Web Design Business
How to know if your clients open your emails
Use this free tool to know when (and where) your emails are being opened. How many times have you heard something like this: “Oh, no, sorry… I never saw your email come in.” Another weird thing is that this missing email phenomenon seems to happen a lot when bills are sent out. Like when I…
Read MoreBehind The Code Show: Robby McCullough
About This Episode Robby McCullough (@robbymccullough) is one of the three co-founders of the best WordPress website builder named Beaver Builder (@BeaverBuilder) – which is the ONLY WordPress theme / framework / page builder that the Web Designers Academy recommends. For the last few years the entire Beaver Builder team has learned a lot about…
Read MoreThe Always Up-to-Date Guide to The Best Free Stock Photos & Videos
The Always Up-to-Date Guide to The Best Free Stock Photos & Videos In the past, if you wanted to have gorgeous photos or videos for your web project you had two choices: hire a photographer/videographer OR buy crazy expensive stock photos/videos. Both options requires you to spend some money… however there is now a third…
Read MoreBehind The Code Show: Shane Walton
“Build a team of talented people which will allow you to focus on what you do best.” ~ Shane Walton Shane is an entrepreneur, marketing genius, lover of hats and overall amazing guy. He and his wife own Green Vine Marketing which is a Denver, Colorado based digital marketing firm that they have been operating for…
Read MoreHow to Sell Products From A WordPress Site WITHOUT Creating an Online Store
Retail store owners dream to sell their goods online. Every small business retail store owner I’ve ever met, eventually, bitches about the same certain things in regards to operating a physical retail store. Customers are being rude, waking up early to open the store, have to go to the bank and get enough ones fives and tens, employees stealing from…
Read More5 Insightful Lessons For New Web Designers
Ever have those thoughts where you go “If I could just do it all over again, I would…” and then you come up with some Einstein-level idea that would have made your life so much better if you only did that thing when you started? Well today, I had that thought. I thought to myself…
Read MoreSave Major Amounts of Time: Free Copy & Paste FAQs For Web Designers
After a deep sigh… I gritted my teeth… shook my head slightly and thought to myself “Why am I answering this same fucking question again”? It was the third time this week that one of my clients asked me the same exact question… and the third time this week that I had to type the same…
Read MoreLearn About Advertising + Get Free Photoshop Ad Banners
Ads. Ads. Ads. Ads are everywhere aren’t they? Ever stop and think about why there are ads packed into every tight little crevice of the internet? See, sites that offer things for free (like Google or Snapchat) aren’t doing it because they love you. They might put some lofty, feel-good mission statement on their Company Bio page…
Read MoreHow To Run Your Blog (The Right Way)
When I was 16, my first job was at Burger King. Seriously. Wanna see it? Here is a Google Maps street view of the actual Burger King I used to work at after school (it’s in New Bedford, MA where we were BOTH born back in the 80’s!) I was the “Flame Broiler” guy. Sounds hot,…
Read MoreWhip Your Clients Into Communicating Better (without a whip)
CLIENT EMAIL: Can you upload the pdf on my desktop to the web page that talks about Bob and put it near the things in the middle? Thanx! YOUR REPLY: UUmmmm. What? And so begins 17 back and forth emails about what pdf goes on what page… aka = a big fat waste of your…
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