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Mar 12, 2010

Logo Design With A Drop Of Creativity

Our latest creative work is a logo design for Excel Mechanical of Watertown, Minnesota.  Excel is into making the world of water treatment, plumbing and other mechanical services a better one. Here is the new logo design. We’re excited to have worked with Excel Mechanical on a new image for their brand and we’re moving on to redesigning their website next.  You can even give them a follow on Twitter, @excelmech . ...

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Mar 10, 2010

Custom Email Designs Make All The Difference

Make an impact with your email marketing by delivering your content in a custom email design . Your business needs to leverage all of the benefits of email marketing and design is one of those.  Five’s email marketing services offer custom designs, to match your website and branding along with many other features . Here are two examples of Five Technology clients using custom email designs in their email marketing efforts: 1. Mental Health ...

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Mar 1, 2010

Local University Comes To Minneapolis & St. Paul, Minnesota

I’m very excited to announce that GetListed.org’s Local University is coming to the Twin Cities on May 13th, 2010 .  This half day workshop is a must for any Minnesota business wanting to better understand marketing online via your website, search engines and social media. This 4 hour seminar features national experts as well as representatives from Google and Bing , covering an incredible amount of Internet marketing information. ...

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Feb 26, 2010

Email Marketing Reports On Your iPhone, Android & BlackBerry

How about making something great, even better?  Five has always been proud of our feature rich email marketing service and now campaign reports can hit the palm of your hand when you want them. View your email marketing reports on your iPhone, Android or newer BlackBerry mobile phone. One of our latest email marketing reports on my iPhone. A Feature Rich Email Marketing Service This latest addition of mobile reports is just one more reason ...

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Feb 20, 2010

Web Design Project: West Real Estate Of Minneapolis

Five is excited to showcase our latest web design project for West Real Estate.  West is a Minneapolis, MN based commercial real estate firm that focuses on the development and investment side of the business. Showcasing The Work Of A Commercial Real Estate Firm In just about any line of business, Five works to find the best ways to provide case studies and real world examples to feature on a company’s website.  ...

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Feb 12, 2010

You Need An SEO Friendly CMS For Your Website

What good is the ability to manage content on your website, if that controls limits your search engine optimization success? Not much. Denver based SEO firm seOverflow recently posted their presentation slides on 7 Characteristics of an SEO Friendly CMS Lets look at each of the 7 SEO items and how they factor into our CMS, the Site Management Console. 1. Customizable title & meta tags – YES Each page in the SMC has a ...

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Feb 8, 2010

Small Business Wins Big With Local University

I had the pleasure of attending the first Local University put on by GetListed.org in Spokane, Washington on February 4th, 2010.  This one day event, provided a fantastic amount of local search, SEO, social media and other Internet marketing information to over 150 attendees looking to have a better grasp on how they can be more visible online. Organized by GetListed.org co-founder David Mihm , the seminar featured a great line-up of ...

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Feb 4, 2010

Web Design Project: Rear Window Media

One of our recent web design projects has been grabbing some attention .  Rear Window Media is a real-time, digital marketing start-up that utilizes LCD screens in vehicles to run ads while on the roadways.  Simply put they are mobile digital billboards, but RWM has done so much more with it. A Complete Web Application Rear Window Media runs their business right from their website.  The back-end is a web application that allows ...

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Jan 30, 2010

Web Design Project: Shorewood Bar & Grill

We released another great restaurant web design under our Taste Trend offering last week.  Shorewood Bar & Grill in Fridley, Minnesota opened in the fall of 2009 and now has a new website. The project is fully recapped on the Taste Trend blog . Five also photographed the restaurant and many menu items for the Shorewood to use on the new website.  Below is a photo of their Pepper Seared Ahi Tuna. Visit the website:  ...

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Jan 13, 2010

Usability 101: Make Your Website An Easy Read

This year we’ll be putting out a series of posts on web design usability since it’s such an important piece of a websites success. Many will be very simple improvements that anyone can do . For those of you new to the term Usability , it covers how easy user interfaces are to use. The word “usability” also refers to methods for improving ease-of-use during the design process. So in short: making it easy to use your website. ...

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