Marketing

How to Use Public Speaking to Build Your Professional Reputation

Let’s face it, some days it feels as if we are in a commodity business. Right across the street and all…

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3 Ways to Get New Clients Without Having Strong Sales Skills

I remember the very day I started my agency, almost 13 years ago. After my employer shuttered and laid all of…

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Ivy Hastings of Fusionbox on Getting More Clients, Python Development, and Opensource

VP of Strategy for Denver-based Fusionbox, Ivy Hastings, sits down with me to discuss their agency, Python, and their dedication to…

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How to Get Your First Web Design Client

My first client was a chocolatier in Michigan. Steve and I built the original site for $500. It included a homepage,…

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How to Help Prospects Know, Like, and Trust You

Content marketing can build your business, but to make it work you need to know the ground rules. I should first…

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3 Things to Think About Before Attacking a Niche

I am a big proponent of businesses focusing a lot of energy on developing their ideal customer and, better yet, identifying…

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Making the Shift from Web Pro to Publisher

You’re not a marketing guru. It’s not what you’re good at—and besides, between trying to land deals and actually implementing projects,…

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Gary Vaynerchuk on the Future of Social Media for Web Professionals

Everyone has their heroes. Some people love sports and have a couple players that they just love watching. Some people love…

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The Four E’s of Truly Awesome Content

In previous posts I’ve talked about content marketing—both what it is and why you should invest in it. But in this…

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Why You Need to Embrace Content Marketing

Today’s savvy consumers have learned to tune out sales pitches. They fast-forward through commercials on their DVRs; they use pop-up blockers…

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Leveraging the LinkedIn Test to Define Your Ideal Customer

My first question to web professionals subscribing to our site is “what is your greatest pain?” While the answers vary, most…

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What is Content Marketing?

How’s your marketing looking these days? Is it looking like…marketing? Here’s a sobering fact: nine out of ten of your potential…

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Is Publishing Web Design Prices On Your Website Right For You?

To list prices, or not to list prices, that is the question. This question came in over Twitter from @themartin. I…

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Tracy Schloss on Why Word of Mouth, Networking, and Meetups Grow Her Web Design Business

I always enjoy sitting down with other web design entrepreneurs. My latest interview at the uGurus HQ is with another local…

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Lacking Focus Can Be The Death of Your Web Design Business

We are all hard wired with a fear of missing opportunity. Sometimes it sounds easier to try to go after everything…

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Sales, Marketing, and Growing a Virtual Web Design Agency with Jon Hinshaw

A couple of weeks ago, I had an opportunity to invite a close friend of mine, Jonathan Hinshaw, into the uGurus…

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How to Write an About Page That Wins Business

In my work as a freelance web writer, I get asked to write a lot of About pages, but in this…

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The Web Pro Opportunity

The yellow pages are dead. I’m not talking about the Yellow Page companies, their brands, and affiliates. What I’m talking about…

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The Demand for the Web Pro

When I first started doing web full time, people often told me I needed to “network.” At the time, I believed…

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