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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…
SEO & website design: Everything you need to know
Your website is the center of your digital marketing world — the place that all digital rivers run toward. And of course, the largest of its traffic sources is generally organic search. Yet all too often, businesses don’t think about SEO until after having a website designed (or redesigned), and these sites are often sadly lacking
How To Add a PDF Link in Joomla
I’m often asked, “How do I add a PDF link in Joomla?” It’s something that you might not do that often so it’s easy to forget how to do it. Here’s a quick reference video to show you how to add the link. The same process can be applied to linking to an image or an
How Rewiring Your Brain Can Earn You Money!
To be successful in marketing and consequently selling and making money, you need to have a marketing mindset. That means you need to think a little differently to the average person. You need to be receptive to growth and learning new skills and banish any negative thinking or fear of failure. You need to be
10 Things to Look for in a Good Website Designer
In today’s hectic business climate it is important to work smarter. But when you have to choose an important service provider such as a website designer you need to slow down and make a deliberate, careful decision. This is particularly important when you are getting ready to put your company’s face on the World Wide
High Engagement & Value Builds Trust and Income
Having an online business requires a definite skill set. Your customers are buying from you ‘sight unseen’. In order for them to do that it takes a certain level of trust. Trust that you should have built up with them, prior to them purchasing from you. So just how do you go about building that trust?
Traffic – Conversions – Track.
The 3 steps to the bank!
“If you build it – they will come” Well that might be true of a baseball field but it’s not necessarily true of a blog or website. You may have the best site in the world with the most amazing products but if nobody knows about it you are simply whistling in the wind!
Unleash The Power of a Consistent Workplace!
If you are doing the same thing over and over again, you should ideally take the time to write a ‘How To’, step by step guide so that you could easily pass the task off to someone else. Now, you may not want to pass the task off to anyone at this stage in your business because you’re not ready or funds don’t allow you to. But getting into the habit of writing down your systems is a great way to eliminate disorder and chaos from your business.
Stop the Blame Game! Why Being Decisive Is A Key To Success!
To be successful in business you need to be decisive! As an entrepreneur the only person to blame for a bad decision is the person looking back at you in the mirror. You’ve heard the expression ‘The Buck Stops Here!’ If you want to have others look to you for guidance and advice you need to stop the blame game and learn to make and own your own decisions!
When opportunity knocks – open the door!
How do you view roadblocks? Are they going to kill your dream or are they just something that you need to find a way around? Similarly, that door that just shut in your face, whether it was the loss of a job or a failed endeavour, is it going to stop you in your tracks? Every exit is an entrance somewhere else!
What does your about me page really say about you?
One of the essential pages that every blog should have is an About Me page. But surprisingly enough it is one page that is sadly lacking from a lot of blogs.
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…
