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John Cannon Homes Invests in Homebuilding Market
Sarasota, Fl. — In a show of confidence in Sarasota’s homebuilding market, John Cannon Homes is launching an updated brand, advertising and customer-driven website this week. The investment in the company’s fundamental public communications is intended to modernize electronic communications and make it easier for people to invest in Sarasota through custom home-buying.
“There’s an upward trend in new home construction,” said John Cannon, CEO. “It’s an excellent time to invest in the...
Recently we had the pleasure of working on a small Drupal site for a great client: It’s Worth a Shot Photography of Tampa. IWAS had a minimal budget to work with, but we were committed to finding creative ways to include all of the features IWAS wanted to incorporate into their website for a price they could afford.
Our client’s first requirement was of course, showcasing their bread and butter - photos - hence the prominent slideshows on the home page and several secondary pages. IWAS has not had experience with content management systems in the past and wanted an easy way to show the different styles of photography they shoot, so we added a simple check box listing of the various pages on the back end for them. They are able to upload all of their photos the same way, and simply check click on which pages they want the images to display. Pretty nifty, and the client appreciated the ease of use.
Originally the site was just a showcase of photos and a contact form,...
When I started at DFM nearly two years ago, I thought I knew what my position was about. I assumed based on my past experience, that I would go into the community and help market DFM and be in charge of all sales inquires. While that’s still a piece of my job, what I fell in love with was project management.
The great thing about DFM and its relationship with their employees is that we are allowed to figure out what we want to do in our constantly changing environment. While all of our team members have the understanding that we must work together to complete the needed task on a project, we are always looking for opportunities to personally discover what we love to do.
Within the first few months I discovered a hole in what we did at DFM: we didn’t really have a clear method on project management. I quickly discovered that I love managing projects, making clients happy, dreaming up possibilities with clients, and ultimately providing them with a great experience from...
Roughly six months ago, I had reached the point that most millenials know well at a job: I felt unappreciated, undervalued, and tired of the monotony of a cyclical, conventional job. I was in marketing, which sounds fun in theory. Marketing has branded itself (see what I did there?) to be this exciting, creative field. But, when you’re put in a box and not allowed to explore the limits - as you often are as a youngin’ at any established company - it’s incredibly stifling.
Thankfully, my friends at Digital Frontiers Media were expanding and offered me my current position in web development. Because of an internship I had in college, (and from being a nerdy teenager), I had a lot of HTML and CSS experience, and, being in marketing, I had worked with content management systems and development houses before.
At DFM, I do Drupal site building and theming. Now my days are filled with challenging problem solving, learning new languages, and thinking from all directions. I am...
Instagram outpace Pinterest in growth among fortune 100 companies
According to Simply Measured, new research shows that Instagram is the fastest growing social platform in the past year. Instagram’s year-over-year growth by Fortune 100 companies was 14% compared to Pinterest that came in around 10%. Also, compared to Google+’s 10%, Twitter’s 0%, and Facebook’s -1%. Companies that have seen major growth on Instagram are companies like Starbucks, Nike, and MTV with each over 1 million followers. MTV’s latest success story was the pictures posted surrounding the Movie Awards.
Facebook’s Graph Search Optimization
Since Facebook’s major search launch, people are still trying to figure out how to use it. More importantly, companies are trying to figure out how to get their pages to the top of the search list. Unlike Google Search, Facebook has a different algorithm that companies should be focused on. Here are five key metrics...
Sarasota—Luxury custom homebuilder John Cannon Homes, Inc. has recently named local award-winning branding-firm Boost Studio as its new agency of record for branding and strategic communications.
“We needed a partner who believes in the same extraordinary level of quality for their clients as we do for each home we build,” said John Cannon, owner and president of John Cannon Homes. “We also love the fact that Boost Studio is a locally-owned business...
Google Glass is less than a year away
The highly anticipated Google Glasses are about a year away from regular distribution. There is no doubt the $1500 price tag may send people away, but with the buzz currently all over the internet it seems that this could be a bigger success than analysts might have thought. Google Glasses, also known as “Glass,” sent out beta version of the glasses to some select developers and users to start testing. Developers are being encouraged to start developing apps for the device. However, regulators are already fighting to ban the glasses since you can be recording without anyone realizing that you are recording. In fact, a bar in Seattle last month bans the glasses from being worn inside. Google says they are committed to developing social etiquette and helping in cases were privacy could be compromised. Even with the $1500 price tag, do you think you will buy them?
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Regional branding firm Boost Studio was recently honored by the American Advertising Federation – Suncoast for excellence in advertising design. Boost was awarded the top-level Gold ADDY award and the best-in-category AMY Award for sales promotion during the 2012 calendar year.
“It’s humbling to win Gold every year we've entered,” said Christine Koch, CEO of Boost Studio. “Our clients place a lot of trust in us, and these awards reflect the strength of Boost Studio’s creative abilities.”
The company received two other awards for both local and regional integrated...
Page Ranking is one of the most popular discussions when considering a new website. In fact, if I hear another CEO try to explain the importance of SEO to me one more time, I may shoot myself in the arm because it would be less painful. (Insert political joke here). Most companies look to the developers for making their website “#1 on Google” through the use of meta-tags, unique URLs, and other old development tactics that helped before CMS’s did it all for you. Successful SEO isn’t from your development.
Although it’s still important, it’s all about your social media and how it’s intertwined through your website. Here’s some important information in regards to social media and its affects on search. There are roughly 1.5 Billion social accounts by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN and Google+ users. 3.3 billion pieces of content are shared on Facebook each month and there are over 5 billion Google +1’s a day. A majority of content created on the Internet each day is from social...
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