At New Tricks We Believe . . .

It’s never too late to:

  • start a new business,
  • transform your old website into a branded WordPress site you can maintain yourself or
  • learn new marketing tricks with Social Media that will catapult your business into greatness.

I’m Judi Knight. My specialty is working with you and your business to create an amazing WordPress website as the hub of your online presence.

 

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Let’s get started! Schedule a session with me to talk about your project.

Gravity Forms Gives Your WordPress Site Super Powers

gravity forms superheroIf you have a WordPress site, you can give your site abilities you only dreamed of when you install the Gravity Forms Plugin. It is a premium plugin which means there is a fee involved. The personal level license starts at 39.00 and the developer license is 199.00. It is well worth it and if you are a developer, it is essential. Why do I love Gravity Forms? Let me count the ways:

  1. Gravity Forms is easy. You simply name the form and start dragging fields into it. You edit the title of the filed and add directions to filling out the filed if needed and you are good to go. Really, a cave man could do it.
  2. You can create simple contact forms with almost any form maker. The real beauty of Gravity Forms is the ability to make most any kind of form, such as a lead generation form or a product or service purchase form, which sends you the completed form responses in an e-mail and keeps it in the database. You can then export the form data into a csv file.
  3. Gravity Forms works with PayPal Pro or Read More

Create a Tweet That Others Can Click To Tweet

Twitter bird and laptopEver wonder how those little tweet links produce a pre-written tweet with the perfect message all ready to go? I am going to tell you how it is done and you can use this in your newsletter and your blog posts for people to share your material even if you are not regularly using Twitter yourself.

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New Tricks Hosting Chris Guillebeau’s $100 Startup Atlanta Book Signing with Tuba

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Chris Guillebeau is coming back to the Urban Oasis for his book signing for the new book, The $100 Startup, on May 15th at 6:30. You are welcome to come and tell your friends. We want to out do ourselves from last year and that will take some … Read More

Twitter Etiquette: Be Sure to Engage with People Who Engage With You

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One thing that helps get you going developing a community in Social Media is to reply in some way to everyone who engages you publicly. “Promote the people who reach out to you” — on an ongoing basis. However, some people might wonder how to … Read More

Separating Fools From Their Money. Proliferation of SEO Schemes

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Does this type of search engine spam e-mail sound familiar? Dear NewTricks Team, I thought you might like to know some of the reasons why you are not getting enough Social Media and Organic search engine traffic. Your Social profile is not … Read More

Google Yourself

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Did you know that if you get arrested for anything you may find your mug shot in a Google Search of your name?  How bad is that? And to make things worse, most mug shots look like hell. This happened to a friend of my son's. He realized his mugshot … Read More

New Tricks to Making a Social Media Plan and Working It.

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I would think by now, in 2012, that everyone knows how important social media is to marketing a small business. It comes as such a surprise to me when I hear people tell me that they are spending money (lots of it) on PR, hiring agents to get them … Read More

Less Scary Way to Move a WordPress Sites From One Place To Another

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Once when I was first starting out I wanted to move one of my WordPress sites from one host to another. I called the hosting companies tech support and was told to copy the files into the new directory. I did that and it did not work. I was so green … Read More

Setting Up E-mail Signatures

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Occasionally we do actually have to pick up the telephone and call someone. One of my pet peeves is not being able to easily find someone's phone number from their e-mails. You can remedy that by adding an automated signature to your e-mail. An … Read More

Some Answers to “What Are You Struggling With?”

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Your Questions,  My Answers How to Make My Existing Websites Mobile Friendly?  If the site is not built with WordPress and doesn't look good on a mobile device, now may be the time to port it over to a Responsive WordPress Theme that … Read More

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