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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.

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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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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SEO magic

Search Engine Optimization is like voodoo for me. I really dont understand how or why some of it makes sense. So we have been actively working on some clean, white hat SEO on our own site. Just little basic things. Trying to learn more about this quantum string theory that is SEO. So a few…

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best place in the universe

Is New Mexico the best place in the universe? I think thats a stretch. While I have only driven through NM, I dont think I would ever vacation there. Either way, this is one of the best tourism ads i have ever seen. I mean the best. I love the direction, the production and the…

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Finding your strengths

Tom Rath has written a short book about finding your strengths. His focus and point in the book, is to determin your strengths, then work on building them. Our world is always focusing on our weaknesses. While I do believe you can work on improving your weaknesses, Tom pointed out that no matter how hard…

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marketing at its best.

So I saw this commercial last night. And I did a double take. Did they show what I think they did on national prime time TV?

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