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Proud to Introduce Grade A Sign℠ – A New Street-Level Ad Network

The next generation of storefront advertising has arrived! While knowing the common banner printing sizes and using them is a quite effective and impactful way to get clients but the Grade A SmartSign℠ delivers an innovative end-to-end ad solution that networks A-rated restaurants in top locations with national brands, proximity advertisers & smart-phone enabled consumers. It's a brand new way to get noticed. (more…)
June 28, 2012
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Twitter gives you the bird

Looks like Twitter is steering away from it's old icons and forcing us good web dev teams to make changes to all sites that use the old Twitter icon. They give us the bird with new guidelines that they outline here. They DON'T Allow the birds referenced above : Talking birds, dying birds, a family of birds, really blue birds, birds on the ground, cartoon birds or birds with hair, SO BE CAREFUL HOW YOU GIVE THE BIRD! (more…)
June 14, 2012
Marketing

Google + Local New Scoring System

Google + Local has replaced its star ratings with a new scoring system. Individual reviews are also counted different. Where a "3" is "excellent, a "2" is "very good", a "1" is "good" and a "0" is "poor". Google then takes these ratings and averages them out to give the business a "score" between 0 and 30 - with a 30 being the best you can do. What this means to most businesses is that you must continue to provide…
June 13, 2012
Marketing

Google Places Merges With Google Plus

Dear Local Business Owner, If you hadn't heard the news by now, yesterday Google announced the end of Google Places as we used-to-know it. In it's place is an updated version of Google Plus, which has now officially merged with Google Places. There has been a lot written already about the change and a lot of panic has ensued. The way we see it, not much has changed yet..but be prepared Google Plus is here to stay. What has changed:…
May 31, 2012