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How to Spruce up Business with Graphic Design

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Every day, business professionals are overwhelmed by countless e-mails, links and websites. Often times, organizations competing for the same business use similar wording to describe their services. So how does a company stand out from the countless corporations all vying for the same business? The answer is undoubtedly branding that is both fresh and appealing. With websites, blogs, collateral and even business cards, companies should pursue a professional look that is immediately eye catching. Still skeptical about the importance of design? Today, I’d like to use resumes to prove my point.

Regardless of template or source, most resumes consist of a heading, objective, education summary, experience summary and list of technical expertise. But check out the immediate impact of these visually stunning resumes.

These resumes teach us that a professional design paired with creativity can really push a company from the middle to the front. In addition to creating a lasting impression, unique and appealing branding can also show off an organization’s company. And anytime a brand can make a prospect laugh or smile, chances are they’ve just earned a client.

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3 SEO Boosters for Your Website

Wednesday, May 26th, 2010

Now that we’ve gone through a quick SEO 101 lesson, let’s get a little more detailed. While the foundation of SEO is built upon solid, well thought out content, there are a few SEO boosters that can continue to increase a website’s rankings. Without further ado, here are 3 SEO sprinkles to top off your strategy.

Social bookmarks: Every great piece of content that you write should be shared. Sites such as digg, delicious, stumbleupon and even Twitter can help your articles to receive a lot of attention and maybe even go viral. These bookmarks provide link juice, traffic to your site and major credit to search engine.

Links: Search engines view links as referrals. If someone’s linking to you, that means they value your site and find your content to be worthwhile. Therefore, the more people that recommend you, the more comfortable search engines feel recommending you also. On a similar note, by adding helpful links to your own content, you’re showing search engines that you care about providing useful information to your readers and that your site is worth visiting. And by linking to others, they might be flattered and feel inclined to link back to you, which is a huge SEO boost.

Tags and Categories: Behind every good piece of content is solid metadata and rich keywords. In addition to utilizing keywords in your anchor links, adding keywords as tags and categories will really punctuate the words you’ve selected to define you. To hone in on what keywords will benefit you the most, check out Google’s keyword tool.

Questions?