Category: Web Maintenance

Review your Digital Marketing for Outdated Information

A company’s digital marketing assets can grow to a sizeable number of properties that are easy to lose track of.  That’s especially true for assets that are rarely used. It’s important to keep a list of your active digital marketing assets and review them periodically for content updates and administrative access. Digital marketing assets that

Leverage Your Personal Style for Improved Digital Marketing Content

Every trainer, consultant, and professional coach has their own style.  That style can run the gamut from academic to entertaining and anything in between.  Unfortunately, when digital marketing material is being compiled, much of the personality is sterilized to make communications sound “professional”. Personal style can and should co-exist with professional communications to make them

Digital Marketing Technology Might be Smart but it has No Common Sense

Digital marketing technology continues to get more refined from year to year.  Sophisticated algorithms and stream lined tools help digital marketers cover more channels than they ever could in the past.  However, the sheer bandwidth that digital marketing allows a marketer to take on, often prevents them from reviewing how smart the technology really is. 

Digital Marketers Need to Have an Eye on Cyber Security

What good is a website that is constantly having outages? How useful is a hijacked social media account publishing questionable offers? What about an email marketing platform loaded with stolen email addresses blasting out SPAM?  Digital marketing channels infected with malware or compromised in some way not only undermine the time, energy, and money invested

Troubleshooting WordPress for Unexpected Technical Problems

Nothing disrupts the productivity of a day like an unexpected technical problem.  It can derail your whole agenda and reset the day to troubleshooting.  When technical issues arise it’s important to limit your frustration and stay calm.  Mysterious technical problems are almost always the result of something changing so doing some systematic detective work can

Dedicate Time for Site Clean Up and Organization

Do you have a child with a perpetually messy room or a co-worker with a chronically cluttered desk?  Often times, seemingly disorganized people claim that they know where everything is in that mess.  Sometimes that turns out to be true.  However, a lot of times it’s not exactly accurate and even they struggle to find

Be Suspicious of Your CMS’s Publishing

Are you taking your Content Management System’s word for it that content has been published?  Sooner or later it’s likely you’ll find that you’ve been lied to.  It’s always a good idea to check the actual page to ensure that the CMS has actually pushed the content, rather than relying on the CMS’s confirmation. Publishing

Keep a Record of Your Digital Marketing Resources

Digital marketing is often a complicated mix of communication, technology, marketing, and administration in a rapidly shifting landscape. Add changing personnel and a wide variety of tools and it can become chaotic. As digital marketing initiatives evolve and change course, it’s important that the professional(s) driving that initiative can quickly and accurately execute on the

Roll Out Schedule: Single Launch or Phased Releases

Our site update is getting closer to completion and you may have noticed in the last several posts that we’ve released updates in phases.  Four to be exact: blog update, website update, content revision, and SEO element revision.  Hopefully those last two were less obvious or invisible to our visitors but this phased rollout raises

Have You Gotten Lazy with Digital Marketing Technology?

Step one of updating our blog (and the site) is complete with a new theme.  The next step is to finish our theme customization and launch the layout site wide.  We don’t update our site layout as often as we should so it provides a clear illustration in how technology has evolved over the last