Every designer needs a little spotlight now and again, and the recent awards of 'Best Color Print Ad for a Builder" and "Best Brochure for a Community with an average Sales Price of $250,001-$350,000" were most appreciated. The 2010 Regal Awards took place earlier this month to highlight the best of the best in 2009 by the Home Builders' Association of Delaware in Dover, DE. iKANDEgraphics designed the Best Color Print Ad and Best Brochure for a Community for LC Homes, a third generation Delaware Home Builder. http://www.lchomesde.com Kudos to all the Regal Award winners!
iKANDEgraphics wins two Regal Awards
2010 Regal Awards in Dover Delaware
Just finished the 2010 Regal Awards program book for the Home Builders Association of Delaware and I am excited for all the winners! It should be a great turn out and it is good to see the home building field gain momentum again. It will surely be a good year- see you all Friday!
Engage Your Visitors with Online Articles
A colleague sent this to me, enjoy, good stuff!
• Engage Your Visitors with Online Articles •
Chances are, you are a wealth of information. Whatever your company does, you have personally amassed an incredible amount of information relevant to that field. It may surprise you when you sit down to make a list of some of the frequently asked questions you hear... questions that are so familiar by now that you could probably answer them in your sleep. Why not take a good portion of that information and turn it into a series of online articles?
There is nothing like free, valuable, relevant information to keep your website visitor coming back, again and again. Let’s say you’re a cleaning service, and you’ve decided to share cleaning tips with your site visitors. Isn’t it much more likely that they’ll bookmark your site, remember its name, and keep coming back to you? More often than not they’ll also tell their friends. You’ve just earned a loyal visitor.
By simply taking the information you already have, and generating it into a series of online articles (like the one you’re reading now), you can turn your website into a very valuable online resource. It’s not expensive, and it’s not particularly challenging. It just requires a good programmer to put that little system together, and your undivided attention writing those exquisitely useful articles.
A tip... as you’re writing them, keep the pushy sales information out. Your job is not to sell right now... it’s to inform, educate, and turn yourself into an essential resource and advocate for your future customer. Also, by inviting the public to comment at the bottom of each article, you’re establishing greater loyalty with each visitor, and an opportunity to share. Just be certain to require that each shared opinion be screened before actually posting it to your site. It’s remarkable how quickly spammers will try to jump into the mix on a busy site.
• Engage Your Visitors with Online Articles •
Chances are, you are a wealth of information. Whatever your company does, you have personally amassed an incredible amount of information relevant to that field. It may surprise you when you sit down to make a list of some of the frequently asked questions you hear... questions that are so familiar by now that you could probably answer them in your sleep. Why not take a good portion of that information and turn it into a series of online articles?
There is nothing like free, valuable, relevant information to keep your website visitor coming back, again and again. Let’s say you’re a cleaning service, and you’ve decided to share cleaning tips with your site visitors. Isn’t it much more likely that they’ll bookmark your site, remember its name, and keep coming back to you? More often than not they’ll also tell their friends. You’ve just earned a loyal visitor.
By simply taking the information you already have, and generating it into a series of online articles (like the one you’re reading now), you can turn your website into a very valuable online resource. It’s not expensive, and it’s not particularly challenging. It just requires a good programmer to put that little system together, and your undivided attention writing those exquisitely useful articles.
A tip... as you’re writing them, keep the pushy sales information out. Your job is not to sell right now... it’s to inform, educate, and turn yourself into an essential resource and advocate for your future customer. Also, by inviting the public to comment at the bottom of each article, you’re establishing greater loyalty with each visitor, and an opportunity to share. Just be certain to require that each shared opinion be screened before actually posting it to your site. It’s remarkable how quickly spammers will try to jump into the mix on a busy site.
Great music & cause- Great combination!
Help us in supporting Cancer Research ~ visit www.brotherjonMusic.com for more info...
Musicians Making Good - Cancer Research to Benefit from a Beautiful Song
Nashville, TN – (brotherjonMusic.com) – A new song titled “Can’t Hide Beautiful” is headed for the airwaves and is available for digital download via Amazon.com and iTunes with the intent of raising money for cancer research. One Hundred Percent (100%) of the proceeds from online digital sales of the single will be generously donated to aid in cancer research. Details of the specific recipient and or recipients are being finalized and will be announced shortly.
“Can’t Hide Beautiful” is a touching new song written by Country Music Duo brotherjon (Jon Coleman and Jon Nite) and Nashville guitarist C.M. Spriggs. The song came about while working on a different writing project, when Nite said “You Can’t Hide Beautiful” and Spriggs jumped on it instantly. As it turns out, Spriggs’ wife is a cancer survivor, and her story of that battle is touched upon in the song.
brotherjon is extremely proud of this new song and felt an opportunity and an obligation to let this song help in so many ways. As such, they have dedicated “Can’t Hide Beautiful” to cancer survivors and to those who have lost their battle with cancer as well as the friends, family, and loved ones touched by this devastating disease and they have committed One Hundred Percent (100%) of the proceeds from online digital sales of the single to assist in the fight against cancer.
FREE custom twitter background
Get your FREE custom twitter background! Not on twitter tweeting it up yet? In some ways it has its advantages over facebook and MySpace and in some ways it falls short. It is all about your needs and wants. Want to keep in touch with your old high-school friends, swap photos, play games, really get social -fb. Want to hook up with friends, bands, maybe mix business with some social aspects-MyS. Want a quick way to communicate easily from anywhere in 140 characters or less, maybe twitter is for you? Just Google 'twitter vs facebook vs myspace' and a whole slew of blogs, articles and comparison charts pop up. And back to twitter- EACH month ikandegraphics will award one lucky winner with a FREE custom twitter background- all you have to do is mention ikandegraphics in your sweet tweets or retweet an ikande tweet and your luck could come up! ...was that 140 characters or less?
