Posts by fatdogcreatives
Strategies for Conversion Optimization
How to make your website or landing page convert more visitors into leads and into clients. To optimize conversions on WordPress websites and landing pages, I keep in mind the principle of providing value before asking for anything in return. Here’s a step-by-step process along with ideal plugins to achieve this: Step-by-Step Process: Understand the…
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Green Geeks Webinar: 7 Must-Have Elements to Make Your Website Amazing
Aka: How to not be the cat. Make your website the dog every visitor wants to greet. We will cover seven elements that will amaze and delight your potential clients and grow your business. The simple fact is that it doesn’t matter how good you are with what you offer that leads to success. The…
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For Clients in Rural Areas, Tips on Faster and More Reliable Texting, Calls, and Info
What is your emergency plan? Even in San Antonio, communications were limited during the 2021 freeze. Besides emergencies, these apps are great for business.
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Small Towns and Chambers of Commerce: The Hardest, Most Rewarding Service for Cultivating Community, Visitors Bureaus, and Economic Development
Here’s what people from cities, even cities of 50,000 residents, don’t understand about small towns–actual small towns. Public transportation, what’s that? Most small towns are rural. They don’t have public transportation. The closest thing they have to public transportation is what’s now known as Uber but without the app. A person calls someone who lives…
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Beaver Builder, Meet Shannon
I’ve been working on a new site design and build for Shannon Communications, a branding and communications consultancy here in San Antonio. This site is an expression of the brand she’s built, but it’s also an expression of everything I love to, for whom, and learning and applying what I’ve learned. I’ve had an ongoing…
Read MoreDon’t put all of your eggs in one basket.
A few years ago, Vine was the hot video social media platform. Vine stars grew followers/audiences quickly. Overnight, the platform died. All those followers…gone. All that social media collateral…gone. All that social media influence…gone. They were forced to start over again.
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The Builders Podcast With Matt Levenhagen & Rhonda Negard
Watch Episode 47: Meet Rhonda Negard – Her Story Becoming a Business Owner, Leaving Corporate to Build a Business & More on the Builders Podcast Website and see his show notes. This episode emphasizes the importance of networking, which is exactly how Matt Levenhagen and I connected. Why I don’t call my business an agency…
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7 of the Best Paid and Free Avenues to Drive Traffic to Your Website Right Now
By Warren Laine-Naida Oh, God. Another blog post about increasing traffic to my website? Wrong. Yes, we lured you here on that pretext, but you’re going to leave this post thinking dollars instead of clicks. Sound good? Excellent. Pull up a sofa and grab your coffee! So, what is Traffic? I guess you know, otherwise,…
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A Dragon, a Widow, and a Bird: A Case Study on Rebranding Bridget Willard, LLC
What do a dragon, a widow, and a bird have in common? It’s the start of a joke, right? The Inside Scoop, a Story for Context These are actually parts of the story of my latest client and newest friend, Bridget Willard. She packed up her life and business last year (2020) to uproot herself…
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Why Sliders Aren’t Doing What You Think: A Good Idea for Your Website?
So few users ever interact with sliders. If “only around 1% of users click on sliders (Erik Runyon)”, you’ve potentially lost a lot of leads or repeat business.
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