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Website Security Isn’t Optional

Take A Proactive, Defensive Position When It Comes To Keeping Your Systems Safe Small Business Insights: Security Protecting your small business website design can't be an optional, add-on feature and that's why we trust Sucuri with our own website. The Sucuri Firewall (WAF) protects your small business website from software vulnerability exploitation attempts, brute force attacks and distributed denial of service (DDoS) disruptions. Enjoy the peace of mind knowing that Sucuri will provide you protection against website attacks 24/7/365. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Mitigation DoS /DDoS attacks have increased in popularity. They are easy to employ and highly effective. Often, the attacker [...]

BetaTWGMay 16th, 2019|Technical, Web Design Services|Comments Off

Winning The Domain Lottery

When A Domain Was Caught Up In A Bidding War AKA: The Good Old Internet Gold Rush Days Back in the mid-1990’s (or more fondly, “ancient times” as we know the internet ages at the same pace of a dog), I had a fine civil servant’s job in Sonoma County, CA. And like everyone else I’d found myself quite amused by the new internet and my Mac Performa (rockin’ the 4 megs of RAM, baby!). To get perspective on just how long ago this was, my co-worker Sue did a little moonlighting as a realtor agreed with me that [...]

BetaTWGMay 6th, 2019|Internet Marketing, Technical|Comments Off

Why We Don’t Offer Email Accounts

Looking For A Company Email System? Run, Don't Walk From Accounts Tied To Your Hosting Small Business Insights: Email Any self-respecting website designer that includes hosting as a service likewise offers email accounts as well, right? That's just how things are done. I mean not only email accounts, but unlimited email accounts with unlimited storage. And a free dessert. And a ride home after the show. At The Affordable Web Guy, we've decided to not offer email accounts and here's why. The big boys do it better and we can't match the services, scope, and scale of major players [...]

BetaTWGMay 1st, 2019|Technical, Web Design Services|Comments Off

It Ain’t Magic. It’s Just Good Service

Earn Your Client’s Trust & Keep It Small Business Insights: Customer Service Just about every time I turn around, there is some new piece of technology or some new buzzword-filled marketing trend, that is claiming to be the magic pill that web-based businesses have been searching for to get more sales. Just do this one unique thing, they tell you, and all your e-commerce dreams will come true. The “one thing” almost always conveniently involves spending money on a product or service that promises to be the “it factor” you’ve been missing. Can I tell you a secret? In [...]

BetaTWGApril 26th, 2018|Internet Marketing, Web Design Services|Comments Off

When Is It Time To Re-Brand?

Why Do Companies Change Their Logo? Small Business Insights: Branding A Guest Blogger post by Becky Duncan Why do companies change their logo or branding identity? Most of the time, it is because companies want to keep up with new logo design trends as they develop to avoid falling behind their current or emerging competitors. It may be that a company has decided to undergo a sudden and complete rebrand or they have decided to slowly merge into a new brand. Either way, a new logo and/or new branding elements must be created to do so. June 2019: Pizza [...]

BetaTWGFebruary 28th, 2017|Graphics & Branding, Pop Culture|Comments Off

Laundry Day

Everybody Hates Laundry, But That’s No Reason Not To Do It Small Business Insights: Marketing A Guest Blogger post by Daniel Titus Earlier this week I was meeting with a colleague who has designed a massive site for a large and ever-evolving organization. The site has been built; the code is working; everything is ready to go, but they still haven’t launched yet. Why? Because the week before the scheduled launch date there was a change in the information—then another and another. The information can’t stay current enough for approval, so the launch gets delayed. Exasperated by it all, my colleague [...]

BetaTWGAugust 10th, 2016|Internet Marketing, Web Design Services|Comments Off

Perception Is Reality

Making The Most Of What You Have Small Business Insights: Marketing Perception is reality...don’t let anyone sell you on anything else. So why not alter perception to your advantage? I pulled into my local gym the other day, noticing an ever-increasing phenomenon...a powerful indicator of human awareness, or more accurately---the lack of it. Walking through the parking lot, I neared the front entrance, noticing two women verbally going-at-it, because one had squeezed a massive vehicle into a slot way too tight, banging the other's paint job… and they weren’t alone. The nearest four rows of parking were packed, most [...]

BetaTWGMarch 8th, 2016|Web Design Services|Comments Off

Joomla: My Recent Descent Into Hell

Making Sure Software Is Up To Date: "Set It And Forget It" Is Foolish Small Business Insights: Technical I recently secured a small project helping a fellow small business owner to update his existing website. That's right, as a WordPress fanboy I stepped up to the challenge of Joomla. Now everyone knows that the expression "It's not that hard" often turns out to be famous last words. Just as it's not that hard to replace a carburetor on your car IF you know how to do it. The same applies to plumbing, electrical work and so on, and so on. It's my [...]

BetaTWGJune 5th, 2015|Internet Marketing, Technical|Comments Off

Add Your Business To Top Free Directories & Websites

Take Full Advantage Of Free Resources Small Business Insights: Marketing A Guest Blogger post by Josh Olswanger As a start-up business, your initial goal is to increase revenue by increasing business. Sounds easy enough, right? Well, believe it or not, it’s not always a walk in the park when deciding where to find your next customer or client. Luckily, with a great business marketing plan, you should be able to funnel your attention towards avenues that will undoubtedly increase your chances of finding new business. Hence we have the Internet. Say goodbye to yesterday when looking for a local plumber [...]

BetaTWGJanuary 30th, 2012|Internet Marketing|0 Comments

Apple Victimized By Its Own Success

What Happens When The Bar Is Raised...High Small Business Insights: Technical Originally posted in 2010 Like millions of others, I spent a portion of my day struggling to find a worthwhile feed/stream from the iPad debut. At one point I found myself on a website listening to audio being piped in via cell phone with the corresponding video relying on a video feed from ANOTHER website. And even then, the website with imagery was relegated to frequently updated still images from the event. It was pathetic. I was pathetic for watching it for as long as I did. But [...]

BetaTWGJanuary 27th, 2010|Pop Culture, Technical|1 Comment

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