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Forum Marketing as a Way to Engage with Customers
Every business is looking for unique ways to stand out from their competitors. Marketing strategies are rapidly evolving to help make this happen. When it comes to developing your own marketing plan, it’s in your best interest to explore alternative tactics. Enter the world of forum marketing. With forums, engaging with users gives you instant…
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Why Isn’t Your Website a Priority?
As a web development and design agency focused on helping businesses, we have a lot of conversations with companies about growth. Every company is different so every growth strategy – and the accompanying results – look different as well. And just as there are many ways to succeed in business here in the twenty-first century,…
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Understanding Managed WordPress Hosting
For the next day or two, we have a challenge for you. Each time you visit a new website on your computer, click on a Facebook link, or something shared on Twitter, watch how long it takes the page to load. If you actually pay attention, you’ll notice that some websites load fast while others…
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Anatomy of an XSS Attack
Malicious computer attacks can happen to any business at any time. If you think that your business is safe from hackers, viruses, or corrupt code, you’re wrong. In fact, that type of thinking gives you a false sense of security. You must be vigilant in monitoring your essential systems, whether it’s your email server, your…
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WordPress for Business Websites
Are you intimidated by creating your website? If so, you’re not alone. Most new business owners who are tasked with setting up a website are overwhelmed by the world of web design. It’s easy to become paralyzed by the endless options available. With so many choices to pick from, it can seem impossible to narrow…
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Why Last Year’s Site Audit May Be Obsolete
Most businesses that take their digital strategy seriously understand the importance of regular site audits. Much like running diagnostics on a vehicle or having an annual checkup with the doctor, a website audit gives perspective on which parts of the website are in good health and what parts could stand a little work. Just as…
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Easy Does It – 5 Steps to WordPress Optimization
WordPress is known as the most widely used content management system (CMS) in the world. This CMS has been able to achieve this feat through its ease of use, reliability, customization, and smooth operations. However, those characteristics don’t come by default. Like most great inventions, WordPress isn’t perfect all by itself – it needs a…
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Five Tips for Converting More Visitors to Customers
Quick question: how many of your website visitors are converting into customers? Not sure? Just guessing? That’s bad news in today’s competitive digital world. With so many websites and applications competing for attention it’s never been more important to convince those that visit your website to get just a little further into the sales funnel.…
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What is a Site Audit? (And Why You Need One)
On a regular basis we have website owners contact Pixel Jar alarmed that their website has disappeared from search results. “Just last week we were showing up on the front page…and now no one can find our business! Can you help us understand what’s going on? ” Similarly, we have people that contact us with…
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5 tips for A Profitable Cyber Monday
The Holidays are looming large on the horizon. Cyber Monday has become almost as ubiquitous as Black Friday. Making sure that your website is prepared to maximize the profits from Cyber Monday is crucial. We’ve put together five tips to help you prepare. Plan Ahead If you’re going to partake in a Cyber Monday sale…
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An Interview with WP Engine
We’ve written about our partnership with WP Engine in previous posts. We really believe in providing services that match the needs of our clients. Sometimes that means us getting out of the way and letting a specialist provide a specialized service. For that reason, WP Engine is our go-to choice for WordPress hosting. We had…
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Accessible Video
Pixel Jar has been recording more videos lately. Whether they’re promotional videos for premium plugins, help videos for our support pages, or new videos for our upcoming Level Up series we’re making them from scratch. People respond amazingly well to video. They tie visuals to words in a way that our brains respond to. We…
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