Best Light Communication

Web design and writing for small businesses and non-profits

Helping small businesses and non-profits to communicate effectively, since 1999.

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Need to get online quickly during the pandemic? Let me help.

November 22, 2020 By Frank Herr

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Is your small business struggling during the pandemic’s second wave? Let me help you get online in a hurry. If moving your products or services online will help you to keep selling during the pandemic, I’d like to help. My own freelance business, Best Light Communication, makes simple websites for small businesses and charities. I […]

Filed Under: Small Business Website Tips

How we build our Starter Websites for small businesses

March 12, 2018 By Frank Herr

This post is for: anyone interested in the technologies behind our Starter Website packages The trouble with pricing a web design is that it’s hard to predict the cost until the scope and requirements of the project are known. But often, start-ups and small businesses need to know what to budget for in advance, because […]

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Digital marketing essentials for small businesses

February 26, 2018 By Frank Herr

This post is for: small business owners who aren’t sure where to start with their digital marketing options Since 1985, I’ve had the good fortune to be the one-person marketing/creative department for a number of small businesses and not-for-profit organizations. All of them needed to get their important messages out to their target audiences, and relied […]

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Make your videos “look” more professional with better audio

May 8, 2017 By Frank Herr

This post is for: anyone filming their own videos for their website Lots of cameras and phones can now film high definition video, so you might decide to make your own videos for your company’s website or YouTube channel. That’s great, and you can get professional-looking results if you pay close attention to certain aspects […]

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For interview-style videos, you want that great blurred background look

June 5, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: small business owners who post interview-style videos online. Want your interview-style videos to look more professional? If so, have you ever analysed what makes close-ups of actors look so great on television and in movies? Of course, the amazing lighting and the thousands of dollars of state-of-the art filming equipment has a lot […]

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Registering your domain name and hosting your website are two different things

June 1, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: small business owners who are unclear about the difference between getting a domain name and getting hosting for a website. If you’re a small business owner, you need a website. To get one, you need to do the following: Buy your domain name.  This is the “www.(yourcompany).com” address that you will  advertise as the location of your website. […]

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Don’t let technology hijack, dilute or upstage your message

May 24, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: business owners who are making decisions about the content and the presentation of their websites. Websites are built and presented with technologies that continue to evolve. Every month, there are new tools, tricks, fads, and ways to present, adorn and animate a website’s contents. And that’s great. The web would be a boring place indeed […]

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With WordPress, you can add and edit your website’s contents yourself

May 4, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: business owners who are unfamiliar with WordPress, but considering it as a way to let them edit their own websites Sometimes clients ask us to build them a website that they can edit later themselves. In these cases, we often recommend WordPress, a very popular platform that gives you a web-based area […]

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‘Help, I need a website!’ What you need to do to get your small business online

May 2, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: solopreneurs, freelancers, consultants, owners of start-ups, and anyone else who needs a website and isn’t sure exactly what’s involved or where to start We received a question recently from a small business owner asking us to “describe at a high-level the steps needed to create a personal website, by breaking them down into ‘must do’, ‘can […]

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3 ways to put non-actors and shy people at ease in front of the video camera

April 28, 2014 By Frank Herr

This post is for: businesses and organizations who want to make videos using their own people in front of the camera Because video is so popular on the web now, and such an effective way to get your message across, more and more business owners and company representatives are being called upon to speak in front […]

Filed Under: Digital Marketing Tips

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About Best Light Communication

Best Light Communication logoMy name is Frank Herr, and Best Light is my freelance web design business. I love helping small businesses and not-for-profit organizations to craft and deliver their messages effectively and affordably. To reach me, call me toll-free at 1-855-653-9925, or use my Contact form. I look forward to hearing from you!

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