Growing our businesses and our stories one day at a time
Building our businesses and our stories
one day at a time
Happy Independence Day
Happy Independence Day to you and yours from Butow Communications Group! I took this photo from the front porch of my house that looks to the northeastern hills of Jackson.
Structuring a successful blog
Structuring a successful blog and creating a content marketing strategy takes a lot of work. I wrote a post on March 14 about using The Content Pyramid by Mike Allton as the basis for building a successful blog. The content pyramid shows each topic requires 13 posts....
Preparing for a media interview
Preparing for a media interview takes some time to get right. I attended a business expo In April and met one of the editors at the local Amador Ledger-Dispatch newspaper. She said the paper prints local business profiles and offered to publish a story about Butow...
LinkedIn etiquette tips and thoughts
Recently I stopped following a well-known sales guru on LinkedIn because I felt he breached LinkedIn etiquette. I bought all his books and I have them on my bookshelf. He stopped publishing books in the early 2010s and disappeared until he returned to LinkedIn last...
Website security is job one
Recently I managed the website for a historic hotel in Jackson after their website designer disappeared. The site was designed in WordPress but it didn't have any security plugins installed. So, I checked out website security plugins and installed the free version of...
What the Canva data breach means to you
The ZDNet website reported on May 24, 2019 about another big data breach of .the popular Australian graphic website Canva. A hacker (or group of them) with the online name GnosticPlayers contacted ZDNet and told them about the hack. He acquired 139 million Canva...
Make a positive choice
I received some rather bad health news recently, which reminded me to make a positive choice. I suffer from migraines. What's more, I've been dealing with serious conditions that those migraines started and have kept going. Recent tests confirmed that I have brain...
About the BCG blog
This blog is about delivering valuable information about WordPress, web development, and online marketing for you. This blog will also talk about BCG news, of course. I'll also share stories about my observations and life so you know I'm a real human being. What's...
Clarifying our message
The new Butow Communications Group blog has one core mission: Clarifying our message...and yours. I've never written a blog for Butow Communications Group (BCG) before. I wrote a personal blog in the 2000s (or aughties if you prefer). Most recently I created a blog...
