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Tracy Mak Studio

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šŸ”’ Protect your website (and your business) with our Black Friday Special

Hi Reader, Iā€™ve been waiting for the right moment to bring up a boring topic with my clientsā€¦ website policies. WAIT, DONā€™T GO! šŸ˜œ This Black Friday, I am focusing on helping customers get up to speed with compliance related to their website, and Iā€™m recommending a solution I use on my own website, Termageddon. Letā€™s start with the basicsā€¦ Your website is collecting (and sharing) personal information Generating leads is essential for just about every website owner. Websites with contact forms...

Happy Halloween Reader! Last week, I was on a mission to earn cool mom points by finding the perfect video game truck for my sonā€™s birthday party. After sifting through search results, I was left frustrated with no available options for the date I needed. I finally hit the jackpot after I reached out to a friend who recommended a local business I hadnā€™t even found in my Google search. This experience got me thinking about the power of being easily discoverable online ā€“ and how important it is...

Hi Reader, Itā€™s been a rough few weeks over here. I unfortunately had an impromptu anatomy lesson during my work out when I heard a ā€œpopā€ and immediately felt pain on my left side. Apparently, the bottom few ribs are called ā€œfloating ribsā€ and you can pop them out of place, causing an injury like a sprain in your ribs. Standing at a whopping 5 feet tall, I already had issues reaching things on the top shelf. But after this injury, reaching up to grab food in our pantry ainā€™t happening. Our...

Hi Reader, There are lots of things I pride myself on: my ability to design and code, swapping faces in Photoshop, and Rick Rolling my 9-year-old. But one of the things that Iā€™m most proud of, that I donā€™t get to talk much about, is my onboarding and project management systems. Itā€™s one of those things that isnā€™t very exciting and is only really noticed when it doesnā€™t work. But the time Iā€™ve put into fine tuning different systems is probably the one of the most important investments Iā€™ve...

Hi Reader, At the end of my sonā€™s hockey season, I found myself surrounded by shouts of ā€œskibidi toilet!ā€ and I instantly felt like an old lady grumbling about ā€œkids these daysā€. My sons are at an age where Gen Alpha slang has infiltrated our house. Gone are the days where my Millennial phrases were the sole influence of their vocabulary (ā€œwhatever!ā€ has definitely slipped out on occasion when my son has had an attitude and it was like looking in a mirror). But every time my son says ā€œBetā€...

Hi Reader, Iā€™ve been living a lie for 30+ years. Iā€™ve had this limiting belief that getting in shape, exercising, and being strong was out of reach for me. I know everyone always says how good exercise is for your physical and mental health, but it seemed like such a daunting task and I had every excuse in the book to stop me from getting started. Thatā€™s when I discovered āœØWalkingāœØ. I started by tracking how many steps I was averaging every week (which was an embarrassing amount) and started...

Hi Reader, The other day I did something I thought Iā€™d never be caught doing. A few years ago, my husband came up with the ā€œgeniusā€ idea to attach a hand mixer whisk to his drill in order to hold a dish sponge and wash the dishes. It eventually morphed into using this modified hand mixer to mix protein powder and hydration drinks. I always thought it was excessive and said Iā€™d never need to use it. Well, I ate my words. The other day I had cream cheese filling that needed to be mixed and I...

Hi Reader, I just got back from a quick trip to New York that coincided with the last day of Lunar New Year. I canā€™t begin to describe the pure child-like excitement I felt when I heard those familiar drums from the Lion Dances blessing one business to another in Chinatown. Picture of a Lion Dance taken from the internet, since I keep missing their dances in person! I took off running to catch their performance, only to be completely disappointed to find that I had JUST missed their dance! It...

Hi Reader! I hope youā€™ve had a wonderful start to 2024! Itā€™s been a while since Iā€™ve sent out my monthly newsletter. If youā€™re new, a quick introduction: At the end of the month I send out a newsletter that includes marketing and tech tips that help you run your practice or clinic. I cover things like SEO, branding, productivity and more. If thereā€™s a topic youā€™d like to learn more about, reply to this email and Iā€™ll work to include it in a future newsletter! Back to our regularly scheduled...