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What Does a Professional Website Really Cost? (And Why AI Hasn’t Changed the Answer as Much as You Think)
You asked for a quote on a new website. The number came back and your first reaction was somewhere between surprise and skepticism. After all, you've seen what AI tools can do. You may have even played with a few yourself. So the question forms naturally: shouldn't...
7 Strategic Ways to Boost Website Performance
Are Your 2025 Goals Looking More Like Ghouls? 👻 The end of the year is creeping closer, and it’s the perfect time to check in on your 2025 goals. If your Q3 results were right on target — well done! But if your numbers are giving you the chills, don’t be spooked —...
Website ADA Compliance (and WCAG): What To Know
Here's What Your Business Needs to Know About Website ADA Compliance: As of April 2026, municipalities with 50,000+ residents — and companies with 50 or more employees — must meet federal ADA/WCAG accessibility standards for their websites. An ADA accessible website...
Blogging With Purpose: From Vision To Rankings
The idea of blogging to make your site more searchable, to drive more business, has been around so long that blogging for the sake of blogging can become default. Writers become frustrated after a while when it feels like they’ve been plucking away and aren’t getting...
Tangible Benefits To Stronger Hosting On Your New Web Design
It’s entirely possible that you’ve been using your own inexpensive hosting plan thus far for your business. Or maybe you’re on a platform such as Wix or Squarespace where the hosting component is built into the service entirely. If you’re looking for ways to level up...
How Hosting Works With Your Domain and Web Design
Business owners we talk to often ask about this, and so for anyone unfamiliar with what exactly web hosting is and how it works with your website, this post is to demystify that. An analogy I’ve used before is that you can think of your web domain (your-biz.com) as...
Tips For Prioritizing Content With Less Friction and Faster Rankings
By Brian Watkins, The SEOptimist Having a decent grasp of keyword strategy is important for all types of business scenarios — whether you’re a business owner working on your own SEO or trying to understand what another pro is doing. These days the basic tools for...
Website Conversions Part 2: Dialing In Your Sales Pages
As a part 2 from our previous post on website conversions, in this post we’re going to share actionable tips on improving your blogs, sales pages, and newsletters. If your sales funnel hasn’t been performing as well as you’d hoped, these are ways to refine your setup....
Website Conversions Part 1: How Can I Optimize Each Stage Of My Sales Funnel For More Consistent Leads?
FROM CLICK TO CUSTOMER • CRAFTING CONVERSION-DRIVEN WEBSITESPART 1 If you've wondered this question, you've probably been working on your sales funnel for awhile but have been underwhelmed. Or perhaps you're just getting serious about tightening up your online website...
AI & SEO Blogging In 2024
AI-driven blogging has exploded over the last year, and while it’s meant some inevitable changes in what kinds of sites can be competitive it’s also driven home some existing truths in SEO. For instance, even though some savvy pros have had big successes using ChatGPT...
Want to Boost Conversion Rates for Stronger Sales? Try Lead Magnets.
Once a prospect lands on your website, it takes a whole new process of optimization to move them along from being just a prospect, to the coveted next step: being a lead. This process is called conversion rate optimization, and it involves creating the right...
Your Value Comes From Solving A Customer’s Needs, Not Your Features
We’re all trying to find the best way to appeal to customers, and it’s easy to get swept up in features and expertise. What we offer that someone else doesn’t. Ours is naturally better, right? The catch with that is that the value we are actually providing doesn’t...
How Web Design Affects Content Marketing
Content marketing is a lot of work, and you definitely want something to show for your efforts when you've been chipping away at it for awhile. A fair question business owners ask is how web design comes into play with content marketing. To answer that, let's also...
What’s The Difference Between A Web Designer and Web Developer?
There is a distinction between these two phrases, although in practical usage they become kind of interchangeable. Let's unpack that. What A Web Designer Does A web designer is primarily focused on the look and aesthetics of the website. This involves everything from...
Why a Good Tagline is More Than a Catchy Phrase
The right tagline can make or break a brand. It can inspire seamless customer loyalty, or turn a brand into a meme if done poorly. In today’s post, we’ll discuss some of the core elements of a strong tagline, and then highlight the effects taglines can have on the...
Craft a Brand Story Your Audience Will Never Forget
Nothing quite beats a good brand story for engaging your target audience. Virtually every marketer agrees: an effective brand story humanizes your brand, elicits an emotional response, fosters trust, and ultimately helps drive sales through positive brand recognition....
Position Your Business as the Ideal Solution Customers Need
In marketing, positioning is also known as a unique selling proposition (USP). Simply put, it refers to the way in which you make clear how your business offers something valuable and unique to those who need your service most. Every superhero needs to be clear on who...
What’s the Difference Between a $2500 Logo and a $25 One From Fiverr?
Fiverr is an online marketplace for digital services where individuals or companies can go to find freelancers with a skill that suits their needs. It's considered a micro-task site, where you can do small one-off tasks, relatively quicky. Originally, a logo design...
7 Reasons to Have a Multilingual Website
Having a website in multiple languages may seem unnecessary given the international language for business is English. Today, many businesses online are shifting away from this mentality. Companies are starting to understand how much multilingual content can improve...
7 Tips for Brand Building with Web Design
Besides growing your business to generate more profit, you should also focus on building a brand out of your business. A brand represents your company's public image, what it stands for, and what values it supports. There are more ways to build a brand, each of which...
How Web Design Affects Customer Trust
Building customer trust is a slow and challenging process. There are many different ways to connect with your clients, and one strategy we will look at today is the web design approach. Web design affects customer trust, and we are here to show you how to benefit from...