The Pixel Jar blog
Plain-English help with websites, reviews, and the phone.
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Your Reviews Are Talking. Who’s Answering?
When we’re getting ready to talk with a local business owner, we usually look the business up on Google first, and we read the…
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Your Website Has One Job. Does It Know It?
We hear the same sentence from business owners all the time: “My website doesn’t really do anything for me.” When we ask what it…
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Your Phone Rang. Do You Know Who Answered?
Our team has been making a lot of phone calls to local service businesses lately, mostly plumbing and HVAC companies, and a lot of…
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Your Website Has a Backup. Are You Sure?
A business owner we’ve worked with for years called us in a panic a while back. They needed a backup of a website they’d…
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Your Site Looks Busy. Is It Working?
We’ve been digging through analytics with a handful of business owners lately, and we keep running into the same thing. The website has traffic,…
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Your Work Got Better. Your Google Profile Didn’t.
When I’m getting ready to talk with a local business owner, I usually look the business up on Google first, and I keep running…
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It’s Not Your Website. It’s Your Form.
A website can look great and still lose every lead that walks through it. I run into this more than people expect, and it…
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Can Slow Websites Hurt Sales? Yes, Here’s How
A visitor clicks a paid ad, sees a blank page, waits, and leaves. You still pay for the click. They never see your offer,…
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You’re Not Losing Jobs to Better Competitors. You’re Losing Them to Voicemail.
I ask service business owners how many calls they missed last week, and almost nobody has a real number. They have a feeling. Busy…