Frank Deardurff's Blog
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What is Mobile Friendly Design Anyway?
Whether you search the web looking for products or have a website with products of your own you may have ran across a few of the following terms. Mobile Friendly Design; a Mobile Friendly Website; Responsive Website, Fluid Design etc. Simply put a "Mobile Friendly...
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Your Website Is More Than A Business Card
I talk to many small business owners and I have many of them question why they need a website. I've heard so many of them say "well isn't it just a glorified business card or just a digital flyer of my business". Well some of that "may" be true, but your website is...
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WordPress Theme and Plugin Detector
In this video I show you how you can use a cool Google Chrome extension in your browser to see what WordPress Theme a site is using a long with the WordPress Plugins they have installed. https://youtu.be/rtEdUEozADo
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How Do I Get More From My Programmer
I talk to a lot of business owners and something I hear frequently from them is "How do I get more from my programmer" or "I hired a programmer and I didn't get the results I want". Truth is this happens more often then you know. The thing is its not your fault nor...
read moreMy First Video Blog Post
I'm here at Learn University thought I'd share some insights via a video post. Curious what services you like to use I'll also be sharing more event recap soon. Feel free to comment below your favorite live video social...
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How to Create A YouTube Cover
In the following video I show how to create a cover image for your YouTube channel using Photoshop. You can easily create a YouTube Cover by watching this video and using this template....
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Free Stock Photo Sites
As we use more and more stock photos it seems our budgets are getting slammed with the price of the paid stock photo services. I know being a web guy, I use a lot of stock photos for my self and my clients. Many places when we use stock photos they are for social...
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Make Website Phone Number Mobile Friendly
Here is a quick tip for you today! More and more people are ditching their computers and checking websites via mobile devices, most commonly their phones. One area that many websites today are missing the mark is by not having their website mobile friendly when it...
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You Don’t Know What You’re Missing
This is a bit of a rant but also a tip for you if you own a website. Since i'm an online entrepreneur and web developer I spend A LOT of time online. This also means I also use the internet a lot when corresponding with other people and businesses. Something recently...
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How Do You Spend It?
This thought came to me as I look through my closet, across my desk and then also as I check spending habits on my bank statements. I'm thinking do I really need this, is it really worth the value that we've placed on it? So, I'll ask you the same question, "How do...
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My Focus for 2016
Each year I set out to make this year better than the last and to do that I focus on on a keyword or keyword phrase. If you've read my posts over previous years you would see that I've chosen words like "Simplify" or "Focus" last year it was the phrase "It's Okay To...
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How To Avoid Opt-in Form Abandonment
I was recently asked how many form fields is to many on an option page/form. Or a similar question is are there form fields that will cause opt-in form Abandonment. To answer that we need to look at a few different things... It is hard to give a global answer that...
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iPhone Location Services Privacy Setting
Are you aware that your phone is keeping track of every place you have been? I know for many your iPhone Privacy setting is either or a concern or you may not even know such a thing existed. There is a setting on your iPhone called Location Services Privacy Setting...
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Missed Lead Follow Up
Recently I decided to do a test on a free checklist for my iMakeBookCovers.com site and it crossed my mind that there is one step to this process I think many have forgotten. We take the time to create the give away item whether it be a free report, checklist...
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Quick Kindle Publishing
I never really considered myself a "writer". I mean the thought did cross my mind growing up that it would be cool to write a book, but I thought I would be the last person I know to actually write a book of any kind. Now if you were to search Amazon for my...
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Measuring Your Business Success
I've heard it said many times you cannot change what you do not measure. I take that to mean if you don't know where you started, you have no idea if you are improving or doing worse. This is important in life and in your business. In life obviously if we start...
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Common Website Challenges
Recently I've been working on a couple major site renovations, and in doing so it has brought some things to mind I thought I would share. These items are just a few common website challenges I see many website owners have and they may not even be aware that they are...
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Winning Big is About Making Adjustments
With several sports playoffs going on right now I noticed something about the teams that come out ahead and realized this "thing" is also very true in life and in your business... If you know much about me at all you probably know that I'm a HUGE Chicago sports fan,...
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An early love for graphics brought me online 20 years ago which lead me to consume a vast knowledge in 
marketing, conversion, design and various types of web technologies. That information led to becoming a serial entrepreneur, author, coach, trainer and That One Web Guy! Discover More »
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