I’ve always liked a tidy email inbox. Deleting emails is so satisfying that I sometimes do it therapeutically. Literally. Like one time I was stuck recovering on the couch, and I spent hours relaxing by sifting through years of emails in my most neglected inbox. Fortunately, I didn’t delete anything important! I sorted email with […]
Allow me to begin this blog post with an apology. Earlier this year, I shared some tips to understand the social media algorithm. I wanted to share ways to help you improve your presence on social media so you could be seen. When I did this, I made the assumption that this magical algorithm played […]
You have the power to make real change. Seriously, I want you to sit with that idea for a minute. I know that it feels like there’s a lot wrong in the world. Add in the uncertainty of COVID, and it may feel like there’s not much we can do about any of it. But, […]
Like SEO, the phrase “good content” gets thrown around a lot as “something you need” for your website. So if your ears start ringing when you hear it, I can’t really blame you. To keep the definition simple, website “content” is anything that the website contains that informs or entertains the client. Things that make […]
July 26, 2020, marked the 30th anniversary of the passing of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), prohibiting discrimination against individuals with disabilities in the public sphere. While we’ve worked to increase accessibility and encourage inclusion of folks with disabilities, our everyday life has changed drastically over these past three decades. Our increased dependence on […]
I believe that a website should do more than take up space on the internet. I’ve created websites with features ranging from online booking to membership programs to interactive quizzes, and y’all, the power of a website as a business tool is massive. A pretty universal goal for most any website, however? Get someone to […]
I know, I know, the idea of having eight-legged beasts crawl my website gives me the heebie-jeebies, too. But organizing your site like a well-structured web is honestly the key to the SEO prize you want: getting seen when your potential customers query a search engine. I apologize for the arachnid symbology, as I often […]
Social media has become an incredibly powerful tool for communication, marketing… and activism. Just like any other tool, there are right ways and wrong ways to wield it. Examples of performative allyship and hashtags gone awry make it more evident than ever that those of us using social media for our businesses need to be […]
If you’re like me, you’ve been waking up feeling a lot of things, over the past week-or-so. We’re in a pivotal moment, and all of us on Team Upswept have been grappling with how to move forward, as people who think of ourselves as allies. If you’re reading this, I hope that you, too, are […]
“What is SEO?” you type into the search bar. In microseconds, the algorithm delivers its results. These results come from a never-ending process of collecting data from every website on the internet and indexing them within a virtual library. And it’ll probably turn up something like: “SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, is the process of […]
