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How Often Should You Update Your Website Software, Content + Design
Googling ‘how often should I update my website?’, Be aware that if your website technology, is poorly maintained, your site can actually break. Find out why.
Is Fully Managed Hosting Essential for My Business?
Need website hosting? Websites require constant maintenance to ensure functionality and security. Opting for fully managed website hosting ensures this.
How Can Video Marketing Grow My Local Business?
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Lunch Break Website Marketing Part 2
So you’ve got a fantastic website; it looks slick and professional and perfectly explains your services or products. But how do you get more people to see it? Below we’ve provided our Top 5 ways to Cheap Website Marketing.
Lunch Break Website Marketing Part 1
Want to know how to promote your business in a half-hour lunch break? While web-based solutions are an essential part of business promotion, low-tech methods can be effective too. Think customer relations, enquiry follow-ups, staff competitions and more. Read on for our top five recommendations to promote your business, they are all relatively simple to execute and can have a big impact.
Do I Own My Website?
If you’re asking yourself the question, “do I own my website?”, you are not alone. It is a common and important question. At Web-Sta we ensure you have access to all of your website’s passwords, and that you can edit content if, and when, you choose.
Read on to find out how to take ownership of your website.
Professional Website Hosting for Optimal Website Performance
As a business owner, do you feel like you just don’t have the time to manage your website hosting? Unfortunately, in today’s world of online business, neglecting your website maintenance is a recipe for disaster. This Blog looks at the importance of website hosting, and the benefits of outsourcing.
Quality WordPress Web Designer Meets Marketing Expertise
If you’re on the hunt for quality WordPress website design Brisbane, Web-Sta has the solution you need. Based on Brisbane’s northside, and with 12+ years in the industry, we specialise in building a professional and effective online presence for small and medium businesses throughout Australia.
Brute Force Attack – A Real Website Threat
The digital landscape can be an extremely hostile place. Without the proper protection, your website (and data) is left vulnerable to a host of security threats. Brute Force Attacks are one threat that Web-Sta has recently encountered. Read on to learn more about what it is and what we’ve done about it.
5 Benefits To Using WordPress Web Design Sunshine Coast
When it comes to building a website, the variety of options can be somewhat overwhelming. From WordPress web design to DIY templates…
Websites! How Much, How Long + What’s Involved?
Want the recipe for creating a quality, customised website that will grow your business? You need to invest time and resources to make it happen! At Web-Sta we aim to complete each project within the shortest possible time. With the various stages involved and the Client’s review + approval process, generally this occurs within 6 […]
What It Takes to Create a High Quality, Results-Driven + Scalable Website
So you’ve made the decision to get your website built. Perhaps you’re looking to upgrade an outdated site, include better content, or simply create an online “home” that potential customers can visit. But when it comes to websites Sunshine Coast, north Brisbane + anywhere in between, what differentiates a good website, from a great website? […]
How to Save Time + Money On Content Creation For Your Business
If you want to grow + scale your business, then we recommend you start thinking about how your business can offer valuable content to your audience. In fact, we’d go as far as to say that many of our clients who engage in our website design Sunshine Coast services miss a very critical point, which […]
Web Design in Brisbane: Why Going Local is Better!
When it comes to quality web design in Brisbane, there are many companies and web design packages on offer. Due to the fact that everything is created online, your web design options aren’t necessarily limited to companies in your surrounding area. While you can certainly choose a web design company in a different city, state, […]
3 Effective Ways to Let Your Prospects + Clients Know You’re Open For Business!
When it comes to local businesses, having a quality website that is both visually attractive and informative is an important step towards sharing what you do and how you do it with your potential customer’s. Here’s the thing though, it’s not the only step! The next step is having quality website marketing Brisbane strategies that […]
Top 7 Recommendations for Website Updates in 2019
Is your business ready to start 2019 off with a bang? A new year brings new energy, and the opportunity for businesses to create a huge surge of momentum. There is literally no better time to invest in quality website updates that ensure your business runs smoothly, can scale, and maintain a solid online presence […]
How Offline Marketing can Boost Your Business in a Digital Era
From product packaging and vehicle signage to networking and merchandise. These ‘non-digital’ marketing tools all contribute to your overall ‘digital’ presence and performance. Don’t just take our word for it… Digital Doughnut agree! — Start of Article — In a digital era where new technologies take over every aspect of our lives, standing out from […]
3 Website Updates That Will Make It Better
While there are 100s of possible website updates you can implement to make your website better, here are our top 3.
1. Tighten Up Security
2. Add Fresh Content to Help Boost Google Ranking
3. Update Your Design
Quality Web Design = More than just Fancy Photos
Quality web design is about so much more than just the way your website looks. The definition of a well designed website is a site that will help you grow your business, engage with potential customers and ultimately, increase leads + conversions. Let’s take a look.
Why You Shouldn’t Underestimate the Power of Email Marketing
The crew at Digital Doughnut have a point! What is Email marketing and what is the point? If you’re not incorporating email marketing into your overall marketing strategy, then these 4 reasons, “Why You Shouldn’t Underestimate the Power of Email Marketing” will reiterate the importance of this activity. — Start of Article — Email marketing? […]
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Web Design Brisbane – Websites & eMarketing For Top Notch Tradies
Web Design Brisbane – Websites & eMarketing For Top Notch Tradies If you’re a tradie, you know there are some pretty unhelpful stereotypes floating around about tradies these days huh? ‘Unreliable’ and ‘overpriced’ are two of the most common ones we’ve heard. It’d be great for both tradies and customers if these stereotypes change! With years […]
Online Marketing: How To Mine The Gold of Google Reviews
Online marketing: No matter how good your product or service is, in this day and age your online marketing can make or break your business. And the piece of the online marketing puzzle that’s more important than ever, ever before? Online customer reviews. ‘Negative reviews drive away customers. 94 percent say an online review has […]
Web Design Brisbane | Why Going Local Will Save You From going ‘Loco’!
Local web design from Brisbane compared to getting web design from some international freelance site? Here are our top reason for going local!
Business Ideas to make you go WOW! – Top 5 Craziest Online Business Ideas
Do you have a bunch of business ideas buzzing around in your head? A bunch of business ideas that just seem too crazy to work, but they still just keep popping up? Maybe, just maybe, you should follow that ‘crazy’ urge! These 5 businesses did!
Consumer Behaviour – Two Key Elements That Can Make Or Break Your Business Online
There are many, many other factors involved in predicting and influencing consumer behaviour online, but without these two your business isn’t even in the game. Your website needs to have sitewide aesthetic appeal honed specifically to your target market, and it needs to be optimised to carry this aesthetic appeal across all mobile platforms.
Managed Web Hosting Services – An Investment You Can’t Afford Not To Have
While standard ‘website hosting’ can be thought of as the long term leasing of land to build your website ‘shop’ on, ‘managed website hosting services’ is the equivalent of a long term lease AND ongoing shop monitoring and maintenance.
A Formula for a Road to Success ( It’s Not Just Internet Marketing )
‘We just need more followers, more ‘likers’, more subscribers! That’s internet marketing success!’ You may have heard this idea, and possibly bought into it yourself. But it’s not the full picture. Expert internet marketing is only half of the equation. A visually appealing, fully functional quality website with intuitive navigation is the other half. Internet […]
SEO Spam And The Lure Of Black Hat tactics
Today we’re talking about an SEO industry term known as Black Hat Tactics, why you don’t want to be lured into this evilness, and how the angelic road is the higher road to prosperous business relationships and longevity.
As business owners we receive many emails. Some of them, like a new order enquiry, and repeat work from previous customers are business email gold.
Building Your Database: Potentially the greatest love story that ever was!
Picture this: You’re out on a first date. Maybe you found each other online, or maybe this meetup is the result of an enthusiastic matchmaker friend’s encouragement. Either way, you’re both here and you’re definitely glad you came. There’s good conversation about things you both value, the atmosphere is good, your date is well […]
4 Things That Need To Happen To Keep Your Website Functional
For those who’ve never owned an effective website before, or been privy to the insurance that is “managed hosting”, there’s often a perception that a website is a ‘Set and Forget’ type of affair. Once it’s set-up, it’s good to go right? Just launch it into the mysterious world-wide-web and get on with the rest […]
What is a ‘blog’ exactly? And why does my business need one?
‘Blog’ – it’s a bit of an ugly word for what can be a very beautiful thing! It’s also still a bit of a forgotten or misunderstood thing for some business owners. Let’s help shed a little more light on the topic, shall we? According to Webopedia, the term ‘blog’ was first coined in 1997 […]
You need to be perceived as an expert. The Mysteries of SEO revealed! (3/3)
Hi! Great to see you here again! If you missed the first two pieces in this series, we highly recommend you go and have a look at those first. ‘What does ‘SEO’ really mean?! starts at the very beginning and also clues you into the first metric Google and other search engines use to determine […]
You need more than static content. The Mysteries of SEO revealed! (2/3)
Hello! Welcome back. If you read our last post you’ll be well informed of what SEO stands for, and you’ll know the super important first step to ensuring your website ranks highly in search engine results. And we know that higher search engine results mean higher click through rates, which means more potential customers are […]
How To Get Found! The Mysteries of SEO revealed! (Part 1 of 3)
‘SEO’, that often talked about term that website builders and online marketers insist is super important. ‘SEO’, that magical pot of gold that you know you most probably need1, but you’re a little hazy on the details. Let Web-Sta ‘go behind the curtain’ and reveal a little of the magician’s magic for you. Let us give you […]
Is My Website Tax Deductible?
Turns out your Website is not only tax deductible, it’s also somewhat of an anomaly.1 Who would have thought that in this day and age just under 20 percent of medium-sized Australian businesses2(those having 20 – 199 employees) still don’t have a web presence!?! According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), this contributes to more than half […]
HOTTEST 5 TIPS to Effective Emails Series – Part 5/5 – Inboxes Management
Welcome to the 5th and final part to this series. We hope you’ve found it informative and extracted a number of keys takeaways that you’ve since applied and are enjoying the new benefits of. Now that your email communication has improved and your participating more efficiently and effectively in the world of digital bombardment and […]
HOTTEST 5 TIPS to Effective Emails Series – Part 4/5 – Email Marketing
Welcome to Part 4 in our 5 Part Effective Email Series. When it comes to email marketing – knowing how to do the basics well – is critical to producing WIN-WIN outcomes. If you haven’t got the run-down on the basics outlined in our previous Parts, you’ll find a link at the bottom of this article. […]
5 HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails – Part 3/5 – The Sign-off
In our first part to this 5 Part series to Effective Emails, we provided three striking email communication statistics together with our 5 Hottest Subject Line Tips. In Part 2 we presented our 5 Hottest Email BodyTips, and now in Part 3 it’s time to share our HOTTEST SIGN-OFF TIPS. If you missed any of the previous Parts, we’ve included links at the bottom of this […]
5 HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails – Part 2/5 – The Body
In our first part to this series, we provided three striking email communication statistics to encourage you to read, consider, and employ these TIPS in your email communication. Once we’ve got The Subject Line right, and our recipient or audience has opened our email, it’s now important that we gain and hold their attention a) long enough to read the […]
5 HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails – Part 1/5 – The Subject Line
Although often the bane of our existence, email communication is also where a HUGE portion of business communication gets transmitted. For this reason, The Web-Sta Team agreed to kick off a series consisting of 5 Part of the HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails — it truly is an activity worthy of our attention and continuous […]