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Walking the Dark Path: Mental Health in the Time of Coronavirus
Trigger warning: This post discusses mental health and suicide. If you have had to close your business temporarily or permanently due to the Coronavirus, my heart goes out to you. You may be feeling a real mix of emotions: gut-wrenching grief, intense anxiety over...
Resource List: Small Business Coronavirus Support
People are naturally frightened of what the coming months are going to bring with the Coronavirus. There is so much that is unknown about COVID-19 that people’s imaginations and fears are working overtime Horror movies work best when the scary thing is hidden in...
What Your Small Business Needs To Know About Coronavirus
With the Coronavirus (COVID-19), officially being declared a pandemic by WHO, people are naturally fearful and uncertain what it means. While a lot is still unknown, what is known is that it will impact every small business in Australia in the coming months:...
Essential Online Tools: How To Use The Wayback Machine
What do Rocky and Bullwinkle have to do you with your website? People of a certain age will remember the cartoon The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. (“Hey Rocky – Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat!”) Mr Peabody and Sherman in that cartoon series had a time-travelling...
Have You Lost The Logins To Your Online World?
“Can you please send me through your logins to your website, host, domain name registrar and all of the bits that relate to your website, and then we can get started on your project.” “Um. I have to go back through my emails to see if I kept them. Give me a...
Announcing The Launch Of Our Online WordPress Courses
I was at our local Chamber of Commerce breakfast and was approached by one of our members: A fabulous mature lady with a gorgeous South African accent. She had a worried frown and stress was showing in her eyes. “I really must get you to teach me how to maintain my...
How to Write Fabulous Website Copy
Most small businesses face the same shocking realisation at one time or another. They book in to get their first website and then discover that their web designer doesn’t write the words for their website for them. There are the faced with two options. They can...
How To Stop Spam From Website Contact Forms
You have a shiny, gorgeous website, sparkling away to the universe, and with a juicy contact form temptingly enticing potential clients or customers to get in touch. While having a great contact form does attract some fantastic potential clients, it also acts as a...
How To Choose The Right Images For Your Website
A picture paints a thousand words. Seeing is believing. Show don’t tell. The soul never thinks without a picture. There are oodles of research papers and mountains of memes about the power of images to convey meaning and create emotion, which is why the images that...
How to Write About Your Business When You Can’t Write
Are you great (or even a little bit amazing) at what you do but when you try and put that into words for your website, your blog or your social media, you feel like the words skitter away from your brain faster than a cockroach when you turn the light on the...
