FiddlerStudios Web Solutions

Meet My Friend Quickbooks! (and other tax season advice)

Kurt Francom — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:51:00 +0000

Aren’t you glad your taxes are done for 2012!? Oh….they’re not? Well, you are not alone. This time of year becomes a bit tricky when you are running a business. Not only do you have to manage your business effectively but you also need to get your taxes filed on time and correctly. If you [...]

Six Star Gets Pure Analysis of Your Business Using Covert Mystery Shoppers

Tevya — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:44:00 +0000

Six Star Solutions is in the business of providing pure analysis of other business’ customer support and general client experience. They do this using mystery shoppers who will patronize your place of business without you ever knowing they’re analyzing the experience. Unfortunately their website was a little dated and may have caused a lack of [...]

Prairie Grain Bread’s Website Will Make You Hungry

Tevya — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:43:47 +0000

We were buying delicious homemade-style Prairie Grain Bread from Costco and Walmart here in UT, long before we even had any idea we might someday work together. They had a one-page placeholder instead of a website and just needed us to build them an awesome website. When I started building the site, I said “I want [...]

VANS CLIENTS: Please Check Your Website – WordPress & Plugins Updated

Tevya — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:48:36 +0000

We’ve updated all Van’s client websites to WordPress 3.5 and updated all plugins to the latest version. This is done for the security of all our client’s sites. However, sometimes these updates can break a part of your site. So if you’re grandfathered in as a Van’s hosting only client (you pay $15/month, $80/semi-annually, or [...]

Get Revenge After a Bad Customer Experience

Kurt Francom — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:08:16 +0000

Have you ever left a restaurant with soup spilled down your blouse from the waiter? Or tried to visit a car dealer and had a salesman pressure you into purchasing a car? It’s safe to say, everyone has had a negative experience with a local business at some point. We leave the experience offended and—at [...]

Tips for B2B Sales | Personable Follow Up Tools

Kurt Francom — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 17:30:50 +0000

Selling business to business (B2B) through online tools can be extremely difficult. The internet if full of slimy scams that make you look bad when you are simply contacted by someone online, asking about their current services or products related to your business. The prospect wonders if you are simply a robot that sent this [...]

How do I put this…? Your website is ugly!

Kurt Francom — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 04:33:58 +0000

Have you ever been on a blind-date and found the individual to be nice, easy going, and all-around polite–but you just can’t help but think, “MAN! THEY’RE UGLY!!” Of course, mama always taught it’s what is inside that counts. Well, we found some recent research by 1and1 hosting (article at Expand2Web & another at 1and1) that [...]

Announcing ‘Spud Pickles’ an Amazing Site for Mobile Apps & Development

Tevya — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 22:43:50 +0000

Jack Jones is the creator of the incredibly popular Ghost Radar series of mobile apps. These apps are designed to “detect” various things that can’t be seen or felt with our normal 5 senses. They use the phone’s various sensors, mics, etc, to pick up on and analyze “odd changes in the flux.” As the app description says: [...]

Websites that Speak Google

Kurt Francom — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:59:06 +0000

Building for BEAUTY instead of BUSINESS Imagine if your company was building a new office building. Your company is excited for this building because it will finally provide the needed space and efficiency you have been desiring. You hired the finest of architects to make the layout as pleasing as possible and easy to work [...]

Announcing the Memory Ranches website: a “mind blowing” design

Tevya — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 15:58:29 +0000

We’re really excited to tell everyone about the new MemoryRanches.com. We built it at request of the owners to replace MemoryAngus.com (see “before” image below). Harmony Pearce, daughter of Memory Ranches’ owner Monty Pearce, is a professional photographer. She contributed the excellent images you’ll find showcased in the large slider on the home page, as [...]

If You Don’t Know What Google+ Local is…Then It’s Hurting Your Business

Kurt Francom — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 21:40:05 +0000

News Flash: The internet is changing. No surprise to you, right? Most business owners understand this fact — they simply don’t have time to stay up to the constant change. Let’s take a moment to pray for all business owners that are losing business to the affects of online change. Those that are FiddlerStudios Comrades [...]

FiddlerStudios Updates: Portfolio, Contact, & Support System

Tevya — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 15:40:28 +0000

This is just one of the “housekeeping” posts to tell you about updates around here. One is really cool, and we’re super excited about it, so we hope you’ll read at least that much. Portfolio We mentioned in some of our other posts that we haven’t announced all the new sites we’ve launched of late. [...]

Announcing the National Firearms Training Academy Website

Tevya — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:50:17 +0000

Here’s another great website we recently launched, but haven’t had time to announce until now. It’s the National Firearms Training Academy website. “NFT” or “NFT Academy” provides firearms training from the very basics of gun handling, storage, and child safety, to state-certified concealed weapons permit classes (currently offering UT, ID, and AZ), and even advanced [...]

Announcing ConnieSokol.com: An Author’s Landing Page

Tevya — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:44:29 +0000

We’ve been so busy building websites we haven’t had much time to tell everyone about them. Today we’re excited to announce a site that’s been completed for over a month: ConnieSokol.com. Connie Sokol is a mother of seven—a national and local presenter, and a regular speaker at Education Week. She is a contributor on KSL [...]

Why Your Business’ Facebook Page is a Waste of Your Time & Money

Tevya — Thu, 10 May 2012 05:27:47 +0000

Social Networking is all the rage right now. If you’ve got a business, you’ve got to be on Facebook, right? And a Twitter account is a must-have, even if you don’t know how to use it, correct? Oh, and LinkedIn, gotta be there too… oh and Google Plus is growing like crazy… and, and…! Actually: [...]