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Blogging Business

Is Your Website a Place You Can Truly Call Home?

I love looking at home decor. Pinterest, magazines, websites – all of it. Domino magazine? Oh goodness, the BEST. Anyone else love Domino magazine? Yes. I can look through them for HOURS. Just ask my friend Tara about the day I spent going through her collection of Domino magazines. It was delightful. Working on my…Continue readingIs Your Website a Place You Can Truly Call Home?

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Blogging Business

7 Tips to Make Your Website Profitable

Alternate Titles: The Latest Redesign Isn’t Much of a Redesign At All; The Bullshit Stories I Tell Myself; Flying Unicorns do NOT drop Glitter Sparkle Magic Dust on Your Business; The Power of a Profitable Website; Make Your Blog Get Back to Work. I know, those don’t make any sense yet. They will. I have…Continue reading7 Tips to Make Your Website Profitable

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Blogging Business Coaching

Would You Want to Wear Your Website? Branding Thoughts

If I took your website and made an outfit out of it, and told you to wear it, would you be willing to put it on? Right now, if I went to my closet and picked out an outfit, there is a very good chance that it would involve me wearing either a black top…Continue readingWould You Want to Wear Your Website? Branding Thoughts

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Announcements

Go With What You Love in a Name

Back when I first started this blog in 2011, it was living at Business of Awesome. But as I worked on plans for it behind the scenes, I knew I wanted to write about what I specialize in, which is boudoir photography. After many countless hours of debate, I moved the whole site over to…Continue readingGo With What You Love in a Name

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SEO Tips & Tricks

Improve your Search Rankings with 3 Awesome SEO Tips!

This is a guestpost by Matt Antonino of High on SEO. Matt does search engine optimization for small businesses. You can find HighonSEO on Facebook! Thank you Matt for sharing this with us today! After partnering with friends from SMR Digital and doing search engine optimization (SEO) for over 80 photographers we’ve noticed that a…Continue readingImprove your Search Rankings with 3 Awesome SEO Tips!

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SEO Tips & Tricks Website Design & Development

I’m Here, Where Are You? Add Your Address to Your Site!

As I visit photographer’s sites, I see it all the time. For some reason, photographers don’t want to put their city & state (region, country, whatever fits where you live) on their website. I’ve asked some of them, and almost always they respond about how it would be so cool to do destination work, and…Continue readingI’m Here, Where Are You? Add Your Address to Your Site!

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Fun Stuff!

New Gallery Feature Coming Soon! ProPhoto3 Blog Theme

I loved the ProPhoto2 theme for my blog that I’ve used for some time, and I didn’t upgrade to ProPhoto3 right away. But then I learned all about their new gallery features, and I knew I had to have it! Soon I’ll be using it to create featured galleries, and I can’t wait! Another perk…Continue readingNew Gallery Feature Coming Soon! ProPhoto3 Blog Theme

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Administrative

Wedding Portfolio Update!

I took advantage of the Superbowl and between watching the commercials and the exciting moments of the game, I updated photos throughout the whole portfolio section of the website! I changed the sections, added, rearranged and replaced photos, and took out the last song that played to try and speed the load time up. I…Continue readingWedding Portfolio Update!