WooCommerce 201: Smarter Tools, Smoother Sales
If you’ve already launched your WooCommerce store, congratulations! That’s a significant step. But if you’re wondering what comes next or how to make your store work harder for your business, Bear Web Design has just the thing: WooCommerce 201 is designed for current users who are ready to level up with Smarter WooCommerce Tools. This […]
Creating Impact Through Responsive Restaurant Website Design
At Bear Web Design, we build websites that blend modern design with usability. One of our newest projects—Rooh Nashville’s website—showcases our expertise in responsive restaurant website design, creating digital experiences to drive engagement and enhance accessibility. With responsive design, clean layouts, and intuitive navigation, we built a site reflective of Rooh’s unique dining atmosphere inside the Holiday Inn […]
Creating Seamless Digital Experiences: How Bear Web Design Built a Modern Website for the Emmaline Foundation
At Bear Web Design, we craft websites with modern design and usability, ensuring every site is visually appealing and highly functional. Our latest project, the Emmaline Foundation website, highlights our ability to create seamless digital experiences that engage visitors and enhance accessibility. Combining intuitive navigation, clean aesthetics, and responsive design, we delivered a platform that reflects the foundation’s […]
Level Up Your Digital Skills with Bear Web Design’s Content Management Training
Bear Web Design is excited to offer Spring 2025 content management training to help businesses enhance their websites and digital marketing strategies. Content Management: Beyond the Basics is a hands-on course designed for those using WordPress, Yootheme Builder, and the Gutenberg Editor. Moreover, this training will help you manage your website effectively and maximize its […]
Boost Your Business With Effective Web Content Management
Your website is your business’s digital storefront. Keeping web content updated, relevant, and engaging is essential for attracting and retaining customers. Poorly managed content can lead to missed opportunities, lower search rankings, and reduced credibility. Here’s why effective web content management matters and how to do it right.
Blogs: A Secret Ingredient to a Successful Website Redesign
When redesigning your website, it’s easy to focus on visuals, navigation, and functionality while overlooking the power of your blog. However, blogs can be a secret ingredient to website success, often serving as one of the most impactful elements in a successful website redesign. A well-maintained blog attracts organic traffic, builds brand authority, and engages […]
Ten Ways to Market Your Brand
Whether launching a new start-up or refreshing an existing brand, innovative marketing strategies are key to standing out. The fast-paced digital landscape requires adaptability and creativity to connect with audiences effectively. These ten marketing tips will help you market your brand, foster customer loyalty, and stay ahead of the competition in 2025.
Combining Digital Marketing and Website Management: A Winning Formula with Bear Web Design
For over 24 years, Bear Web Design has been a trusted partner in website management, offering a comprehensive suite of services, starting with website design and development and continuing with ongoing updates, rebranding efforts, and integrating new products and services. Our approach to managing and hosting websites ensures long-term success for our clients, positioning us […]
Bear Web Design Becomes an Official Automattic “WordPress” Agency
***For Immediate Release*** from Nashville, TN. Bear Web Design, a digital marketing agency based in Nashville, TN, recently achieved a significant milestone by becoming an official Automattic “WordPress” Agency. Founder Peter Beare attended WordCamp Europe in Turin, Italy, in June 2024. In Turin, he met with representatives from Automattic, resulting in Bear Web Design’s new […]
Case Study: How To Gain More Customers
Background In 2023, a small business in a busy suburban neighborhood struggled to gain more customers despite offering top-notch products. While loyal patrons kept the storefront afloat, word-of-mouth wasn’t enough to drive the necessary growth. Realizing the need for a more robust marketing strategy, the owner, Lisa, turned to social media to gain more customers.
How to Reach the Right Audiences and Boost Product Sales with WooCommerce
To grow your business, you need more than just great products—you need to reach the right audiences and effectively promote what you sell. WooCommerce offers powerful tools to help you expand your reach, connect with customers, and increase sales through multichannel e-commerce. Learn how to boost product sales and drive growth with Bear Web Design.
Boost Website Ranking With AI-Powered SEO
In today’s digital world, a solid online presence is essential for brands to attract and engage customers. A robust Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy is vital to improving your website’s visibility and search engine ranking. Integrating AI with SEO can significantly enhance your brand’s online performance, boost website rankings, increase traffic, and better customer engagement.
How To Create High-Quality Content
Competition can be intense; therefore, creating high-quality content for your brand is an important strategy for attracting and retaining customers. It can also demonstrate authority in your industry and boost your online presence. Here are tips on how to create high-quality content that resonates with your audience and drives results.
Partnering With Social Media Influencers: How It Can Help Grow Your Business
In today’s ever-changing digital world, social media influencers have become a powerful force in marketing. With their large, engaged audiences, influencers can help businesses of all sizes increase brand awareness, reach new customers, and boost sales. Here’s how partnering with social media influencers can help grow your business.
A Guide to Adapting Your 2024 Marketing Strategies
Are you preparing for your midyear marketing review? As your brand navigates the ever-changing digital landscape, it’s essential to adapt marketing strategies to stay ahead of the competition and meet consumers’ changing preferences. Using every available resource to share, promote, and build brand awareness requires prudent thought and planning. Here is a guide to evaluating […]
Navigating a Dual Role: Challenges of Being an Owner | Employee Running Your Brand’s Social Media
In today’s ever-changing digital world social media has become an indispensable tool for businesses to connect with their audience, build brand awareness, and drive sales. However, managing your brand’s social media accounts while navigating a dual role can be daunting. Balancing the responsibilities of a dual role with the demands of social media management presents […]
Maximizing Your Digital Impact with Bear Web Design’s Account Management Services
As a valued customer of the Bear Web Design family, your continuous growth and success online are our top priorities. We’re excited to share the latest enhancements and additions to our Account Management, Hosting, and Support Services. These services are designed to elevate your digital presence and ensure your website remains a dynamic, secure, and […]
How To Build a Social Media Strategy
Consumers become more loyal through social media and spend 20-40% more with companies they can engage with on social media platforms, reports Bain & Company. This and other statistics lead experts to explain how establishing an intentional and consistent Social Media Strategy is one of the most necessary, versatile, and cost-effective ways to stay relevant […]
Paying Your Bear Web Design Bill Online
In 2024 Bear Web Design will transition all client to paying their Bear Web Design bill online. Most clients already pay online thru our QuickBooks System (Intuit Payment Network). We are asking for all clients to pay online within the next 12 months (deadline – December 1st, 2024). As a technology company it is just […]
Client Spotlight: Rudy Studios Launches New, Modern Website With Virtual Tours.
The Collaboration of Rudy Studios and Bear Web Design When Rudy Studios needed a new website and logo, they chose Nashville’s Bear Web Design. Rudy Studios offers diverse studio apartments, fully furnished spaces, or an unfurnished, blank canvas. Bear Web Design took the studio’s apartment offerings and created a modern, clean website with virtual tours. […]
How to Grow Your Business With Social Media Marketing: Planning for 2024.
With nearly 59% of the world interfacing on social media for 2.5 hours daily, it is no wonder it has become a marketing phenomenon. And the key to maximizing this phenomenon is understanding it is a player’s game. What does this mean? First, you must constantly be in the game to grow your business with […]
Client Spotlight: Imagine Hospitality
Our Collaboration Client Spotlight: Imagine Hospitality Management, Inc. is dedicated to transforming hotel investments into thriving and profitable assets. When seeking the technical and digital marketing expertise of Bear Web Design, this collaboration became a transformation of a different nature. Bear Web Design migrated its existing website to Bear Hosting. Followed by a refresh of […]
Client Spotlight: The Inspiration of Sherry’s Run
In the heart of Tennessee, the inspiration of Sherry’s Run has impacted thousands since its 2004 start. This annual event known as Sherry’s Run brings together individuals from all walks of life. The run’s purpose is to spread cancer awareness and provide support and assistance for those battling the disease. This inspiring event illuminates the […]
Do you have a Webmaster?
With modern websites becoming more and more sophisticated in both look and behavior the expectation that a standard web hosting company will take care of everything your website needs is simply not correct. The game plan of hiring a web designer that builds a new website and then moves it to a hosting company to […]
WordPress, Gutenberg, & The Classic Editor
The new block editor, also known as Gutenberg, stands to change the way you create and update content on your WordPress site. It’s likely you have experienced the classic WordPress editor. You might use it to post a blog, for instance. It’s also likely that you had to look up how to complete complex tasks […]
You Now Have 2 Primary Digital Assets!
Just about every company and organization today has a website. Pending how long you have been in business you may have had a company website for 10 plus years. That website has probably been thru several redesigns and upgrades while remaining a constant primary marketing tool and/or e-commerce vehicle for your company.
Need Help with WordPress?
Have you heard about WordPress? You may be considering it for your new website. You may need a website; you know how important it is, you just “don’t have the time”.
What is GDPR?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a legal framework that sets guidelines for the collection and processing of personal information of individuals within the European Union (EU). … GDPR came into effect across the EU on May 25, 2018.
Managing Your Website
A company can spend a lot of money, time and resources developing a new website. It is an exciting time filled with great expectations as the internet provides a constant supply of users searching for products and services and a great looking website can really help attract customers. It is easy to think that if […]
Social Media Stream Gives Your Website The Power!
Social Media has become a dominant force in our world ranging from personal socialization to business marketing. Over the past 5 years or so businesses have been putting more and more effort and resources into using social media in the aim of building their brands and marketing their products and services. It has clearly been […]
Girls That Code Visit Bear Web Design!
We had a great time today as Girls That Code visited Bear Web Design in Nashville! As part of the experience, students from Wilson County explored the opportunities available to programmers and developers in the 21st century. Their instructor, web designer/developer Jennifer Folsom, led the visit—and we wrapped it up with a pizza lunch to celebrate their hard […]
How Does Your Digital Profile Look?
Have you recently heard the term “Digital Profile”? It is becoming a key focus area for companies as well as individuals that provide services that are searched for on the internet. That means just about any company that operates today should be paying attention to their Digital Profile.
Is It Time For A New Website?
You have a website that has been up and running for a number of years. In actual fact many organizations have had 2-3 generations of websites now a days. It looked great when the website was launched (they always do). However, over the years, it has become less and less of a focal point in […]
Joomla World Conference opens a World of Opportunity
I am just flying back from the 2016 Joomla World Conference (flying from Vancouver to LA and then onto Melbourne Australia). I figured with 16 hours of flying ahead this would be the perfect time to recap the conference I just attended, and share with our clients and friends. It was the best conference I […]
Google Reviews – An Old Time Tradition In A Brave New Digital World!
Google Reviews Are Already A Tremendous Influence on Consumer Decisions So I went to this great coffee house a few weekends ago in Franklin, set in a historic house. It had a gorgeous cottage garden area that surrounded the house that seemed as suitable for a glass of wine as a cup of coffee. When […]
Google Will Drive Traffic to Secure Websites With New Security Standards
So you are surfing the internet on a bright sunny day. The kids are playing in the back yard with Bucky the Golden Retriever. Your wife is in the kitchen baking cookies. All is good with the world. If Norman Rockwell was around, this could have been his next American Classic – “Dad On The […]
“See Inside” with Google Virtual Tour
About a year ago, I said to an associate, “I think I need to really focus on cleaning up the front of my residence.” The reason being that Google was using the front of our house as the street view when users searched for Bear Web Design. (We have since relocated to an Office on […]
Google My Business (My Goodness): How Local Search Drives Customer Traffic
If you are reading this blog, you must recognize that Google “Rules The Waves” just like Britannia did once. Unlike when Britannia ruled the waves and everyone got it so many folks simply do not understand or comprehend the control and influence Google has over your business and many of your prospects. Google is all […]
Fall Website, e-News, Blogs & Social Media Marketing Starts NOW!
As we celebrate Labor Day Weekend (currently on sabbatical camping at Cedars Of Lebanon!) my thoughts as I sit around the camp fire is one of relaxation, refreshment and rejuvenation after a long hot summer but as my mind wanders off into the sounds of crickets and the coolness of the evening I naturally think […]
Introducing The New Google+
This week Google has introduced a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center. Now focused around interests, the new system is much simpler. This should encourage more and more businesses to start using it.
Google Introducing “Mobile-Friendly” Tag Search Results
While sitting in line last month to get my annual auto emission test, I was searching on my mobile. That was when I noticed a tag in results “Mobile-Friendly”. I had never seen it before and recognized immediately what it meant. “Google is telling mobile users what sites are going to be a good experience […]
What Makes Great Website Content?
This year website content and content marketing are at the forefront of any results focused website. So what is great content? Is it frequency? (how many times you update your website), is it fancy fonts and highlights with every page designed uniquely? Or, is it content copied from a leading competitors website that you know […]
Do You Know What Content Marketing Is?
Our company has traditionally worked closely with our client base to ensure that they fully utilize their content management system (Joomla). This maximizes their website results and their visitors experience on the website. We have done this primarily by teaching classes – both formal classes and onsite training. Additionally, we have provided a “how to” […]
Google Plus Launches Vanity (Friendly) URL’s….
If you don’t have a Google+ Local Page or if you haven’t claimed and verified your Google+ Local Page, you should really consider investing some resources into a Google+ Page for your business some time very soon. Before and After: Your URL on Google+ This is what a Google+ URL looked like until this week. […]
Mobile Website Usage Continues To Grow!
If you are like me, in the last 24 months or so you most likely have started using your mobile phone more and more for browsing the Internet. Larger mobile screens, voice recognition software, and better wi-fi access are just a few of the advances that have made this possible. The usage stats that I […]
Banking Just Got Simpler with CedarStone Bank’s New Responsive Website
Over the last few months, CedarStone Bank has been working on a new responsive designed website. A responsive website is a website that is mobile, tablet, laptop and desktop friendly and provides an optimum user experience based on the device with which the website is being used. With the significant increase in mobile and tablet […]
Bear Web Design launches Responsive Wilson County Fair Website
Over the last few months, Bear Web Design has been working on a new responsive designed website to launch for the 2013 Wilson County Fair. A responsive website is a website that is mobile, tablet, laptop and desktop friendly and provides an optimum user experience based on the device with which the website is being […]
What is Google Ad Words?
Recently I had a prospect ask me to focus (almost exclusively) on improving their Google Search Engine positioning based on key words. The belief of the prospect was that you can manipulate results on Google easily and quickly and that regardless of your website (and its design) this methodology (known as Search Engine Optimization) could […]
Do You Know What Google+ Is?
This week I presented Google+ to a lunch and learn session for the Mt. Juliet Chamber of Commerce. Google+ (pronounced and sometimes written as Google Plus or G+) is Google’s social media network. I spent quite a bit of time preparing for the presentation as I have only been using Google + for the last […]
What is Responsive Website Design?
What is Responsive Website Design? 2013 has been declared the year of Responsive Design in many web circles. If you haven’t heard of Responsive Design yet, you will soon. The reason it was created (and is snowballing in popularity) is because of the need to optimize websites on different devices — mobile, tablet, laptop & […]