Get Your Website Indexed Faster & Ranked Higher — What Is A Sitemap, and how does it work? It is an XML file that outlines the hierarchy & URLs of the pages within your domain for search engines to reference to in order to index your website. Index is a nerdy term for including them in potential search results. What is The (Google)Bot, and what does it do? The Googlebot is a computerized explorer (other search engines…

Cloud Tools to Work Remotely, Efficiently and Safely — 2020–03–13 — When I realized the COVID-19 situation is more serious than we initially thought, I made a very quick decision to move every single staff at Brixwork & HOVR to work from home. We were able to get up and running within a matter of hours, if not less…

The Kardashian-Jenners make up to a million dollars for each Instagram post (as of 2018), and here are the typical critical responses: There’s so much hate about how a gaggle of very attractive & well-connected girls can leverage media (leaked sex tapes among them) to make so much money…

“My MacBook isn’t turning on, even though I charged it all night!” And That’s How We Learn Our Lessons — Through Mistakes As a problem solver, being helpful is in my nature. I like to help. We like to help. But we needed to set our boundaries At one point a client insisted on meeting me after office hours to get me to look at his Gmail issue on his laptop —…

Cloud Apps For Teamwork, Project Management, and Client Communication — April 19, 2016— The Break In & Theft! Early Morning (or Late Night, however you wish to put it)- The Brixwork & HOVR office got broken into overnight. 06:30- I was notified of the incident, and police reports were filed as I drove over to inspect the damages. They had stolen all of our iMacs. …

I’VE BEEN THERE AND DONE THAT. I’m not a big shot like Gary Vaynerchuk, nor did I invent a new viral app like #Slack. But I’ve successfully grown a one-man-show freelance web/design gig to a SaaS (subscription) based operation with a 10-person team. Delegation, automation, streamlining, bootstrapping are not just buzzwords I see on Entrepreneur.com …

I have been in the digital marketing industry since 2004 and have been exposed to all sorts of changes in the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) landscape, and I’ve witnessed my share of scams and theft. Some of these criminal approaches I’ve seen in the past few years are nothing short…

You’re a business owner. You started alone, and now you have a team of people that take care of different things. …

Every penny counts. When I moved Brixwork REM out of my home office and into an actual office environment with a team, it changed our cashflow a lot and I had to re-think budget. …