Why your blog theme should match your website

It’s important when building (and maintaining) your brand to establish a consistent look across all of your marketing. That means your brochure, stationary, website, advertisements, etc. But this isn’t news to anyone who has done much reading about marketing or branding. However, a very overlooked component is your business’ blog.

Many business today are using blogs to gain visibility, create a sense of community with their customers, establish their expertise in their field, and generate a load of internet traffic. Unfortunately, very often a business’ blog doesn’t match up visually with the rest of the company’s brand.

That is certainly a mistake and businesses need to ensure that their blog appearance is consistent with their other collateral and supports their overall marketing. Here are some examples of blog themes I’ve done for clients to match up to their business websites.

Blog: http://blog.messagetech.com
Website: http://messagetech.com

Blog: http://buildingsystemsnetwork.com/blog
Website: http://buildingsystemsnetwork.com

Blog: http://www.jebbfink.com/blog
Website: http://jebbfink.com

Blog: http://www.westchesterdivorceblog.com
Website: http://www.nyfamilywealth.com

Any many others. Bottom line, if you have a business website and have (or start) a business blog, make sure they support your company’s branding!

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A new custom blog theme for an Atlanta photographer

Laura Negri of Negri Photography hired me to build her a custom theme for her photography blog. She had been using a blogger blog and wanted to make the switch to Wordpress and I was more than pleased to work with her on the project.

Visit Laura’s new custom blog and check out her work, it’s gorgeous. If you’re in the Atlanta area and need an excellent photographer, give Laura a call!

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Cost Vs. Value

Many people look to save money on website hosting, which isn’t a bad thing. However, you should never sacrifice service and dependability to save a few bucks a month. Case in point, two separate website projects that I’m (trying) to work on today…

I’m trying to perform some site updates for two web design clients, and this work is being billed hourly. Both of these updates have already taken three times longer than they should and they’re not even complete yet. Why? Bad hosting.

I’ve done the work, but I can’t get connected to upload. Since the updates are time sensitive I have to keep trying, so I can’t just try again later. I do feel guilty sometimes for being “on the clock” for a client but simply sitting here at my desk. But it’s not my fault that the hosting has gone wacky, and I can’t give away this time, it’s time I can’t spend doing other tasks.

Ultimately, any money the client has saved over the past couple of months using cheap web hosting just got ate up in unnecessary fee that they’ll owe to me for sitting here dealing with the crappy hosting.

Proving that once again it’s not about the cost, it’s about VALUE.

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What Clients Want….

I love this video that a client pointed out to me last week. Enjoy!

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