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Celebrities hire publicists to manage their reputations by enhancing the celebrity’s best traits, downplaying the less attractive ones and monitoring what people are talking about. Your business has an online reputation like any celebrity. But who’s managing it?
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Jim Kendall, business columnist for The Daily Herald, related a too-common story in his post yesterday. He went to the website listed on a business card he received and found an out-of-date copyright, stale blog “news” and a phone number that didn’t work. “Is this business alive?” Kendall wondered. What does the look of your website say about your organization?
But Our Clients Are the Real Winners
Sprocket Websites is proud to announce that we have been nominated for a 2013 Chicago Innovation Award in the category of website design and development. Sprocket's unique use of of-the-shelf technology and creative flair empowers businesses, not-for-profit organizations and governmental departments to do great things online while being good stewards of their budgets.
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Labor Day advertising always seems to feature some burly guy or gal wielding a massive wrench or mallet. Certainly physical labor is hard work, but those of us who wield keyboards and spread sheets work pretty darn hard as well. Even wrenches have been improved to make the job easier, so why not use technology to make your job easier, too?
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Your teens insist on having the latest look in back-to-school clothes so peers can see at a glance that they are hip, cool or whatever the current slang for “up-to-date” is. Website designs have trends, too. Is your site embarrassingly unfashionable? Take a look at these three trends.
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The annual web hosting invoice was still unpaid after 30 days so we called the client up to see if there was a problem. He was genuinely perplexed. “But I already paid that last year! I have to pay it again?” Website marketing is still new enough that many small business owners are still deeply suspicious of the costs. Here are the answers to some common FAQs.
Datacenter Upgrade Boosts Capacity 150%
We work with PowerDNN to host our clients' DNN websites. We chose PowerDNN because they are the world leader in DNN infrastructure and hosting. Still, there's always room for improvement and we're happy to report that PowerDNN recently improved by doubling redundancy and increasing throughput capacity. Translated from geekspeak, that means they've reduced the chances that your website will go down when something freaky happens to one of the many moving parts. One less worry for us when we're taking care of your website.
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With the speed that technology changes, too often we just have to jump in and pick it up as we go along. Sometimes that means we miss a few of the details that might help us grasp the bigger picture. “I know enough to be dangerous” is no longer a joke when your website starts killing your business, so here’s the super simple CliffsNotes to help you make the right web-building decisions.
Buzz, Buzz, Buzz
DotNetNuke is now DNN and www.dotnetnuke.com is now www.dnnsoftware.com. In addition to a whole bunch of new logo designs, there will be a few things to learn and experiment with. We'll keep you posted!
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At every marketing seminar you ever attended and in every marketing article you ever read, the subject of business blogs came up and you nodded sagely to yourself. “Yes, I need to write a business blog.” And then you didn’t. Follow these easy tips to make your dream blog a reality.