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How Easy Is It to Build a Website? | 016

It's a simple question, right? After all, if you've seen the advertisements by various different companies talking about how easy it is to build your website in "just minutes" you'd think that it's a snap. 

In some ways you would be right, but in other ways, you'd be way wrong. That's the main topic of today's episode of the podcast.

The old adage holds true:

We offer three kinds of service: Cheap, Good, FAST -  you can pick any two.

GOOD service, CHEAP, won't be FAST
GOOD service, FAST won't be CHEAP
FAST service CHEAP won't be GOOD...

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Ecommerce, Abandoned Carts, Social Media and Wordpress | 015

In this latest episode of the Orracle Media/My Website Workshop Podcast, we cover all kinds of things.

I cover the importance of owning your listing on Yelp and Foursquare both create new and unique opportunities for brick-and-mortar stores that you will definitely want to take advantage of. Lots of brick-and-mortar establishments are doing very cool things with these location-based social platforms and you need to make sure you business is making the best use of them.

Do you know why people abandon their shopping carts on your ecommerce website? Have you asked? Abandoned...

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The Return of the My Website Workshop Podcast! 014

Finally It's here! The relaunch of the My Website Workshop podcast is finally here!  I'm incredibly glad to be able to say that the podcast has returned and I'm more excited about it than ever.

It's been a long time coming, but I needed to make some changes and there were so many things that needed to be done to get it back going and get it going right that I figured that I would just hold off and wait until I could relaunch it the right way.

That means a more consistent schedule. This podcast will be published every other Thursday. Weekly was a bit much for me as there just...

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PPC and CPC ads with Google - When it Works and When it Doesn't | 013

Struggling with SEO (search engine optimization) is a problem for every webmaster and website owner. Sometimes, the thought is, "why don't we just buy the traffic?" There is definitely a time and place for paid placement, PPC and other traffic generating marketing efforts, but just because you're investing to get the traffic to your site via Google PPC, Facebook PPC, or any other cost-per-click opportunity it doesn't mean that this is going to be good traffic, or traffic that converts.

In this episode this is the main...

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WordPress & Magento: A Match Made Made in Heaven | 012

Wordpress as a blogging platform is just about as awesome as it gets. The same thing goes for Magento and ecommerce platforms - it's second to none. But what if you need both ecommerce and a blogging platform? Magento has a variety of plugins that may work, but none of them are really as good as Wordpress.  The same goes for Wordpress - there are options out there that will work, but don't have the features or power that Magento has. So why not combine them? 

That's exactly what you can do now....

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Communicating What Your New Awesomeness Will Deliver | 011

Communicating the value that your new "awesome" website feature is going to provide is sometimes the job of us "web guys" and "web gals". I've done it numerous times to roll out new ideas and plans for sites I've worked on for companies I've worked for. You have to be able to communicate the value of what your new "awesomeness" is going to deliver.

Helping those who are not familiar with web technology isn't always easy, but there is a language that they understand: "Return on Investment". If you can demonstrate how you're new idea is going to help the organization reach its overall...

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Hustling to Make Your Website Awesome | 010

Building your website can be a lot like building a house:  Even though the initial construction may be finished, you're just getting started. I know this from my own experience building websites - not only for myself, but for my clients too.  And if you're doing it right it's really a labor of love, but it's still labor.  Getting off the ground is one thing but making your site awesome is entirely another.  

Today that's what I'm talking about on the show. Most of this stuff is from my personal experience ...

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Five Essential Elements to Creating Outstanding Design | 009

On today’s episode of the MyWebsiteWorkshop.com Podcast I covered Five Essential Elements to Creating Outstanding Design.

I can't claim credit for having thought of these concepts myself - Megan Fisher did an outstanding job covering these during the Think Vitamin CSS3 Webinar last year, and it was a fantastic conference.

The main point of the conference was to cover the new possibilities of creating stunning and amazing work with CSS3. However what I learned...

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The Three Pieces the Website Puzzle | 008

Websites can be a bit daunting when you look at what some of the huge ones out there are doing - Amazon.com, Yahoo!, MSN, etc., but they all have three elements in common and that is what today’s episode is all about. From the smallest site, to the largest every single website must address three issues: technology, design, and content.

Sure, you can talk about e-commerce, but that’s really a technology issue. And you might say that branding and marketing are core categories, but they’re really associated with content and design. Marketing? Sure, but on-site marketing is really...

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SEO Basics, Best Practices and Tips for Getting Started | 007

Getting started with SEO can be tough.  There is so much info out there, so many different practices, books, seminars, webinars, etc.  But the basics of search engine optimization (SEO) are pretty fundamental and that's what discussed on the show today. This podcast is a supplement to a couple of posts that I've already done on SEO Basics:

SEO Basics I

SEO Basics II

 Unfortunately I forgot the news segment of the podcast today so I'll be saving that for next time.  It's some good stuff too - darnit!...

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