Think Team: 5 Tips for Better Delegating
osh Brammer from Spinweb has become one of our most popular guest bloggers. Today Josh returns with suggestions on improving delegation techniques, a must-read for small business owners! Delegation can be a difficult skill to learn, but often your tasks cannot be accomplished by yourself. When breaking down your tasks into smaller chunks, often youʼll find that you need to ask someone else for something small to keep the task in motion. Be a team player, make delegation easier by remembering these 5 tips: Ask someone for help. People cannot help unless they know there is a need.The...
read moreMemorial Day – All Types of Heroes
The story of two heroes begins four years ago, in the US Army headquarters in a small town in Germany. A young solider was assigned the duty of sitting at the reception desk, greeting visitors as they arrived. It was a small town, and it was rare to have visitors, and so he sat, day after day. One day, his solitude was interrupted when an old woman, walked into the building and stood in front of his desk, waiting for him to acknowledge her. When he did, she said haltingly, in very broken English, “My boyfriend is dead”. Not quite sure why she was telling him this,...
read moreWebsites: From Old to New
by Erica Gardner When Congregation Shaarey Tefilla approached us about designing a new website for them, we gladly took on the job. Their original website was very plain with too much content on the main page, and no logic to how the data was organized. We felt like they needed a more modern look to the site and a simple navigation strategy which made it easy for first time visitors or returning members to find what they were looking for. One of their members had created a logo which Taylor used as a starting point for the new design. He carried the color of the flame through to...
read moreInternet Trend #13 – Relationship Marketing
Early this year I read an article Tom Now wrote for StartUp Nation, listing what he considered to be the 20 hottest Internet Marketing Trends for 2009. Every few weeks I have gone back and taken a closer look at one or two of the trends, and how some of our small business clients are incorporating these trends into their own internet marketing plans. This week: Trend #13: Relationship Marketing – In his post, Now said: Companies will move towards a relationship-building model with their customers. The downturn in the economy means fewer new customers for a business. To address this,...
read morePlugging In To WordPress
Written by Jay Mattingly You have already met our first intern, Christine Mahley. Today, you will have a chance to meet Jay Mattingly, a senior at IUPUI. He has only been here a few weeks and is already a wiz on WordPress. Here is his first post on the topic! Over the last few weeks, I’ve been learning the ins and outs of our web 2.0 creation system WordPress. WordPress gives you all the tools necessary to create clean, efficient, effective websites without being overwhelmingly complex. One of my favorite parts of WordPress is the ability to use plugins to customize websites....
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