Why Might You Need a Fractional CMO?

If you are a small to mid-sized business in nearly any industry, marketing is perhaps your most important department. But do you have the expertise on staff to direct a new product or service strategy, develop a comprehensive marketing plan or bring in the right team to execute your ideas? Enter the Fractional CMO. Though…

If you own a business, you probably know there are lots of ways to drive traffic to your business. But if blogs aren’t a part of your content strategy, it’s time to switch it up. Whether it’s editing old content or generating new posts, emphasizing blog content is a must for your business if you’re…

Jacob is a close friend. But he’s been struggling lately and he’s become distant, I suspect he’s depressed. When I ask him about his home life he brightens up and beams about his wife and kids. It’s when we talk about work that his mood sours. He tells me he struggles to find the energy…

Now that everyone is shifting to remote work I keep getting asked how Highforge made the transition two years ago to a fully distributed remote team with no central office. We’ll keep this short and sweet. We use Slack for instant chat across team. On Slack we have channels for each department as well as…

Clutch named Highforge as a top agency in Orlando

Here at Highforge, we hate balloon animals and love creating creative & tech-savvy solutions for our clients. We love doing good work and hearing that we’ve more than satisfied our clients. That’s why we teamed up with Clutch earlier this year to keep a pulse on how we’re doing. Clutch is a B2B ratings and…

“That Isn’t My Job” are four very ugly words. Today I had 165 emails to respond to and 3 meetings on my plate. Efficiency and speed were the key to my surviving the gauntlet. At 4:13 PM, a newish client sends an email asking for help from the wrong people. As I’m burning through my…

Anything that saves time without cutting corners is gold to any small business and we have a feeling any one of these tools has the potential to save your company time and money or reduce errors and create new opportunities. Making the world a better place one pixel at a time is a task that…

Ever notice this stuff at the top of your browser? SSL is a security certificate that is installed on your website server. This notifies the user’s browser that your site is who it says it is, and encrypts the data sent from their machine to your site. That is important for transfer data between two…

Running a Small Business Means Owning a Big Hat Rack In the last few hours I’ve helped two team members solve project problems, answered 3 urgent emails, had an impromptu phone meeting with a happy client, reviewed an invoice going out, shot a team member with a Nerf gun (deserved), and wrote a proposal for…