The Gate6 Blog

My Boss is Making Eyes at You

Eric Hendrix — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:10:35 +0000

Take a good look at the uncensored image of my boss (below). Take another look. And keep looking. Have you counted to five? Hold it, hold it … Okay, so maybe he’s not making eyes at just you like I suggested in my headline … he’s doing it to every client, employee, visitor and colleague who stops by www.Gate6.com [...]

6 Tech Gifts for Mom

Shannon Spence — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:00:15 +0000

Yep, that’s my Mom. (Don’t you love the fanny pack?) Last year for Mother’s Day, I took her on a mountain biking adventure into the Dreamy Draw Mountain Preserve. It was a blast, and it was SO last minute! But thanks to the Internet, Mom never knew the difference. If you’re frantically looking for Mother’s [...]

How to Promote Facebook Via Twitter

Lad Makinde — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000

A lot of clients ask me for tips and tricks to help them maximize their time when using social media as a business tool. One of the concerns I often hear is the tendency for social to become an overly time consuming nuisance that takes away from their other priorities. This is a valid concern and [...]

Gate6 Kills It 5 Times!

Shannon Spence — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:54:31 +0000

We’re stoked to announce that Gate6 took home FIVE awards for excellence in marketing and communications as part of the 18th Annual Communicator Awards! Our website, Gate6.com, won three out of the five awards, with distinction in overall design, navigation and copywriting. The remaining awards were for branding and design work we did with some of [...]

How to Decide on a Technology Platform

Atul Shukla — Fri, 04 May 2012 07:56:14 +0000

More often than not, business owners aren’t the ones deciding on a platform to implement their business solutions. Typically, these decisions are made by in-house developers leading the project or technology professionals with development backgrounds. If neither role exists within a given company, the technology house implementing the solution can make that decision. Which decision maker [...]

Promoting Social Media Pages on Your Website

Lad Makinde — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:15:55 +0000

We’ve all seen them before, in fact it’s a rare thing to go to a website these days and not see links to a company’s social media pages. However, while many companies have social links on their websites, a lot of companies aren’t capitalizing on the chance to use their websites as a platform to [...]

Show Me Your Guns!

Shana Iverson — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:12:29 +0000

Oh yeah, that got your attention. This is a story about family, hobbies and shooting guns. Yep, really! If you read my last blog, you know that I moved here just over a year ago with my long-time boyfriend, Aaron. We wanted a climate much warmer and laid back than our native Salt Lake City. That [...]

Trees for Bugs

John Moss — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:23:27 +0000

When I checked my e-mail this morning, there was a message saying that a tree was being planted in my honor. Wow, what a way to start my day! Not only that, but this is now the third tree being planted in my name. What’s up with that, you ask? One of the software companies we partner [...]

How to Write Content that Sells

Shannon Spence — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:45:47 +0000

“Our clients would love what I did to be a science. Sadly there is a moment when they have to make a leap and that’s when they shit themselves.” This is how John Hagerty, founder and creative director of advertising agency BBH, fantastically sums up the hardest thing about leveraging creativity in the digital space: having [...]

We like trees and you should too

Shannon Spence — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:33:25 +0000

At Gate6, our team is making small changes to contribute to the greater greenness of humanity. Since we all can’t go out and dig in the dirt every day, we do other things in and out of the office to help preserve this beautiful planet. Here’s a look at a few more ways Gate6ers keep [...]