It can be difficult as a small business owner to know how to reach an audience and advertise your services and products without busting your budget. Here are some ideas for small business owners who want to get the word out and are on a budget. Banner Ads As a small business owner, it is [...]
Many small businesses today rely a great deal on Business to Business (B2B) marketing as part of their business model. B2B is a marketing practice that allows a business to sell products or services to other companies that resell them, or use them in their products or services. When it comes to content marketing, a [...]
Proven ways to market your website So, you've taken the time and spent the money on a brand new website, but now what? You now have the challenge of bringing in traffic and not just any traffic, but new, qualified visitors that will spend time exploring your site and essentially contact you for either [...]
FACT: St. Augustine attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each holiday season. Whether a visitor stays for one night or all month, it is widely known that during the holidays, tourism in the nation's oldest city is thriving. If you own a B&B, restaurant or tour company, you're probably busy answering the phone and responding [...]
Determine your goal, make a plan & persuade your audience What is design and how does it relate to my website? Let's start with a definition: Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; interface design; user experience [...]
The importance of staying on top of site updates One of the many services Old City Web Services, Inc. offers our clients is Quarterly Content Management System (CMS) Update Management. It is important to update both the version of your website and all of the plug-ins as a preventative maintenance measure to lower the risk [...]
Hashtags are something you definitely should be using when formulating tweets, assuming you already have a Twitter account dedicated to your small business that is. A hashtag is designated with a number sign (#) paired with a word or phrase (without any spaces or other characters) to perform a variety of functions. In the Twitter [...]