Once you’ve finished the course, get back in touch! We’re looking for a few good designers/developers who are on the same page.

Here’s our link: Effective, Professional & Affordable Web Sites

Please read the following letters of thanks.

January, 2011

Dear Lisa,

Thank you so much for hosting the Idaho Interfaith Round Table Against Hunger website.  This is greatly appreciated. Our work is busy now with the Legislature in session.

God’s Blessings to you and your staff,

Vivian  Parish

March 2, 2011

Hi Lisa & Julie – we received our first inquiry on our new website!  It was from a local 69 year old woman who wanted to know more about moving in.  I emailed her back and then phoned her about our project.  She said she saw our latest ad and went to the website listed in the Ad.

Good Work – we so appreciate your support & expertise.

You two are angels from heaven!

Kathleen Eder
Executive Director
Croy Canyon Ranch Foundation

 

January 5, 2012

 

Dear Lisa,

Thank you for your generous donation or professional assistance with our web page and e-mail system.  We love the website that you designed and appreciate your patience in helping us to learn to manage it ourselves.  It was important to have a more professional website to represent our organization.  We are still in awe of your generosity.

In Closing, I’ll remind you of our mission, because of your ideas, your support and encouragement and you support continue to help us to accomplish that mission:

“To create, finance, build, direct staff and endow Croy Canyon Ranch, thus providing excellent, attractive dignified eldercare for the people of the Wood River Region”

Sincerely,

Kathleen J Eder

Executive Director

Croy Canyon  Ranch Foundation

All these books by Jamie Lee are very highly rated on Amazon, and you could probably pick them up at Iconoclast Books too!

We used Ticketbud for a small event and it was under $20 to sell unlimited tickets. I have never seen that pricing model before. I work in the technology and design field and thought it was one of the simplest “do-it-yourself” sites for buying tickets I’ve ever seen. I did not realize they were from Austin until I had to contact them about the 2D barcodes on their tickets, which are cool. I wanted to nominate them because I think they could help a lot Austin event organizers save money and sell tickets. Thanks.

Read more at The Statesman: Texas Social Media Awards Nomination

Why are Duplicates So Bad?

The biggest problem with duplicate listings is that they tend to spread ranking data in the form of reviews, citations, pictures, and user generated content across the different duplicate listings. So, instead of having one strong listing you end up with a couple mediocre listings that will struggle to rank.

Just recently, I had a client who had worked hard for some solid reviews and citations drop from the 7 pack because of a duplicate where a lot of data transferred to the new listing.

How to Avoid Duplicates?

I want to keep this as simple as stupidly possible. Make sure that your Business Name, Address, and Phone number (NAP) are exactly the same everywhere online. This is the golden rule of local search. The big secret to success. So, go get to work and if you are interesting in more local search talk then follow me on twitter.

by Mike Ramsey | Nifty Marketing

Read the entire article at Search Engine Journal: 3 Major Causes of Duplicate Listings in Local Search

Not sure how to take control of your local search listings? Get in touch with us!

Less is usually more, but less is a product of starting with all it could be then editing out what is extraneous – you can’t just cheat your way to good design by not putting in time and thought. Having experience certainly helps.

You know it when you see, touch or feel it!

It fits. It works. It focuses. It is efficient.

It does what it should do and doesn’t try to do too much.

What is good design to you?