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Site Launch – Commercial Recreation Group
We recently launched the CRGPlay.org website for Travis Goebel, who took over the commercial playground division of Recreation Unlimited. This site was built under a very tight deadline of less than four weeks. Travis gave us plenty of latitude with the design so we...
Site Launch – ATSC
We are pleased to share that we launched the site ATSC.org on April 1st in partnership with Arland Communications. It was our first hard deadline for a website launch in years. Given all that was happening in the world the weeks preceding this deadline, we were...
Premium+ WordPress Hosting
We’ve always offered premium WordPress hosting from the technical side of things. We use top-tier hosting providers and include all the requisite backups, plugin and core updates, support, up-time monitoring, SSL, etc. A couple of times a year, various clients would...
The Foundation of Email Conversion
From my experience in email marketing for clients, email conversion does not depend on the sender name, the subject line or even the message itself. So what is the key factor? Email conversion depends entirely on the subscriber. Yes, the proper sender name/email and...
STACK Pixel – Your Digital Dashboard
More than 10 years ago we created a tool for our team to manage the sites and tools we visit everyday. Rather than trying to manage bookmark sharing tools across multiple browsers, computers and mobile devices, we created this tool to be a central repository for all...
How to Achieve Better Open Rates with Your Email Marketing
Part of getting your email marketing up to speed is looking at open rates. Email marketing open rates tell you the number of subscribers that opened your email. This is determined by putting an invisible image in the message and keeping track of how many times that...
Site Launch – Boone County Convention & Visitors Bureau
Our latest site was created for the Boone County Convention & Visitors Bureau. It is a custom designed and themed WordPress site. The primary goal was to create a visually appealing destination for those looking to hold events in the county. They needed a site to...
What is Email Open Rate & Click-Thru Rate?
If you're going to market your business with email, you need to understand the two most important email marketing statistics: Open Rate and Click-Thru Rate. Open Rate is the percentage of subscribers that actually opened your message. Click-Thru Rate is the...
Email Marketing Delivery Rate
In a recent post, I talked about why you should use Email Marketing. As you learned, Email Marketing has the highest ROI of any online marketing tool. Now that you're using email marketing for your business (hint, hint), let's begin the exploration of the 3 primary...
Are Your Emails Being Opened and Read by Subscribers?
When your subscribers receive your emails... Do they open them? Do they read the content of your emails? Do they click links in your email? These are key questions we need to ask ourselves. The answers ultimately can predict your level of success. Email has the...
Shared versus Managed WordPress Hosting
We’ve been hosting web sites for clients for almost 20 years. In that time, we’ve used dedicated, shared, cloud and managed WordPress hosting from companies such as Rackspace, Liquid Web, WP Engine, GoDaddy, Media Temple, SiteGround, 1and1, WinHost, Discount ASP and...
5 Tips to Make Your Newsletter More Attractive
Effective email marketing is critical for businesses of all sizes. Having trouble growing your email audience? Think your emails lack pizazz? Feel like you send the same information every time? Read below for five email marketing steps you can take to make your emails...