for WordPress is Great For Small Business
What Are Your Website Expectations?
When it comes to your business website there are a lot of different things you can accomplish if you choose to. The key is understanding what your website can do. When you know what is possible you might find that yourself raising your expectations for website. Then it's just a matter of having … Read more about What Are Your Website Expectations?