Aren’t you glad your taxes are done for 2012!? Oh….they’re not? Well, you are not alone. This time of year becomes a bit tricky when you are running a business. Not only do you have to manage your business effectively but you also need to get your taxes filed on time and correctly. If you [...]
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Tips for B2B Sales | Personable Follow Up Tools
Selling business to business (B2B) through online tools can be extremely difficult. The internet if full of slimy scams that make you look bad when you are simply contacted by someone online, asking about their current services or products related to your business. The prospect wonders if you are simply a robot that sent this [...]
Websites that Speak Google
Building for BEAUTY instead of BUSINESS Imagine if your company was building a new office building. Your company is excited for this building because it will finally provide the needed space and efficiency you have been desiring. You hired the finest of architects to make the layout as pleasing as possible and easy to work [...]
Why Your Business’ Facebook Page is a Waste of Your Time & Money
Social Networking is all the rage right now. If you’ve got a business, you’ve got to be on Facebook, right? And a Twitter account is a must-have, even if you don’t know how to use it, correct? Oh, and LinkedIn, gotta be there too… oh and Google Plus is growing like crazy… and, and…! Actually: [...]
Why FiddlerStudios Charges $79 for A Whole Lot More Than Just “Hosting”
Recently, we had two different instances where security was an issue for sites that were not hosted by us. In one instance some WordPress themes contained a known security flaw, but hadn’t been updated, and therefore allowed malware to get in and infect many sites. This meant that when you visited the site, your browser [...]
How to Leave Godaddy.com
UPDATE: 12/22/2011 Godaddy recently announced their support for SOPA. If you don’t know what SOPA is, it’s a bill that pretends to want to protect Copyright holders. However, it’s the old “using a club to kill a mosquito” approach that government seems to love: it will do far more damage than good. It will lead [...]
Copywriting Brochures, E-mails, & Other Business Marketing Content
A topic that frequently comes up here at FiddlerStudios, and with our clients, is copywriting. According to Wikipedia, “Copywriting is the use of words and ideas to promote a person, business, opinion or idea.” Whether it’s a client that needs the logo we created for their new flyer they’re creating, or the text we have [...]
Avoid Network Solutions at All Costs
Since we offer hosting and domain registration as a part of our services, we often get to work with various registrars and web hosts as we move existing websites over to their new home on FiddlerStudios’ hosting. Previously we told you why we don’t like Godaddy, and how to leave and avoid them, now we’ve [...]
Use Free Mint.com to Track Business Finances
Here at FiddlerStudios we work with a lot of small and startup businesses. Because we’re a small business ourselves, we often learn and develop new ways that help us run our business. We want to share that with our clients and anyone that it might help. So this is the first of our articles on [...]
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How to Leave Godaddy.com
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Use Free Mint.com to Track Business Finances
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Avoid Network Solutions at All Costs
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Why Your Business’ Facebook Page is a Waste of Your Time & Money
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If You Don’t Know What Google+ Local is…Then It’s Hurting Your Business
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Meet My Friend Quickbooks! (and other tax season advice)
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Meet My Friend Quickbooks! (and other tax season advice)
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Six Star Gets Pure Analysis of Your Business Using Covert Mystery Shoppers
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Prairie Grain Bread’s Website Will Make You Hungry
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VANS CLIENTS: Please Check Your Website – WordPress & Plugins Updated
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Get Revenge After a Bad Customer Experience
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Tips for B2B Sales | Personable Follow Up Tools
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How do I put this…? Your website is ugly!
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