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I remember when I first started building websites over 10 years ago that all I had at the time was Microsoft’s Notepad application and a book titled “Sam’s Learn HTML in 24 Hours.” Piecing a website together was an arduous process that included lots of technical knowledge (or at least lots of reference books) and took many long nights with lots of caffeine to finish.  We’ve sure come a long way since then and today there are all sorts of free online tools where you can build your website in say less than 24 hours (it may not be pretty, but it would be a website.)  One of these tools is called a “content management system,” or CMS for short, and I want to spend just a little bit of time telling you what I consider to be the top four benefits of using a CMS tool to build your website. Read more

I’ve spent the past 8 years of my life operating in the online world. Three of those years I was developing and managing the online strategies for the organization I worked for and three more of those years were at the helm of my current consulting practice teaching small business owners how to effectively develop and implement their own online strategies. In all my years of “living on the web” there are two things that completely frustrate me Read more