See Social Wall in Action

Most small business owners can't change a single thing on their own site, and they usually find out the day they need to.

The photos were uploaded once, by somebody else, and the page has been frozen there ever since.

The one part you can keep current without a developer is …the feed of the account you're already posting to.

When did your site last say something new?

#wordpress #smallbusiness #websitetips #wordpressupdates #updatewordpressautomatically

Two businesses get the same enquiry on the same afternoon, and the better one doesn't always get the job.

The customer messaged both and hired whoever answered first. To get more leads from your website, shorten the distance between their question and your phone.

You're …not losing work on skill. You're losing it on where the message landed.

Time how long a message takes to reach your pocket.

#leads #smallbusiness #wordpress #websitetips #customerservic

Your best reviews are sitting on a page your customers are never going to visit.

The fix isn't collecting more reviews. You've got them. Embed Google reviews on your website and the proof lands where the decision gets made.

Nobody has to leave the page to check whether …you're any good.

Look at your homepage and ask where the proof is.

#googlereviews #smallbusiness #wordpress #websitetips #reviews

Most chat buttons look like somebody else bolted them onto the site, and visitors can tell.

Wrong shade of green, wrong corner, a generic bubble that reads like an advert. Even a free live chat WordPress plugin should carry your colour, your shape and your icon.

Trust is the …entire job of that button.

Open your site and look at the corner.

#livechat #wordpress #branding #smallbusiness #websitetips

Most people put this off because they assume it's a developer job.

Install, connect the account once, drop the feed on the page. To add an Instagram feed to WordPress or Elementor you're picking from options, not writing anything.

Start to finish, under five minutes.
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Block out ten minutes tonight and see how far you get.

#instagramfeed #elementor #wordpress #wordpresstips #smallbusiness

Every small business website has a Contact Us page, and almost nobody uses it.

It's a locked front door with a note telling you to write in. A website WhatsApp chat button puts the way to reach you on every page instead.

One tap, their own messaging app, question asked, …done.

Count the clicks it takes to ask you something right now.

#whatsappchatbutton #whatsappbusiness #smallbusiness #wordpress #websitetips

There's a tell that shows whether a website was finished or just assembled.

Scroll to the photos. Grey box, wrong font, pushed too far left, that's a pasted embed. Knowing how to add an Instagram feed to a WordPress website properly means you pick the styling, not the app.
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Same photos, completely different signal.

Open yours on your phone and have a look. #instagramfeed #wordpress #webdesign #smallbusiness #wordpresstips

They didn't leave because you were too expensive.

We rewrite the pricing page when the drop off happened earlier, over something tiny. A live chat WordPress plugin gives people a fast way to ask the small thing.

That gap is the whole difference between a visit and a job.
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What's the small question yours get asked most? Tell me in the comments.

#livechat #wordpress #smallbusiness #leadgeneration #websitetips

The best thing on a restaurant's website is the part nobody had to write.

Boda embed their Instagram feed on their website, and it's the hotel's account, so nobody runs a separate one for the restaurant.

Useful if you run more than one thing under one roof, like a …venue with a bar or a gym with a cafe.

Check what your homepage is showing right now. Is it this month, or the year you launched?

#instagramfeed #smallbusinesswebsite #wordpress #restaurantmarketing #websitetips

Somebody landed on your site at eleven last night with one question. They're not coming back.

Name, email, phone, message box, thank you page, two days of silence. A WhatsApp chat button on your WordPress website skips all of it.

They tap once and type it into the app …that's already open on their phone.

Open your own site on your phone and try asking yourself something quick.

#whatsappbusiness #wordpress #smallbusiness #customerservice #websitetips

When Instagram goes down, a lot of small business websites go blank with it.

A copy-pasted embed doesn't put the photos on your site. It rents you a window into someone else's, so an Instagram feed WordPress plugin that keeps its own copy is the whole difference.

Turn …your wifi off tonight and load your homepage. If the photos vanish, you're renting.

Go and check yours tonight.

#instagramfeed #wordpress #smallbusiness #websitetips #wordpresstips

The messages you answered Monday had been waiting since Saturday.

You lose it in the gap between someone asking and you answering. A WordPress chat plugin closes that gap by moving the question to your phone.

The messages you got to on Monday had arrived on Saturday.

…Follow along, I'm posting one of these every week until September ends.

#wpchat #wordpress #smallbusiness #customerservice #whatsappbusiness

There's a version of your homepage you've never seen, and your customers have.

An Instagram feed not working on your website leaves an empty gap where your proof used to sit, and a stranger reads it as a business that gave up.

Borrowed proof has bad days.

…Follow, and I'll keep showing you what your website does when you're not looking.

#instagramfeed #smashballoon #wordpress #smallbusiness #websitetips

Every question nobody could ask you went to whoever answered first.

Now count the people who had one question and no fast way to ask it. That is the number nobody reports.

A chat button that opens WhatsApp puts the question on your phone instead.

Follow along, there are …six weeks of this left.

#wpchat #wordpress #smallbusiness #livechat #whatsappbusiness

The best photos of your business aren't on your website.

You can show those Instagram posts on your website instead, the ones your customers already took in bad light in their own kitchens.

Blurry and real beats perfect and bought.

Follow, and every week I'll …show you one more thing on your site a stranger doesn't believe.

#instagramposts #smashballoon #smallbusiness #wordpress #websitetips

Your best Instagram post isn't your best Instagram post.

The Instagram feed on your website keeps its own scoreboard, and it doesn't match the app.

Likes tell you what people enjoyed. Clicks on your site tell you what they wanted.

Grab the All Access Bundle and …switch Feed Analytics on tonight.

#instagramfeed #smashballoon #wordpress #smallbusiness #websitetips

The contact form was built to protect your time, and for years it worked.

It just protects you from the wrong people. The bored browser gets through, the buyer with their card out doesn't.

If you want the impatient buyers, you need a faster door than a form.

Follow, …I break down one of these every week, and save this one for the next time someone tells you to just add a contact form.

#wpchat #smallbusinesstips #wordpress #customerexperience #salesfunnel

"Trusted" means nothing on your homepage.

A stranger gives your site five seconds to decide if they trust you, and they never read a word of your copy.

Real proof is someone else's voice, right there on a page you control, not a screenshot, not a link to …Instagram.

Follow, every week I pull apart one more thing killing trust on small business websites. Save this before you touch your homepage copy.

#smashballoon #websitetrust #smallbusinesstips #socialproof #websitecopy