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If you want people to trust your company – you need to get them the right information. That means having 5-stars all over Google and Facebook, having testimonials, being part of organizations, and having pictures of your team and happy customers.
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If you want people to trust your company – you need to get them the right information. That means having 5-stars all over Google and Facebook, having testimonials, being part of organizations, and having pictures of your team and happy customers.
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Getting started in SEO was a challenge enough, and you’ll quickly learn it takes consistent learning daily or weekly to keep…
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In our weekly Monday Morning Marketing and Coffee live video, I share the reasons why I think Referrals are so…
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Web designing! As the name suggests, it includes all the process you require to design a web including website layout,…
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2018 Website color schemes are getting brighter and more ‘saturated’! We strongly suggest taking a look at your website style…
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We love working with construction companies, and have the privilage to make some very cool construction company logos – and…
After searching far and wide through zillions of candidates (alright, more like 35), we’ve successfully hired a brilliant SEO Specialist…
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Well – here it is. The list I’ve often wanted but didn’t have. A giant list of Minneapolis web designers….
You know when you see those amazing keynotes for marketing conferences – and want to start building a dream conference? My…
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Are you getting roofing leads constantly? Do you want to put the processes and systems in place to get roofing…
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Questions that help determine that unique value proposition When clients are choosing between you and another company and…
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It’s absolutely crucial these days to have strong reviews online. When I see 25+ 5-star Google reviews online I know…
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How Long Should a Blog Post Be for SEO? The result of this research concludes that the ideal blog post length is 1,200+ words. Medium had…
Here I’m curating the ultimate list of free modern fonts. Graphic and Web Designers rejoice! I’ll keep shelling out these curated font…
It’s not hard to find shitty stock photos because so many stock photos are bad without even trying to be…
Do you ever want to relate to some other construction companies around the country? We hope these construction company memes…
Do you know you don’t have to create a Web Design RFP? Many times what I’ll suggest to companies in…
Free sales and marketing audiobooks are a great way to kick off your learning! There are a ton of free…
If you are a small business, your website is an important part of your marketing and branding efforts. Visitors come…
Podcasts are a great way for busy entrepreneurs, business owners, and marketing directors to absorb great content, advice, and…
Incredible designer Ben Barry created Facebook’s Little Red Book – and it left a strong impact on me. So much…
What are the metrics you should be tracking in your digital marketing efforts? For lead generation, there are 6 key…
The Complete Guide To Social Media Optimization There are so many terms added to our digital marketing glossary every day…
Now that I’m an ‘old timer’ in the marketing industry here in Minneapolis. JK – I’m 6 years in, but I…
Search engine optimization can be split into two different sections, on-page, and off-page SEO. On-page is primarily related to the…
I do this every year about – but I love sharing instrumental music that’s great for coding to – or…
It’s still relatively early in crypto-currency game if it takes further hold in our culture – and big moves are…
Thank you so much for checking out my free digital marketing audiobook – #Growthhackathon – Digital Marketing on a Budget!…
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Do you constantly use Google as your guide? Are you searching for a soul mate? Perhaps you are a SEO…
Getting traffic to your website is arguably the hardest part about being a digital marketer, but it’s the lifeblood of…
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When it comes to choosing the most suitable web hosting company for your WordPress website you may be facing many…
You know you need a domain name/URL (Uniform Resource Locator); they are the same thing. But like with everything else,…
I’m convinced of the relevance of the Pareto principle (or the 80/20 rule), which when applied to marketing would mean…
Effective web design is important for any business as it can make or break a company. It’s often the…
If you’ve been in the web design niche for a long time, it’s common to feel like you’re coding and…
Setting up your online store is the first step to making sales on your store but bringing in the traffic…
Don’t get stagnant in your marketing efforts! Many companies have created a lot of opportunity for themselves by pushing heavily…
If you want to create a marketing budget – the first important step is to determine what’s a reasonable budget…
This 2018 Color Forecast – is based on high fashion, paint companies, and Pantone trends. I use these three broader points,…
What are the most important factors for SEO in 2018? Well – according to many annual surveys of the most important…
Medical and Health SEO Keywords – Highest Volume & Traffic is the result to digging in deeply to Ahrefs, and finding terms that…
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Lawyer SEO Keywords – Highest Volume & Traffic is intended to give SEO professionals and Law firms a head start…
You may have noticed that many lawyer, law-firm, attorney, and legal services website designs are as dry and dead as…
Don’t let your medical website design be dry and un-inspiring! There are tons of things that you can do to…
There are alot of bad – and unprofessional financial services website designs out there – and I believe the industry can…
Financial SEO Keywords – Highest Volume & Traffic is brought to you courtesy of my in-depth research using SEMRush, Ahrefs, and…
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We can all tell a great website when we see it: it’s orderly, professional and encourages users to hang around…
Marketing a roofing company shouldn’t be an afterthought once you’ve created your business. Your marketing tactics will be much more…
Many companies are planning their marketing budgets for 2018 – and may be looking for industry averages for marketing spending…
You don’t necessarily have to be an organizing mogul to track construction receipts and keep your profit and expense information…
As much as we’d like to think we’re the one-stop shop for everything Minneapolis SEO – we know that there…
Your roofing company’s website is an essential part of your marketing strategy. Therefore, you should design it in a way…
Finding the right contractor employees for your construction business isn’t always as simple as putting an advertisement in the newspaper….
Getting started in the social media world can be overwhelming because every platform is different. My goal is to…
The Microsoft Azure Fundamentals– MOC On Demand (MS-10979) can prove to be a boon to people working on Microsoft Azure….
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WordPress is undoubtedly the most popular web development platform in the world. This Content Management System has transformed web…
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” Nowhere is the weird, dusty, futuristic vibe more prevalent than Burning Man –…
‘Professional Visibility’ is my term for the kind of online visibility that gets more leads and customers from your website…
Getting local business schema markup on your site, gives you better odds of showing up in Google Maps results. The…
In this second video on getting higher on Google Maps I walk you through the importance of getting local directory…
Getting higher on Google maps means more traffic, more leads and more business. It’s a first step towards professional…
If you understand that professional visibility is important to your company – I strongly suggest getting all of the local…
Given below are some of the best keyword research tools recommended for laying a well-rounded keyword foundation for SEO and…
If you want more leads NOW. You need to get serious about prospecting. Besides just using a digital marketer like me,…
This expert round-up for general contractor marketing / construction company marketing will dive deep into several strategies that will help…
1. Weitz Construction Company Web Design – https://www.weitz.com/ This construction company website is clean and open and gives clear metrics of…
Between the 5 Resources below – there are 21 free sample reports! Google Data Studio is a great tool for…
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If you like tools as much as I do, you’re going to love ’40 of the Best Digital Marketing Tools…
I’ve had a lot of similar color schemes in previous posts, but hey – when something is good, it’s good. These…
A meta-description is what Google shows underneath the title of the page in their search results for your site. Meta-descriptions…
Shoot 5 to 6 Instagram Stories a Day Change your account to a Business account and use links in your…
This is a sneak peak of my upcoming book: #GrowthHackathon: Digital Marketing on a Budget – Which is about how to…
I remember when I first procured a ‘backlink’ on purpose that had decent metrics on it and I saw my…
Hook Agency is now a full-fledged S-Corp. I’ve hired my wife, and we now have salaries. I added social media…
Frankly, I don’t recommend what I’m doing here – because it’s more of an extreme bet that I made with some…
In-person meeting A lively ‘discovery’ process Clear expectations / Documented QA (quality assurance) A focus on making you more money…
From a business perspective – what trends for web design in 2017 matter? Contact form on every page Constant strong call…
PPC campaigns like Google AdWords are powerful tools to have in your marketing kit. Statistically, every dollar spent…
Instagram becomes more popular every year, attracting even the attention of digital marketers from traditional companies that don’t typically…
What is attribution in marketing? Marketing attribution answers the question where are my customers coming from? What activities, social, paid social,…
10 Tips on How to Rise from the SEO Bottom Nowadays search engines are getting smarter and…
Writing copy these days is asking you to walk a very fine line. You want to write copy that will…
Brett Middleton is a Paid Media expert, with 3 years of experience. Currently leading ad strategy at Leadpages and consulting…
Working with a web design company is the best thing you can do when you want a website…
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Here are articles you might want to read if you’re about to manage a web design project. Getting a well…
Don’t try to absorb it all, some of these include technical specifics that might change from one situation to the…
In this modern era when you are running a business, you know looking professional and automation is as important as…
Branding is not something to be taken lightly. There is no denying in its importance. You have to blend powerful…
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As good as your design is visually at this point, adding some visual evidence on the companies website that…
Most sites contain templated information that can be found on every page of the site. In this tutorial I’ll…
For this example, we’re going to turn our section highlighting the 3 main services into a carousel. Then we’ll…
Picking up where we left off before students work, we’ll continue to design the rest of the page, and…
Text and Alignment: In this tutorial we have a headline, paragraph and CTA buttons in the hero unit. Left…
In this video we’ll cover some standard practices for designing the website header including the logo and main navigation,…
I get many people who ask me what they should do if they can’t afford me – and I…
The 10x Growth Conference ( #10x , #10xgrowthcon on Twitter/IG) is going on now in Hollywood, Florida – near Miami,…
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Today, creating an attractive web design is of extremely important. Websites have become a commanding way to promote businesses….
Wanted to curate book summaries of some important marketing and productivity books in one post here. Take a look and…
So this is my 365th blog post, or piece of content – generally in increments of 400 words or more…
Masculine color schemes? It’s 2017 god-damnit can’t we get over the old sex anatomy dichotomy? Well in marketing – I…
Are there really feminine color schemes? Well… there are definitely studies that indicate that men and women have different tastes…
Google’s insistence on the supposed inconsequence of SEO – since Matt Cutts ‘stop guest-posting it doesn’t matter’ all the way…
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future is a biography that shares Elon Musk’s story from outcast in…
Minimalism – the word and ethos is getting more and more publicity as of late with the Netflix documentary, and…
Out with the old and in with the new – Web Design Inspiration 2017! If you’ve been following this blog…
A recent study by ConversionXL determined that products that used Hedonistic style descriptions sold more lower price / commodity items…
You should not allow your CMS to interfere with your SEO strategy. When selecting a CMS, you must take into…
Are you learning to design a website to contribute to your company’s online marketing strategy or simply doing it as…
So many people create lists of marketing trends in the new year, that I’d thought I’d try taking the…
Why personalize your website to people? Personalization leads to on average 19% uplift in sales. 1. Personalize based on your visitor’s location…
Wix and Squarespace are built for people who want to build their websites themselves. They are wonderful tools for rolling…
The median salary for graphic designers was 45K in 2015 according to the U.S Department of Labor, where-as the median salary…
Why is blogging great for business? By blogging and sharing great content on social media, you become ingrained as an…
I designed this course to give people the guidance I wish I had when I was trying to learn how…
WordPress is being widely recognized by individuals and corporations as a platform to build traffic or audience to showcase their…
It will take anywhere from 1 month to 3 months to start seeing some shift, and likely 6-8 months to…
It’s been an interesting year, but I’ve gotten so much better at Search Engine Optimization, and can now really see…
We have a funny pattern with people within the web design and development community – with questions like: “this…
John Locke is a full-time web design freelancer who also co-hosts the WP Tonic Podcast. I asked him some questions about…
You might be thinking to yourself – I want to learn technical SEO, but damn dude, I don’t have…
< Back to Chapter 12 – My Story: Getting Started with WordPress Development WordPress Development for Noobs has been an ongoing…
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Once you have a website, you quickly realize having it isn’t enough. You hand out your business card, or send…
Having problems with the new uploader system? Does it get “stuck” or otherwise not work for you? Things to try:…
Repetition can be seen as spammy by Google’s algorithm, avoid it in your meta-titles When writing meta-descriptions, it’s better to focus…
Quick Overview The anchor text used to link to your site through backlinking / guest posting etc. matters. There are…
Quick Overview Create headlines that grab people’s attention and use words that promise some kind of instant gratification, or significant…
If you have a website created for you, or if you do it yourself – you might be surprised to…
Depending on what you do – a web presence could be extremely important, or it could be somewhat of an…
Are you facing the WordPress white screen issue? It’s frustrating no errors just the white screen! Don’t worry we will…
I think it’s crucial to set the right expectations at the beginning website project – and that means a set…
The real question here is do you want to choose your colors when working with a web designer? If you…
A high intent keyword, is one that someone would search for your company with. For my company those span…
Doing WordPress web design is seriously an amazing job, because you help people take control of their digital marketing efforts,…
This Ultimate Designer’s Color Guide for 2017 has been created for your study and adoration. I spent more time on…
Real quick here are things I would look for when hiring a web designer: Tenacity Cultural fit The ability to…
If you build your website yourself on Squarespace, Weebly, Webs or Godaddy site builder, it’s almost a given that there…
When choosing a web designer, consider how their previous work looks currently. View their portfolio – and then go to…
It’s easy to get caught up in a very informal discussion about a web design project, especially if it’s a ‘quick…
Building a website can take anywhere from 2 hours on a website builder like Wix or Squarespace if it’s a…
“Be wary of anyone who says they’ll build you a web site or sell you a car for $600.” There’s…
Well, I’ll tell you right off the bat – my favorite type of communication involves all of the senses. I…
This has got to be my favorite question of all time, related to web design projects. Why? Because I do…
One thing you know for sure — if you want your service to cover as many people as possible, go…
WordPress is widely used for developing websites and is one of the best Content Management System (CMS) that can…
Steal Like an Artist is an epic ride of illustration, counterintuitive observations about creativity and it’s devourable in the…
Design isn’t just a passion, and you aren’t a unicorn or a snowflake. Design is serious business. ‘Design is a…
I have been working as a freelance web designer for around 4 and a half years, but I have also…
Nothing causes more anxiety to me than sharing with my current boss that I will be going full time freelance….
WordPress can be seen as the king of the web development because of the popularity it has achieved in past…
SEOs are starting to be more cautious with their link building, so more and more SEOs are turning to on-page…
Me sharing this presentation at the MSP WordPress Meetup Learning about boilerplate themes with @timbdesignmpls at our monthly @mspwordpress meet-up!…
Wow, this one was beyond interesting as it dove directly into details and made bold claims. The Conversion Code by…
This book has what some might consider a little bit of an ethereal slant because it almost refers to the…
If I’m 100% honest I was more blown away by Joe Pulizzi’s book – Epic Content Marketing, which turned…
< Back to Chapter 10 – All together now: Using the WordPress Loop with a Custom Post Type, Taxonomies and…
Are you satisfied with your modus operandi of business or do you wish for providing a creative edge to the…
He may not have the kind of extreme fame Steve Jobs was getting in the wake of Apple’s iPhone success,…
Growth-hacker marketing is a whole genre within marketing – and now it’s a book by Ryan Holiday, who attempts…
PHP is an open source and server-side scripting language designed for web development services. If you are a web developer,…
What do you do when you know you want your website to be more visible – or you have…
The impact of creative technologies on businesses across the country and beyond has taken center-stage among the propelling factors for…
Where do you think the best cities in the U.S. are to find SEO Marketing Jobs / inbound marketing jobs? Well…
Sometimes people start looking at social media marketing before they every get a home base for their marketing operations – this…
You might be a busy entrepreneur, a C-level executive or just a digital marketing technician of any of the infinite…
Eat That Frog is a productivity / prioritization classic with a little bit of a corny name. The whole concept…
Gary Keller gives some intensely practical insights in his book “The One Thing.” The title is an allusion to the…
Grant Cardone’s energy is infectious and will really get you pumped up. I think that this plus the fact that…
I’m going to be a doing a series of blog posts cataloguing my favorite books in digital marketing and offering…
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Guest posting is A- Very useful for getting high-quality backlinks, B- a little time consuming. But I’ve identified it…
You wanted them, and you get them. I’ve done the curating – so you don’t have to. Here are my…
What day is halfway through the year? The day that’s halfway through the calendar year is July 1st 🙂 A…
(This post was inspired by a suggestion from Invoices2Go, a resource for invoices and staying organized.) Doing freelance work isn’t always…
Conversion Rate Optimization is the art and science of making tweaks on an existing site to help it convert…
If you didn’t see my first ‘Music to code to’ post, it’s here: “10 Greatest Albums to Code To.”…
So this week, I’m about to start another week, and I need a little push. I get a good workout…
I spent some solid time on some graphic design for our wedding, and this is the first time I’m allowed…
As a designer/developer I use a lot of tools. Besides my design toolkit and the usual culprits; Photoshop, Illustrator,…
Marketing automation elegantly showcases different sources of data such as email, web traffic, social media, & advertising benchmarks and enables…
Of course if you want to have a background to a div it’s generally correct to set that with a…
The original ‘Real Housewives Gifs Explain Internet Marketing‘ did so well that I decided to make a second. You demanded…
As someone who had never been to Europe before I was very impressionable as far as the way Italy struck…
The fashion and extravagance of Italy is refreshing, particularly juxtaposed against it’s carefree people. I simply toured in a couple…
Let’s face it you will never read everything you want to in your industry, or listen to all…
I can’t be everywhere at once, but I do have a pretty solid idea of the website design market in…
Yes, you know you need content on a regular basis to keep your customers and tribe engaged and drive traffic…
I recently started shooting a video that I hope will create a natural buzz, be some sort of viral and…
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What is white space in Design? White space in graphic and web design is simply the places in between elements…
Content, content, content. Content overload. A painful amount of content coming out of the eyes and ears. What a better…
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Have you ever found yourself in a sticky situation with the expectations of your customers? Are they confused about the…
Perfection is limiting. It allows you to look down on other people, but it can stop you from shipping…
I have a tendency to share things I learn on my mini-sabbaticals, like kayaking down the Mississippi, and hiking…
In web design – Color, contrast, graphics, photos and layout are aesthetic elements that enhance process of communicating particular…
No joke, I just spent an hour looking for web design work on the largest marketing agencies in Minneapolis….
Lena Dunham and Jaden Smith have both publically quit Twitter in search of chiller pastures at different points. Jaden Smith…
This will be a little bit more of a journal entry than my normal blog articles are… because frankly,…
To create value for clients it takes time to slowly realize what is important and to test different ideas….
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It’s with a heavy heart that I write this commemorative post to Prince. I saw he had died earlier today…
If you’re like me, you might have a hard time turning off the ever-present ‘hustle-mode,’ or the ideas just…
There is very little that hasn’t been said about Search Engine Optimization, if you’re paying close attention. But if you’re…
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We all have times when there are difficulties in the design process, and frankly in our careers or creative pursuits…
Thank you for reading my story of how I got into design.. This is definitely not a ‘How to get…
There is this issue with web design services, that people generally want their website fairly quickly. The most answer to “when…
Every once in awhile, I like to curate some meme’s or gif’s that really explain the life a web designer….
There are 3 ways an agency can water down its effectiveness that I’m currently thinking about and working to…
So imagine you’re on a hunt, but you don’t know what for yet.. It could be antelope, it could be…
What is Amp? Amp is Accelerated Mobile Pages, created by Google – to offer a smoother experience and more quickly…
Getting too many pingbacks from yourself in WordPress? Turn them off very simply by just adding this to your functions.php…
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The best Google fonts for headings are not necessarily the same that will be great for body copy. What’s…
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Gary Vaynerchuck recently said something to the effect that ‘I love people in other agencies,’ but when I put on…
So, so so grateful to be in a situation where I don’t need to drum up business, and yet I’m…
Love this brilliant note from Meg Draws, which I saw on Twitter. It says there’s two different types of hustle,…
“Search Engine Optimization is basically just Content Marketing, right mom?” asks the youngster stuffing their face with Chipotle and…
A/B Testing is a wonderfully brilliant way to test new designs and see if they are more or less…
Why collect ‘Key Performance Indicators’ – KPI’s for your digital marketing efforts? Well, if you determine the right one’s –…
How do you determine if a trend is used poorly? Empathy and intuition. Consult your inner jiminy cricket. Would you…
One code snippet I use all of the time is a responsive video wrapper. By default a Youtube video embed,…
It seems that whether someone is being negative on Twitter or really just being a troll of easy to let…
Why doesn’t WordPress allow you to clone or duplicate posts and pages? Well, I’m not exactly sure why this function…
The art of the shitty website takes more than just a hacky coding skill-set and a bad eye for design….
User experience design is full of peril and intrigue. UX is all about making the experience of being on and…
Creating a content calendar is hard – or so the thousands of plugins and tools would have it seem….
Attributing ROI to web design in general is a slippery subject, but it seems as a rule people understand…
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Here are some wonderful video’s to watch while working on a Branding Project. Yes there’s a lot of Aaron Draplin….
Sometimes, despite our best efforts we get stuck creatively. To kickstart your brain I’ve prepared a list of ways to…
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I’ve decided to try an experiment. Because so much of my audience is composed of other web designers and web…
This weekend I got to take some photos of a newborn – my niece, and of course she didn’t really want…
As a designer, taking a big goal like “Learning to Hand-letter” or “Learning WordPress Development” and breaking it down into…
Why aren’t more women coding? I’m interested in learning more about the dynamics in the industry and evening out any…
A couple of years ago gamification was all the rage. Gamification is defined as – “the application of typical elements…
Your fellow digital marketer says to you, “You should blog more”, and shuffles off into the mad abyss leaving you…
After reading many posts on HubSpot, I was always appreciative that their call to actions at the end of blog…
After studying Unbounce founder Oli Gardner’s un-negotiables for landing page design, and digging deeper into what the absolute ideal looks…
If you’ve ever felt like the task at hand was way too big for you to handle… perhaps you…
A Material Design website is a website that uses a general Material Design language, as developed by Google. The Material…
So as a practitioner of many disciplines within design and digital marketing, creating the perfect role for myself with…
There’s something beautiful and simple about testing a website with real people and seeing what could make it…
To really compete on the growing Internet on-site SEO optimization is crucial, but it may not be enough to…
You don’t have to be an unredeemable pervert to realize that a certain amount of sex appeal can help quickly…
My fiancée is obsessed with real housewives – and I’m obsessed with internet marketing. With her help, I’ve combined some interesting…
These inspiring examples of hand-lettering, will get you excited whether you’re into D.I.Y everything, just getting into hand-lettering (also check…
I truly believe we have an opportunity to offer a better experience to our customers and clients when we charge…
There are certain cases where you shouldn’t be doing A/B Testing. Don’t do A/B testing if you only sell two…
When building a website under pressure to meet clients expectations or while designing a site for impatient users, we tend…
Stock photo’s are the devil, they really are. But here are 10 places on the web to find the least…
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If they don’t care about SEO, I would advise out of the gate businesses shouldn’t spend money on a web…
Responsive web design is the art of creating a website that conforms to different devices and allows people to see…
Because I am incredibly involved with social media I forget that many people haven’t been trying to stoke action…
After freelancing for a couple years, I joined the broader web design industry with an agency around 2 years ago. At…
Web designer’s are a driven lot, and many of us suffer from depression and can be home-bodies or workaholics if…
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Patience is a virtue that is not up everyone’s alley. In the modern age where everything is time bound, no…
The Mirroring Effect is the behaviour in which one person subconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of…
1. Zulu Alpha Kilo – Spec | #saynotospec We could talk about saying no to spec work ’til we’re blue…
Sketch is the much-talked-about-topic in the web design community. In fact, it is used by many designers as an…
This is my ideal post promotion plan. Not that every blog post can get the royal treatment, but…
Whenever users visit your WordPress website blog page from search engines, to read a topic of their interest, they’ll possibly…
Best Web Typography Infographic The best web typography is clearly a matter of perspective, but I’ve corralled the knowledge of…
1. IOS 7 – GUI PSD Mockup by Teehan Lax Download the Free “IOS 7 – GUI PSD Mockup”…
This Ultimate Designer’s Color Guide for 2016 has been lovingly created for your enjoyment, perusal, backlash and inevitable bookmarking. Link…
The only thing constant in life, is change; wise words that all web designers should now embrace. This technological…
Brenna French and I have created a ton of websites, and blogs for that matter. We love helping people created effective…
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1. Harold Adler’s – Finian’s Rainbow 2. Bend of the River 3. Broken Arrow 4. Clockwork Orange 5. Houdini…
So a couple years years I graduated and I was a fresh-faced kid, who had done a couple websites in school…
So I sort through alot of tools related to digital marketing. I just launched ad campaigns on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook…
The beginning of hand-lettering journey, I started by tracing fonts to familiarize myself with typography. I started with the Learn…
1. A clever, friendly and intriguing 404 page. The same goes for easter eggs in games, you can make…
I love me some Gifs, and it’s funny how a gif can say a thousand words. Take these web design…
What are the Best fonts of 2015? How do you feel really about these fonts, which are my favorites…
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Congratulations on time travel. Enough time has passed that we have legit seen a couple amazing things from Back to…
So you’re obsessed with looking at the best? You’re about to have your company’s website redone and want to know…
The setup: Hologram’s have been on a slow roll towards reality for a long time now, but recent developments have…
So I could publish a high and mighty, this is what works on Social media and why article. I know…
So I often go looking for web design color schemes on Pinterest, and beautiful web design color schemes on Dribbble,…
1. Include a Phone icon button next to your menu icon for quick communication. Yes, this depends on the…
I was doing my bi-monthly scan through Kanye West’s Twitter feed and I came across this gem, condemning in-app purchases…
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I’m finishing up a new iteration of my portfolio, and I thought I’d share with you how I’m changing it…
I was taught Graphic and Web Design at a college, but since I’ve graduated I’ve outlined mini curriculum’s for…
Fonts in logo design are not always easy to get right. It requires a bit of research about what a…
The other day, my friend Lucas reached out to me on Facebook. He appreciates me coaching him on…
Perhaps you’re interested in reading “You’re My Favorite Client” by Mike Monteiro, and you’re looking for a sneak peak from…
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I just got back from quite the adventure at the foot and summit of some Appalachian Mountains and on an…
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If there’s a theme to my road trip coming up, I’m not quite sure what it is. But it’s…
Whether you are selling products online or building your brand, visitor trust is something that is vital to the success…
“I thought you might like the flourishes in the header, it has that bohemian, natural feeling you were talking…
Showing what your company is about has made web design a popular pursuit in Minneapolis and surrounding areas, allowing many Minneapolis…
You don’t have to make the mistakes I have. I have tried some variation on every one of these things, because…
It’s true that the smallest details can make the biggest difference and nowhere is that more evident than…
Devising a workable and effective content strategy can be difficult for any company or brand, as the needs and desires…
My first web design client was my future mother-in-law, a real doozie. A non-profit, I was paid $500 and an…
I recently read this blog post on click-bait king, Mashable claiming web design is dead. Every good thing gets…
I’ll be frank and honest with you. These are people I want to collaborate with, ask questions to; just…
Don’t get too intimidated by writing a web design business plan, a lot of it just means getting down…
It’s important to recognize what your business’s competitive advantage is, and unless you want to build a business that…
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Archived from the original on Archive.org. The CP System , Capcom Play System or CPS is an arcade system board…
So you’ve pinpointed Millennial as the target market… The Millennial Generation, Generation Y, or simply the Millennials are the demographic…
1. Learn Lettering by Sean Wes To be clear, this is the one that jump-started me into the world of…
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Hello! I am Morgan Molitor and I blog over at construction2style alongside my husband Jamie about our home renovations, remodels…
Long-form content is taking over. These are the pages on your website that provide a great deal of information…
Running a successful SEM campaign can be easy, given the right budget and time to dedicate towards management. However, many…
One of the hardest things to try and do with keyword analysis is to uncover connected keywords. Although my expertise…
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After starting my challenge to do hand-lettering every day for a year, I still feel like nothing beats a fresh…
A common problem for people producing a lot of content is to look for people’s attention. And when your content…
WordPress Development for Noobs is a new blog series where I will explore creating a WordPress website from the ground…
Usually I don’t post personal life stuff on this blog unless it pertains to marketing and web design, but…
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A strong wind was blowing, it was spring of 2014 and some of us were swept away in the…
So many great designers, developers and professionals of all types are becoming their own boss, and striking out on…
Let your freak flag fly. Everyone’s normal until you get to know them. So why are so many people and companies projecting…
I found this glorious button when setting up Jetpack for WordPress, and love the pressability. In User Experience… clues that…
1. Akula Script by Anna Ivanir – Download 2. Wisdom Script – Free Download 3. Dense Regular – Free…
I’ve had people express interest in starting to hand-letter but didn’t know how to start. I’m happy to present this…
This post will go over all of my blog’s most popular posts of 2014 and why they were popular or…
I’m in love with a serif! Whether you need more scripts fonts in 2015, clean serif fonts, hipster fonts or…
To be found on the internet these days sites need to be set up to allow search index them easily,…
“An average customer doesn’t know that,” a friend says to me as we watch commercials and one claim stands…
The Beatles were a gigantic success, and they started by playing as cover band. The great artists of history, often…
Happy to be starting a new series called WordPress Plugin Wednesday, where I will be sharing about one plugin that…
In a recent experiment I created ad campaigns on 3 of the most ad-friendly social media outlets, and spent a…
“..I found myself actually loving to wallow in code, although I was an artist who got into web design because…
This invite has now been given away. The winner of the Dribbble invite was.. @GianlucaCosetta, You can find his work…
Script Fonts In this post I do my best to share some of the most versatile fonts that I…
With a cup of oily cold press coffee beside me, and more classes than I felt comfortable taking, I imagined…
This post will be pretty direct and to the point to give you the most bang for your time, as…
I remember years ago I somehow found my way onto Homestead, a way to build really basic websites, after…
You’ve felt the horror. You’re busy plugging away at creating a website for a company, eaking out visual design and…
So many times people rush to the conclusion they need a complete website overhaul, when there’s alot of issues that…
1. Break out the top 3 things you want to do in a given day This will help energize you…
If the principles of responsive design for smartphones over the years have helped us clarify what’s most important on a…
Stuffed like a pork sausage into a class of other designers, I looked around with a suspecting eye. I had…
When you see that your clients are needing regular work done on their website, it may be time for an…
Layout 1. Pen and Paper – I almost always sketch out ideas and layouts on paper first, so I can…
1. Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross – The Social Network Soundtrack -2010 This soundtrack sounds like it was basically…
Today the iPhone 6 was released along with a gigantic iPhone plus. The sizes are additions to these size categories…
Taking a trip with my friend for a week down the Mississippi this past week was both rewarding and challenging….
I’m going to be on the Mississippi river for a week, but you won’t see much of a slump in…
From what I’ve seen some of the most respected designers in the world seem to take intentional breaks for a…
The Space Jam website Well, this one is an honorary and terrible first entry. This website has all the perks,…
This is not a political post: this fiasco only reminds us in the web design community that content should be…
Make your posts extremely easy to scan Part of this is distilling your most important points into headlines, part of…
It is always a bit hard to narrow down favorite books a designer/entrepreneur should read to just a few, but…
I recently saw a post describing how the demise of content marketing would be a great thing. This post got…
Bebas and a similar font League Gothic (which you can also download free,) have that tall sans-serif look that’s appropriate…
I guess I’m just a huge fan of Chezmeka I love everything about this scene. There are examples of several…
Barn Door Barn Door has a delightfully crunchy look to it, that might be lovely to get in designs without having…
This is a complicated question, because a cheap website will likely cost you more in the end than an expensive…
Not too long ago I took a challenge to wake up earlier and write in the mornings. I would wake…
If you love annoying graphic designers, alternate using these 5 fonts and these only. 1. Papyrus Nothing says musty…
As I often do, I decided I would test something new on my own website, to see what value it…
I work for an agency that takes content strategy seriously. In fact I’ve taken content strategy pretty seriously ever since…
I really like writing out my goals, and was just recently making a very specific list of goals that are…
For the occasional recluse like myself, there’s nothing better than having a purpose when going into the woods; some kind…
Well… just like V-necks and craft beers the trends of web design, particularly stylish new sites ends up catching up…
A plugin is worth a thousand lines of Javascript. WordPress Plugins should not be your first go-to way to tackle…
Doing Minneapolis WordPress design, web development, and conversion rate optimization offers plenty of opportunities to look for excellent script fonts….
Stay hungry my friends For me I’m continually pushing my boredom threshold and things are not always exciting. So perhaps…
The low down for the resurgence of UX Testing, is simply based on making your site work effectively for real…
The quick answer is yes. But many designers are reading a few blog articles, slapping UX Designer on their LinkedIn…
Georgia has a classic look, but it is clearly a modern alternative to some other outdated and overused serifs. Georgia…
1. Create specific end times for certain small tasks related to a larger goal. Take your important next goal and…
Is your font choice yelling at your customer? An awkward font choice can lose you sales, if it’s communicating…
You can use “Custom Post Types” and allow WordPress as a full on ripping and roaring Content Management System. But…
The tribe of web designers in Minneapolis and their many get togethers Do you get lonely? Me too. Fortunately…
Whether you’re a web designer looking to catch up on the latest trends, or if you are a small…
I’m on the road to Yellowstone, checking out the mountains, running on 4 or so hours of sleep. But, I’m…
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In Web Design, Coding is secondary, not primary. A web designer who thinks, eats, sleeps, and dreams in code can…
Have you ever been looking for a business logo, a custom website, or website services and find that they…
Sometimes when working with brands on their social media, I get a funny feeling. It seams as if old school…
When I collaborate on projects with people, I find ambition as being one of those attributes that can’t be replaced…
While sitting down with someone from a prominent Minneapolis marketing firm, I was struck with realization that a strictly web…