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Okay, real talk, blogging often is hard shit. We care so much about you and your time. We don’t write posts for the sake of writing posts. If we have a passionate topic, you’ll see it here. Otherwise trust we are probably just busy making something great for the citizens of the interwebs.

Marketing in the time of misfortune

ATA / Aloha Airlines has stopped all flights to and from Hawaii on Thursday. Here is my dilemma. There are ATA passengers stuck on the island with a round trip ATA ticket. The remaining airlines that service Hawaii, have decided to take advantage of the situation, and raise their prices. What!?!!! In a world where…

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Odd sources for professional web services.

Ohh Yeah. Quickbooks now offers website design. I also hear rumor that you can buy SEO services at costco. Wow. What’s next? Oil Changes at McDonalds? Web designers also doing home repairs?

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Utah State fair

So you want to generate buzz for an event? Make a killer video. The Utah state fair made some of the best state fair ads I have ever seen. Awesome.

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windoze 7 in 2010?

Rumor has it that microsoft confirmed that the vista replacement, “Windows 7”, should be ready in 2010. They began work in January 2007, when vista officially flopped. Are you kidding me? Why does it take 4 years to work on yet another release? I understand new features take time. This may be the apple fan…

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SEO tip, awesome websites, and factor 1

So I just needed to say, that if you search for “awesome websites” on google. Factor 1 is number 16. I’m pretty stoked about that. I have been seeing traffic come in from it already. The SEO behind it. What i did: 1. Changed my site title to “Factor 1 Creates awesome websites, brands and…

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Your website's home page is lame

In my daily conversations with client, potential clients and other designers, I am often presented with questions on how to make things stand out on the home page. Questions like “I want to add a new service, how do I make it important” or “we have a 65% bounce rate on the home page, how…

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iphone web tricks

Do you have a site that is popular with the iPhone users? Want to be really cool and have a custom iPhone WebClip icon? maybe have a “Dial Me” link? WebClip A webclip icon is the small graphic icon that iPhone uses as the image to launch your site. All you have to do is…

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Inbox Zero

If you are like me, you probably live in your email. Its a monster at times. But great management of your inbox can be an amazing thing. Recently someone shared a great video from Merlin Mann speaking at Google with me. Its a long one, but great. If you are familiar with the books by…

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Free Hugs from factor 1

HEY! Are you coming to the ChurchPlanters.com conference? We are! If you are attending the conference, please stop by our booth and say hi. Since we have probably never met in real life, we would love to give you a hug. Or just say hi and shake your hand. It’s your call. Also, if you…

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Going above and beyond in customer service

My Friend Adam posted about a recent experience with apple customer service. Adam ordered a new keyboard and mouse for his apple laptop from the apple store online. Yet he was shipped 2 mice, no keyboard. Here is his conversation with apple:

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