2019

Organized and attend our Chesterfield Chamber of Commerce Roundtable Referral Connections group social on July 24, 2019. Hosted by a fellow Chesterfield Chamber member Taziki's Cafe in Midlothian, VA 23113. Connection groups are a way to get connected with Chesterfield Chamber members and get business referrals. #slgdchamber Want more customers/clients for your business? Contact SLGD to get connected in our business community to give back and get business. SLGD specializes in small business marketing, advertising strategies, website development, social media marketing, and branding.

The first failure of starting a business. Not creating a business plan. Aw, I don't need a business plan, I'll learn as I go. We find too often that without a vision, a mission and a plan the business can fail. After creating a business plan you find that the business is not doable. Starting a venture is serious. A business plan is a road map. It's a living document. All the things you put in a business plan will be your mission, your purpose, all of your thoughts, ideas,...

SLGD got a notice that a client’s website bandwidth had exceeded to over 13GB of bandwidth. Hosted bandwidth is when people visit your website, they download your website to their computer into what's called cache. This is a normal computing process. Say if a visitor visits your website and goes to every page on your website and your website is 100 MBs you multiply that by how many visitors you get in a month and that gives you your total bandwidth for the month. This time I have a suspicion...

Is your website secure? We are always learning about how to keep our client's website secure and running. It's important to have someone checking and monitoring your site for malicious activity and to assure the website is online. Having issues with your Wordpress website? Here's some information about our plans: https://www.slgd.com/slgd-wordpress-security-services Give us a call we can help.

All too often we find that clients and ourselves asking questions and making statements in emails non-descriptive words like "this", "it", and "that". SLGD tries to make a point to be descriptive in all communications. Not being descriptive adds more confusion and communications to determine what that, it and this is. Ex: How did this happen? Thought: Is she talking about how did all of this happen or how did this specific thing happen? Now to avoid any more confusion requires a phone call. When you come across a non-descriptive...

Note to a potential client: I reviewed your website and there are a lot of pages in the navigation that don't go anywhere. I also see that you are hosted by Network Solutions, the slowest webpage loading host in the industry. See your loading speeds (attached images) for mobile and desktop. What does this mean? People expect websites to load within seconds and if your website takes too long to load, people bounce to your competitor. What can you do about it? Well first, find a faster host then follow the...

Learning from Christina Dick the founder of Tiramisu For Breakfast Agency (TFB), a social media-focused marketing and PR strategic consulting firm at the Chesterfield Chamber WBC BREW: Social Media Marketing - Tips for Success. Lots of good information and tips about how to use social media. Need help in social media for your business? SLGD can help you determine what's best for your company advertising strategy. Contact Samuel Little at services@slgd.com

Attended a Hanover Chamber event at CREATIVE in Ashland, VA 23005 on July 24, 2019. Look at the folks behind thinking...what is he doing? It's an SLGD marketing selfie. When you go to business events you should be taking marketing selfies. Use events to add content to your GYB page, your website, your FB page. People want to know that you are active in the business community and so does GOOGLE! Notice a few keywords here. Company name, address, and keywords that you use in a search for your kind...

Learning from local business owners about their business and how to refer business to them. Learning from SLGD about Chamber marketing opportunities.  

Learning from Chris Fawcett about all things Google at the Chesterfield Chamber Ask the Experts meeting today. Want to know more contact Samuel Little at slgd.com.