Why Cheap Website Design Often Becomes Expensive After the Fact If you've ever shopped for a new website, you've probably wondered why one company quotes several thousand dollars while another promises a professional-looking site for just a few hundred—or even...
Why We Choose to Only Build Business WordPress Websites Instead of Website Builders If you’ve been researching websites for your business, you’ve probably come across platforms like Wix, Squarespace, Weblium, Weebly, Shopify, GoDaddy Websites + Marketing, and a...
If a Tree Falls in the Forest & No One is there it hear it, does it make a sound? Few things are more frustrating for a business owner than investing time and money into a website only to watch it sit quietly without generating phone calls, form submissions, or...
I recently spoke with a wedding photographer who realizes that her website is old and outdated. She contacted me to find out whether my team could handle making changes to it. The answer? "Yes and no." "Yes, we could. No, we would rather not." Want some free...
(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on November 6, 2011.) One of the reasons we moved to Lake Arrowhead is because we love the snow. But dealing with it poses a myriad of associated problems, including (but not limited to) getting stuck on mountain roads....
(This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on July 18, 2011.) Overall, I'm a very safe driver. In fact, if you ask my kids, they'll eagerly tell you how irritating it is that I so closely follow the rules of the road. I drive the speed limit, observe stop signs,...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on December 20, 2010. I have to admit my personal New Year's resolutions for 2011 are the same as they were in 2010—lose weight; save money; be a better wife, mother, daughter, grandmother, neighbor and friend. I long...
Make sure you network the right way in the right place. This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on October 25, 2010 and in the Biz Press on October 27, 2010. While saving money to return to college my sophomore year, I did a short stint as an international...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on September 27, 2010 and in the Biz Press on September 30, 2010. For reasons I will never be able to explain, in seventh grade, I joined the girls' basketball team. I was just 5' 2" and about as athletic as an armchair....
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on August 30, 2010 and on the Business Press on September 1, 2010 and the Press Enterprise on September 4, 2010. It was a bonehead move for my counselors at Summer Fun Day Camp to take a van full of impressionable seven...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on August 16, 2010 and in the Biz Press on August 18, 2010. After borrowing my sister-in-law's mobile phone in 1988, I was convinced that cell phone technology would never gain much of a following. As attractive and...
This column first appeared on RIMOFTHEWORLD.net on and in the Biz Press on February 18, 2010. No doubt you’re familiar with the game of telephone, where you whisper something to the first person in a line and then wait to hear how the message gets scrambled on the...