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 […]
Remember January 2020? How excited we all were for a new year, a new decade even! Perhaps you spent significant time at the close of 2019 planning and creating fresh new content for your social media feeds to reflect your new 2020 vision. Or perhaps you started the new year with an outline and an […]
A consistent mistake I see in websites, across a variety of industries, is that they don’t show clear goals or intentions. Or, perhaps a business website reflects goals from their past, rather than reflecting what they are now. Your website has the potential to be a powerful tool, but if your website isn’t trying to […]
We know a lot of small businesses are stressing out during these times (trust us, we’re among them). And, we also know that we want to just do something to help. So, we’re channeling our deep tech-savvy to help other small businesses who may need the skills we have. In these uncertain times, we’re offering our […]
There are tons of benefits to going remote for you, your employees, and the planet. Maybe you are looking for a way to cut costs. Maybe a valuable employee has a long surgical recovery coming up and wants to spend some of that time working. Maybe a team member is moving out of state. Or […]
Ever wonder who the mad scientist hiding behind the curtain of your social media feeds is, determining what to show you next? He’s got a name, friends: Al. Al Gorithm. OKAY terrible jokes aside: what exactly is the algorithm, and why does it matter? I appreciate the simplicity of this definition from Pedro Domingos’s The […]
“Values” has become a bit of a buzzword in the age of online branding. Buzzwords aren’t exactly our favorite thing, but behind the buzz, we do believe there’s a lot of value in seeing and identifying your values–both as a person and as an organization. What do you want to see in your business? Once you’ve […]
If you follow us on social media (hint, hint), you’ve probably seen some of the year-in-review questions Upswept has been posing. One question was particularly convicting for me: did you take enough time to rest this year? Anyone reading this right now probably has a lot to do and very little time to just sit […]
If you’re keeping up with the wild world of social media, you may have heard about Instagram testing hidden “likes” in select countries earlier this year. It seems our friends at the photo sharing platform liked what they saw (pun very much intended) enough to extend testing into the United States market. If you haven’t […]
