April 2012 Blog Posts

Using Twitter for Business: a Voyage Down the Social Media Rabbit-Hole

Using Twitter for Business While Twitter has the potential to be an effective marketing tool, few companies allocate the resources needed to fully realize these benefits.

The Twitter adoption-cycle typically starts with curiosity…. quickly followed by abandonment.
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Omit this from your website content at your own risk!

Examining the website content evidence It's missing from a tremendous number of websites. Omitting it can send your credibility plummeting. Omit this and you're sending potential customers away from your site and over to your competitors' sites.
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6 big Facebook mistakes that prevent you from seeing results

Six big Facebook Fan Mistakes Not seeing the results you want from your business's Facebook Fan page? Make sure you're not making one of 6 common mistakes; they very well could be holding you back.



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Web Designer Secrets: The “F” Pattern Demystified

web design secret: classic F pattern The F-Pattern is an industry secret used by the top web designers and web design agencies to help guide the creation of effective website designs.

Let's take a look at this mysterious pattern and learn how it can be applied to your site's design to increase leads and sales.
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How to set realistic search engine ranking expectations

search engine ranking expectations for small business websites Your business is about to wade into the unknown waters of search engine optimization (SEO), and now you're dying to know: how long does it take to get great rankings? Gather 'round now, and listen up.

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What is StumbleUpon (and should our business use it)?

StumbleUpon logo You've heard (or—get ready for the ridiculously obvious pun here—perhaps even stumbled upon) StumbleUpon. It seems pretty cool. You know it's popular. But...what is StumbleUpon? Are there any business uses for it? And more importantly, can your company take advantage of it?
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Do *not* forget this when planning your website development project

Remember this for your website development project If we've seen it once, we've seen it a hundred times. When preparing to engage in a website development project, companies big and small, they're almost ready for it all.

Why almost? Because the majority of companies we've worked with during our decade in business have overlooked this one seemingly tiny but exceptionally important piece of their development projects.
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The (Many!) business benefits of embracing online video

online video reel Demand for online video continues to skyrocket. People watch billions
I'd say it's time for a super-quick intro to online video and its potential to help you with your online marketing.
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