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Sherwin Williams Emerald
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Content Theft- Fight Back
Something we have been talking about here at BP! Great article with more information at Hubspot. Are People Stealing Your Content? How (and When) to Fight Back from HubSpot All-in-one Marketing Software
How Content Walks: Thieves, Cons and Spinners
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.
Content Continued…
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 Dashboards
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 […]
Hacks and Google Whackery
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. […]
Content Theft
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 […]
Are you asking questions or telling?
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 […]
Like Me and You Will Love Me
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 Things Change…
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 […]
Managing your Online Reputation?
How many Social Media accounts have you signed up for in the past few years? How many do you still use? Have you decided that the whole Social Media thing is just not for you, threw up your hands and said, “fuggetaboutit”? Have you said, ” I have never received a lead from Facebook or […]
The Next Generation of Painters: Is there one?
Any contractor who has hired employees knows what an exercise in frustration it can be. There are very few standardized skill sets, as most painters learn how to paint by “just doing it”. There are few family businesses where skills are handed down to the next generation anymore, much less training programs where these skills […]
Website Review-Mod Paint Works
Our website review for February was with Ryan Parker of Mod Paint Works in Denver. We had the hangout last Wednesday and today I see Ryan has already made changes based on the suggestions given! Tess Wittler was unable to join us and we were fortunate to have Heidi Nyline of Warline Painting fill in to help […]
Estimating Software
“Everything gets Measured” That was biggest takeaway from an Estimating course I took from Bob Cusumano last year. Measuring and Estimating was one thing my husband and I had always disagreed on. He could walk a job, know how long it would take and be able to say how much. Of course, he had been […]