Over the years, I’ve worked with tons of various online experts so I thought it was time for me to make a few recommendations. Of course, I could easily recommend lots of people, but many of those people are best suited for larger clients with deeper pockets. Many of them own agencies that typically handle Fortune 500 companies. This list isn’t for that crowd. This list is designed for the solo entrepreneurs, the mom and pop shops, the bloggers, and the small businesses who want to hire people they can trust and people they can afford.

Each person listed here is someone I know and trust. They each have incredible skills, big hearts, and reasonable prices. If you’re looking for help to make your site better, your traffic grow, your conversions rise, or your site’s emergencies solved, you should consider the people on this list.

Kim Krause Berg

This is who I’d want analyzing all of my sites for usability and user experience issues. Why does usability matter? If you want happy visitors and increased conversions, you want a site that has been optimized for usability. Kim is the goto woman for making that happen at the most reasonable price in the industry. Why Kim? First, she lives and breathes usability, so her knowledge is top notch. Second, she truly cares about what she does, she cares about her clients, and she cares about site visitors. Finally, combine her knowledge and caring with her creative spirit, and you’ve found the perfect usability expert.

Learn more at Kim’s site: Cre8pc

Gail Gardner

Gail, aka GrowMap, is the small business person’s hero, advocate, and champion. I know of no one who puts her heart and soul into helping small businesses more than Gail. So what can a small business hire Gail to do? Gail is an expert in various areas, including blog outreach, writing and/or promoting custom content, local and social optimization, and more. Her rates are insanely reasonable, and you can be sure you’ll get plenty of heart and soul thrown in for free.

More info on Gail’s site: GrowMap

Michael VanDeMar

Keep Michael’s information handy. You’ll want to find it quickly the next time your blog is hacked. What? You think that will never happen? Well, I hope it won’t, but it happens – a lot – to even the most tech-savvy among us. Luckily, Michael has made a name for himself as an expert at cleaning hacked WordPress sites. Michael is very thorough, making sure he completely cleans sites, so they don’t get re-hacked from some backdoor left behind. Like the other experts in my list here, his pricing is extremely reasonable, and you can feel comfortable trusting Michael with your site. His goal is your goal – to get your site back to its pre-hacked glory.

Learn how to clean a site, or hire Michael to do it for you here: Clean Hacked WordPress Sites

Donna Fontenot

Me – Ok, sure, you know of course, that you can hire me for a variety of things. Need an SEO audit? Looking for WordPress help? Social media guidance? You’ll find many of the services I offer on my About page, and on my Hire me page. One thing I’ve been doing lately is being put on retainer for what my clients call their “Dear Donna” requests. Depending upon how often you might need me to help you with urgent but perhaps small problems with your site (maybe you can’t figure out why some text or an image isn’t lining up properly, or you need help with CSS or HTML, etc.), I can be on retainer for you to call upon throughout the month as needed. Typical charges for this service might be $200 for 20 “Dear Donna” emails.

If you’re looking to hire someone to help with something else outside of the services offered by the people on this list, feel free to ask if I know anyone. More than likely, I can recommend someone who can help with whatever site issue you have. I’m sure there are quite a few others I could have included in this list, but many of them are in narrow, specialized areas that may not be needed by a broad spectrum of people. So just because I didn’t include someone doesn’t mean I wouldn’t recommend them.

Before I end this post, I just want to reiterate that each of these people are people I trust and believe in. Often we are too close to our own sites to really see how they could be improved, or we need an outside creative push. Hiring someone on this list will give you that expert, unbiased help that you need to move to the next level, or solve problems that are just outside of your own areas of expertise.