Archive for October, 2009

Twitter Workshop Prosser WA

Posted by Michelle on October 29, 2009 with 0 Comments

I’ll be the speaker at a Twitter Workshop sponsored by the Prosser Tourism Committee.  I’ve been on twitter since May of 2008 and I’ve learned a thing or two in that time.
In all honesty it took me a while to “get” Twitter.  Small business owners do need to pay attention to Twitter and other methods [...]

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Project: WA Grape Society

Posted by Michelle on October 27, 2009 with 0 Comments

For the WA Grape Society site,  we created a custom template based upon the original html site.  They were happy with the look of the site, but wanted the ability to update the content themselves.
We added an image rotator to the home page, to allow for displaying the logos of sponsors.  For this site, it [...]

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Project: Successful Unemployment

Posted by Michelle on October 26, 2009 with 0 Comments

Here’s another recent project we completed.  This site, www.successfulunemploymenttoolkit.com was originally designed using Microsoft Publisher.  The biggest issue with a site created in Publisher is extra code is inserted in to the pages, making it more difficult for the search engines to “read” the site.
This client did not want a blogging site, simply a nice [...]

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Even Businesses in Small Communities Need a Website

Posted by Michelle on October 9, 2009 with 0 Comments

Many business owners in small communities assume they will be able to gain new customers simply by word of mouth, yellow page advertising,
or traditional newspaper advertising, which is true to a degree.  But by not having a website they are missing a key element in their marketing strategy.
People want information before making a buying decision.  [...]