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Why It’s Important To Let Your Web Person Handle Your Hosting And Maintenance
I’ve been doing web design, web development, and digital marketing for more than 10 years. Of the years I’ve done a number of different methods to host my clients’ sites. In the beginning I would have them pick up cheap hosting and they would manage that relationship. As time went on, the cheap hosting acted…
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Different Ways To Network Other Than Traditional Networking Events
A good friend of mine and colleague Sara Rosenberg recently posted on LinkedIn about how there are many different ways to network not just going to networking events. Her post makes some great points: On LinkedIn alone you can… Post great content. Respond and comment on great content. Reach out and connect to colleagues. As…
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Knowing When A Project Isn’t A Great Fit For You
Being an entrepreneur can be tough. Always prospecting for new business and pitching yourself and your services when you get a moment to do so to an interesting party, can be tough. What’s hard is to know when to admit when a possible client might not be the best fit for you and your company.…
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Digital Marketers & Web Designers. Don’t hold Your Clients Hostage!
If I got paid $1 every time I had to untangle an existing site’s hosting account, WordPress account and plugin/theme issues, I’d be a very rich man. In the digital marketing, especially in the web design, their are two many professionals holding clients hostage and making it really difficult for them to separate and go…
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Feeling Good About How Far I’ve Come In My Entrepreneurial Journey
It’s been 11 years since I started on my entrepreneurial journey. Wow! There have been lots of ups and downs. I know I’ve grown a lot since starting Goldstein Media, but it’s nice to see that others have noticed as well. A really good business friend of mine who has known me throughout this journey…
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Klein Camp 2019 at Temple University
It’s been 11 years of Klein Camp (or the old name Barcamp News Innovation) at the Klein School of Journalism at Temple University. I’ve been going for most of them. Even though I’ve “escaped” journalism back in the late, ’00s I love to keep a thumb on what’s going on in the industry, especially during…
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Email Is A Necessary Evil
I honestly don’t know what I would do without email. It’s definitely a love hate relationship. Every time I try to use a project management system, it seems so much easier to send an email for what needs to be done. Though if the email isn’t done right, it’s worse than using a confusing project…
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Mental Health and Entrepreneurship
I’m a very positive person. I don’t often feel depressed. I’m a “the glass is half full” kind of guy. But more and more I’m hearing about how depression and mental health is becoming a big topic not only in my entrepreneur circles, but in business as a whole. This is a good thing. Having…
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Jordan Paris and School
So there is a guy on LinkedIn who announced he is giving a TEDx talk on why he thinks formal education and college is a waste of time and a scam. A pretty provocative stance if you ask me. Jordan Paris likes to position himself as a visionary of how to go about doing business…
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Teaching Your Clients “How To Fish”
Teaching your clients how to fish after you build them a website is very important. They might still turn to you to do most updates, but they should have a sense of what goes into updating and keeping their site functional. With WordPress there is no reason why the client can’t have some type of…
