Are you generating sufficient leads from your website? Is it driving the traffic you want and attracting your target audience? If you’re not garnering the results you want, hiring a professional copywriter is the best approach to meet your business objectives and take your website to the next level. Here are just four reasons to […]
Hashtag Tips & Tricks
Oct 17, 2017
Hashtags can be a fun way to have your posts seen by a larger audience on social media platforms, but at the same time you can easily get carried away using them. Hashtags allow social media users to discover new content and accounts to follow, allowing your accounts to gain more followers, garner new likes, and increase overall engagement. Simply Measured reports that posts with at least one hashtag average 12.6% more engagement on Instagram.
Managing a Remote Team
Oct 3, 2017
Yardstick founder and CEO, Kevin McLeod and Web Development Manager, Brendon McLeod, nurture, guide, and support Yardstick’s cross-functional team. Essentially, they are the glue that bonds our cohesive unit and helps synchronize all of the remote members, which is indispensable to the growth of the organization and the team itself.
Working as a Remote Team
Aug 16, 2017
Working remotely has become increasing popular with employees, as well as business owners in recent years. There are, of course, pros and cons to having a remote team working together. Continuing to evolve in methods and practices, as well as close tracking of processes has proven to be a big key in the success of […]
Content Sharing is Caring
May 23, 2017
The next step of optimizing your YouTube video (or other external content) is sharing. Not many people will go and seek out content, so it’s up to you to share it as much as you can with relevant parties to increase the views, likes, and engagement metrics. First and foremost, have confidence in your work […]
Five Reasons to Migrate From Joomla to WordPress
Jan 20, 2017
As industry professionals who have experience with a variety of different content management systems (CMSs), we’re often asked which content management system we prefer. The present answer is WordPress. It has the power and flexibility to satisfy your unique business needs and is simpler to manage and maintain than its competitors. WordPress allows you to […]
Top 5 Facebook Trends to Watch for in 2017
Nov 19, 2016
Facebook has already defied the odds in the online realm as far as social media platforms go. Princeton University researchers had predicted in 2014 that Facebook would lose 80% of their followers by 2017, but the platform continues to grow and expand, engaging approximately 1 billion users daily. The innovative nature of Facebook has made […]
Four Reasons Why Your Company Website & Email Should be Hosted Separately
Nov 9, 2016
It’s important for business owners to understand that their website and email are two different business systems, which need to be managed independently. For most businesses, a website is primarily for marketing the business with perhaps some operational or sales elements. While email is almost exclusively operational allowing your team to communicate and do their […]
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