Week 1 Ask a question Who is someone you admire? Why did you get into business? What is your favorite quote and why? One thing that you wish your customers knew Review a book, movie, product or service What is your favorite thing to do? Week 2 What makes your business...
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Take the Workshed blog fitness challenge
Ah, the new year is almost here. If you’re like us, you’re feeling a little bit guilty about all that merriment from the holidays that added to the ol’ mid-section. Time to get back in shape, maybe join a gym, take up jogging again, or try out that newfangled...
Update Your WordPress Website
An out of date version of WordPress is one of the primary ways malicious hackers gain access to websites. Updating your site to the latest release is essential, but depending on how your website was built, upgrading to a newer version can come with it's own set of...
Custom WordPress Themes Are a Bad Idea
Custom WordPress Themes Are a Bad Idea... Just because you can do something, that doesn't necessarily mean you should. There are many things in life we can make from scratch, but don’t simply because it’s not necessary or practical. For example, if I wanted to bake a...
Marketing and Business Goals: A Love Story
Is your marketing working? Is it bringing in the right customers and helping you achieve your business goals? If not, why? From what we’ve seen, many small business people are too busy running their businesses to spend time defining their goals. They come to us and...
Update WordPress for the Last Time
WordPress recently released version 3.7 affectionately dubbed "Basie" in honor of "Count Basie," and with it come automatic updating! Of course, this might be a nightmare for older sites with "custom" themes, but for most people it's a helpful way to improve website...
Workshed Inc: Building websites, building community
The Vancouver Business Journal published their Business Spotlight about Workshed! Both the author (Jodie Gilmore) and photographer (Buck Heidrick) were enjoyable to work with and did a nice job of conveying what we’re trying to do for our clients.
Email Marketing Made Easy
The Importance of Email Marketing (and how to do it well) Owning a business and being a parent have a lot in common. Effectively communicating with your children and your clients is essential to maintaining good relationships in both areas. Unfortunately, regular...
How To Add Google Plus To Your Marketing Plan
How To Add Google Plus To Your Marketing Plan In our last post we shared how Google+ quietly (subversively) became an essential piece of the smart business’s marketing tool box. Here we’ll give you 3 quick and easy ways to incorporate it into your social media plan...
How Google+ killed Facebook
How Google+ killed Facebook “What?” you ask. “I was just on Facebook this morning, chatting with my 362 friends and updating my status!” There’s no need to grab your phone and sound the alarm. Facebook is still alive and well. So are Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and...