Before a visitor reads your headline, before they learn what you sell or why you are different, they have already felt something about your brand. That feeling arrives in a fraction of a second, and a surprising amount of it comes down to color. At Ohana Digital, where our work sits at the intersection of
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If you feel a small wave of dread every time someone tells you your business “needs to be doing short-form video,” you are in good company. For a lot of the owners we work with at Ohana Digital, short-form video sounds like a young person’s game, something that demands a ring light, a dance routine,
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When we talk with business owners about their websites, accessibility is one of those topics that tends to get a polite nod and then a quiet mental filing under “someday.” We understand why. It can sound technical, a little abstract, and easy to defer. But at Ohana Digital, we have come to see accessibility differently,
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Somewhere along the way, “we need to be on social media” turned into “we need to be on every social platform, posting constantly, forever.” It is an exhausting standard, and for most small businesses it is also the wrong one. At Ohana Digital, one of the most freeing things we tell a new client is
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There is a piece of digital real estate that is completely free, sits at the very top of local search results, and yet is neglected by a startling number of business owners. It is your Google Business Profile, and if you serve customers in a specific place, it may be the single most valuable marketing
Google Business Profile Optimization: Your Free Local Visibility Engine Read More »
Keyword research has a reputation problem. Somewhere along the way it became associated with expensive software subscriptions, spreadsheets full of numbers, and a general sense that only agencies with big budgets can really do it. At Ohana Digital, we want to gently push back on that idea. Keyword research, at its heart, is simply the
How to Do Keyword Research for a Small Business (Without Expensive Tools) Read More »
If you have ever tried to research search engine optimization on your own, you know the feeling. One expert tells you it is all about keywords and content. Another swears it comes down to backlinks and authority. A third throws around terms like “crawlability” and “E-E-A-T” until the whole subject feels like a locked door
On-Page vs. Off-Page SEO: What Every Business Owner Should Know Read More »
Some of the most powerful marketing your business will ever have is not created by you at all. It is created by your customers: the photo a happy client posts of your work, the glowing review someone leaves after a great experience, the video a customer shares showing your product in action. This is user-generated
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There is a particular kind of business owner who thrives in the fourth quarter, and it is almost never the one scrambling in November to throw together a holiday campaign. It is the one who quietly did the preparation weeks earlier, in the calm of late summer, while everyone else was still in vacation mode.
Back-to-Business Season: Prepping Your Q4 Marketing Now Read More »
Somewhere in the life of nearly every growing business comes a technology decision that sounds far more intimidating than it needs to: should we run our systems in the cloud, or on our own hardware here in the office? The question gets wrapped in jargon and vendor sales pitches until it feels like something only
Cloud vs. On-Premise: Choosing the Right Setup for Your Business Read More »
