5 Things to Consider When Creating a Website in 2022
Five important things to consider when building a website.
Customer Service and Marketing During COVID-19
What's Your Next Move? Small businesses across the country have been massively impacted by the Coronavirus. Some businesses have had to close shop and lay off employees. Many businesses have a high level of anxiety over what’s going to happen. Even essential...
Is Your Website Mobile Friendly?
In a recent blog post, Google announced that it will start considering mobile-friendly website designs in its ranking criteria in mobile searches. Given that almost half of all Google searches last year originated from a mobile device, this is a logical and...
Can Your Business Be Found in Local Search?
Local Search If you are a local business, you need to invest time and effort into “local search.” Local search is making sure your business can be found in local searches on desktops and especially on mobile devices. Businesses serving the local community such as...
Why WooCommerce is Perfect For Ecommerce
WooCommerce by WooThemes is a very flexible eCommerce platform used to build online stores. WooCommerce has a plethora of free as well as paid extensions that will allow you to do just about anything! WooCommerce is built to integrate easily and seamlessly...
Is Your Website Not Bringing the Customers?
Your company website represents your business online. So many times at Trumpet Marketing we speak with businesses that have websites that don’t bring in the business and bottom line… the “money”. Business owners say “We have a spiffy looking website that we spent a...
Five Useful Tips for Getting Your Construction Business Found on the Web
As we enter into the Fall and Winter months, many construction businesses face a slow-down in business due to the holidays and weather conditions. We feel it’s an opportune time to build up your visibility on the web in preparation for the spring… and even better…...
Are you seeing this message? “The site ahead contains malware!”
Many Wordpress sites are falling victim to malicious hacking, leaving sites with unsafe malware injected into the backend code. If this happens to your business website, you can lose business immediately. When your site is flagged by malware, Google will display a...
Social Media and its Importance for Businesses
Social Media Marketing and its Importance for Businesses We meet with businesses all the time. Some are new businesses and some are established businesses. One of the common obstacles we face is business owners not understanding the need and importance of having a...
Local Search. It’s Important!
Get Listed in Local Search Listings In the past, getting your business found was just a matter of potential customers just seeing your ad in a local paper. Or maybe an ad in the local telephone book. Have you seen the telephone book lately? It’s like a pamphlet. It’s...
Why Your Business Needs a Social Media Marketing Strategy
A well-planned, social media marketing strategy will help you and your business navigate the social media "wild west." Where should you be focusing your efforts? An effective social media strategy will map out your target audience how you plan to communicate your...
WordPress 5.0 is coming. Are you ready?
WordPress is getting ready to release one of its largest updates. Don’t let it catch you by surprise! The biggest buzz for WordPress 5.0 is the new editor, they will be doing away with the what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) editor and moving to a new block-based...
Facebook Makes BIG Changes – What Businesses Need to Know!
Facebook made a major and incredible announcement last night regarding what they will show folks in their news feeds in the near future. According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s focus will now be on “making sure the time we all spend on Facebook is time well spent”,...
Is Your Business Website Ready for 2018?
As a business owner -- if you are like us -- the turn of a new year is like a fresh start for our business. We are always motivated and inspired by the prospect of new business and relationships in the new year! Any savvy entrepreneur knows that their website is...
Twitter now supporting 280 Characters!
Twitter now moves from 140 characters to 280 is now available for Twitter users! A big move for Twitter! A lot of users have been asking for this and Twitter has answered back, Yes! Twitter has tested the 280 character limit and found that after the novelty of...
Is it time to ditch Google Chrome?
Is it time to ditch Google Chrome? Microsoft set to announce major news update GOOGLE Chrome continues to dominate when it comes to browsing the web but that could be about to change. Google's Chrome already has a huge 57 percent share of the web browser...
Amazon Web Services Broke Part of the Internet With a Typo
Amazon Web Services Issue Leaves Part of the Internet in Disarray It was reported that an authorized Amazon Web Services employee incorrectly entered a command that took a large number of Amazon's servers offline Tuesday. This simple error caused chaos on the...
Google to kill Chrome apps on Mac, Windows and Linux
By 2018, those applications for the Chrome browser will be no more Three years after introducing special apps that run inside the Chrome browser, Google announced Friday that it will be removing them from Windows, Mac and Linux by early 2018. The shutdown will be...
Live Streaming on Facebook now Available
Available in the United States for iPhone users Facebook now allows live video. Facebook exposed a new icon which allows you to create a description and choose the audience that you want to share before going live. Viewers can watch and you’ll be able to see the names...
Internet Explorer Retired by Microsoft – Upgrade to Edge
Microsoft says support for older versions of Internet Explorer has ended on January 12th, 2016 It’s the end of the line for Windows 8.0 and Internet Explorer 8, 9, and 10. With Microsoft pulling support on them, it’s upgrade or run the risk of being hacked. The...