GreenMellen Announces First-Ever Brighter Web Marketing Conference
ATLANTA—After hosting local marketing gatherings for a decade, GreenMellen has announced the first-ever Brighter Web Conference on Thursday, October 9, 2025, at the Cobb Chamber…
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Why You Should Have a Strategy Before Doing Ongoing Marketing
In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, having a solid digital marketing strategy is crucial for businesses of all sizes. It provides a roadmap for success and ensures that your marketing efforts are aligned with your overall business goals.
How We’re Improving Our Brighter Web Marketing Meetups in 2023
As we enter 2023, we’re changing things up again with our meetups. No matter if you’ve never been to one before or have attended several, here’s what you can expect from our new-look marketing meetups moving forward.
2017 State of the Word Recap
WordCamp US 2017 was the 128th WordCamp of 2017 and full of WordPress tips, lessons, and announcements. While the attendees ranged from WordPress beginners to advanced…
All Things WordPress: Business on a Shoestring Budget
During this Meetup, we had Matt James as a special guest speaker to talk about new ways to save money for your business. Whether you’re just…
All Things WordPress: Climbing to the Top of Google in 2017: SEO That Works
For many businesses, search engine optimization (SEO) is a very important piece of gaining traffic to your website — and ultimately to sales. During this…
All Things WordPress – Between Two WordCamps
WordCamp US, our national gathering for the WordPress community, was held in Philadelphia in December, and our Atlanta WordCamp is during St. Patty’s Day weekend….
All Things WordPress – The How, What and Why of SSLs
This All Things WordPress session was lead by Carel Bekker of ClickHOST and Mickey Mellen of GreenMellen Media. They discussed SSL certificates and why they’re…
All Things WordPress: Growing Your Business in 2017
During this Meetup, we had a panel of three local business owners who use WordPress to generate income. We tried to get a mix of companies,…
All Things WordPress: Blogging Strategies for 2017
For our first All Things WordPress Meetup of 2017, we discuss a hot topic and possible New Year’s resolution for businesses: blogging. This Meetup discussed how…
All Things WordPress: Google Analytics – How was Your Year?
During this Meetup, we dug into Google Analytics and looked at ways to examine how a website has performed in 2016 and how to find areas to…
All Things WordPress: The Essential WordPress Plugins that You Need to be Using
With nearly 50,000 plugins available at wordpress.org (and thousands of other premium plugins out there), it can be hard to sift through the junk to…
All Things WordPress: I Don’t Have Time for This Meetup
At previous Meetups, we’ve covered a variety of tools that we use to help us organize our workflow and keep us on track. During this Meetup, we…
All Things WordPress: Getting the Most Out of Your Email Marketing
Even with the high amount of emails users receive on a daily basis, email marketing has an ROI of 3800%. That means for every $1…
All Things WordPress: Smart Writing for Business Websites
This Meetup was lead by marketing writer Tom Tortorici, and the topic of the day was website content writing. He discussed why good marketing copy is just as much…
