This is a question that I come across all the time as a website developer for small businesses. Unfortunately there is no clear-cut answer to this, but what I can do is explain some of the pros and cons for you to weigh based on your type of business.

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Windows 8 has been out for over a year now and slowly but surely PC users are updating their systems to the new operating system, although not all happily. All over the internet you’ll find posts about how to find new PCs still sporting the old Windows 7 platform and people complaining left and right about all the crazy changes you’ll find when starting up a Windows 8 machine for the first time. So what’s the big deal, why is Windows 8 so scary?

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Are you squandering away your best chance at promoting your business online? Your website is a powerful tool for getting your information into the hands of your potential customers, but if you’re not keeping it up-to-date, then what’s the point?

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So you have a shiny new website and you are excited to start showing it off but when you search for it in Google nothing comes up? Never fear, there’s a relatively painless process you can use to kickstart your site’s search results. And we’re about to tell you.

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Let’s start with the basics, as we so often try to do for our readers, what is a URL and why does it matter? Your URL, or Universal Resource Locator, is the address where your website will live. If you want to be successful on the web this is where it starts.

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Watch as members of the Buffalo Wired cast sing from the heart to businesses who need a website re-design, in this parody of “Call Me Maybe” as made famous by Carly Rae Jepsen.

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Guest blogger. With over 1,500 speaking engagements throughout the US and Canada to his credit, Brendan J. Cunningham, President of Excelleron Business Consulting, has been called the ”Patron Saint of Entrepreneurs. As a business coach, when I recognize that my clients are at an impasse, sometimes I ask them this question: “How do you catch a monkey?”

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This week’s blog is a departure from our usual format. We sought out reputable sources to bring you up-to-the-minute small business news. Take a look.

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Guest blogger. With over 1,500 speaking engagements throughout the US and Canada to his credit, Brendan J. Cunningham, President of Excelleron Business Consulting, has been called the ”Patron Saint of Entrepreneurs.” Here, Brendan offers a new way to think about change. How do you spell “Change?” This question sounds like the old Rolaids commercial from the 1970’s. Remember? “How do you spell relief? R-O-L-A-I-D-S.”

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Just what is a “call to action?” It is a technique marketers and advertisers use to ask you to do something specific and immediate. They want you to interact or buy…now.

Read More “5 Reasons Your Homepage Needs a “Call to Action””