We spent a little too much time trying to discover an alternative to saying “KILL TWO BIRDS WITH ONE STONE!” UPDATE: April 25, 2022 – “Free two (2) birds from one cage!” (poetic!) The primary motivation is that this aged saying no longer reflects the positive intention of productivity + expediency + alignment + execution…
WordPress 5.0 “broke” our sites. But not really… As part of our WordPress maintenance programs, we handle updating WordPress & plugins constantly for our clients. Yes, after WordPress 5.0 Gutenberg was installed, we did find editing pages and posts rather challenging. The platform is amazing if you are launching a brand new website or blog.…
With the new Google My Business app, it’s easier than ever to manage your Business Profile and connect with your customers in new ways. Every day, millions of people search on Google for businesses like yours. Make your Business Profile stand out and turn those searches into your customers with the Google My Business app.…
On the approximate 17th Anniversary of its launch, I proudly present my first website produced solely by my own hands. Screenshots below! www.broekmancomm.com/foursquare From July 2001 to May 2002, I served as Marketing Director of FourSquare Executive Relocation’s Amsterdam, The Netherlands offices. I was recruited to establish and launch their new corporate identity and branding campaign…
Big thank you and shout out for WordFence for monitoring, managing, education and publishing key invaluable articles that help webmasters, website developers and website managers around the world protect their clients and their websites! 🙂 Next steps: 1. As always, before I do anything, ensure back-ups of website & database are in place so that…
We’ve seen a surge in referrals asking for proposals. We therefore created this page to help with intake interviews and preliminary scope of work to determine what tactics are key to our collaboration. Below is a quick preliminary scope of work list to guide our collaboration. (1) Transform brands and professionalize corporate culture. (2) Encourage collaborative environments.
(3) Facilitate process that taps into your creativity, getting into the heads of your leadership & management, and translate that vision into tangible results.
At the crossroads of strategy and return on engagement/return on investment, BROEKMAN communications delivers strategic brand and identity campaigns. We’ve worked with 100s of clients over a nearly 20 year period. As tech-savvy, innovative and hard-working GenXers at heart coupled with the drive, motivation, determination and persistence of hit-the-ground-running prove-yourself 20-somethings, we’ve got the perfect…
Using Facebook with WordPress When we want to really track how Facebook ads are performing on websites we manage and get a deeper understanding of our audience interaction and, of course, determine success of campaigns…. getting a pixel installed on your site will LINK that advertising from Facebook with your website’s visitor traffic information. The…
Every so often there is a bug in which WordPress does NOT update automatically. This is one of those updates. So for you website management and one-wo(man) developers, do the update manually this time and all should be good thereafter. File this under #NothingIsPerfect. However, we still trust WordPress above other CMS (content management) solutions…
