A client was the first person to alert me to Pinterest so I signed up and I am surprised how many friends have contacted me about it. It is clearly developing into a major social media website.
Here is a good article if you want to learn a little more. http://mashable.com/2012/02/14/pinterest-daily-users-are-up-125-percent/
We have been fortunate to work with a number of Landscaper and maintenance companies. This is a website we built to help improve Garden States internet visibility. Scott is doing his own social media work but we can also help with that. We did add a “Like us on FaceBook” box that also lists all the “Likes” to his FaceBook Page.
Garden State Groundskeeping, Inc. is a full service landscape and maintenance company located in Long Valley, NJ. Our specialty is the beautification of the outside of your home.
Angie Leppert (client)
Jim Toia, a local artist and close friend to Scottidesign, recently has updated his website. Last year we started developing and helping him with his newest project The Petri Island Project. He requested that we create an artistic representation of an island inside an empty Petri dish. Not a request we often get. Of course we also helped him with a very cool website to showcase his project.
We developed his website off of a WordPress CMS and created a responsive / interactive front page. A mosaic of sorts where by moving your mouse will move the wall of petri dishes. When you select a dish, you will see a larger version of the dish with more details.
Jim plans to head down to The Studios of Key West this June. He will be embarking on a collaborative installation called “The Petri Island Project: The Keys”, tapping the cultural and individual perspective of citizens in the Florida Keys. The project asks the simple question: “what does an island mean to you?”
With the help of the students, teachers, and adults he hopes to create a unique and interesting exhibit, where the viewer is part of the experience.
Please take the time to visit Jim’s website at: http://www.jimtoia.com/
Also view the wall of petri dishes at: http://www.jimtoia.com/project/
Business networking has become a new and exciting way to market yourself and your company to others. By the power of networking, we form connections that are meaningful and provide us with points reference and potential business partners. LeTip is one such networking group which Scottidesign belongs to. Scottidesign also provides web design, development, and search engine optimization for a number of LeTip chapters.
We originally developed a powerful website and marketing campaign for LeTip of Somerset Hills. Based off of WordPress our website is able to quickly add members and their information, member profiles, calendar events, and various pages, all of which were optimized for search engines. The website was a hit with our local LeTip, so much so we decided to market it to other LeTip’s nationwide. To our surprise the response was overwhelming and we quickly signed up, developed, and launched 5 more LeTip websites within the first year. Each website has a similar look, but unique content with various businesses and people.
Feedback on our LeTip websites are quite positive, namely the results they receive when searching. We are constantly reminded by each chapter’s leadership how powerful and useful our websites are to their members. Search results in Google usually show up right under the member’s actual web address.
Having a business that has yet to step foot on the web can be a nerve wracking process, both for the client and the developer. Will the client see a positive impact from our internet marketing strategies? Is their user base tech-savvy enough to interactive and boost the client’s business? Will the client stay active in participation? Fortunately none of these were an issue with one of our latest clients, Lynn’s Home Decor and Gifts.
Lynn’s approached Scottidesign about 3 months ago to develop a internet marketing strategy to launch their business into the digital age. We worked directly with the owners to develop a powerful FaceBook campaign as well as a highly customizable WordPress website which they could add content themselves or have us help (CMS). By harnessing the power social media, search engine optimization, and an active newsletter campaign through Constant Contact, Lynn’s has seen a positive impact on their business and community involvement on Facebook.
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ynn’s website is focused on their store, showcasing the products they sell as well as more information about the companies who make their products. The website development process was very visual with a lot of pictures of products, an in store gallery, and a page dedicated to the products they sell.
Facebook played a major role in our overall business strategy, capturing excitement and involving fans. Integration of a Facebook widget on their website, as well as automatically adding content from their website to Facebook helped boost their impact and overall SEO.
Lynn’s Home Decor and Gifts is located in Chester, New Jersey
To learn more visit their website at www.lynnsofchester.com or visit their Facebook page.
Interested in a website or social media campaign of your own? Contact us to learn more.
2012 will be the year to get in on the social media action. Facebook has gotten so huge that if a start-up can get just a small fraction of their traffic they can consider them self a huge success. Not only will you see new Social Media platforms but watch out for the return of some of the old ones. The future will be about specialized platforms and subjects.
The return of MySpace. Justin Timberlake has reportedly purchased a majority stake in MySpace and is looking to revive it as a place for fans to interact with entertainers.
“There’s a need for a place where fans can go to interact with their favorite entertainers, listen to music, watch videos, share and discover cool stuff and just connect. MySpace has the potential to be that place,” Timberlake said in a statement. “Art is inspired by people and vice versa, so there’s a natural social component to entertainment.”
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Thank you,
Jeff Scotti
https://scottidesign.com
Websites and internet marketing
(908) 333-5871
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Susan Olinger, APLD hired ScottiDesign as a Website designer in 2010.
We rebuilt her website http://www.sterlinghort.com/ adding more visual elements and photo galleries. Sterling Horticulture’s site was integrated with her social media and FaceBook pages. A blog and user interface was added so they could easily add search engine friendly content. As always all our sites are tuned for Search Engine Optimization.
From Susan Olinger, APLD
“Top qualities: Great Results, Personable, Expert”
“Jeff and his staff did a great job designing our site, and is always available and willing to make changes or help out with technical support. Our site has never looked better.” January 5, 2012
Oh, I am not swimming what are you crazy! but we did make a donation we hope you will make one too.
https://www.kintera.org/faf/donorreg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=488354&supId=349539124&extSiteType=1
As if we need more proof of the tremendous power and reach of FACEBOOK, it was the most searched term on the internet in 2011 and occupied 4 of the top 10 positions plus Facebook.com was the most visited website in 2011.
Here is an excellent article on the subject written by Todd Wasserman
In another illustration of Facebook‘s top-of-mind status among web surfers, “Facebook” was the most-searched term of 2011, according to Experian Hitwise.
This was the third year in a row that Facebook topped the list. The company’s name accounted for 3.1% of all searches in 2011, a 46% jump over last year, the researcher reports. However, if you take into account four variations of Facebook — Facebook, Facebook.com, Facebook Login and www.facebook.com — the social networking giant’s share of the top 50 searches was 3.48%, an increase of 33%. The four terms also appeared in the top 10:
YouTube, meanwhile, accounted for 1.36% of searches, a 21% increase over last year. Searches for Yahoo were also up 15%.
In a statement from Hitwise, Simon Bradstock, general manager of the researcher, noted that single-word searches rose 11% as consumers got used to predictive search technologies like Google Autocomplete. Bradstock noted that searches for “face” and “you” cracked the top 50 as web surfers let Google and other search engines finish the terms “Facebook” and “YouTube.”
Looking at the most-visited websites, Hitwise gave Facebook more reason to celebrate as Facebook accounted for 10.29% of all website visits, a 15% increase from 2010. Google’s network of websites, excluding YouTube, drew 7.7% of all web visits, a 7% increase. However, if you include YouTube in Google’s ranking, Google bests Facebook with 11.98% of all visits, a 22% jump over last year.
