Website Maintenance Mistakes

Are you maintaining your website correct?When you set out to maintain your website, it’s very important for you to look through the eyes of your customer and understand what they see.  Sometimes it is as simple as the customer wanting to buy a clock, but you are trying to tell them how to build the clock.

Jacob Nielsen, is a profound web design and website maintenance expert.  He has numerous patents in regards to web based applications, services and ideas and is well known in our industry.  Occasionally, he will issue a Top 10 List for Web Design or Website Maintenance Mistakes. Continue reading “Website Maintenance Mistakes”

Central Mass Web Design Announce Flip Video Winner

Katelyn Grenier
Katelyn Grenier, Winner of the Flip Video Camera

Recently Central Mass Web Design ran a contest on Facebook. When Facebook Users became a Fan of Central Mass Web Design on Facebook, they immediately were entered into a drawing to win a Free Flip Video Camera. The drawing would take place on the next business day following the fan count reaching 500. Central Mass Web Design employees and immediate family members were not eligible to win.

The fan page reached 500 on Saturday and the drawing took place on Monday March 15th. The winner was chosen and announced. The winner was Katelyn Grenier of Worcester Massachusetts. Continue reading “Central Mass Web Design Announce Flip Video Winner”

Central Mass Web Design Debuts New Trade Show Booth

Central Mass Web Design recently debuted our custom trade show booth at the New England Business Expo on Thursday October 29, 2009. The Expo provided a great opportunity to showcase our work to the general business community and some of our valued partners. We would like to thank everyone who stopped by with their kind words regarding our booth during the show.

Here is a photo of our new trade show booth!

Central Mass Web Design Trade Show Booth
Central Mass Web Design Trade Show Booth

Bing and Google Adding Value to Facebook and Twitter

By now, you’ve heard that Facebook and Twitter are almost essential when marketing your business online. Not only has Central Mass Web Design encouraged the idea, but it’s on news websites everywhere. Social Media is a bandwagon that you don’t want to fall off of. It’s helping businesses everywhere with their online marketing and strengthening relationships with their customers.

For those of us who are currently utilizing the free services of Facebook and Twitter, we’ve got some big news! (And for those of you who are not on these social media sites, read on. You might find yourself registering by the end of this article). Both Bing and Google have recently announced that they are joining forces with the social media craze. A few days ago, Bing publicized their decision to take your tweets and status updates and pull them into their SERPS (Search Engines Results Pages). Shortly after, Google proclaimed a similar deal with Twitter. They too will pull your tweets into their SERPS.

So, what does all of this mean? Well, first of all, if you are not currently using social media to expand on your business horizon, it means you are clearly missing out, go register! And secondly, it means we owe big congratulations to those who ARE using social media. If you are keeping your status updates and tweets fresh, you should start seeing an increase in traffic to your website (that is, if you are linking back to it within your updates – which is a must!)

If you are not taking advantage of the social media sites out there, please feel free to give us a call! We currently assist our Search Engine Marketing clients with their social media and we can help you too. Call 978-632-5300 or email us at Info@CentralMassWebDesign.com.

Does the NHL get a Hat trick?

NHL is having a Tweet Up?

Twitter

Whats that you ask?  Well, Twitter is coming to town.   Well, not completely..  But with the start of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs , the NHL is stepping it up and taking it to the next level…. web 2.0!

The National Hockey League hosted what it believed to be the first ever nationwide “Tweetup” in professional sports on April 15th,  done in conjunction with the first game of the playoffs.  Coverage included 21 cities in the US and Canada.  One blogger stated, “The parties were planned in part to drive community excitement for the playoffs and part to create some buzz around thePORTAL, which is a redesign of sorts of the official NHL site to better showcase playoff content.”

Cities included were:  Anaheim, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, Detroit, Edmonton, Hartford, Montreal, Nashville, New York City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Regina (Sask.), San Jose, St. John (NB), Toronto, Vancouver and Washington DC.

NHLNHL spokesman Mike DiLorenzo said, ““My expectation is that people will really, really enjoy this.”  He continued to say, ““We’re doing this for all the right reasons. We have a very tech savvy fan base that loves Twitter so we’re overlaying that with their love for the NHL. My hope is they come away from this saying the NHL is really cool to start the NHL playoffs this way. Down the road we’ll figure out other ways we can leverage this from a business perspective.”

For those not familiar with the term “tweet-up,” it essentially means a party made up of Twitter users. The host cities took it even further and scheduled giveaways, and prizes if you attended, including autographed items from your favorite NHL players.   Most had backing from radio station personalities and other news outlets.

Want more information?  Visit the official NHL Tweet-Up.

Kimberly Veautour