Author: Jeremy Harrison

Business Wisdom from the Farm: Planting Season

If I were forced to either forget everything I learned in college, OR forget everything I learned on the farm as a child, I wouldn't think twice. Early lessons on the farm were far more valuable. Things that seemed like common sense as a kid now seem profound. Here's a simple example.

How Does Facebook Affect Your REAL LIFE Social Network?

I just had a revelation. I realized that my network of close personal friendships -- the people my wife and I spend time with in our local community -- has been altered over the years by our exposure on Facebook.

What’s Happening on Your Website?

February 26, 2013
Jeremy Harrison
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Every day you have people looking at your website - but what are they doing? Here are some important questions you CAN and SHOULD answer. They will help you find out if you are connecting with your visitors

Facebook Graph Search: A Marketing Gem, Albeit Creepy

February 20, 2013
Jeremy Harrison
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Last month, Facebook announced a new feature called "Graph Search." You'll see it on your Facebook page soon. There's already a lot of info out there about the new Graph Search. But it's the features hidden under the surface that has great potential for marketers.

Do You Want Short-Term Patches or Long-Term Sustenance?

December 26, 2012
Jeremy Harrison
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If given the choice, would you take $10,000 today, or $500/month for the rest of your life? While logic tells us to take the ongoing payments -- studies have consistently shown that most people are prone to take what they can get RIGHT NOW, ignoring the added long-term benefits that come from waiting.

How One Snowball Brought 9,000 Visitors To My Website…

December 17, 2012
Jeremy Harrison
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Three winters ago, I sat down at my desk to write a blog post. I had a million things to do, and it felt like a waste of time. After days of setting it aside to do other things that were more urgent, I finally finished it and stuck it on the website.

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December 13, 2012
Jeremy Harrison
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7 Tips on How to Write a Blog Post

September 4, 2012
Jeremy Harrison
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You've heard that writing blog posts is essential to the health of your website. Here are helpful tips for writing a blog post that gets results...

Optimizing Your Website for Local Google Searchers

August 13, 2012
Jeremy Harrison
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Are your customers local? Is the majority of your audience within a certain driving distance of your place(s) of business? Locally-focused businesses have never had more leverage in search engines like Google.

Creating Valuable Landing Pages that Compel Visitors to Act

This morning I was teaching a seminar, and I was showing examples of landing pages where companies offer something of value in exchange for a name and email address.

Website Copywriting: How to Write Copy for SEO

We want you to write great content that gets results. This article will teach you how to write copy that search engines love, without losing sight of your readers.

Video: Multiplying Website Traffic with Archived Content

Have you ever written content on your website and wondered if anybody is actually looking at it? This video will show you a mistake that 86% of businesses make. Fix it on your website, and you could see a significant increase in traffic. This video will show you how it works.

First impressions using Pinterest…

Today I FINALLY setup my page on As I knew already, the Pinterest userbase is dominated by females. I knew it was used primarily by women, but I was struck by just how

Ashland University Women’s Basketball Team Defies the Odds

As an Ashland-area business, we couldn't be more proud of the Ashland University Women's Basketball team. The Eagles faced and defeated a tough Bentley squad 77-62 to advance to the Championship game.

12 days left in office construction project!

Just updated the office construction album with some new photos. Drywall is up, and walls are primed.

Our latest web design projects are now on display!

February 12, 2012
Jeremy Harrison
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We couldn't be more excited to add these 7 new projects to our web design portfolio. These projects represent work that go beyond a website. Each project involved our entire team...

7 costly mistakes that paralyze small business websites

February 8, 2012
Jeremy Harrison
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Is your website built for results? We found sevent costly mistakes small businesses make with their websites, and according to our study, the average local business is making 6 out of the 7 mistakes.

8 more web design projects added to our portoflio

December 14, 2011
Jeremy Harrison
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Over the past 2 months we've been busier than ever, launching many new websites. Here are 8 new website designs that have gone live and are featured in our portoflio.

SEO Cheat Sheet Video Now Available

November 4, 2011
Jeremy Harrison
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Here's a video designed to walk you through our popular SEO Cheat Sheet. The free SEO cheat sheet and the video will help you learn about many on-page factors that affect

3 Life Lessons from Steve Jobs

October 6, 2011
Jeremy Harrison
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Steve Jobs was a revolutionary. Many won't understand the degree to which he impacted our culture until future generations look back and see it more clearly. The person

How to Double Your Results with a Marketing Funnel

August 25, 2011
Jeremy Harrison
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This week's internet marketing training video explains the concept of a marketing funnel. You'll learn: how to determine if your site is a good fit for a funnel,the 5 components of a marketing funnel, and how to use a funnel to double your results.

SEO Video: Google Panda Update tries to reward the “good guys.”

In March, Google released the "Panda Update" which made significant changes to their search engine algorithm. Changes to Google are always scary. We, and many of our clients get a lot of traffic through organic searches, so you never know what impact changes like these will bring.

How to Go Viral With Your Blog

Just received an email from a customer. He builds decks, and he wrote: I am trying to get my friends to like and share my website.

A simple tip for mobile web marketing

Here's an extremely simple example of a pretzel stand using mobile marketing. Every customer who visits their stand has a mobile phone in their pocket.

Why the Ashland City Schools bond issue makes sense

As a local business owner, and a homeowner in the city of Ashland, I plan to vote "YES" for the bond issue for Ashland City Schools. My wife and I don't have children, but nonetheless I see this as a critically important issue.

12 new website design projects added to our portfolio

We've added twelve new designs to our portfolio, a sample of some of the many sites we launched the first 10 weeks of 2011. Check them out by visiting our web design portfolio

Our Pizza Website Design & Online Ordering was a hit in Las Vegas!

Bryan Lefelhoc & I just got back from Las Vegas. Our mission? To share our new online pizza ordering system at The International Pizza Expo.

The Luxury Car Imported from Detroit

February 6, 2011
Jeremy Harrison
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My favorite commercial from Superbowl XLV - hands down. I don't think much of Chrysler, but their agency did a masterful job repositioning what's a negative opinion of Detroit into an emotionally charged commercial that will sell cars.

Why we’re dumping iStockPhoto for our stock photography

January 18, 2011
Jeremy Harrison
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I've been buying stock photos from iStockPhoto.com for more than 8 years. However, I recently decided to switch to Dreamstime.com as our organization's primary stock photo service. Here are a few reasons I'm dumping iStockPhoto.

Our web design portfolio has 8 new entries

November 8, 2010
Jeremy Harrison
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We've been very busy this fall. Every week multiple new websites are going live. We added 8 new sites to our portfolio today, and added a dozen others to the site last month.

NOW HIRING: Web design employees

September 14, 2010
Jeremy Harrison
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Here's your chance to build a stunning design portfolio, learn on the job, and get valuable real-world experience with one of Ohio's top-ranked web design firms.

Customer Relationships Are Like a Good Marriage

August 19, 2010
Jeremy Harrison
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Customer service has some similarities to a marriage. If neglected, the relationship will break down, and communication is critically important. Neither type of relationship is ever easy or perfect. But here is a message I sent to my staff today, pointing out how a good customer service relationship should be similar to a healthy marriage...

Our new research reveals 3 costly mistakes 99.6% of small businesses are making with their websites

We just completed a research study and the results were a little frightening. We looked at the websites for hundreds of small businesses in our local area, and checked them on 9 costly mistakes that we tend to see people make on their websites. When looking at 3 of the most costly mistakes, we found that 99.6% of local businesses were making at least 1 of these 3 mistakes.

Got an invention? Attend this MAGNET Workshop in Ashland, Ohio

If you have an invention, or are working on developing an innovative idea, this seminar may be of interest to you. "Magnet: Innovation, Product Design & Development

How to get rid of that boring text on your website

Jason Fried recently had an article in Inc Magazine titled "Why is Business Writing So Awful." A great read that I strongly recommend. We design a lot of business websites each month, and too often, the writing provided by the client can be an afterthought... stuff used to fill an empty space on a page.

Ohio Bankers League learns about search engine marketing

Last week I had the chance to present at a marketing seminar sponsored by the Ohio Bankers League in Columbus. The topic was "How to Transform Google Searchers into Customers."

Organizing your website content

One of the most important steps of a website design process is determining how you will organize your content. Your goal should be to consolidate your content into no more than 7 top-level navigation sections. Each of these top level sections can have sub-pages... even sub-sub-pages... but even with tens of thousands of pages, you should be able to organize your content into 7 sections or less.

SEO: Why Links Matter

Whenever we design a website for a client, we do a lot of search engine optimization work - to help ensure that Google and the other search engines can find the content. However, the structure of the site is only half the battle. Once your site is structured the right way, it's extremely important to get inbound links that point people back to your website.

A tale of two Super Bowl Ads

February 8, 2010
Jeremy Harrison
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The most effective Super Bowl ad this year was, in my opinion Google's ad called "Parisian Love." It was so simple that anybody could have created it with their computer. Yet it told a clear story, demonstrated their product, and pulled at the heart strings of viewers. Well done Google, well done.

Dockers Free Pants Super Bowl Ad Backfires – Their Website Can’t Keep Up

February 7, 2010
Jeremy Harrison
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Planning to promote your company in a Super Bowl commercial? Better make sure your website is ready to handle your offer.

Today’s Internet Marketing Seminar in Mansfield, Ohio was a success!

December 3, 2009
Jeremy Harrison
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We had a full house at this morning's internet marketing seminar in Mansfield! Thanks to the Mansfield Richland Chamber of Commerce for hosting the event and promoting it to their membership.Today's event booked up in under a week and there were more than a dozen people on a waiting list.

The College Graduate’s Guide To Finding a Job

October 29, 2009
Jeremy Harrison
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When I went to college in the late 90s, there was an attitude among some of my classmates that a college diploma would be like a "golden ticket" to finding a great job. I suppose that was the case at some point, but it surely wasn't true in the late 90s.Today, college graduates are negatively affected more than any other demographic with this economy.

Get $500 worth of consulting for $75 at our internet marketing seminar in Mansfield

October 21, 2009
Jeremy Harrison
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It's official. I'm tag-teaming with my friends at the Mansfield-Richland Area Chamber of Commerce to present an internet marketing seminar at the Mansfield Chamber Conference Room. I'll be presenting three 1-hour presentations on the latest topics like lead generation, online sales, search engine optimization, email marketing & social media.

iPhone 3G: Copy and Paste is Not a Benefit

I'm not sure what Apple marketers are trying to accomplish with one of their new Apple 3G commercials. The ability to copy and paste is not a benefit, or even a feature worth spending 30 seconds promoting on television.

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