Practical website, hosting, SEO and social media advice for Grande Prairie, Peace Region and oilfield service businesses.
It's a small thing that quietly changes how seriously people take you — and it affects whether your invoices arrive at all.
Read the terms sometime. You are a licensee, and licences get revoked by software that never has to explain itself.
It feels like one. It costs nothing. And it belongs entirely to somebody else — which you find out at the worst possible moment.
The path from problem to phone call has five steps, and most local businesses fall out of it at step two.
Six things move the needle for a local business. Most of them are unglamorous and nobody's done them.
One does reach. The other does money. Most businesses run both badly by treating them as the same job.
Ask a developer and you'll learn which one they enjoy building on. Here's the version that starts from your business.
They solve different problems on different timelines, and picking the wrong one for your situation costs more than picking either.
Everyone answering this sells websites, which makes the answer predictable. Here are the cases where it's genuinely not worth it.
Months, not weeks. Here's the actual timeline, and how to tell it's working before the rankings move.
Templates are cheaper and often perfectly fine. The difference shows up somewhere most people aren't looking.
Portfolios show the easiest part to evaluate and the least likely to go wrong. Ask these instead.
Quotes range from a few hundred to tens of thousands. Here's what's actually driving that spread.
A quiet website that converts beats a busy one that doesn't, and it isn't close.
