Archive for 2014

2014 Social Media Cheat Sheet for Graphic Designers

Thanks to our Partners at Constant Contact, we have this handy cheat sheet for 2014 social media graphic dimensions.

Visual images are extremely important for catching user’s attention on social media.  In fact, image posts generate 100 percent more engagement than text-only posts.  Be sure your visual elements are consistent and compelling, sticking true to your companies branding and message.

For more information, click here: http://blogs.constantcontact.com/product-blogs/social-media-marketing/social-media-image-size/

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How to Share a Google Doc with a Non-Google User

Google Docs makes it easy to instantly share and edit documents online in real time.  If you have a Google doc to share with someone but are unsure if they have a Google account, here is how you can still share with them:

First, it is important to understand what a Google account is.  It is not a gmail account.  A Google account is a unified login that gives you access to many Google tools such as Docs, Groups, Adwords, Analytics, etc.  A ...

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Image Alt Tag Module for ShopSite

An SEO best practice today is having alt tags for your images.  Google search bots can track these in your pages and influence your ranking in the Google Search Results.  If you have a site with many images it can take a long time to go through and udpate the alt tag for every image.  If you are one of our clients and hosted under Lexiconn, we have good news for you!

The image alt tag module allows any ShopSite store to automatically ...

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Shopsite: How to update Quantity on Hand and Pricing

Shopsite: How to update Quantity on Hand and Pricing

We receive these requests all the time:

How do I update a large amount of products that I have a low stock number on?

How do I change the pricing on all products during a sale?

We have put together a how to updating Quantity on Hand field and Pricing field in Shopsite with an excel spreadsheet. This method cuts down the time is would take to go product by product in the Shopsite back office. AND making your business much more ...

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Shopsite Product Upload: How To

Shopsite Product Upload: How To

Shopsite makes it easy to change multiple fields of multiple prooducts at one time, without manually editing product by product. This can be done using an excel spreadsheet. Below is how to properly format your excel spreadsheet for a product upload into shopsite.

Follow these directions:

  1. In the excel spreadsheet make sure these 2 things are correct.
  2. In the price column there has to be 2 numeric values after the decimal. Make sure this column is set to “number” formatting or it ...
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Shopsite Product Download: Formatting Your Excel

Shopsite Product Download: Formatting Your Excel

The best way to get familiar with the product or page upload formats is to perform a download of them.

From the Utilities menu select +Database.

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At the database screen select “Download”.

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Next select either Products of Pages, we will select products for ...

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Upgrading your Google Analytics Account to Universal Analytics

Upgrading your Google Analytics Account to Universal Analytics

Have you recently received an email from Google Analytics about upgrading your account?  

This upgrade is a new set of innovations that improve the way data is collected and processed for your site.  All Google analytics properties will soon be required to use the  new Universal Analytics, so we think it is the best time to update so you can begin familiarizing yourself with the new technology.  You won’t lose any past information – nothing will change with your account.

This upgrade is ...

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How to Set up a Meeting Invite in Outlook

How to Set up a Meeting Invite in Outlook

When confirming a meeting with someone, send a meeting invite that will easily allow them to add the time and date of the meeting to their calendar. Follow the steps below.

  1. View your Inbox and select the email message you want to send the meeting invite to.
  2. From the Home Tab, select meeting.how-to-set-up-outlook-meeting
  3. A new message will pop up. Fill in the following fields:
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SEO Best Practicies: Information about Duplicate Domains

SEO Best Practicies: Information about Duplicate Domains

It’s common to buy variations or misspellings of your own domain name.  If a competitor has not already, you could certainly buy them and point them to your website.  They could pickup additional traffic if someone mistyped the competitor’s domain into a browser.  Of course that is a little tricky and maybe even misleading, but we wouldn’t say there is technically anything wrong with it.  Just be sure to put a redirect in place so it bounces over to the real domain ...

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