Josh Olswanger
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Boise Web Design & Internet Marketing Expert
Josh Olswanger Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Internet Marketing, Web Design, Small Business Practices
- Career Focus
- Business Owner
- Affiliation
- Thrive Web Designs
Josh Olswanger is a small business owner and lead web designer for Thrive Web Designs, a Boise web design company specializing in 100% custom web designs and internet solutions for clients located both locally and nationwide. Josh is committed to sharing his knowledge and expertise when it comes to successfully starting and running a small business.
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Is Customer Service Driving Your Business?
You've heard probably thousands of times from business people. Customer service is key! As “trite” as that is, anybody who recommends customer service as a key element in business success is 100% on target. If you don't believe them, you can always go to sites like the BBB and read reviews from companies who don't practice good customer service, and you'll notice the difference.
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The Relationship Between Google Organic and Local Search Listings
Whether you are new to SEO or a dedicated SEO consultant offering professional online marketing services to customers, it is important to analyze and act upon changes that Google search presents on a monthly, bi-annual and annual basis. Google with normally update their algorithm 1 or 2 times a year, with minor tweaks more frequently within the year.
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Put Passion Behind Your Business Endeavors
Most people go into business for themselves because they see a potential opportunity to make a difference and capitalize on a market that they foresee being profitable. Many business owners go into business for the sake of making money. Although there is a medium, this article explains the benefit of keeping the passion behind whatever drives your business.
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Starting a business and keeping motivation along the way
Starting a business of any shape, size or form, takes an enormous amount of patience, perseverance, passion, and motivation. Most business owners got started in business because they took their passion and found a way that they could make money utilizing it as well. As some saw this success trickle in, others saw it flood in much faster than anticipated.
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Using Good Business Ethics When Serving Your Clients
Conducting business in an ethical manner will prove to pay off for you time and time again. Keeping your morals and ethics at the centerfront of all you do in business and life, will make you a better person and yield more success in all of your endeavors.
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The Importance of Business Networking
Business networking can play such a vital role in a small business's growth. Being able to network with other business owners has proven to yield more business for start-ups more often than none. With business networking comes a lot of communication and hard work. Much like you would market your services to potential customers and clients, the same applies when looking for businesses to network with.
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Keeping up with web design trends and your competition
Often times as web designers, we naturally do what feels right, what works for our everyday workflow and what we’ve been doing for the past x amount of years. Is there an issue with that? Not really, but you may find that change is healthy, and change is good.
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Key Ingredients to an Effective Website Presence
Here you are. You are a new business owner ready to tackle the online marketplace with a new website. You've looked around online and have an idea of what you want your site to look like and to include. You next follow the path by getting quotes from web designer companies, and then compare the pros and cons between hiring one, and building your own website from a template builder. Then after the site is built, what comes next? Will you be able to compete and have your website appear on all of the major search engines when someone types in the service you offer?
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Taking the Leap to Run Your Own Business
When is it time to pursue your dreams and start working for yourself full-time? This is a hard question because for so many of us entrepreneurs, we each have our own goals and ways of achieving them at different rates and time. On top of that, not all fields of entrepreneurship are the same, which means it may take one individual 1 year to jump ship, or maybe 3 years. The bottom line is and always will come down to one thing. Cash Flow.
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Using Existing Business to Help Drive New Customers and Clients
With any start-up company, there’s usually a pretty common pattern. Your first step as a business owner is trying to find prospects and customers. The problem is that to get customers, you need customers or a portfolio to feature your past work. It’s like the old saying goes. “To get business, you need business.” Although a tricky start-up phase many of us find ourselves in, the reality is that a little hard work and motivation pays off. Along with these two ingredients, comes swallowing your ego and be willing to do work for free at first.
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Comparing Google Organic Searches vs. Google Adwords (Pay-per Click Ads)
This article is designed to explain the basic differences between promoting your online business with organic search engine optimization practices, and Google Adwords, or “pay-per click” ads. Organic SEO is a term that has been used to explain the process of optimizing your website without the use of paid ads. Organic SEO mainly includes two different forms of optimization. On-site SEO:
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Contacting Josh Olswanger
Email me today @ info@thrivewebdesigns.com, and visit our main boise web design company's website!