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Website Recap: April

Let’s just dive into the details of April, shall we? January 2012 February 2012 March 2012 April Recap New Additions & Announcements: We added the “We’re Hiring” call-out to our home page. Doesn’t it look pretty? Not website related, BUT! We’re expanding our office. We’ve taken over the office next door and will connecting the two. [...]


The 52nd Minnesota Prayer Breakfast

We wanted to tell you about an event we attended this morning, the 52nd Minnesota Prayer Breakfast at the Hilton in downtown Minneapolis. The history of the event started when members of Congress and President Eisenhower began an annual National Prayer Breakfast in the late 1950s. That spawned the creation of local and state breakfasts including [...]


Search Engine Optimization – What is it? How can it help my business?

What is SEO? Search Engine Optimization is defined as the process of improving the visibility of a website or web page in search engines organic search results. Due to changing algorithms from Google, Yahoo! and Bing search engines, SEO is combined with social media and content marketing strategies to encompass a full online marketing strategy. [...]


Website Recap: March

Can you believe it’s already April? I was forced into this realization because of all the April Fools blog posts and jokes. Like this one. Just ridiculous. It took me a hot minute to realize it was just another April Fools joke. Well done, Google. Well done. Now onto our website recap! January 2012 February 2012 [...]


MNSCU Job Fair

It’s a little later than our normal mid-week blog post, but we needed to wait until job fair preparation was finished. I know, nothing like getting down to the wire.  We’re really excited about attending the MNSCU job fair today at the University of Minnesota. We hope to meet a lot of talented individuals with [...]


We’ve Made Our Facebook Transition… Have You?

You’ve read our post on the new layout features for pages, right? Well, finally, after taking the time to organize our Facebook page, we’ve published it. What’s new? Cover photo Profile picture Pinned image to the top of our profile Featured Likes (some clients we work with) Absence of our default landing tab (but the [...]


Website Recap: February

Remember when I had the idea to recap our visitor usage metrics each month? Well we’re on to month two. But really, where did the month go? January 2012  February Recap New additions & announcements: Working on a new section of the website for potential employees. It’s not ready for review yet, but have you [...]


Website Recap: January

I know it’s mid-February, but I just had this brilliant idea to recap each month on our blog. Our first month into 2012 was an exciting one; we are starting to see all the improvements from our website redesign and I thought it’d be fun to point out any new pages we added and any [...]


NEW: Facebook Landing Page

Finally, right? Our old Facebook landing page was static. Just a simple image with a few links. Nothing extravagant (which is sometimes a good thing)- but it just wasn’t getting the job done. So just like our website redesign, we needed a Facebook landing page makeover. We went from this: To this:   I’m going [...]


Website Redesign: Ulterior Motives

As you know, we launched our new website and blog on December 15th. Throughout our redesign and development process, we made a lot of changes to improve our branding and usability.  As expected, there were internet marketing and SEO motives behind some of the changes. The Motives Call To Action The Motive: Add a call to [...]