Otto Transfer hauls the big things others can’t. Giant telephone poles and other oversized loads are the common freight for Otto’s trucking and hauling services . Owner Kevin Otto came to Five with two needs. One was to get a professional website up and the other was to make it a valuable resource for his cusotmers and staff by adding online account management and quoting. Kevin had tried to put up a Yahoo ...
Read MoreIt’s right up our alley to produce high end web designs for our clients, but what about our offline image and marketing? I decided it was time to get some Five Technology apparel to keep us looking good offline for client meetings, events and so forth. We worked with Peggy Jindra and Great Garments Plus, a promotional products and apparel company out of Rogers, MN. Peggy and her staff did a fabulous job in helping us pick out the ...
Read MoreTo date this year, Five Technology has donated our web design services and content management solution for two different local organizations. The first was to the “Vote Yes” committee in Delano for their efforts in getting two school referendums passed. The second website has just recently been released and is for the non-profit Buffalo, Minnesota Food Shelf . After I read a local newspaper article on the challenges the ...
Read MoreI work with clients from time to time that are basically ashamed they have never taken the opportunity to acquire permission to market to their customers via email. It’s not a big deal, and it’s better to start today then to wait another week, month or year! Lets take a look at three tips to remember if you are just starting to build an email list to leverage email marketing for your business or organization. You can also view a quick ...
Read MoreIf you are a service based business you need your website to create, build or maintain a high level of trust. Whether you are a service for consumers (lawn care, electrician, chiropractor, mechanic) or a service for businesses (consultant, accountant, web designer, bank), you are after the user’s trust. Building Trust With Your Website Content When you meet with someone in person, there are factors that earn their trust. Some of the trust ...
Read MoreWhen getting new business cards to start 2008 I added my Skype ID to my listing of contact information on my business cards. I use Skype quite a bit, it’s one more way to connect with me, so it made sense. Now that I have been growing addicted to Twitter , I think that having my Twitter ID on my business card would be an even better idea. My main value in Twitter currently is networking and following other great business, ...
Read MoreUSA Today’s Jefferson Graham recently did a video segment on Google by interviewing Google’s Matt Cutts for their Tech Talk section . The video is great to get a base understanding of Google’s search results and and search engine optimization basics. The biggest takeaways I found: + It’s tough to be found for a term being searched if that text isn’t on your website somehere, listen to Matt’s ...
Read MoreEmail marketing is such a powerful and affordable tool, but I’m still surprised at how many small businesses fail to utilize it. Many businesses I talk to just seem to be overwhelmed with content ideas for what they can do with an email marketing program. With our email marketing services , we not only give a business a custom email design, an easy to use creation and management tool … we develop ideas. This first installment ...
Read MoreWith tonight’s NBA Draft looming I thought I would morph it a bit into the search engine optimization world. If I had to draft a team of SEO pieces to work together as a team to achieve search ranking greatness, here is what I would draft for my five SEO starters. 1. Point Guard – Keyword Research: As the point guard is often the floor general taking care of handling and passing the ball to all of the team, the keyword research ...
Read MoreColorado monogrammed gifts retailer, little dreamers, has big ideas for their new e-commerce website that went LIVE last week. Business owners Nicole and Paula sought a better web design to brand their unique monogrammed baby gifts and more and they needed it powered by an easy to use content management system and e-commerce solution. Five’s custom web design coupled with the SMC was just the right solution. Some of the project ...
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