Visual People Design Blog

One of the biggest struggles we have with our small business clients is getting them to understand the connection between regularly updated, relevant content …

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Is your website technically set up for search engine spiders and robots? Search engines use software that goes out and "crawls" the web, or indexes the sites …

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It's tempting for a small business or professional practice to hand off its marketing to a national or regional firm that specializes in one specific industry. …

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Blogs should do a couple of things for your small business. They should help website visitors see that you have expertise in your line of work. They should also …

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Ouch! One of our clients forgot to renew his company domain name and woke up this morning to find an ad where his site had been. Fortunately, there's a …

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Jim wasn't a dumb man - you don't run your own business for years without some ability. So when he began to hear about online marketing and some non-traditional …

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When we first started designing websites in the mid-90s, accessibility wasn't given much thought. The web, at that time, was less vital for businesses and, …

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