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MARKETING
How Does Earnest Enterprises Help You?
I was asked an interesting question: how does my business help other people/businesses. I like the question! It made me really think about what we do and why and I want to articulate it here. Earnest Enterprises provides 3 key tools for businesses to use: websites,...
Communication With Customers Builds Relationships and Sales
Customers these days aren’t just looking for your business with their mobile devices. They’re also looking for relationship. For those of us in the over-40 age range, this is a newer concept. It’s true though: people want to feel like they know you and your business...
More Evidence that Mobile is Where Your Marketing Campaign Should Focus
At the Social-Loco Conference in San Francisco this month, Google VP Marissa Mayer gave a keynote speech outlining the company’s vision for the social and local markets. You can read an article in Mashable about the event. The key phrase for me in that article was...
Are Telephone Directories Obsolete?
Cities propose outlawing telephone books It started in 2010 when the City of Seattle proposed charging telephone companies a per book fee, an annual licensing fee, and large fines for delivering unwanted phone books (specifically the yellow pages) to residents. Then...
APPS
What is a Web App?
Here at Earnest Enterprises, we create web apps for businesses and individuals. What is a web app? Well, it’s an app just like the ones you see in the iTunes or Google Play store (called native apps), with a big difference or two. A web app is hosted on a server,...
Progressive Web App Includes the Best of Mobile
We’ve been working hard to develop the best mobile web app we can, and after a lot of hard work are so proud of our Progressive Web App. This is a complete mobile web app with many flexible features. With the Choice App, you may choose from as many pages as you like....
Websites
Backing up Your WordPress Site is…Pretty Important
I have a client (bless his heart) that has managed to lose his website not once, but twice in the past few years. Mainly it was an issue of forgetting to pay his hosting fees, but the result was: no more website. See, if you miss that bill your entire website is...
Why We No Longer Recommend GoDaddy for Hosting
Over the years, we've tried several different web hosts for ourselves and at client request. A longstanding favorite was GoDaddy.com. They did a great job as registrar and as host (a server where all of your site files are held and made available to the public), and...
PLEASE Don’t Give Away Ownership of Your URL
We've run across this scenario many times: a business owner needs a website so they hire a designer/builder. The designer kindly offers to handle purchasing the URL, and oh! They can host the site too! Wahoo, right? NOPE. If someone else registers your URL (your...
VIDEO
How Can Video Help My Business?
One of the most important things a business needs to do is to tell potential and existing customers what it can do. People need to know what product or service you have to offer and why they should come to you for it. But how do you communicate effectively? In today’s...
WORDPRESS
O’Connor Site Gets a Facelift
About 4 years ago, I created a website for Dennis of O'Connor Auto Repair. At the time I was using Thesis Framework, and I used a skin for the custom look. In 2015, WordPress websites could be customized a bit using typical themes. Thesis was quite revolutionary,...