We’ve had a lot of conversations in the office about the power of Google and what they might do with it. Google has a great office culture (Google “google office“) and provides many free apps, such as Docs, Analytics, and Maps to drive traffic to their websites. I am still astonished every time I look [...]
Category Archives: Web Marketing
XXX
July 9, 2010 – 3:12 pm
What’s in a name? For years, the rulers of the internet (at least domain names) has been toying with the idea of making a new domain extension “xxx” for the porn industry. The board at ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has already turned down the proposed more than once, but it is [...]
Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant – Email Branding
June 18, 2010 – 10:24 am
Lucy’s Retired Surfer Bar & Restaurant is a great place to go for a drink and a bite to eat, but how do you know what is today’s special? As part of their branding and communication pieces, Design the Planet developed a weekly email for the restaurant’s two locations to update their customers about what’s [...]
Another Milestone in Social Media
February 12, 2010 – 10:02 am
On the heels of Facebook turning 6 years old, LinkedIn hits another large benchmark. On February 11, LinkedIn announced their 60,000,000 member. Not sure what that exactly means. It means more and more people are going to LinkedIn to find employment through via networking and more people are doing business through LinkedIn. This also shows [...]
A Glimpse Into the Future
February 9, 2010 – 10:37 am
The Saints have won the Super Bowl, but that is not the glimpse that I am referring to in this post. As part of the celebration, WWLTV.com posted headlines from newspapers & websites from around the world. Notice, I said headlines from websites. Of the 43 headlines, about one-third of them were from websites. This [...]
Google Hints at Speed Requirements
December 29, 2009 – 11:52 am
This past week, in an interview with Web Pro News, Matt Cutts from Google hinted that the load time of your page may become a factor in page ranking. Google hasn’t released all of the details, and they probably won’t (we still don’t know the exact algorithms Google uses to determine page rank – it’s [...]
Word Press, the CMS of choice
November 25, 2009 – 4:37 pm
Chances are you’ve heard the word “blog.” Chances are you’ve heard of Word Press. Some of you may have blogs on your own site. You might even use Word Press as a blogging platform for your own blogging needs. But chances are you don’t know that Word Press can be used as a content management [...]
Why Blog
August 26, 2009 – 3:43 pm
We recently wrote a post on our construction division’s blog, The Brand Constructors, that we thought you’d enjoy. It is about why you would want to blog. Check it out at: http://brandsunderconstruction.com/blog/?p=13
We Don’t Need a Web Site! Not for what we do!
July 1, 2009 – 10:58 am
I can’t tell you how many times I heard this in the late 90′s “We don’t need a web site!” – I thought it would go away but somehow I still hear it at least once a month. My simple answer is that if you are in business you better have a web site – [...]
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