Businesses of all sizes pour time and resources into the implementation of social media to engage with potential customers and to create awareness about their product and services. When deciding to use social media as a marketing strategy, it is important to look at upcoming trends in order to strategically create a social media …
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Tate Design Wins American Web Design Awards
Tate Design was selected as a winner of the 2013 American Web Design Awards! Tate Design was presented with two Awards of Excellence in honor of websites designed for an environmental solutions firm and a financial firm. For five decades, Graphic Design USA has sponsored national design competitions that …
2012 Social Media Recap
The 4 Most Popular Social Networking Sites When looking back on 2012, it is important to reflect upon the growth and development of some of the most popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Instagram. 2012 was a year of milestones for social media sites, and users time spent on social media …
New News Feed From Facebook
Facebook Director of Design Julie Zhuo announced several updates to its News Feed to provide: “… a richer, simpler, more beautiful News Feed – on both desktop web and mobile. Focused on the things you care about. What your friends are saying. What your network is sharing.” The new News Feed has not been released …
What are popular color trends for 2013?
In 2012, Tangerine Tango, an exuberant, reddish orange, was awarded Pantone Color of the year. In 2013, Emerald, an eloquent, energetic green, that elevates our sense of well-being by inspiring insight as well as advocating balance and tranquility takes the honor. Emerald is usually affiliated with dazzling, beloved gemstones, and the perception of Emerald is …
Should I create a blog for SEO purposes?
Blogs have no special powers in which they gain high rankings. Although if implemented correctly, they will contain fresh and unique content. Search engines tend to like that, regardless of the format. They know when a given site is adding new articles frequently, so they will index it often. Blogs are an easy venue for …
Tate Design Wins NEW American Graphic Design Award
Once again, Tate Design was selected as a winner of the 2011 American Graphic Design Awards! This award was presented in honor of a website designed for an IT company, Lionfield Technology Solutions. For almost five decades, Graphic Design USA, a prominent industry magazine, has sponsored national competitions that recognize creative professionals for areas of …
5 creative marketing techniques using QR codes
Business cards Why not add a QR code to the blank space on the back of your business card? A QR code will allow potential clients to link to a V-card, in order to download your contact information right into his or her mobile contacts. Newsletters Add a QR code to your …
QR Codes: A marketing technique with great potential
QR stands for “quick response,” and these codes provide immediate access to information. A QR code is a barcode read by a cell phone that can store any alphanumeric data within it. The codes are commonly seen in places such as billboards, product labels, business cards, and buildings. The system of these codes is starting …
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Google and Wikipedia blackout sites for the largest online protest in history- SOPA hearing resumes February, 2011
If you were wondering why you couldn’t access Wikipedia or why sites like Google had their logo blacked out, it was due to the sites’ participating in the largest online protest in history. On January 18, 2012, SOPA, the U.S. House of Representatives Stop Online Piracy Act, caused an Internet blackout on some of the …
What are popular color trends for 2012?
Tangerine Tango, an exuberant, reddish orange, replenishes us with the energy necessary to rejuvenate and bounce back to life. Tangerine Tango is alluring and exotic but in a very non-threatening way. A bright, cheerful spin on a classic fall shade, Tangerine Tango will definitely remain popular through the season of autumn. “Sophisticated but at the …
How do I find out how much traffic my competitor’s website receives?
To find out exactly how much traffic your competition receives is pretty much impossible. There are sites available such as Alexa.com, that provide some comparative data, but they do not give the exact amount of traffic that your competitors receive. The only way that you can acquire this exact information, is if you have log …
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