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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.

Your product is boring

There—I said it. Your product or service is boring. Most are. You are a business coach, home inspector, retailer, printer; the list goes on. Very few people in any industry make it out of the boring box, and into the fun, exciting, interesting box. I’m not talking just in marketing, although that’s an easy place…

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The Web Manual – The Search Part 2

As part of our on going series, The Web Manual, we continue with Search Engines part 2. Last week, in part 1, we talked about content, content, and more content. The Search – Part 2 So content is important. Some say the most important. Now lets say you do have great content. but so does…

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The Web Manual – The Search part 1

As part of our on going series, The Web Manual, we will dive into the world of search engines. Now I know you have an awesome website, and are now working on some quality content for your site.Today lets talk about the search engine. This post isn’t designed to be a full search engine optimization…

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SEO tip. Meta Keywords don't matter

I have been telling this to clients for years. meta keywords don’t effect your search results with google. Content and back links do. Google has always eluded to the fact that they ignore them, but today google shares a great blog post and video on the subject. Q: Does Google ever use the “keywords” meta…

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Great blog designs

Great content is certainly the most important feature of any blog, no argument here! But a good design can help feature your content in the best way possible. Different blogs require different things to make them efficient and targeted toward the right users. Some blogs use advertising to gain revenue and give exposure to companies…

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Just plain funny

There were definitely some great Super Bowl ads this year, with the one second Miller High Life ad (which was genius I think!), the Coke and Monster ads and some good ones from GE. My favorites are always the funny ones, and although it was hard to pick a favorite, this is definitely one of…

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How is this not on my wall?

Seriously. this needs to be in my office. Click for full size http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14345531

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HUGE site launch – Crossline Church

Crossline Church has been a client of ours for a few years now. We designed their first site over 2.5 years ago, and we have been performing on going work ever since. I am really pumped about this site launch. It may be the biggest site we at factor 1 have ever built. I’m talking…

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Site launches – June 3

More Site launches. Westridge Church Westridge Church has been in progress for a long time. The team at westridge and the factor 1 team has spent many hours on fine tuning, designing and developing a knock out site. Its probably one of my favorites out right now. Westridge.com Church Relevant This is probably the craziest…

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2 big site launches!

Today was a busy day. We had 2 large, high profile sites go live, on top of a few others this week. I kind of stopped blogging about site launches, but I needed to show off these 2 big sites. First: Whitewing Communities. www.whitewingdev.com Second: Central Christian Church of Las Vegas www.centralparents.com Two awesome projects…

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