KIS Your Contact Form
I’m a big fan of simple. I like simple business cards, simple math, simple recipes for dinner, and I especially like simple contact forms on a website. For many people, when they visit your site, all they are looking for is a way to contact you, so make that process simple. When this site first […]
Contact Link in the Same Place
If you were to look through my portfolio and look at the contact link in the main navigation on just about every one of them, you’d find it to be the far right link in just about all of them. The reason for this is simple – it’s where most people expect to find it. […]
Choosing the Right Keywords
About five years ago when Giantseed Creative was started, I described the company more as a web developer than a web designer. There were some of the pages on the site that were written with the keyword or phrase “web developer.” One problem – when people were searching for a company like Giantseed Creative in […]
Get In the Zone
Sometimes when I sit down to write a blog, nothing happens. I can have a great topic picked out and some notes even jotted down in my blogging notebook, but nothing gets written. I should add this one note – that usually only happens when I write in my office. Once I realized that I […]
Know What You Sell
Do you know what you sell? I mean, what you really sell. Confused? Think of it this way. The signs outside of many McDonalds say that they’ve sold over 99 billion hamburgers, but they have never sold a single hamburger. The only thing McDonalds sells is quick and consistent convenience. Giantseed Creative sells new opportunities […]
Don’t Blog for the Search Engines Sake
You’ve heard me mention before about the great benefits that blogging can have on your search engine ranking. When you are writing your blogs, don’t write them for the search engines, write them for your readers. Remember the famous line from Field of Dreams, “if you build it, he will come.” That line is often […]
Left Hand Navigations
When you look at most websites that have been published in the past five years, one thing you’d notice is that most sites have the main navigation going horizontally across the top of the site. Before then, some sites had the main navigation going vertically down the left hand side of the page. Vertical navigations […]
KIS Your Business Card
I do a lot of business networking and I collect a lot of business cards. Sadly, about 25% of the time, the cards miss the mark or the general point of a business card. Your business card is many times one of your first pieces of marketing material that gets to a potential client. While […]
How long should a blog be?
It seams like a couple times a month I’ll get asked “How long should my blog articles be?” Your blog articles should be long enough to get your point across, and no more. Seth Godin, one of my favorite authors and bloggers has some short blogs. One of his blogs, http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/05/one-hit-wonders.html, was only 28 words. […]
