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Easily increase your search engine visibility

By Tim Priebe | March 30, 2009

For a long time, search engine optimization has been a feat that required a certain level of experience and technical skills. And it still is. Fortunately for the average business owner and freelancer, you can increase your search engine visibility using just social networking websites. Since they’re the most effective, I’ll specifically talk about Facebook and LinkedIn.

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One of the many reasons Facebook is more popular than MySpace…

By Tim Priebe | March 25, 2009

… is because Facebook does not pull this kind of junk:

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A frustrating screen for Twitter users…

By Tim Priebe | March 17, 2009

Now that we’ve become power Twitter users here around T&S, we’re unfortunately seeing more and more of this screen: A frustrating screen people who frequently use Twitter know all too well.

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Getting LinkedIn recommendations

By Tim Priebe | March 7, 2009

Are you wanting to get more (or any) recommendations on your LinkedIn account? Here’s how… That’s it! Be honest and complimentary, and many of the people you recommend will recommend you right back. It works! I have more recommendations than the average LinkedIn user. Check my public profile.

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Different Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace Workshops

By Tim Priebe | February 25, 2009

T&S is offering workshops for Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. While they may or may not be a good fit for you, there are a couple of things that differentiate us from others offering similar workshops:

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Day at the T&S Office (time lapse)

By Tim Priebe | February 24, 2009

This is February 23, 2009, at the T&S office. We thought it would be fun to record the entire day, but condense it down to a little over a minute, so you can see everything in time-lapsed format.

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Workshops, new office, free websites, oh my!

By Tim Priebe | February 4, 2009

When we’re in the website planning stage with a new client and they ask us about a blog, we always tell them to only get one if they can commit to blog at least weekly. Of course, it’s been over a week since we here at T&S have blogged. Shame on us. But we have had some exciting things going on lately.

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The Fireworks Advantage

By Guest Blogger | January 22, 2009

Fireworks is often overlooked. Many (most) web designers today use Photoshop to design their websites, and a lot of them have never considered or (*gasp) even heard of Fireworks. Adobe Fireworks is made for creating websites. That is what it was built for, and it does it well. Fireworks enables you to rapidly prototype and…

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Don’t take your own website photos

By Tim Priebe | January 9, 2009

If your business is like many other small businesses, you’re probably on a relatively tight budget, even when creating a website. You’ve signed a contract with a web design company, and they’re wanting your content for the website, including photographs. Money is tight, so you opt to take them yourself. Big mistake. Taking the photographs…

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Should I blog?

By Tim Priebe | January 1, 2009

Happy new year, everyone! Making any new year’s resolutions? Wondering if your business could benefit from a resolution for you to start blogging? Here’s a few questions to ask yourself. Can I write once a week? If you can’t blog at least once a week, don’t bother. One thing worse than no blog at all…

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