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Five reasons to pick WordPress for your business website
Prospective clients often ask why I favor WordPress as our preferred content management system for business websites. I’ve got five reasons why I love to get our customers started on WordPress: It’s easy to publish. You don’t need to be a coder to update and add pages to your WordPress website. In addition to a…
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Three key actions we take with every new WordPress business website
Although 2820 Press still hasn’t reached its first birthday, I’ve been developing sites on WordPress since it forked from b2 almost a decade ago. Over the past few years, WordPress really proved itself as capable of delivering a quality experience for business websites, especially when paired with custom theme design. However, I still find myself…
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Authorship and brand voice.
Ryan Smith has ignited a debate in newsrooms and marketing agencies across America, in the wake of exposing his (now former) employer, Journatic. Stressed-out newspapers have hired Journatic (and companies like it) to “mechanical turk” many of the articles that once formed the backbone of print dailies: real estate transaction summaries, obituaries, even local sports…
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On paying by the word for web copy.
For all the posturing we make about being casual and transparent online, web copywriters don’t always make their pricing clear. We’ve had good reasons to keep our rates a trade secret. Post how much you charge per word, and you’re suddenly playing a commodity game. That’s bad for both writers and their clients. Focus too…
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Surviving chaos.
Researching a freelance writing assignment for a client, I ended up on a website run by survivalists. I’m hesitant to even link to it, because there’s some crazy stuff going on over there. However, I did catch something interesting among all the fear and paranoia on that website. The authors wrote passionately about how the…