Around the internet, there are many differing opinions about whether or not it is ok to just help yourself to any content you see on the internet. Its a bit of a polarizing discussion, where people are either very much against or very much in favor of what I guess we could call the concept of “open source content” that would be free for the taking.

The Original Content Conundrum Those of you that are readers of BP and articles on content like this one, know that we require original content on this site, and on our own individual business sites. That is not just because we happen to enjoy creating content, but also because we recognize the value of unique content [...]

Social media marketing got you down? Save time and energy using a social media marketing dashboard. Does your social media marketing plan leave you exhausted and take too much time?  All that liking, sharing, tweeting,  pinning, and jumping from app to app leave you with little time for other tasks?  By now we know that social [...]

What’s a webmaster to do? There is a lot to keep track of these days if you are brave (or some may say ignorant) enough to create and maintain your own website. Recently there have been several security breaches in WordPress, I have a post in draft where I was going to address them recently. [...]

If you are using the internet for marketing your painting company, plagiarism and copyright infringement is an issue you will inevitably face twice. Once when you are building your site to make sure you are not using copyrighted material. The second time is every day after that to make sure your unique content is not [...]

The Questions You Must Discuss on Every Estimate Last year, we wrote an article about selling. Basically, it’s tough! For seasonal areas this time of year, everyone seems to be calling at the same time. When it gets busy, we can easily get caught up focusing on the work to be done. We forget that [...]

Using Facebook To Build Your Business When I first joined Facebook three years ago, it was a means to managing a page for my business which I naively thought would be a source of loads of new business. When that didn’t happen I assumed it was because I didn’t have enough likes. The poor man’s [...]

The more the internet kind of stays the same… The good news is that it is only getting easier to publish a professional blog. If you have any kind of computer and a smartphone, you are half way there. It’s the other half that makes the difference between a blog with substance and one that [...]