Live and work in harmony with technology
How to Speed Up Your WordPress Website without Nerding Out
Wordpress can be really scary. You never know when that next plugin or update is going to crash your site. The user interface is really user friendly, but a couple of wrong clicks and you can find yourself staring at a page of code. That's why when I set out to speed...
The Non Writers Guide to Writing Great Blog Posts
Write something. Write anything. Just write. This can be a challenge for someone whose expertise is not writing. Yet your ability to write is at the core of your ability to build a business online. In the offline world, you can rely on whatever your talents are and...
Use Buffer to Stop Social Media from Killing Your Productivity
Twitter and Facebook can present a real paradox to you as a small business owner. On the one hand, they both present a seemingly limitless supply of new leads and customers. On the other hand, they can be time consuming, attention grabbers that distract you from doing...
Why do People Fear New Technology?
A reader recently contacted me with an interesting question. He writes: I am the IT department for a small business. My biggest day-to-day problem is driving adoption rates among my 20 users. Despite being given strong tools I find a lot of people want to continue...
How to Segment Email List Subscribers (As Not To Piss Them Off)
The other night, I was chatting with one of my best "online" friends, and she said to me: "Did YOU KNOW that you could exclude lists in Aweber?" Well, yeah. Yes I did. But apparently she didn't. She had been painstakingly creating segments of all the specific people...
Reconnecting with your Inner Designer
Last night, I had a mindblowing experience. A design experience. I sat down with Milford Cushman, of the Cushman Design Group. Milford is a close friend of the family, and is one of the most talented architects I’ve ever met. Well actually, he’s not an architect. He...
Evernote and Blogging: A Match Made in Heaven
I'm a huge fan of the (free) service, Evernote. I use it to capture and organize ideas, websites, images and audio notes for pretty much every project I have going on in my life. And believe me, I have a lot of projects going on. I don't think I'd be able to keep...
Technology Year in Review: How I Run Cloud-Coach for $44.99/Month
Since Cloud Coach is all about living in working in harmony with technology, I thought it would be fitting to look back over the last year at the various pieces of technology that have made my business possible. I've tried to list them in order of when I first started...
A Business is Born: The Cloud Coach Annual Review
Being that this is the first year that Cloud Coach has existed on the great wide internet, I can't write a clever intro about how I like to look back each year, or about the progress we've made here on the site. I can't compare my results this year to my results last...
Improve the SEO On Your Website with a Firefox Plugin
Having people find your website through google search results is important to the growth of your website and business. Here's the problem though: I'm not an SEO wizard, and you probably aren't either. The internet is awash in SEO advice (many of it conflicting), and...
Are You a Technology Defeatist?
Is this you? You greet every technology issue with the same level of panic. You always assume that something is "broken.” You never think that anything is going to just work out of the box. You, my friend, are a technology defeatist. There are people in my life who I...
Is It Time To Get Rid Of Your Google Analytics Account?
For the last 8 years, one of the first things I did when I set up a new website was dutifully install the Google Analytics tracking code. Do you want to know how many times I've used the data from analytics to make changes to my website and improve conversions, sales,...