Weekly Links Roundup – Social Media, Responsive Websites, Website Maintenance

The top website and marketing links of the week.

Is your business late to jump on the social media bandwagon? Are you unsure if or how social media can help your business? This post is for you – learn 3 ways that social media can help drive business growth.

I’m in the process of convincing clients with older sites that yes, it really does matter that their 2009 site is unusable in phones. Here’s a post covering 8 stats about responsive websites that you may not have considered. If you have a mobile-unfriendly site, please put a redesign in the budget as soon as possible. You’re hurting your business by giving your users a poor experience, as well as being penalized by Google in search results. It matters.

Finally – website maintenance. They all need it, especially if you’re using a platform like WordPress. If you’re ignoring it, it’s a matter of time until a disaster occurs (minor or major). How will you recover? Learn about the risks, and contact me if you need help maintaining your WordPress site. I have a service that does just that for small business owners: WP Minder.