WordPress Custom Blog Design Services


Inspired by the success of both “WeMagazineforWomen” and “WomensMediaSummit” blogs, Connect Simply has entered the custom blog design arena, giving their clients one more tool to connect and reach out to their customer base, while generating additional traffic/clients through the use of social media marketing.



Why Should a Business Have Their Own Blog?


Personal Touch Marketing - Blogs are very interactive, a way to let your personality shine through while interacting with readers on a personal level.


Branding - Custom designed blogs have the ability to increase your brand recognition amoung your readers.


SEO - Search engines love fresh relevant content and links provided by well optimized blogs.


Media - Top blogs gain media attention.



What Services are Offered?


  • Install and set up WordPress blogs, themes, and plugins.
  • Modify existing WordPress blogs and themes.
  • Custom design blog websites with both static and blog pages.
  • Blog consulting services


Portfolio


Women's Media Summit


Womens Media Blog

Women's Media Summit, a public relations and media marketing eConference for women featured many media experts Promoting the Summit through it's own WordPress Blog gave the event a permanent online home. Announcements, publicity, additional resources could be published on the fly. Social Media played its role by driving traffic back to the blog through StumbleUpon and other bookmarking sites.


  • Installation and activation WordPress, theme and various plugins
  • Theme modification, static page navigation changes, minor css changes,
  • Installed stats program.
  • Minor changes as Women's Media Summit progresses.
  • SEO friendly titles, url's (permalinks), meta tags, etc.
  • Blog consultation


WeMagazine for Women


WE magazine for women

WeMagazine for Women is published quarterly. Its new custom blog design provides one more way to connect with its readers on a daily basis, receive feedback, offer additional resources and articles, to stay in touch with the magazine's subscriber base between issues.


WeMagazine doesn't have a traditional blog structure, We knew we were on the right track when we recieved reader feedback such as:


"WOW! Nice job on the Blog — I love the way this works, I may have to hire your Blog Expert!"

Jan Verhoeff


"Heidi, super look, I like it a lot. Much warmer and inviting feel to it now. You are just too good at what you do!"

Bea Kuntz


"I can see myself on there for awhile! It looks very inviting!"

Michelle Jasper


  • Installation and activation wordpress, plugins.
  • Installation of stats program.
  • Imported blog from previous host.
  • Added customized graphics including favicon.
  • Searched for and found special magazine style theme, Edited php, css and html code.
  • SEO friendly titles, url (permalinks), metatags, etc.
  • Blog consultation.


    • References


    “Heidi is the consummate professional, so congenial and easy to work with. Most importantly, she “gets me” (may have something to do with sharing the same first name). She completely understood what I wanted WE Magazine to look like and made it happen. And when it comes to patience, let’s just say, she has a lot more than I do. I was back in the “labor room” pushing and pushing and like any newborn, this blog came out when it was good and ready! And talk about over-delivering! Heidi created this blog, uploaded it, gave me a tour and showed me the “back end” so I could start blogging now.”

    Heidi Richards


    "WOW... that's HOT looking! Heidi, you should really be running the internet marketer's custom blog design racket. I'm serious. Your designs are outstanding."

    Dina Giolitto



    Costs


    Fees vary as each client's needs are different.


    Complete Blog packages available.


    Consulting and design services $50 an hour.


    Contact Connect Simply for a quote



    Resources


    Having a custom blog designed, set-up, with training provided is the quickest way to get a blog up and running.


    I realize that some new businesses have more time than money, and would prefer to build their own blog. One beginners option is to set up your own blog with one of the many available themes adding your own personal header. Get started blogging and later upgrade to a customized blog. Do use your own domain name.


    For the do-it-yourselfer, I recommend watching the WordPress tutorials on Marketing Ice, a resource that would have saved me hours and hours when I first started.

    Now if you want a cool custom blog designed for your business, and don't want to spend hours learning html, hours learning css, hours learning some php, hours learning graphics, etc. Give us a call.