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Prime Launches Central Land Title’s Online Ordering System Website
Central Land Title’s first website is small in page structure, but big on abilities and it hit the web this week. Central Land Title is a Minnesota Title Insurance issuer and wanted to not only have a web presence after years in business;...
Small Business Blogging Works & Here Is An Example
I was catching up on email over the weekend after missing a few days of work and read through one of our clients e-letters. They also blog and had highlighted a few resent posts on the outlook for 2008 so I clicked to check it out. (Menta...
What Are Your Website’s Resolutions for 2008?
You might be already breaking the resolutions you set for yourself in 2008 or maybe you’re one of the few that always sees them to fruition, either way have you thought about your website’s resolutions for 2008?Here is a list of three bas...
Website Redesign Heats Up 2nd Sun Tan
We’ve been anxiously working towards the launch of 2ndSunTan.com’s website redesign and finally last week that day came. 2nd Sun Tan is a website that services those looking to buy or sell used tanning beds. The new site also...
Google Phone / Platform: What Might The Advertising Options Be?
Google has let out the news that it is looking to standardize the mobile phone platform by creating an open source environment with the powers that wish to take part. Sprint, T-Mobile and Samsung are just a few of the ones stepping forward rig...
Be Unique To Gain PR & Marketing For Free For Your Small Business
Logging on to Yahoo this morning I was caught by their feature article on "Texas Town For Sale". It turns out that Albert, Texas is for sale and you could own it for $2.5 million or more. Why is this making headlines at Ya...
If You Promote Google, Does Google Promote You?
Some of you marketing hounds might remember back to January 2006 when Pontiac ended one of their tv commercials with a screen shot of Google’s search box with the search term "pontiac" being entered. The commercial’s voice...
Universal Search & Video For Small Business
Video, video, video. It’s everywhere, it’s increasing and it can even better your search engine results. With engines pushing more results from videos, blogs and other web elements … not just web pages, you’re goi...
A Checklist: Measuring Our Marketing & Branding
As a small business ourselves in a big pond we have to look inward at how we market and brand, just as our customers do. Patrick Schaber of The Lonely Marketer and the Branding Wire project put out his checklist on what a B2B consulting firm s...
10 Reasons Why We’re The Right Web Design Company For Your Minnesota Business
If you’re expecting a David Letterman type list with great punchlines, this is probably going to disappoint. But if you’re searching for a Minnesota web design company to meet your needs and then some, this list might convince you...
Teamwork = Food
In several posts we have discussed the teamwork that is involved in creating and launching a website for our clients. It is essential to our success that we work together as a team daily. We are constantly collaborating on design, function and usabi...
Home Maintenance Specialists: Small Business with a Big Image
Home Maintenance Specialists is a home repair and maintenance business that focuses on doing those odd jobs around the house that many of us either cannot do, or do not want to do! HMS came to Prime searching for help in creating all of the marketi...
Digital Billboards: Bright Future or Not?
Digital billboards are popping up everywhere including here in the Twin Cities. I remember reading a few articles locally on the City of Minnetonka, MN having a dispute with Clear Channel over the new billboards and the public/resident reactio...
Hook Your Clients With This Rapala Promotional Product
Our promotional product guys Wally and Norm put me onto this great promotional item. You can get your logo applied to a Rapala fishing lure and hook an even deeper relationship with your potential and existing clients. As you can see on...
If You’re Going to Buy Internet Advertising, Invest In Your Customer’s Process
I’ve read dozens of articles on creating effective landing pages for your Pay Per Click campaign (Lonely Marketer, Search Engine Land) , but as a non-clicker of PPC ads in search results I never have the chance to evaluate landing pages. ...
I’m Headed To San Francisco Hungry, Yelp Will Help.
I’m headed to San Fran and wine country for a few days to celebrate my anniversary of 5 years this week. Our project manager Janna suggested a great little italian restaraunt to check out, but when we called they will be closed for 2 wee...
Website Redsign Project Puts A Focus On The Details
Minks Custom Homes is a client I’ve worked with for the past 5 years. I helped them build their first website with the ability for them to internally update new models and homes for sale. Five years ago, that was a pretty big deal,...
Prime’s Email Newsletter Service Gets Better With VR
Prime is a partner with Vertical Response for custom email newsletter campaigns. As a dedicated provider of email newsletter and marketing services, Vertical Response rolls out new features to continue to add value to their service. You...
5 Tips For A Better Website Using Photos
Last week I posted about video being an awesome tool for your website, but lets take a look at it’s basic brother, the digital photo.Below are just 5 tips on how photos can upgrade your website and improve your visitors experience.1. Mor...
Web Videos Can Make a Big Difference For Small Business
There are many tools that plenty of small business owners feel are out of their reach. Sometimes it’s a budget issue and sometimes its a technical issue that holds them back. Web videos are definitely one of them. The truth is, for the v...
Shout It Out!
Driving on Interstate 94 eastbound into Maple Grove, you’ll find Greenscape Companies has put up a new billboard ad. We like it when our customers love their new branding and marketing materials so much, they start shouting it to the wor...
Greenscape Companies Unveils New Look
Greenscape Companies came to Prime with the goal of upgrading their branding, marketing and advertising across the board. Greenscape is a provider of residential and commercial landscaping services in the Twin Cities. Of course it all started...
To Have Better Clients, Become a Better Teacher
The power of understanding. The look on a clients face when they have their "I get it"moment is a satisfying one. In the world of web design, development and internet marketing, that look can be difficult to achieve. Our cl...
Ouch ' You're Giving Your Competition Business
I managed to mess up my back quite extensively last week playing basketball to the point where I was at the Chiropractor every day. It is starting to heal this week to where I can at least walk without going into spasms. I was supposed t...
A New Source Of Business, Your Roof
The equation of small businesses seeking different and unique ways to market and attract customers plus the growing tools for online mapping and aerial imaging equals … your rooftop becoming a billboard. USA Today wrote about this possib...
Most Small Business Owners Are Great Talkers, But So-so Writers
Small business owners are usually very passionate about their service, product and company. That's part of the formula that goes into their dedication of long hours and hard earned success to satisfy their customers. That passion, combin...
Understanding Anchor Text
When people ask me for one thing to help their SEO, I say page titles as they are the most changeable element that is often underutilized … and then I also inform them that SEO is a process combining many elements, not just one or two fixes so...
What's The 411? Ask Google
If you're a frequent 411 user for business numbers, Google is about to save you some money. If you've avoided 411 for the fee on every call, that objection is gone.Google has introduced it's FREE information service GOOG-411, currently as expe...
