The Internet has always been a bullhorn for public opinion. But now more than ever these voices have become a powerful currency for a business's prosperity. This is the new face of digital marketing, and for most of us it is a great thing. Gone are the days of big budgets and sly marketing tactics being ...Read More...

"The chief enemy of creativity is good sense" Pablo Picasso Creating truly effective content for your marketing takes a lot more than simply adding content based on current trends. In fact, to be one of the truly outstanding players in your market, you may need to run from trends, and take a leap ...Read More...

UPDATE 10/24/14: Adobe has tweaked their application such that now, they encrypt the data being sent back to them, so they are still spying on you, but now your data are "safe" since only Adobe will have them. Good grief. If you use Adobe Digital Editions to read your eBooks, you may want to reconsider. ...Read More...

Please enjoy our good friend Immortal Lloyd, bringing to life some of the nice things our clients say about us. .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container ...Read More...

1. Instant Communication: The ability to interact with your customers in real time and react to situations instantaneously, is extremely powerful. This can come in useful in many ways, whether it's solving a customer service issue, reacting to a news event or even dealing with a negative experience. ...Read More...

September 15 is the last date when the public can tell the FCC what they think about this issue. If you want to be heard, now is the time. So what the heck is this about anyway? Let me tell you a little story... All of a sudden, my Netflix movies at home started "buffering" so I checked my bandwidth ...Read More...

They say you have 7 seconds to make a first impression. The same goes for your online presence. More often than not, your website is going to be the first visual representation, a potential client, experiences for your company.  We think that's pretty important. With so much riding on this almost instantaneous ...Read More...

A new study by Trustwave, the PCI compliance testing folks, has discovered that easy passwords are still a huge problem despite warnings from IT staff about internet security. Worse still, even short but complex passwords are also easily cracked because today's processors can throw 17.3 billion calculations ...Read More...

Online marketing is often labeled a success by producing an increase in traffic. While this is not incorrect, and increased viewership, clicks or re-tweets are nice, without attracting real prospects, there is little to no value to your business. In fact, it can become a drain on your resources. The ...Read More...

Two IT companies partnered to create a free tool (no longer available) to decrypt your encrypted data if you get hit with the Cryptolocker ransomware. All you have to do is upload an encrypted file and they will send you a decryption key. You may have experienced or at least heard about Cryptolocker ...Read More...

There are two key components to securing business online: Appeal and Trust. Every business now has competition, both locally and from the global reach of the Internet. It's also undeniable that the online presence of your company has become a prime piece of marketing real estate for your company. Today ...Read More...

111 Web Studio began life as Internet Consulting Group (later ICG Link, Inc.),in February of 1995. We registered our first domain name in May just four months after a domain name called yahoo.com came on the scene. I had a 486 Gateway laptop with that amazing Windows 3.1 and a screaming fast 14,400 ...Read More...

It's often difficult to communicate to business owners what good Digital Marketing can do for you. We certainly believe in the service and do what we can to ensure we bring a great result to our clients. There are many different elements needed for a good online presence. There are social media profiles ...Read More...

The New York Times reports today that 1.2 billion usernames and passwords were grabbed by Russian hackers using a botnet that exploited SQL injections to gain access to the data. Check out the article here. In truth, some of those were duplicates, so it's more like half a billion, but hey... what's ...Read More...

We are pleased to announce the addition of an Outreach feature to our Build111 and Church111 website builders. This time our 111 gnomes have been busy at work creating a simple and easy-to-use CRM (Customer Relationship Manager) type of followup system so you can reach out to your members and keep track ...Read More...

We are sorry to report yet another WordPress vulnerability. This one has already effected some 50,000 websites and comes to you through the plugin called MailPoet which allows hackers not only to enter and abuse your website, but also to use that entry point to access any other websites on shared accounts ...Read More...

We are pleased to announce the launch a new page type for our Build111 and Church111 content management systems called the project page. This handy collaboration tool allows 111 clients with a members area to give subgroups of members the ability to work on a project together and keep track of progress ...Read More...

As a Digital Marketing consultant I spend a lot of time discussing a company's content, messaging and social media. During this process I often find that I need to introduce some essential branding questions. These questions have either been ignored, forgotten or sometimes never even asked. It's even ...Read More...

The more technically minded SEO focused clients out there will want to read on for some exciting and helpful ideas. For others, you might want to skip this article unless you are looking for a mild sedative to help you sleep. If so, keep this handy; it may serve you well. For the adventurous of you, ...Read More...

Getting Google to place you high on their results page is 5 parts knowledge, 4 parts skill, 3 parts persistence and 1 part magic sauce. But in the end the goal is to be perceived by not only Google but also your real audience, as an authority in your field. Now every business and every genre can ...Read More...