Reading Time: 3 minutes In most cases a website is not something that you can simply add to the world wide web and let sit there unattended. For it to be effective in serving whatever purpose you had for adding it to the internet in the first place you will need to monitor it, fix any issues that might […]
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Top Five Website Scams to Watch for in 2019
Reading Time: 3 minutes As 2018 comes to a close, you’re probably looking forward to making improvements to your business for 2019. You may even be looking for places to spend your marketing dollars. This makes the new year a prime time for phone calls and emails from people selling you marketing services. While many of these are legitimate, […]
Domain Name Scams: Don’t Get Slammed
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s that time of year again. Year-end sales in home mailboxes. Last-minute bids for charitable donations. And domain name scams — notifications from companies you’ve never heard of, trying to convince you that they do business with you. You may have seen this before — an official-looking letter shows up at your office, from a […]
No, Virginia, You Really Don’t Need Google+
Reading Time: 2 minutes This week Google announced something most of us already knew: nobody is using Google+. At least, consumers aren’t spending any time there. While we’ve consistently advocated for having a public-facing business presence on Google+, we never saw much return on our investment there. It simply became a sort of “elephant in the room” in the […]
WordPress Frameworks: Taking Customization to the Next Level
Reading Time: 2 minutes Remember the last time you went shopping for a new home? You might have liked the floors and countertops of one house in particular, but you wished the kitchen was on the other side of the dining room, or that it had one more bedroom (or one fewer!). If you’ve ever had a home custom […]
Why Your Website Is More Like Your House
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you have heard ThirdSide’s local radio ad you are familiar with the tagline, “Your website is your front door.” It’s a catchy phrase—one we’ve become known for. Your website IS the first thing your customers and clients see, but what happens if we take that analogy a few steps further? What if we compare […]