Do-it-yourself website builders sure look like a good deal. The price is a fraction of what you’d pay a developer or agency. The features are seemingly comparable to most of those big website development packages. The examples you see certainly look professional.

Your website is an extension of your brand. It represents your first touchpoint with a significant percentage of your visitors, and if it’s not up to modern design standards, it can actually hurt your company. Fifty-seven percent of internet users say they won’t recommend a company if the website is poorly designed or doesn’t run on a mobile device.

Your web presence is more important than ever before. A whopping 88% of purchasers and decision-makers research companies online before making a purchase. We live in an age of increasing sophistication that enables business owners, decision-makers, and consumers alike to carefully vet a company before they even pick up the phone.

Google has one of the world’s largest advertising platforms, allowing you to reach billions of people with the click of a mouse. Most importantly, it offers extremely narrow targeting options that ensure you can engage with prospects who are most likely to contact your business locally.



It's painful to not show up at the top of Google when you search for your business in your local area. As fantastic as you may be at making your customers happy, that doesn't always lead to SEO success against your nearby competition.

“But I’m an IT Guy, Not a Sales Guy….”

Have you ever been through a bunch of sales presentations and then talked to the one person who got it? No sales BS, just straight facts that are relevant to your situation.

To succeed, you need to be that company.

This month, we’ve got a collection of websites that demonstrate that you can convey a lot of important information and engage visitors without cluttering up the page or sacrificing your business’s unique personality.

There's a construction and maintenance contracting firm from the Baltimore and D.C. area, and three wildly different IT services companies.

This month, we have four websites that aptly convey each business’s unique personality. They show how an excellent site can be a powerful force for establishing and promoting a brand.

This showcase includes brand-building websites for a high-performance gym in Bangkok, a cutting-edge cybersecurity software developer based in Orlando, a trailblazing IT services company in Cape Town, and a capable, helpful Managed Service Provider (MSP) located just outside Toronto.

Here we have three great examples of strategic design promoting the unique goals of each website. Everything from the aesthetic to the layout to the copy is aligned from the beginning to achieve our clients’ goals.

This showcase includes an authoritative design for an IT services company in Orange County, a lucid design for a mortgage services company just outside of Little Rock, and an inviting design for a woman-centric healthcare group in San Diego.

We’ve all gotten those “slam dunk” leads: They’re well informed, they trust you, and they close quickly without too much fuss. You say to yourself, “Can’t all my leads be this good?” Okay, realistically not. But you can get more of them. And your marketing can help.

If we tell you that getting your SSL, TLS, and HTTPS set up properly will affect your Google ranking and company reputation, would you make the effort to learn about it? 

Oftentimes, you see a bunch of abbreviations online and have no idea what they stand for.

Email is one of the most effective marketing tactics at your disposal. In terms of ROI, it outpaces almost any other tactic, generating $38 for every $1 spent. It’s no surprise then that the content marketing institute reported that 93% of B2B marketers use email to distribute content and engage with prospects and customers.