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DIY Website vs. Professional Web Design: What’s Best for Your Business?
Your website is often the first impression people get of your business. It’s your digital shopfront, your brochure and in many cases, your main sales tool. When starting out, many people look for the best website builder to create their site quickly and affordably. Builders like Wix, Shopify or Squarespace make it easy to publish…
What’s Your Expertise? – Know It – Own It – Sell It!
There’s an old saying that say to be considered an expert you only need to know one more thing than the average person. In other words it’s all relative! Everyone can be an expert at something as we all have talents. Believing in our own ability and having the courage to admit to being an expert is one thing that often holds back budding entrepreneurs.
a Penny For Your Thoughts? Seriously! They are Worth Way More!
Have you experienced the brain picker yet? You know, the well meaning friend who just has a ‘quick question’! It’s an age-old dilemma – on one hand you want to be helpful (they are friends after all!) but on the other hand the knowledge you have collected over the years has cost you a small fortune to gather and well frankly, you don’t want to give it away for free.
Google’s New Mobile-First Index – What Does This Mean For You?
Google have just started rolling out the new ‘mobile-first’ version of its search engine. This means Google will now start to prioritize mobile content ahead of any other in its search results (SERPs.)
Work smarter not harder! Use the 80/20 rule!
I’m sure everybody has probably heard of the 80/20 rule. If you have or if you haven’t you need to read on – it could potentially change your life. It is fundamental to every person whether a business person or not! Now don’t be put off if you’re not a big fan of numbers. The 80/20 rule, although based on mathematical foundations, is more of a concept. But just in case you want the history here goes…
Which Way Will You Go?
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ~Jim Rohn
I Want To Teach You How To KISS!
What does the KISS principle mean to you? Here are few ideas on how it applies to your website or blog design.
5 Ways to Bounce Your Website Visitors!
Bounce rate measures the percentage of visitors who enter your site and “bounce” (leave the site) rather than continue viewing other pages within your site. Find out 5 ways to bounce your visitors right off your site…
Are you getting enough?
Opt-ins are the life blood of your business. You can have the most successful blog in the world, in terms of visitors reading it, but if they don’t opt-in to your mailing list you are losing the opportunity to convert those readers to clients. We have all heard the saying ‘The money is in the list!”, right? Well it may be a cliche, but it’s true. So how do you make sure you get people to opt-in?
2017 Readers’ Choice Award
Thank you for voting Maple Moon Web Design Inc the Best Web Design Company in 2017! We are truly honoured to have received this award for the last 13 years! The Readers’ Choice Awards are voted for over a period of a few weeks by filling and returning a ballot in the local Port Perry
Golf Balls and Beer!
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 Beers. A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.
Do Small Businesses Still Need a Website in the Age of Social Media?
Social Media Alone Isn’t Enough: Your Business Needs A Website If you run a small business and rely solely on social media to connect with customers, you’re not alone. Many business owners start with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok because they’re free, easy to use, and offer direct engagement with customers. But here’s the…
Demystifying AI: How Small Business Owners Can Embrace it for Web Content Success
7 Tips To Help You Write A Great Blog Post Title
Why Keywords Matter in SEO: What They Are and How to Use Them
Keywords are a hot topic in SEO, and one that is often misunderstood or misused by website owners trying to optimize their websites. In this post we’ll discuss what keywords are, why they matter so much for search engines like Google, and how you can use them effectively on your own website. What is a…
Web Design Trends Dominating 2021
How to Increase Your Search Engine Rankings: Basic SEO
Reader’s Choice Awards 2020
Maple Moon Web Design Inc is extremely proud to be a Diamond Winner in three categories in 2020. Maple Moon Web Design Inc. is a web design company in Port Perry with over 29 years of experience in the industry. We have been recognized by The Reader’s Choice Awards in 2020 as one of the…
The One Touch Method – The Ultimate Productivity Hack
The One Touch Method – simply put, if a task touches your desk then you are required to deal with that task by only ‘touching’ it once. Complete it before moving onto something else. That’s the one touch method!
Why your website needs to be secured with HTTPS (SSL) & what to do about it!
[If you’d rather listen to the podcast version – you can do so here >>] When Google talks – we listen! We have to. No one wants the wrath of Google falling on their website. Last year, Google started to officially warn website owners with sites that didn’t display the green padlock, non HTTPS, that…
6 Skills Every Woman Should Learn (And Use)
As women strive (and struggle) to break the glass ceiling in many areas of work and life we need to recognise that we have issues! Funnily enough, I have a 50-50 split between male and female clients but the vast majority of fellow web developers are men. I’m not new to working in a male…
