Free Website Design for Nonprofit Organizations As An Act of Kindness

When Black & Blue Tech Labz launched Nonprofit Websites, we offered free website design for local nonprofit organizations.

Our primary reason for offering free website design for nonprofit organizations is to build our portfolio for eligibility.

Upon discussing the nonprofit organizations’ overview with the founders for the website development, we see the passion in them. We have seen that they have an eye for a potential opportunity for their organization and their eagerness to get what’s best for their nonprofit.

Here are the websites that we design and develop for nonprofit organizations. We are proud to be part of these organizations’ journey.

Free Video Editing as a Simple Acts of Kindness in Showing Support to Ramon Magsaysay Municipal Police Station and Local Sports Club

Not only the nonprofit organizations we have been supporting, but also the local sports club in our town, RM Racquettes, and our peacekeepers, Ramon Magsaysay Municipal Police Station.

We are doing these small acts of kindness to RM Racquettes and Ramon Magsaysay Municipal Police Station through BULAD Media. BULAD Media is our side project that aims to promote generic products and services, as well as to maintain work and fun balance in our workplace.

Currently, we’ve been editing the uploaded videos on RM Racquettes’ Facebook page. We support their sports and recreational activities.

BULAD Media also edited the video for Ramon Magsaysay MCAD Official FB Page’s BARANGAYanihan Caravan where the activity manifests good governance and better services in adherence to the whole of nation approach.

And Ramon Magsaysay Municipal Police Station’s Simulation Exercise on Bombing Incident (SIMEX) relative to the Filing of Certificates of Candidacy (COCs) and Certificates of Nomination and Acceptance (CONAs).

Job Portal Website for Job Vacancies in the Province of Misamis Occidental

Misamis Occidental Jobs is a project of Black & Blue Tech Labz that offers reliable job options for the people of Misamis Occidental.

This job portal website aims to deliver reliable job vacancies in different job categories to the people of Misamis Occidental on their phones at the comfort of their homes. Especially in today’s ongoing crisis because of the pandemic where lots of people lose their jobs. We aim to help these people find jobs without risking their health and the health of their families because they need to go out to look for a job.

These simple acts of kindness are our way of giving back to the community. We are proud to see these small acts of kindness coming a long way. And we hope that this will inspire you, as much as it inspires us by helping others, too.

Black & Blue Tech Labz and Its Side Projects

We already know that for brands to boost, we need to promote them. And that is what we did for our agency – Black & Blue Tech Labz.

Black & Blue Tech Labz is a web design agency in the Philippines that offers website design & development, search engine optimization, and digital marketing. We keep promoting it and its services across our social media accounts.

At first, it was all manageable that I even thought about why use Publer if I can post it on the platform directly.

But along with the progress, comes greater responsibilities.

Black & Blue Tech Labz has three social media accounts in Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

Black & Blue Tech Labz then launched a special project for nonprofit organizations – Nonprofit Websites. It is a project where we create professional, custom-designed websites for nonprofit organizations. It has two social media accounts at the moment in LinkedIn and Twitter.

Misamis Occidental Jobs is our other project. It is a job portal website for job vacancies in the province of Misamis Occidental, Philippines. It has two social media accounts in Facebook and YouTube.

Bisan Unsa Lang Ang Diskarte (BULAD) Media is a project that we’ll work on in our leisure time. It is a commercial channel where we promote generic and local products that we can think of to maintain work and fun balance. BULAD Media has three social media accounts in Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Divi Freelancers for Hire, WordPress in a Minute, and Vlog Ginagmay are social media accounts associated and managed under Black & Blue Tech Labz.

Publer Being The Social Media Superhero

Managing all these social media accounts manually is absolutely hard if not impossible. But with Publer, posting and scheduling on social media were made easy. It is so efficient, orderly, and user-friendly. You can schedule posts and target them according to the time and day that it’ll be best available for the audience. If something goes off, you can edit its content or the schedule. I love how you can create your posting schedule with labels in it and select between labels upon scheduling. It’ll save you time, every time. And the calendar, it’s so efficient when scheduling after some time of being away. You can always have a glimpse from where you left it out to easily get back on track in scheduling posts. Its analytics provide accurate insights into how the posts are performing.

Truly, Publer is a social media superhero. Thank you, Publer, for coming to the rescue. Otherwise, we may have been in agony on manually posting on social media or stumbling to search for your greatness’ alternatives.

#PublerHeroes #SocialMediaSuperhero #SocialMediaMarketingMadeEasy

Knowledge is indeed power. The more information you have, the more the company can grow. By giving your team members technical skills training, you’re assuring them that they have the knowledge and skills to complete their everyday responsibilities to the best of their abilities.

In this article, we are showcasing the technical skills training we have for the improvement of our agency’s performance.

• Facebook Ads Training for Beginners

        Complete Facebook Advertising Training for Beginners

• Copywriting Course

        A Step-By-Step System To Write Effective Copy Even When You’re A Complete Beginner

• Local SEO Training

        Comprehensive Local Search Engine Optimization Training for Beginners

• Building Back Better Business: Tax Management

        Learning The Basics of Tax Management and Understanding Business Taxation

• Cinematography Course: Shoot Expert Video on Any Camera

        The Art of Capturing Motion Picture Photography

These technical skills training are the training we have got since we moved to our new office and work together in one workplace. We are looking forward to more technical skills training that we can have for our personal and team development to better serve you here at Black & Blue Tech Labz.

Black & Blue Tech Labz is a husband-and-wife owned agency, originally managed and worked on by Grace and JR Galia. With dedication and perseverance, the agency had been accumulating clients. Through quality service, the agency kept getting new and returning clients.

As a result, the agency needed helping hands to better provide efficient and quality service to the clients. 

Three young information technologists joined the team. Daphnie was an intern while Diane and Clifford were trained to be part of the team. They have become a team in website design and development from the instructor-student relationship in academe.

The training and the work happened online. They engage in a workforce where the goal is to give the best possible outcome for the clients, as well as to learn.

Later on, the team decided to set up their new office at Purok 3, Poblacion, Ramon Magsaysay, Zamboanga del Sur.

Working in an office, communication would be a lot easier than online. They would also be able to become more experienced and, of course, they desire to provide better quality to their projects and bring satisfaction to their clients.

They know that this would not be as easy as 1-2-3. But, they are willing to work hand in hand, viewing challenges as an opportunity to unlock greatness. They aim for innovation through teamwork and open communication to carry out the work and mutual success.

Black & Blue Tech Labz is ready to provide quality service in web development and digital marketing services. Grow your business with us because we do IT with impact!

Google Analytics lets you track and understand your website visitor’s behavior. It provides data about the user experience, device category, and more. Its reports are helpful for an in-depth analysis of details to improve your website.

But, how is it important and why should we use it on our websites?

1. It’s Free

We often undervalue anything free. We always thought that great things come with a price. But with Google Analytics, this thought is a fallacy.

Google will not charge you for using Google Analytics but the service that you can get can definitely maximize the performance of your website.

2. You Get To Know How Visitors Find Your Website

The Acquisition section in Google Analytics will tell you how visitors find your website. You will know whether it came from search engines, social networks, or website referrals.

This entire section will show you which marketing effort (if you do) works best for your website.

3. You Can Track Visitors Activities On Your Website

Getting visitors to your website is the first struggle. But keeping them around and making sure they come back is just as important.

The Behavior section in Google Analytics tracks down the visitor’s entry page, what page they visit next (if any), and how long they spend time roaming around your website.

This section will help you understand what pages of your website successfully attract visitors and what pages need improvement to gather people around longer.

4. You Get To Know Who Visit Your Website

With Google Analytics, you will be able to unveil important data about your visitors which you can use to enhance more traffic to your website.

The Audience section in Google Analytics will provide you information about your website visitors such as age, gender, interests, device, and location.

Age

Google Analytics will give you a graph of your visitors’ age by bracket. By this, you will be able to know the average age of your audience and can optimize your website accordingly.

Gender

Knowing your audience’s gender will help you on how to approach and communicate with them.

Interests

Google Analytics provides information that will enable you to understand the interests of your audience. This will guide you in optimizing your website according to their interests.

Device

Google Analytics provides information on the browser and device category your audience used. Knowing this will help you know what browser and device you will focus to optimize.

Location

Google Analytics will let you know not just the country but also the city of your audience. It also includes the language that they use. With this information, you can then formulate better marketing strategies.

5. To Know Why Visitors Are Bouncing Off  Your Website

Bounce rate refers to the percentage of website visitors who leave after visiting only one page. This could be because visitors are not finding what they are looking for. It could also be the landing page that is not optimized or not attractive.

A high bounce rate needs immediate action. The higher the bounce rate, the worse it is to your website.

6. You Can Determine The Most Popular Pages On Your Website

Getting to know what pages do well in getting website traffic will help you tailor another page or content that is successful. You will also be able to improve high bounce rating pages according to your past successes.

7. Determine What Social Platforms To Target

Social media platforms are a great source of engagement and traffic. With Google Analytics, you will know what platforms get the highest traffic to your website. From that, you can decide what platform you’ll increase your marketing efforts.

8. Know What Kind of Content You’ll Write

Your content is where you get to share your knowledge and be seen as an expert. However, great content is what drives traffic to your website.

Google Analytics tracks the views of all your content. With this data, you will know what content is popular with your audience. You can then write similar content or change old content to attract more website traffic.

9. Create Customized Reports

Google Analytics allows you to create customized reports by dragging and dropping through the interface. You just pick from the dimensions and metrics and arrange it to how you want it to be displayed.

10. Track Conversions

Websites have different actions that they want visitors to take. Google Analytics has Goals that you can set up to track conversions. It could be filling out forms, signing up for a newsletter, or completing a purchase.

Conversion rates can also be a measurement if a website is actually doing its job. Google Analytics will help you find out whether you achieve it or not.

The Takeaway

There’s a lot of good reasons to use Google Analytics. Make sure you have it installed on your website and measure the success with Google Analytics.

For website design and development help and needs, visit Black & Blue Tech Labz.

Here, we have come up with the idea of giving Quire a review. With this, we aim to help you get through the never-ending quest in the project management space.

Quire is a collaborative project management tool. It is for individuals and teams from micro to medium-sized enterprises. They also collaborated with Google and Zoom to provide free accounts for nonprofits. They want to share the burden of the nonprofits who have been suffering from the pandemic. They want to provide easy organizing and planning of tasks to the users. 

Our team has been currently using this free project management software. It helped us collaborate on our projects effectively, even when we are working at our homes.

Its simplicity helped us to precisely outline our thoughts. The software features are really good and it caters to what we need.

Kanban Board

Quire uses Kanban implementation in managing tasks. It allows us to better manage and focus on our tasks. I like how I can change its status from To-Do into In Progress, for Review, and Completed. It also lets our Team Leader know what task we are working on.

You can also set its deadline and priority level from Urgent, High, Medium, and Low. It lets us know what task should be prioritized.

Sublist

When we work together on a project, we get together to get it done. Chances are we get confused by dealing with a bunch of tasks about the project. Some tasks are not relevant to me but cannot rub them out because other members are working on them.

The sublist feature of Quire helps in this complexity. With this, assigning relative tasks can be easy and organized. It helps me focus on myself, as well as the other members to themselves. It lets us work on the right tasks without any distractions while being proactive to stay ahead of the deadlines.

Nested Tasks

Quire’s nested task feature is useful for our planning and seeing the bigger picture of our projects. When we do the planning, we tend to jot down ideas into a list of To-Dos. After finalizing, it is then the time to assign those lists to the boards for managing and completion. It’s so efficient and organized.

Recurring Tasks

Recurring tasks are helpful for tasks that need repetition in a definite pattern. My weekly tasks like social media weekly planner need this feature. It reminds me of my tasks regularly without the need of adding the tasks repeatedly.

Other Amazing Features

Quire offers a whole lot of features. You can do file sharing and can share your projects with anyone. It is also secure because you get to choose the role and grant permission to whom you wish to share your projects. You’ll also get reminders for the tasks that are about to reach their due. You’ll get notified once you were given a task, got mentioned, or anything that needs you to be informed. Quire also has an integration with several apps for you to work easier.

Pricing

Quire is a free project management software at the moment. You can make use of 35 organizations, 80 projects, and 30 members per organization for your free account.

For small businesses and nonprofits that are looking for a tool for project planning, better try this free project management software. There’s no need to worry about the sudden launching of the pricing packages. Everything that you are currently working on will remain free of charge.

Quire is really outstanding, don’t you think? It can cater to all you need, no more, and no less.

For more business and nonprofit information and buzz, visit Black & Blue Tech Labz.

As a team in the website design and development field, this is truly a challenge. But we are challenge takers, and so we faced it head-on. Our team reconnects to each other with the help of the Internet from the comfort of our homes. We have each other to call for help if the problem is difficult for the other. And most of all, we continue to learn despite the limitations this pandemic brings.

As we celebrate this Yuletide season, we would like to extend our thanksgiving and appreciation for everyone. We all made it this year very tough and very well.

Do not be afraid to celebrate, go for it, and just consider the situation of the pandemic. Enjoy as much as you can because once it’s over, you’ll have to wait for another year.

Let us all make peace stay as we celebrate like it’s Christmas every day. Merry Christmas from all of us at Black & Blue Tech Labz.

What is Website Speed?

Website speed refers to the performance of a website’s fully loaded time. It refers to the complete loading of all the functional web pages on a website.

You need to understand that today’s generation is the most impatient audience of all time. And besides, no one wants a slow loading website.

Why Website Speed Matters?

First Impression

First impressions also apply to websites. Every time a user stops by your website, they will surely make conclusions and judgments. If your website is all about business or nonprofit, website quality is a necessity. Website speed is a need for quality to attract. Otherwise, those visitors would not want to come back.

Everyone Wants Speed

Today’s generation is a time for innovation and unending development. Marketer competes for speed and clients expect high site speed. If you lack this, you would probably miss it.

User Experience

Slow-loading websites and poor response time will lead to a bad user experience. The more the user waits, the more they get frustrated. It may lead them to go ahead and leave.

Slow Leads To Lost Opportunities

Given the bad user experience scenario, it is clear that it can cause a website to go behind. Website visitors might be a possible customer for a business or a supporter for a nonprofit. These great things can be ruined by a slow speed and will be equal to lost opportunities.

Fast Leads To Growth

Yet, fast loading websites certainly leads to growth. Those transferring website visitors may find their way to you which is good for your bounce rate. The greater visitors your website may have, the higher the potential sales you can close.

Google sets pretty high when it comes to the speed of a website. They strive to make the whole web fast. And because Google can’t see your website visually, it will be based on your website’s quality. Great website speed is one of the necessities of this. The greater the website speed you have, the more your website will rank and go up.

What Factors Affect Website Speed?

Page Total Size

The total resources your website has can make a great impact on your website’s performance. Massive JavaScript and CSS files, high-definition images, and video contents. All these affect the website speed.

It is important to minimize file sizes to reduce the site’s weight and sustain quick loading pages.

Web Hosting

Web hosting services affect the speed of your website. Choosing the best web hosting service for your business or nonprofit is a tough thing to do. It will base on the specific needs of your website. It will depend on your website purpose, growth anticipation, and budget among others. But, important factors should be considered in choosing a web hosting. It includes the uptime and load speed, types of server, and customer support.

Network Conditions

Even if these things are considered and your website will be made lightweight. The connection of your user’s network will be the final basis of the website speed. The slow connection may result in slow page loads. Hence, a fast internet connection delivers great website speed.

Summary

Website speed matters in all businesses and nonprofits. The faster it loads, the more chance for the website to rank.

Here at Black & Blue Tech Labz, we do IT with impact. We ensure that every website we create has the speed at its finest. We’ll be happy to serve you to the best of our abilities.

This is exactly what Google Workspace is up to. It continuously innovates to cater to everything that you need, all in one place.

Introducing Google Workspace

Google Workspace was formerly known as G Suite. It evolves to better serve various purchasing needs. Its broad and extending clients include small businesses, large enterprises, and nonprofits.

Google Workspace has everything that you need. It consists of basic and most-used apps. It includes Calendar, Docs, Drive, Gmail,  Meet, Sheets, and Slides.

Either you are going back to the office or working from home. Regardless if you are on your computer, laptop, or mobile device. Google Workspace has you covered in this striking world of technology-wise.

You can now create, collaborate, and communicate, and let the Google Workspace do the rest.

The Three Major Google Workspace Features

New User Experience

Google Workspace enhances user experience. It gathers important tools for better collaboration and communication. It includes the chat, email, video and voice calling, and content management.

This allows link previews in Docs, Sheets, and Slides. You can do previews while remaining in the original document. It frees the time spent in switching among tabs.

Google Workspace enhances the mentioning among team users by using @name in documents. By that, connecting to specific team members will no longer be a hassle. It even notifies the member being mentioned and notified.

Document collaboration in Docs, Sheets, and Slides are now enabled. You will not need to exchange tabs to check and edit. It will also inform you on what part they are working by having its cursor visible on the shared document.

Google Meet enables picture-in-picture over Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It is for users to hear and see the people they are in collaboration with.

All these things bring in a sole, undivided feature.

New Brand Identity

Google Workspace reflects connectivity, flexibility, and helpful collaboration at its core.

Four-color icons will be seen in Calendar, Drive, Gmail, and Meet. It’ll also show in their collaborative content creations such as Docs, Sheets, and Slides. It will show Google’s commitment to creating integrated communication experiences for everyone.

New Ways On Getting Started

Flexibility, helpfulness, and simplicity will welcome you in experiencing the Google Workspace. The demand for transformational resolution was being delivered well.

Small businesses, large enterprises, and nonprofits are given appropriate solutions. Each catered according to their needs.

Small Businesses

Custom-fit offerings for start-ups and small businesses for an effortless and inexpensive start. Along with administrative controls, security protection, and productivity tools.

Large Enterprises

Enhanced productivity setting and enterprise-level administrative controls. State-of-the-art security and conformity capability.

Nonprofits

Google Workspace for Nonprofits to qualified nonprofit organizations.

Acquiring Google Workspace For Small Businesses, Large Enterprises, and Nonprofits

These features that Google Workspace has is beneficial in any endeavor you may have. It ain’t just right, but as well as practical.

If you need any help about Google Workspace, Black & Blue Tech Labz can help. You won’t have to endure it all, we’ll walk you through the whole process. Request for quotation now and we’ll send you a proposal. Don’t compromise, do it with us now.

If you run an enterprise and you are running just fine, you might be wondering about websites. Do I need a website for my enterprise? Investing in a website is the greatest thought that you must take and make it to happen. A website offers a lot of benefits for both you and your enterprise. And most of these benefits do not just stay motionless. Just like the Internet, it exponentially increases.

Benefits Of Having A Website For Your Enterprise

Business does not run in thin air, it needs planning and strategy by field experts. In this article, we will present to you the advantages of having a website for your enterprise.

1. Brand Establishment

A website is the online representation of your brand. It defines your brand and serves as the journey of your business self-discovery.

Websites establish the benefits and features of your products and services. An industry expert knows the necessities to produce a realistic image of the brand that you need. It can help you provide excellent assumptions to your customers and prospects. You definitely need this to integrate your brand. You will then be able to build a strong online brand reputation.

2. Business Credibility

First impressions matter. This is essential in convincing customers to buy your services. A good website gives you great credibility as a legitimate enterprise.

Of course, you would want to be recommended by others. You need to impress your customers and make them give positive judgments. And for that to happen, you need your business to appear legitimate. You need a website that is professionally designed and user friendly at the same time.

Credibility is a business essential. This conveys to customers and makes them want to do certain business with you.

3. Online Availability

People nowadays often check online products more than they do in physical businesses. They might be looking for certain products which you might have. What is the best thing that you might do? Be available online. What is the solution to this matter to be accessible to these potential customers? An online store that fully showcases your merchandise; a website.

Imagine, you are in one corner, having your products, and your website. Customers will search for you and find you online. You are all set and your website will get you covered.

4. Expand Local Range

The internet is the place where you can get everything that you need. It is also our “go-to” when we look for information and solutions to our struggles. The Internet basically has the answer to everything that we need.

A website gives you the freedom to showcase your business. This given freedom has no limits. You can promote your business in a wider range, even throughout the world.

Websites enable you to be visible in search engines. It reaches people that might badly need your products and services. In such times, websites also provide digital business cards. This will be a great help for your enterprise. It lets them connect to you anytime they desire. By having a website, you get to paint the picture of your own enterprise.

5. 24/7 Availability

Real-time availability is increasingly essential for businesses nowadays. Customers are getting hyped by the immediate response given by the entrepreneurs. Although, it is reasonable for them. They are maximizing their benefit as a service receiver. And to counter that, you need a website that will immediately notify. May it be to purchases, queries, and as well as complaints.

6. Increase in Sales

A website brings you a larger set of potential customers to accommodate. Your accommodation will be the basis of the customer in getting your service. The greater the customers, the larger the sales. 

7. Keeping Up With The Competitors

Your competitors are taking pleasure in the comfort of the website. Not having a website makes you behind. Having one will keep you up with those competitors way up high. Otherwise, if your competitors don’t have a website, it makes you advance in many ways. It gives you the advantage of all the goodness of the benefits.

8. Service and Product Improvement

Improvement took place in all aspects. A website enhances this. With the website’s enabled feedback and ratings, you are able to check your products and services. You will determine the products and services that need progress and changes.

9. Different Functions in One

A website simplifies your effort. It can substitute several people’s hard work. It can function in sales, customer information, administration, and many more. With all these on your website, you are making it easier for you and your customer. Plus, you are saving money from the worker’s salary expenses. You are absolutely taking all these advantages.

10. Return of Investment (ROI)

The most realistic part of the enterprise is the intention of earning profit. We target audiences to sell and provide their demands, as well as earn. Yet, the question here is the same, are you willing to invest in a website? If you are thinking for a no, then you might fall for a massive trial in the future. Remember that the Internet is getting its way up to higher than anyone thought. Business is now set to rise more than ordinary and get an overstatement of existence.

All these reasons might be enough to prove to you that MSMEs are in crucial need of websites. Especially in these trying times where strategies are at work to keep business alive.  

At Black & Blue Tech Labz, we specialize in website design and development for MSMEs. We use search engine optimization strategies to ensure that your website will rank in search engines. 

Grow your business with us. Experience these benefits and learn the rest.