Articles to help your business development

Squarespace seo tips

Squarespace SEO doesn't have to be intimidating! Even if you're not a pro, mastering the basics is within reach. We've curated a selection of our favorite videos across Squarespace to simplify SEO, ensuring you understand what you're doing and how to manage it effectively. Remember, consistency is key in the world of SEO.

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How to promote your Squarespace website.

There are many ways to promote your Squarespace website, but with so many options, figuring out where to start can take time.

To help you get the most out of your promotion efforts, here are our top tips for promoting your Squarespace site without paid advertising.

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5 Common Website Mistakes to Avoid.

How do you feel about your website? Is it a source of pride, a digital masterpiece that perfectly mirrors your brand and captures your audience's hearts? Or, does it leave you with a nagging sense that something crucial is amiss?

We wholeheartedly believe in empowering you to craft your own website, However, we also recognize the path might seem a tad perplexing.

Today, we unravel the five common website mistakes to avoid.

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How to design your Brand Identity.

Your brand identity is your business's visual and emotional representation that speaks volumes about who you are and what you stand for.
In this step-by-step guide, we will explore the key elements of designing a compelling brand identity that will leave a lasting impression on your target audience.

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Why you should invest in professional branding.

We love Canva! but there is one thing you shouldn’t do, and that is making your logo in Canva.
The temptation to create your logo using apps like Canva is alluring because, it’s free.

As Branding experts at Inspiring Design, we are here to empower you to make informed choices. Let’s look at 4 reasons about why you should Invest in professional branding instead of creating it in Canva.

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What is Print on demand?

Print on demand (POD) is a business model in which sellers work with third-party partners to make and sell custom merchandise. With a print on demand model, the POD partner manufactures, packs, and ships every custom product as soon as someone orders from your ecommerce store.

POD is a simple way to start earning passive income. We asked Squarespace’s Custom Merch partner, Printful, for a behind-the-scenes look at how print on demand works, the types of custom merch that can be sold, and the benefits of POD.

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4 ways to prepare your business for 2023.

2022 has been a year for Small New Zealand Businesses, as many continued to grow post-covid, or some started.

As we say goodbye to 2022 and prepare for a year - we recommend these 4 ways to prepare your business for 2023, so you can hit the ground running.

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Website traffic, SEO, How to, Sqaurespace Guest User Website traffic, SEO, How to, Sqaurespace Guest User

Unfold everything to stand out on Social.

It can be overwhelming with the number of apps you need for your business. Multiple social platforms, your website, google business profiles and more. It can be hard to keep up and time-consuming trying to navigate them all and find what works best for you.

Squarespace hears us! With the need to become an all-in-one platform, they have introduced Unfold for Squarespace users. Unfold app helps you create elevated and engaging stories for Instagram, Facebook and TikTok.

Let’s look at how you can benefit from the Unfold App, and how to use it.

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How to create content.

Last year, we ran a tonne of Masterclasses to help small businesses understand how to create social media content to market their business. Our workshops were so successful that we expanded and created a 'sister' business.

Run by myself and Kerry, a fantastic photographer, we've teamed up to run these workshops and teach you how to create content regularly. Let us introduce Ara Studios!

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5 Tips for designing your Squarespace website that helps your SEO.

If you’re designing your website on Squarespace, you can create a beautiful site that’s simple to navigate and presents your business. But designing your website isn’t enough – you have to think ahead towards optimization to better reach and serve your intended audiences. Enter SEO.

Here are five pro tips you can use while you build your website correctly, so SEO becomes easier to achieve without spending considerable time on it.

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Website traffic, SEO, How to Guest User Website traffic, SEO, How to Guest User

Save time with Automated Emails

When you're a small business owner, your time can be limited when creating your products or offering your services. Planning out your marketing can feel like a real mission, but you can save a lot of time with the right systems in place.

Here’s a guide on how to use Automated Emails on your Squarespace website.

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What is a Brand Guide.

A brand guide is a document that outlines a business’s visual identity, along with rules and guidelines for communicating with your community and potential leads. For example, a brand guide sets rules for official logo usage, font type and colour, typography, tone, and the brand’s mission statement, positioning, identity, and values.

Here’s an overview of what you need in your Brand Guide.

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Website traffic, SEO, How to Guest User Website traffic, SEO, How to Guest User

Blogging with Squarespace

We love working with Squarespace. It’s been our website preference for years, and if you work with us - we’ll recommend your site is built with them. As part of our service, we teach you how to make updates to your Squarespace website, one of them being blog writing - a great way to share stories and information with your audience, as well as support your website SEO.

Here’s a step by step guide on how to add blogs to your Squarespace site.

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Branding before Marketing

Branding and Marketing - same thing, right?!........Not quite. Branding and Marketing are equally important and often overlap - but knowing the difference between each will help you with your strategies. In short, Branding allows you to develop and share your business message before you communicate it through Marketing.

To put it simply - it’s branding before marketing. We don’t make the rules, but every business knows it’s a golden rule.

In this blog - we break it down. What is branding? What is marketing? and we share some examples to help you understand the difference between them.

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WE’VE PARTNERED UP!

When you’re starting your business or looking to grow - financial support to contribute to costs is always something you think of. You hear other small businesses talking about funding. But what is it? Where do you find it? How do you apply for it? Why is it so secret and difficult to figure out?

Here’s an introduction to the Funding Providers I partner with, who support small New Zealand Business owners with their business start-up and growth.

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INCREASE YOUR TRAFFIC

When you launch your website and Grow online - it’s important to understand your website’s performance. The best way to do this is to understand your key performance indicators and how they change over time, so you can strategically make data-based changes.

Tools that display website analytics help you avoid guesswork, set goals, and measure your success. Whether your success is to get more eyes on your work, more blog readers, or how your audience interacts with your page, analytics provide meaningful insights into your online presence to help you prioritize website updates.

Whether your site is well established or you just launched it yesterday, take time to understand how it’s currently performing with your analytics tools.

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