Since 1999 we’ve done a lot of web development and online marketing work for a lot of different clients, and we’ve become more experienced in certain industries than others, namely; self storage, venture capital, and law firms. While we can certainly design a great site or provide SEO for any type of company (although there are some types of companies we won’t do work for…), we have some special expertise when it comes to these three industries. We just launched a website for Price Self Storage in San Diego which is a good example. There’s not much we haven’t done for this company. We reworked their brand just slightly, designed a new website, built a content management system, integrated the site with Centershift’s self-storage management software, and we’re providing ongoing PPC management and SEO services. Oh, and we designed and built an awesome Flash piece that allows users to choose the right size storage unit.

When it comes to venture capital, we’ve worked with almost every venture capital firm in Utah, and some outside the state as well. Plus I’ve had plenty of dealings as an entrepreneur with VC firms and angel investors and when I was a college student at BYU I won the business plan competition there, so I know a bit about the industry.

In the legal industry we’ve worked with several law firms providing everything from website design to SEO to content management. We’ve created micro-sites to bring in leads for a specific class-action lawsuit, and we’ve done overall marketing for firms like Strong & Hanni and Siegfried & Jensen.

Due to our experience in these three areas, we’ve created three new pages on our site to promote our experience and show off our work in those industries.

• Self Storage
• Venture Capital
• Law Firms

Once again, this doesn’t mean we’re only focusing on these industries and don’t want clients from other industries, it just means we have something additional we can offer these niches beyond the normal and phenomenal services we provide everyone else.

Yeah, that’s right, we’re giving away five blog websites to five lucky people, for free. Yes, there are some conditions and catches, but if your situation is the right fit you can walk away with a nicely designed blog to promote yourself or your business and we won’t be charging you a dime. Get on over to My Free Website Design for the details.

Although we’re still ironing out a few kinks, it’s probably done enough that we can announce the launch of a new ecommerce site for one of our clients, TIW Jewelry, who is selling tungsten rings online under the simple brand “Tungsten”. We developed the branding elements, the website design, and coordinated the ecommerce integration for the website. The website, at TungstenRingsforMen.com, uses Magento for ecommerce.

I’m not 100% sold on Magento, but I have to admit I’m fairly impressed with it so far, especially since we’ve had some horrible experiences with other ecommerce platforms in the past. Magento was relatively inexpensive to implement, and is fairly simple to administer. It also includes a decent set of features to aid with SEO efforts, which is critical for this client.

We’ll also be doing ongoing SEO work for this client. Of course it doesn’t hurt to have a domain with some good keywords in it. We just barely started and their site is already #9 in Google for “tungsten rings for men”. Of course we really want to get the rankings for “tungsten rings” which they only rank at #85 for, but give it a month or two and we’ll see where things are at.

Many, if not most of our clients are using blogs these days to help them communicate with their customers but also to boost the results of their search engine optimization efforts. Search engines love blogs, and it’s one of the easiest ways clients can boost their SEO visibility.

We recently launched a blog for an eating disorder treatment center called Avalon Hills. The blog uses Wordpress, and we installed and configured several Wordpress plugins including the All-in-One SEO plugin and the Post Notification plugin.

We’ve been managing search engine optimization and search engine marketing efforts for Workforce Solutions for a number of years now and we just recently launched a new blog focused on the HR outsourcing market for them.

The blog uses Wordpress, and we took advantage of several Wordpress plugins including the All-in-One SEO plugin and the Post Notification plugin.

More important than anything we did is the fact that our client is actually using the blog and posting on it regularly. While we can build a great blog, if our clients don’t use it then it’s like having a nice car that stays in your garage. Or what’s that quote? “Ships in a harbor are safe but that is not what ships are for.” I suppose that applies somewhat.

I can’t find a banner ad I saw yesterday on a website. I know, it’s strange, but instead of avoiding more banner ads in this case I would like to look at and click on a banner ad I saw previously. The ad was for an HP color laser printer, and if I remember correctly, it was being offered for $359, which is pretty amazing, considering I bought one for almost $900 a few months ago and it was about the cheapest one out there. The only problem is I can’t find the website the ad was on, even though I know what websites I visited.