Tag: Small Business
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How to Ask Customers for Reviews Without Feeling Pushy
A practical guide to asking customers for reviews on Google, LinkedIn, and beyond: when to ask, what to say, how to respond, and the Google and FTC rules every local business should…
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What Does AI Say About Your Business? Run This 20-Minute Check
Check how AI assistants describe your business in twenty minutes, spot inaccurate information, and trace errors back to their source.
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Google Analytics, Google Search Console, & Google Business: Three Different Jobs, One Full Picture
Google Analytics, Search Console, and Business Profile all report on your website, but they answer different questions. Here's what each one actually tells you, and how to check them without drowning in…
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Digital Ownership for Small Businesses: What Do You Control?
Your website, accounts, and customer relationships are business assets. Explore what you control and where relying on someone else's platform creates risk.
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Is Your Website Actually Usable by Everyone? A Practical Accessibility Check for Bloomington Businesses
Practical accessibility checks for business owners, from keyboard navigation to readable text. Find barriers that could be keeping customers from using your website.
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Search Is Changing: How Small Businesses Can Stay Visible in an AI-Driven World
How AI is changing the way customers find local businesses, and practical steps to keep your business visible as search evolves.
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Your Google Business Profile: A Practical Guide for Local Businesses
Make your Google Business Profile a stronger first impression. A practical guide to helping local customers find and understand your business.
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How Much Does a WordPress Website Actually Cost?
Understand what drives WordPress website costs and what to ask before hiring a designer, with context for Bloomington business owners.
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Eighteen Years of Keeping a Bookstore Online
A long-term partnership with Academic Scholarly Books in Bloomington, Indiana Some client relationships are defined by a single project. Others are defined by time. My work with Joe Grant of Academic Scholarly…
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Why I’m Proud to Be a Chamber Member (Since Way Back When)
I’ve officially been a Chamber member through David Martin Design since at least 2021, but my ties go back even further. I still have emails from 2009, when I was part of…
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From Roots to Results: The Story of Indiana Greenscape Solutions
The Seed of an Idea The story of Indiana Greenscape Solutions begins with Kelly and Beth Fort - partners in both family and business - who, along with their four daughters, Rayne,…