How do you spot a bad web design agency before you go ahead and hire one? So many business owners come to us every year after a bad experience with a web design agency. And we find this really sad because we have friends who are great web designers and who are constantly looking at […]
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9 Ways to Create a Big, Bold Statement for Your Personal Brand Website
When people land on your personal brand website, how do you get their attention? How do you stop them in their tracks and tell them exactly what it is you do and why they’re in the right place? You do that with a Big, Bold Statement. Often called your ‘Value Proposition’ or ‘You statement’, the […]
The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Personal Brand Website (with examples)
It’s easy to overcomplicate web design, especially when we’re building a website ourselves. But creating a successful website is not rocket science. In fact, even if you’re building your own website, it’s easy to create something clean, simple and, more importantly, successful. Our B.R.A.N.D. framework We’ve come up with a simple way to explain what […]
Should you join the Make Your Mark Online membership? Honest Review
This is a guest post from one of our members who offered to write this for us. How do you feel about your website? Do you find yourself sharing the link and then caveating that with: “Oh, don’t look at the home page – I need to update it”? Or, “I know I need to […]
Ep 21 – The best tools to improve your website
Over the past 10 years, we’ve tried hundreds (probably thousands) of tools that help us and our clients improve their websites and processes. Some tools are fantastic, helping us save time and money. Others, are terrible, taking ages to wrap your head around or costing too much for your business. So in this podcast episode, […]
Ep 20 – How your ego can damage your website
We’re all human. And sometimes being human means our egos can get the better of us. Generally, it’s okay when this happens. We can keep ourselves in check and try to be better people. BUT, what happens when our egos creep into our business and, more specifically, our websites? In this podcast episode, we’ll be […]
Ep 19 – How to avoid overwhelm when building your website
Designing a website yourself can be a lonely and overwhelming process. You’ve got to figure out hosting, domain names, themes, plugins, content management systems as well as write new copy, figure out the design and get new images. It’s no wonder when we speak to people, they tell us they’ve been working on their websites […]
Ep 11 – How to choose a domain name for your website
Choosing your domain name can take forever! Should you have your name as your domain name? Should you use your business name as your domain name? Or even, should you include a keyword within your domain name? It can be tricky. In this podcast episode, we go through the pros and cons of different domain names and […]
