Great examples of companies doing social media effectively on their websites.

Last month, you may recall that Facebook offered Fan Page administrators the option to upgrade to their new page design. A nice offer for those who really don’t like change, but kind of a tease since you will be automatically upgraded on March 10th whether you like it or not. 

So, what should you know about the New Fan Page layout? For business Fan Pages, you should at least know about three major changes:

1. You can switch from your personal pr

A year is a long time in the world of technology. Few things have shelf lives that are in excess of a few months, and technology often becomes obsolete before you have had the time to learn it, let alone master it. With the onset of rapid development in consumer hardware, it is more challenging than ever for software platforms to keep up - the iPhone app that you had designed last year doesn't fit nicely on the iPad, the mobile version of the website that you had developed only a few months ago doesn't display nicely on a 7-inch device. Should you develop an iPhone app or an android one?

T’was the week before Christmas, and inside my store
There were boxes of product from ceiling to floor
We had stocked up last month in anticipation
That our website would bring orders from all over the nation

Our website is good – after all, I designed it
But no one told me how to get people to find it
I guess that I should have looked into it more
I bet we’d have product going out the door.

I’m frantically searching for that web design number
To find out just what that guy suggested last summer
I turned him away; how can optimization
Do more than my billboard next to the train station?

The store on the other side of my street
Has a UPS truck making pickups all week!
I checked out their website (not much different than mine)
But I know that they used that same guy I declined.

So I’m claiming defeat, I give up – he was right
Now how do I get optimized overnight?
I’ll call him as soon as I find the damn number
This was my biggest, most costly marketing blunder.

Next Christmas I plan to have JAZ Design help me
Long before snow, ice and wind start to pelt me
What am I saying?? I must really be stupid
I’m calling them NOW before Santa is suited.

Don’t make the same error that we clearly made
JAZ Design Co can help with your website today
No matter what industry that you come from
The best place you can visit is jazdesignco.com

This is a short video about using your DNN website to edit your webpage using the WYSIWYG editor.

Why local businesses need to have a presence on Google Places and how local and mobile are the future of the internet, changing search as we know it.

It's been assumed for ages by SEO experts that Social Media activity affects search engine placement. Now Google and Bing tell us our assumptions are confirmed. Watch this video to better understand what activity is helping your search engine placement.

Find out why SEO is important and why any business owner should be very concerned if their business website is not coming up in the search engine results pages for the terms people are using to find the products and services they are selling.

You keep hearing it.  Over and over.  But, they’re right, you know.  If you aren’t using Facebook to connect with your customers and target demographic, you’re ignoring 85 million people.  That is size of the slice of US based Facebook users! It’s nothing to shake a stick at, and we can get you started. The #1 reason you should be on Facebook is simply because everyone else is. You wouldn’t put up a billboard ad in the middle of a desert, right? Of course not! Times Square, baby!  That’s what Facebook is.  It’s the Times Square of advertising space on Facebook and you can be right in the middle of it. Obviously, the first step in getting your business on Facebook is to create a Fan Page.  If you already have one, perfect!  If not, we can set one up for you.  We can also manage it for you if you simply don’t have time to deal with Facebook through our Social Media Management service....

Just last night I was sitting in front of the TV and nearly every commercial not only had a Facebook icon listed on the screen, but most also had a Twitter and a YouTube icon. Now, it’s nothing new to see a web address and the Facebook icon on ads anymore, but the fact that ads are starting to include all 3 powerhouse social networks on their ads is very telling.

It means it’s time to get in the game.  Whether you have no social presence (meaning you haven’t even created social networking accounts at all), a social presence with a weak pulse (because sure, you’ve signed up for the main networks, but didn’t quite understand how to use them and let them sit idle), or you are checking your social networks fairly regularly, you need to ensure that you’re engaging your customers so that they want to follow you and like what content you’re offering.