Social Media Policy – Is Your’s in Place?

As Social Media is more and more becoming an important tool in your Internet Marketing and SEO strategy – you need to wrap your arms around not only how it can benefit your brand awareness, but also on how it… Continue reading

Lost and Found? Where are you?

Where does your website reside in Google, Yahoo and Bing’s vast databases?  When people search for your services or products, are you one of the lucky few that show up on the first few pages of the search engines?

When people go to the web to find services or products, more so than not – they will only look at the first few pages and contact one or two of the companies they find in those first few pages. So…if you are not on the first few pages in a search, you are considered lost – you may never be found. Continue reading

Facebook…Are You Engaging?


Out of curiousity… are the Social Media platforms helping your business?  Are your “peeps” that like your Facebook business page, engaging with you?

I have been browsing around quite a few Facebook business pages, only to see so many small… Continue reading

Yet another major privacy breach for FaceBook?

 

Yes it has happened again!  FaceBook has opened the door for hackers to be able to retrieve the user’s information, that’s your information. (Read article on Fox News).  Facebook has vowed to have this breach fixed by… Continue reading

Nip & Tuck

Several days ago, I attended a “girlie glam party” with a couple of my friends. It had been years since the last time I allowed myself to just let go, and let someone else be the creator of my image.  I went to this thing, not because I thought I needed a makeover but I did it because a friend’s daughter was in town, and needed subjects to practice on.

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Authenticity in the Workplace

In order for CF Web Professionals to “grow”, I found it was necessary for me to embark on some of my own growth through personal development . Nothing worse than your company growing and expanding around you while you are sitting stagnant with the same “small thoughts”.

Time to take action…
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Web Hosting — Too Many Choices!

 

When you decide to go into business you have to pay your State money for the use of your business name. However; just because you paid fees for your business name,  doesn’t mean that the state gives you an office  building to conduct your business from.  Right?  Same thing goes on the internet.

Most of you already know what a Domain name or URL is, (for those of you that don’t, this is your name on the internet. www.YOURNAME.com). As above, just because you purchased a domain name, does not mean you automatically have hosting for your website. You must purchase both.

If you do a search on web hosting companies, you will be bombarded with so many choices!  How do you know which is a good host, and which is a bad host? How does one choose?

 

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Start Conversating…

Is that a typo? Start doing what?

I’ll say it again.  Start conversating! I know, sound’s like I’m being silly or trying to be cute! BUT, for those of you that know me, know that I use that phrase quite frequently. We all know there’s no such word as “conversating”, but the meaning behind what I’m saying IS serious business.

Using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other forms of Social Media, the idea is to build relationships. The only way to do that is to engage in conversations with others. One sided conversations don’t work too well.
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Clean the Website Clutter

Can a cluttered website hurt your business? You betcha it can!

I don’t want to believe that other people wouldn’t think the way I do. When I go to a website looking for something, I want to be able to find it. I don’t want to have to sift through all the “stuff” to find the one thing I’m looking for. Do you agree?

Let’s look at some real simple things that can help to keep your site from looking cluttered. Continue reading

Is E-Learning the Way of the Future?

 

We have been researching different ways to train/teach business owners and individuals to build their own effective websites. We ran across some pretty interesting, and exciting information!

According to USDLA (United States Distant Learning Association), E-Learning is used in many areas — from Preschool all the way through high school, home schooling, continuing education, corporate training, military and government training and telemedicine. Their research also found that e-learning generates a positive attitude and that the e-learning classroom has similar effectiveness results as the traditional classroom instruction.

 

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