Archive for May, 2009

Don’t Make this Costly Mistake in your Next Email Marketing Campaign

laptopI received an email the other day from a company [name withheld to protect the guilty!] that provides online booking software for spas. This is a great functionality to add to a website and I have recommended them to more than one web design client in the past. My bone of contention wasn’t with the actual business but rather, with the email I received.  The email was of a promotional nature and had a great special for the month of May.   Fantastic!  I actually thought about sharing the details on Twitter until I tried to find a link on the email to their website.  There was not one active link to their website. That meant if I really wanted to share the site I would have had to type in the url or Google it.   Guess what? I couldn’t be bothered.  I was too busy and moved on to the next email in my very full inbox.

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Video Tutorial: How to paste from a Word document to your WordPress Blog.

If you have a WordPress blog you probably learned the hard way that pasting from word can create a mess of your template unless you use the “Paste From Word” button.  I have  a few clients that are new to WYSIWYG editors and blogging in general, so I created this video tutorial to help show how to painlessly paste from a word document to a WordPress post.

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Site Launch: FraserValleyPulse.com

I am excited to announce the recent launch of FraserValleyPulse.com. I have worked with Kristi Ferguson, the founder and editor of FraserValleyPulse.com, for several years now, so when she came to me with a new project I couldn’t wait to get started!   Her enthusiasm for her new venture was contagious and it became my responsibility to bring her vision for the site to life.

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