5 Signs It’s a Good Time to Redesign Your Website

website design, website redesign

Your website is the digital face of your organization, so making sure it’s top of the line is vital to staying in the good graces of your consumers. Just like a night out with your friends, chances are you wouldn’t

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Why Your Email Marketing Sucks (and What You Can Do to Fix It)

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Sometimes the truth can be a little hard to swallow – especially when it comes to your lackluster email marketing campaign. However, hiding from the reality of the situation only makes it harder for your brand to get back on

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How to Set up a LinkedIn Company Page

Regardless of the size of your business, in today’s marketplace it definitely pays to be a social butterfly. While Facebook and Twitter might be the best platforms for sharing funny cat pictures and 90s pop culture quizzes, if you really

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Learning How to Properly Handle Online Business Reviews

Online Business Reviews

It’s the ultimate nightmare scenario for ever small business owner. You’ve worked hard to build a niche for your brand, only to go online and find a negative review. The worst part is that sometimes these reviews aren’t even accurate.

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Gauging the Impact of the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

A baby walking a dog. An adult sitting in a high chair. A group of women “twerking” in front of a bunch of children. Sometimes, there’s no rhyme or reason why something goes viral. Then there’s the latest trend making

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Four Reasons Your Business Should Love #Hashtags

Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, Google+, or any other platform, there’s one fact you can’t argue against – hashtags keep the social media world spinning. #FlashBackFriday, #Caturday, and all of the rest of the most popular tags keep the conversation flowing

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4 Step Studio’s Latest Customers Include E&L Insurance, All Realty, Psychology Persia & Tiny Little Dancer

E&L Insurance E&L Insurance is an independent insurance agency that focuses on selling personal and commercial insurance to customers in Florida. Insurance is highly competitive and it’s important that their website is easy to use, flows well and allows customers to request

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Which Social Media Platform Is Right for Your Business?

It’s the burning question on the mind of every small business owner – which social network should you be on? Unfortunately, solving this dilemma’s far from easy. For starters, Greg Sterling at Marketing Land reports over 25 million active small

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Setting Up Your Facebook Business Page – Lesson 101

Session One: Beginners, How To Setup Your Facebook Business Page At this point you’ve heard that Social Media is changing how businesses communicate and reach new customers. We’ve seen this first hand in thousands of businesses and there is so much

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What are you doing for your community?

Giving Back One of our customers started a campaign this month to help raise school supplies for Broward County public schools. This particular customer is a big believer in giving back to the community and being involved in what is happening locally. Why

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Facebook Fit Miami Unplugged

Last month 4 Step Studio attended the Facebook Fit expo hosted at Soho Studios in Miami, FL. The event targeted small businesses and entrepreneurs to help them achieve success with Facebook and other business tools. Today, over 30 million small businesses

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4 Step Studio’s Latest Customers Include Mom’s Retreat, LR Printing, and More

4 Step Studio is a South Florida based Full Service Digital Marketing Agency that primarily focuses on helping small businesses grow and improve their online presence. By offering affordable services for website design and redesign, social media marketing, search engine

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Marketing Ingenuity, From a 7 Year Old

Summer is here and if you have children, this means either sending them off to camp, putting them with a babysitter, having them sit around the house, going on vacation or maybe summer school. While summers create wonderful memories for

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The Etiquette Of Web Design

Etiquette is a customary code of polite behavior. We know to follow some basic etiquette rules when we are in public places like restaurants, libraries, or a work place.  Under no circumstances would we talk with a full mouth in

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It’s Time To Freshen Up…

…My Website Ask yourself these simple questions about your website Have you update your website in the last 30 days?  Is your website  mobile optimized or responsive? Are you getting leads from your website? Can your customers find you online? Is

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Social Media Isn’t a Sprint, It’s a Marathon

Having The Endurance  Over the weekend I attended an event where the topic was Endurance. The focus was related to how we need to stay focused, work hard and smart and not loose hope or faith, when things get tough. This

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Why You Need A Digital Marketing Agency To Manage Your Social Media

You’re Not Alone Determining if social media is right for your business can be complicated if you don’t have the resources, time, experience or knowledge of using social media for business. Hiring a Digital Marketing Agency that has expertise in this

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Do Keywords Really Matter?

Ever since Google dropped the preverbal black cloak over Marketers eyes, the topic of keyword relevance has been a debatable subject. Does the keyword matter anymore? What should be the focus on building a social SEO strategy going forward? Quality

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The Web is Your Oyster: Where to Find Free-to-Use Images

The use of images on your website is as important as what you write. We understand the cost of images can get very expensive if you don’t know where to look.

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Benefits of Proper Search Engine Optimization

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a process of bringing your website in the top search engine ranking for a advantageously defined set of keywords. SEO brings your website visible on the internet in the search engines (Google / Yahoo / Bing)

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LinkedIn Says Good-Bye to Product and Service Pages

Linkedin Showcase Pages Many businesses have spent time developing and creating not just their Company page on LinkedIn, but also product and services pages. As of April 14th 2014, the product and services pages are gone. Thats right, Say Good-Bye!

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Why You Should Care About Your Web Presence?

Nurture & Grow Your Small Business Online Why should you care? Because it isn’t about what you want, it is about your customer and what they want. If your customer or potential customer uses the web or social media, then you

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