For all of you that run business’s in NYC and have a hard time with banner printing well look no more I just found the place allstatebanner.com Their prices are the best I have ever found I had a full color 6ft by 3ft banner printed for only 45.00 with shipping to my office add 8.00 . And to top it all off the banner was done in 2 days no joke. I will send all of my clients to these guys. I do also have to say the customer service was an A+ Check them out www.allstatebanners.com
Looking for marketing in all the wrong places.
For the past week I have been trying to hunt down a nice online marketing firm. At an event I got a business card for a company called Primedia. Now I felt I need to write a post about these guys so here we go. How can I start this and still be some what nice. I guess I can’t. This place was a little out there not to sure that they are a real company. I called to find out some more information about what they can do for my new web site. Simple enough right? You would think so? The lady that picked up the phone talked as if she really knew what she was doing but then had to get off the phone to call her creative director. I guess he was the brains of the OPP. She called me back to tell me that they would call me the next day to tell me what they do. But they can not tell me any information on what they can do for me. They said that I could take that info and do for my self. They would have been better off trying to sell me the brooklyn bridge. Are they kidding me? They wanted me to spend money on marketing but I would not be aloud to know what they are doing. What a joke. I asked for samples in writing some sort of proof that they have been some what successful for other web sites. This Lady on the other line told me to go to the website this is what I found http://www.primediany.com/ a very bad designed web site with a talking java script in the corner. Then I tried to search them online to see about some work they have done, and found nothing. Why hire a web marketing company that has not press for them selves.So I say beware of this company sounds to me like a scam. Any marketing business that can’t show you results is not worth is weight in salt. Primedia you lost my business as well as my list of clients.
Like most small business owner business Software is a big part of running your business and finding the right one is like finding true love. So I went on the hunt for my soul mate after 6 months of hunting I found nothing but dogs on the market. So i thought I would take the time to talk about the biggest dog of them all, Myerp.com .
Myerp.com is a web based business solution, at first glance it had every thing I could ever want and it was free. Now if some one tells you ” if it looks to good to be true it most likly is” was right. This was to good to be true. I spend a few weeks setting up getting it ready for my small business to use. Then it started, the web site would be down for a few min then a few min turned into a day or so. Then I thought to my self wow I can’t get to my business information. Then the site was down for a few days and that was it for me. I could not access the site to invoice my clients and pay my bills. Then I contacted then and did not hear anything for 7 days. Then I got an email that was only 2 lines. Not much of a help. They get a thumbs down stick to an MYOB or a quickbooks pro but stay away from myerp.com
Digital Marauders hits the mark for streetwear client theclapback.com blog. This was a tough job if you have ever read theclapback.com you will know why. These guys pick apart every little thing. When they first came to DM I have to say I was a little stressed. I wanted to make sure we did not get our asses ripped open by doing a bad job. In the end we please them. So after a lot of hard work and a few thousand redesigns here is the new theclapback.com site. Thanks guys and enjoy the new site.
Digital Marauders Launches The new Madison Medical Ecommerce web site. Here you will find all your Medical Supplies needs. This site was a custom built out log in with a custom CSS product menu. We made a custom template for this site special needs users. Check out the site. Another great design from Digital Marauders.
Check out this design blog called the New Drop about business cards http://thenewdrop.com/?p=169
Digital Marauders’s Business card made the top of the list. Our card is made on Touche Paper with our logo dye cut in the middle. We also have our name foil presses on the front. Thanks to the new Drop for post our card.
I have a lot of Clients ask me “What do all these stats mean?” So I thought I would add a post here to help you out. This information was found at www.flyingsolo.com.au
The first step is to get to grips with the terminology used in web statistics reports.
Unique Visitors
Is a single, individual person that views your website within a specified time period such as a day or a month. Each person visiting your site is counted only once during that period, no matter how many times they visit your website
Number of visits
This is the number of times that your website has been visited. When you compare it with the number of unique visitors, this gives you an idea of the number of people who are returning to your site.
Page
This is a single page of your website, it may be your home (index) page, contact us page, about us or another page within your website.
Hits
A hit is a request made to the server where your website is hosted. Each file that is requested is counted as a hit. For example your home page may be a single .html page with 5 images on it. The number of hits recorded will be 6, as your .html page is one file and each image is also counted as a file. Therefore looking at how many hits that your website has received is not a very good statistical indicator.
Bandwidth
This is the amount of data (measured in megabytes) transferred from your hosts server to an internet user’s computer. E.g. Someone views your home page and on it is text and images that add up to say 2mb, if 50 people view this page then the amount of data transfer would be 100mb. Your web host will specify the amount of bandwidth (data transfer) that your hosting plan includes each month. If you exceed this you will be charged for additional bandwidth. If you have a large site with lots of traffic, keep an eye on this statistic.
Visits duration
This statistic shows how long people are spending at your website. If they are not staying long you may need to review your content or add an attractor to have them stay longer and view more of your site.
Pages viewed or Pages URL or Page impressions
This statistic shows how many people are visiting each page. You may find you have even traffic visiting each page on your website or maybe that the majority of people are only visiting your home page and not going any further.
Referrers or referring URLS
Describes the website address where a visitor was before they came to your site. This gives you some idea of the websites or search engines that are referring traffic to your site and is also useful when considering your marketing plan. For example, you may notice you get some good traffic via Yellow Pages Online, so it may be worth considering including extra in your marketing budget for a slightly higher profile advert.
Search key phrases and keywords
These are the words and phrases that people are using to find businesses like yours. It is important to take notice of this as it may be good to weave more of the popular words into your content.
Okay, so now you have an idea of the terminology used in your website statistics reports, which are the more important stats that you should take notice of.
The website statistics that you need to take the most notice of are:
Understanding your website statistics is important and you do need to keep an eye on them. They can help you direct your marketing plan, alert you to which pages on your website are more popular and which ones need attention, where your traffic is coming from, which keywords people are using from your content and if you need to consider re-writing your content to include more keywords and key phrases.
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Wow what a day the guys from Chrome bags stopped by our offices today bearing gifts. For those of you who have no Idea who Chrome is then stop reading now. HAHAHAHA no Just kidding. The are a Bag maker they make the Best Messenger bags on the planet. I have known these guys for almost 10 years we started our business at the same time in Boulder CO. It has been about 7 years since the last time I got to hang out with Justin. Thanks man for coming through and showing us some love.
Matt Ramirez and Justin from Chrome Bags
Chrome Bags
Digital Marauders Launches the Music Skins Ilounge.com contest design site. This a custom web site with graphic upload module, Custom Admin back end, contest tracking, entry approval, and custom skin transfer. Good luck to all that enter!!!!!!!
