
Small Business Website Design Best Practices & Examples
Small business websites must have an eye-catching design and compelling copy to make a positive first impression on visitors. Small business owners may not have the budget, skills or resources to make ...

Meetup: Brass Ring CEO Takes Over As Organizer for WordPress Web Help Group
WordPress Web Help is a 900 member San Diego-based Meetup.com group that offers a "a friendly and easy way for folks to get help with their WordPress website where we can share questions and answers, ...

How To Start A Small Business
As appealing as working for yourself sounds, there’s a reason why not everyone owns their own business: It’s hard...In this guide, we’ll help you sort out the main steps to starting a business., inclu ...

How Worrying About Money Can Affect Your Health
Worrying about money can affect you in more ways than you may realize. New research has found that the risks of several significant health problems increase when people are worried about their financi ...

Prepare Your Small Business for a Potential Downturn with a Few Strategic Steps
Whether you’ve been in business for quite some time or your endeavor is relatively new, preparing for revenue ebbs and flows is key for long term profitability and growth.

Tips for Hiring a Marketing Company
Updated Sep 22, 2022 Hiring outside marketing and advertising expertise can take your business to the next level – just be sure you're choosing the right partner. Marketing companies take ov ...

Hootsuite Announce Staggering Price Increase Of Up To 1000%
Hootsuite has shocked their longest-serving customers with the kind of price increase that makes Martin Shrekli look benevolent. We look at what is driving the staggering 10x price increase for long-s ...

SEO Tutorial For Beginners in 2020
What is SEO in 2020? Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in 2020 is a technical, analytical and creative process to improve the visibility of a website in search engines. The primary function of SEO is t ...

How to Create a Modern Newsletter Email Template
We're Constant Contact partners! If you’ve never created a newsletter email template, or are starting to wonder if your current newsletter needs an overhaul, this post is for you. Whether you’re an ol ...

What is Copywriting?
Are you intimidated by copywriting? If your answer is yes, welcome to how 99% of marketers feel. If your answer is no, are you some kind of wizard? Copywriting is the reason why people buy something.

How to Add Web Push Notification to Your WordPress Site
Do you want to add push notifications to your WordPress site? Push notifications allow you to send notifications to users even when they are not visiting your website.

7 Ways to Boost Your Small-Business Marketing
These marketing strategies can help small businesses gain new customers and increase repeat business. Image credit: Shutterstock Kimberly de Silva Marketing is important to every ...

How to Get a Free SSL Certificate (and Why Google is Forcing You To)
(SSL's have become more than a good idea...they're just about "musts" with SERP implications. Here's a good article from 2017 that still holds up. - Edward) By Colin Newcomer - Jan. 9, 2017 - Elegant ...

How To SEO Meta Tags For Google & Other Search Engines in 2018
LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 9TH, 2018 | By Shaun Anderson What Are Meta Tags? Meta Tags are used by Google and other search engines in some not-so-obvious ways. QUOTE: “Meta tags are a great way for ...

Brass Ring Multimedia Wins 2017
La Jolla Village News Readers Choice Award!
THANK YOU! to the readers and good folk at La Jolla Village News for Brass Ring Multimedia's FOURTH (2014, 2015, 2016 & 2017) Reader's Choice Award for Best Web Design. It's a great honor to be r ...

WORDPRESS ALERT:
Fast Secure Contact Form Plugin Removed By WordPress Due To Serious Security Issue
Greetings, all... One of the most popular WordPress forms plugin, the Fast Secure Contact Form plugin (which has been the standard for all Brass Ring Multimedia websites for years) has been removed f ...

Small Biz Owners Almost Always Fail With Their Marketing Because of These 3 Things
Today I want to talk to you about some ways small business owners almost always fail when it comes to their marketing because they don’t do three specific things. By Brad Swezey First, they don’t ha ...

Fear and Entrepreneurship: The Psychology of What Scares Us
Your stomach ties itself into a knot and your heart races nowhere as your mind sorts through every conceivable worst case scenario. We call it “fear” and our instincts scream for us to avoid whatever ...

10 Things Your Small Business Can Learn About Marketing from Apple (INFOGRAPHIC)
Building a universally loved brand without engaging in price wars against competitors is not easy. But one brand that has achieved this seemingly impossible feat is Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL). Behind Apple’ ...

Brass Ring Newsletter: September 2017
TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE: How Healthy Is Your Website? 27 Amazing Online Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses With Low Budgets, by Neil Patel How to Create a Social Media Marketing Content Plan ...

27 Amazing Online Marketing Tactics for Small Businesses With Low Budgets, by Neil Patel
I love small businesses. As a small business, there are many opportunities for growth with a smart marketing strategy. But you’ve probably noticed a problem. Most of the marketing tactics out there ...

How Healthy Is Your Website?
Neglecting your website health means lost customers and lost income. Just like ignoring your body's health is very risky and can result in you feeling lousy, ignoring your website health is something ...

7 Steps to Beautiful DIY Apparel Product Photography
By Thomas Kragelund, CEO & founder of Pixelz High quality product photography is essential for apparel ecommerce. For many customers, your product images will determine whether or not they buy yo ...

Brass Ring Will Audit Your Website or Give You A 30-minute Consultation…FREE!
Take advantage of a limited-time opportunity to find out what's really going on with your website.

How to Create a Social Media Marketing Content Plan in 7 Steps
Want to connect more with your target audience? Wondering how to deliver relevant social media content consistently? Planning your social media content delivery keeps your marketing on-message, maki ...

Copywriting: Text Structure
It really pays off to think about the structure of your piece before you actually start writing. The structure is the skeleton of your text: it will help the reader grasp the main idea of your text. I ...

Mobile And Tablet Internet Usage Exceeds Desktop For First Time Worldwide
Is your website ready to make you look great online? If you're waiting to go "mobile-ready," you've waited too long. Brass Ring can help! - Edward Increased traffic plus Google search rankings ...

Brass Ring Multimedia Wins 2016
La Jolla Village News Readers Choice Award for Web Design
A great big THANK YOU! to the readers and nice folks at La Jolla Village News for Brass Ring Multimedia's THIRD (2014, 2015 & 2016) Reader's Choice Award for Best Web Design. I grew up in La Joll ...

Napoleon Hill’s 12 Great Riches of Life
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. - Napoleon Hill. Napoleon Hill's Twelve Great Riches of Life 1. Positive mental attitude 2. Sound physical health 3. Harmony in H ...