| Single-Sided | Double-Sided | |||
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| Qty. | Regular Price | Sale Price | Regular Price | Sale Price |
| 1000 | $48 | $36 | $58 | $39.75 (best deal!) |
| 500 | $30 | $22.50 | $35 | $26.25 |
Offer starts today (Sunday, Nov. 26) and goes through midnight EDT Monday, Nov. 27th.
Not my work product, but absolutely worth sharing! Louise Myers, over at Visual Social Media, has created a post, with the details about the image below, for the latest, greatest image sizes for all the big boys in social media: Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, Pinterest, Instagram & YouTube.
Facebook alone has more than half a dozen sizes (the most popular are on the cheat sheet below). I’m personally working on a template for a few, because they don’t always scale well to different devices and I’m tired of text and headlines getting cut off when viewing on mobile devices. Makes me a little crazy.
I’m embedding the cheat sheet below:
I first read about this bit of nastiness a couple weeks ago and shared it on Facebook.
They’ve taken it further, now giving people the option to log into any email account. Yikes!
I’ve made a video so you can see what to look for. Scary stuff. I’m experienced, had read about it and *still* almost fell for it.
Here’s the link to the original article written by the folks at WordFence: https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2017/01/gmail-phishing-data-uri/
A rose by any other name… blah blah blah. Welcome to the new millennium. Names count, and they are HARD! It’s not only hard to be clever or original, it’s downright impossible when coming up with a Business/Domain name that is actually available.
[Read more…] about Business (and domain) Names are HARD
I love it when I learn new things, and granted what I learned was only a single tip (out of 10), but that one tidbit of information was “worth the price of admission” (the time it took to read the article).
[Read more…] about Learning WordPress
Using video as part of your marketing plan is a smart move these days. Even smarter is getting the most out of your efforts by applying basic SEO to your YouTube videos.
Like photos on your website, YouTube & Google have limited ability to understand what your video is about unless you tell them. You don’t want to be spammy about it, but you do want to be consistent. Follows is a simple infographic with the basics of YouTube SEO.
This is a newer scam, the first I’ve seen of it, though I found blog posts dating back a few months in a quick google search. If you get an ‘invoice’ like this DO NOT PAY IT.
I can’t believe companies like this are not immediately shut down. Fraud and misrepresentation happening all over the place here: from the appearance (it sure looks like an invoice!) to listing a non-existent account number.
What happens if you pay it? First, the company is going to submit an order to transfer your domain under their registration services. Then you’ll get an email asking you to approve it. Yikes! Letting a company that uses such unscrupulous methods have control over your domain is a nightmare waiting to happen.
The easiest way to stop getting mails like this (if you get one) is to opt for the private registration on your domain. Prices range from free to $15 or so a year, depending on your registrar, and it will block these scammers from getting hold of your information. I decided to leave this particular domain (cdgwebdesign.com) public because I’ve seen similar scams and figured it was better if I got them so I could warn clients.
Don’t be fooled!
If you’re one of the small local businesses trying to move your marketing online, this article is for you. Perhaps you already have a website, a blog, and even a page on Facebook. If you do, great! You’re making progress. Depending on whether you are doing the work yourself or hiring it out, you may have missed the opportunity for some of the best free advertising you can get — listings in some of the larger online directories… the ones that count. (Being in a bazillion small meaningless link-farm directories doesn’t help and you want to stay away from those!)
The biggies:
If you’re a restaurant you should also be in:
Start with your Google listing, then do Bing. Make sure you enter the exact same data for each of them! Entering the data into these sites will be a bit repetitive, but that’s okay. Different search engines serve up results from many different sources and you want to make sure you’re included in the ones that matter. This is a really basic list, there are lots of other good, solid directories, but folks just starting out should worry about these first.
Most of these sites also offer upgraded ‘paid’ listings or other features. For now, just stick with the basic free listing, you can always upgrade later. Ideally these listings will include a link back to a website, but if you don’t have a site, put up a page on Facebook and link to that.
When provided with the opportunity to enter a description about your company, it needs to be well-written sales copy that tells the potential customer what benefits you offer them. Why should they come to YOUR business and not the guy down the street?
There are basically two types of bloggers in the world – reporters and experts – and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).
If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts. [Read more…] about Reporter vs Expert – Why Most Bloggers Are Stuck Reporting
We’re happy that so many of our customers refer us to their friends and colleagues for printing and web site work. So happy, in fact, that we’re starting a new program: for every 5 new printing or web design customers that you refer to us, we will give you 1,000 FREE premium business cards.
This isn’t a special promotion; it’s a new policy. We want to make sure our customers know we appreciate the referrals. So keep ’em coming!
While we get organized, if you do send us business, please let us know (or have the customer tell us you referred them). We’re working on a way to track the referrals, but didn’t want to postpone the announcement while we worked out the details.
