I’ve been asked to critique web pages for clients and friends.  It’s so simple that I think people make it harder than it needs to be.  Why do so many folks get hung up on the flashing animations and neglect the content?   Unless you’re vying for the worst websites of the year (My worst favorite [...]
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How can I focus on end of year when it’s only May, you say?  Well, not only is it the end of the school year, it’s also the end of the association year.  Event programming typically takes a hiatus over the summer (Gee, must be nice, eh?) and cranks back up in the fall. That brings [...]
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Have you heard the latest SEO buzz on “link bait”?  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been important ever since the first web sites were published and people started searching for stuff.  Yet SEO has been like the Holy Grail of web sites in that it’s always changing, ever elusive in fully attaining and maintaining a [...]
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Content marketing is the process of creating high quality website content that is so compelling that it attracts attention from your target market. Although content marketing is often used to maintain and nurture business relationships with existing customers, today I’ll be talking about how businesses are using content marketing to find new customers and build [...]
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Optimizing your website for the search engines does not have to be a challenge.  If you follow the simple guidelines listed below, you can increase the amount of qualified traffic coming to your website and decrease the amount of money you spend on SEO.  Think of these tips as pieces of the overall SEO puzzle.  [...]
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By Vincent J. Papi, Executive Smarts LLC Interim Management: The temporary provision of management resources and skills. Interim management can be seen as the short-term assignment of a proven heavyweight interim executive to manage a period of transition, crisis or change within an organization. In this situation, a permanent executive may be unnecessary or impossible to [...]
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We Architects are a curious species- even more so if one delves into the sub-species of the genome. Over the years I have encountered many types of Architects- and I myself have been morphing throughout my career. I thought it would be interesting to document my ‘sightings’ over the years. The sub-species below indicate the [...]
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In honor of Celiac Disease Awareness Month in North Carolina, Sweet Tea & Wheat-Free welcomes guest blogger and Founder of Custom Choice Cereal, LLC, Hajo Engelke. In 2008, Hajo, along with a group of students from UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, took on the challenge of creating a variety of delicious gluten-free cereals. At Custom [...]
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Where: Five Guys Burgers and Fries, Raleigh Brennan Station, 8107 Creedmoor Road location, Raleigh, NC, 27613 GF Menu: No. What I ate: Bun-less Cheeseburger + Five Guys Fries How to order it: When you place your order at the counter, ask for your burger “without the bun.” The Five Guys website contains an FAQ page [...]
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Where: Crab’s Claw Oceanfront Fine Foods: Fine Caribbean Cuisine, 201 West Atlantic Blvd., Atlantic Beach, NC 28512 The Crab’s Claw has been featured in Southern Living Magazine’s “Top 10 Southern Seafood Dives”. GF Menu: No. What I ate: Coastal Cobb Salad + Side of Plantains How to order it: When ordering a salad, just be [...]
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