With each New Year comes new website design and development trends. As an SEO franchise and web design agency, we ranked the top 5 website design trends of 2015. 1. Longer/Scrolling Layouts As mobile devices become a staple in our everyday lives, it’s becoming more common for websites to rely on scrolling layouts rather than… Read More


Nate Tennant

“A good social media team consists of writers, strategists and often a technical social media group.” An Interview with Nate Tennant, Founder, Kirk Communications What are you most excited about in social media space at the moment? One of the most exciting things happening in social media right now is the potential that Facebook will

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In the connected world we live in, information can be accessed easily and quickly from a multitude of mediums. Looking for local farmer’s markets? Open up Pinterest and within seconds you can find one near you. Remember that PC repair shop you wanted to check out? With a few clicks, you can explore their services directly from their Facebook page. Or maybe you’re looking for a new job

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With almost a billion unique users, there is no other platform that has more potential customers than Facebook. These users can be segmented by age, geography, interests, behaviors, education and partner categories. This means advertisers can slice and dice their target audience in a variety of ways.

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Do you use your phone or tablet to search on-the-go? If so, Google’s forthcoming update may change how you search – and provide more relevant, easily-navigable results. On April 21st, Google will release a new algorithm affecting all mobile devices using their search engine. This new algorithm will rank “mobile-friendly” websites higher than non-mobile-friendly websites… Read More


If you are like most website owners or marketing managers, trying to maintain your website is a gargantuan task.  Just keeping up with product updates or updating the site with the latest trade show information can be challenging. But, in an increasingly competitive world of search, you need to do more, much more particularly in… Read More


If you are like most working people, keeping up with all the changes on Google, Yahoo and Bing can be daunting, even if you work in the industry. With so much content being developed, it is no wonder that many of the searches on Google are serving up garbage. For popular searches you will often… Read More


As one of the most popular micro blogs, twitter has become a victim of its own success. In an effort to attract more followers, we have seen a number of  businesses tweeting about a range of topics, most of which have nothing to do with their business. It is important to keep your twitter accounts… Read More


A major new survey of 50,000 people in 46 countries has found that in many emerging markets around the world, people are spending more time on social networking sites than on email. The startling result, is just one of many insightful conclusion in the report from British research firm TNS that can be viewed here:… Read More


Twitter doesn’t like to think of itself as a social media company like Faceook or LinkedIn but instead perceives itself as an information provider. In reality, it spans both sectors but risks falling in between unless it continues to evolve its own niche, something it’s attempting to do with an impending series of major changes.… Read More


In this tough economy, the competition can be brutal.  How do  you continue to grow in a highly competitive marketH  We have found a number of tools that help us keep ahead of the competition. One of them is Lead Lander.  Lead Lander is essentially a reverse IP look up. It allows users to see… Read More


When I first logged onto Facebook, I was not a big fan. All those “Friends” from high school are not really friends but acquaintances. However, Facebook has a page rank of 10, and for that reason alone, Facebook matters. Just recently, Facebook  announced that the social networking site has passed 500 million users. Six years after Facebook launched,… Read More