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The Ivy Cottage

The Ivy Cottage was opened in 1998 by the mother/daughter team of Sam Dunn and Kelaine Vargas. Sam (the mother) owned a bed & breakfast in Wilmington and Kelaine (the daughter) graciously agreed to help out there for a year before she went on to graduate school. Unfortunately, the B&B was a little too quiet for two people who had spent their lives living and traveling all over the world with the military, so the idea of The Ivy Cottage was born.

This idea did come with a lot of knowledge in the furniture and consignment business. Sam, who was an Army daughter and Army wife her entire life before moving to Wilmington, had an extensive background in furniture and oriental carpet sales. She also spent years as a volunteer in the Army’s resale shops. These consignment shops are set

Google is making a giant change this week that could crush millions of small businesses – Apr 21/15

Google has made a major update to its mobile search algorithm, the move is causing ripples across the web. Websites not deemed mobile-friendly will be dropped down the search rankings, dramatically reducing the number of visitors to a site. Search engine ranking experts have called the potential fallout from the changes "mobilegeddon". Businesses at risk are those who don’t know about it.

After 21 April 2015, a lot of small businesses are going to be really surprised that the number of visitors to their websites has dropped significantly. This is will affect millions of sites on the web.” Companies spend significant amounts of money and effort to appear high up in Google rankings, with places on the first page of results highly prized. Text that is too small to read on a mobile device, plus links that are too close together, will fall down the mobile ranking list. Most businesses are now getting 50% to 60% of search results from mobile devices. If you’re not ready your search results are going to halved!

How are business
AFFECTED by Mobile?
90%
Take action
from a
search
Defined as call,
visit or
purchase
94%
Have
searched
for local business
Are they finding
your business
first?
57%
Use their smartphones to search daily
Often they search
multiple times
per day

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