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Since we live in a digital world, one of the worst things that can happen to your company’s reputation is negative search results on Google. Prospective customers begin judging you immediately and having unflattering comments appear can quickly undo everything you’ve worked so hard to achieve. When this happens, action should be taken immediately.
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We’ll be at the 14th Annual Building Business In Brookhaven Expo
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Once again, Electric Bricks will be an exhibitor at the Building Business In Brookhaven Expo being held on Thursday, October 18th. This is the 3rd consecutive year we’ve attended this small business trade show along with over 100 other companies. Hundreds of people attend this show each year, and it’s a great place to make new connections or find valuable products or services to help you grow your small business.
FREE Seminar: Understanding SEO & Why It Matters
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Electric Bricks owner, Keith Paul, will be giving a free seminar next Wednesday, September 27th at 9:00am aimed at helping small business owners understand the complexities and benefits of Search Engine Optimization. This 1-hour seminar is part of the Miller Business Center’s Business Bites series. All Business Bites programs are completely free and include 30 minutes of networking and refreshments beforehand.
We’ll Be at the Strictly Business 2017 Networking Trade Show
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Electric Bricks will be attending the tenth annual Strictly Business Networking Trade Show being held at the Middle Country Public Library in Centereach, 101 Eastwood Blvd, from 9am to 1pm on Tuesday, May 2, 2017.
Get on Page One with Search Engine Marketing
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Electric Bricks is happy to announce the start of our long-awaited Search Engine Marketing offerings. If you’re unfamiliar with SEM, or Search Engine Marketing, you may have heard it called other things, like PPC (Pay-per-Click) or Paid Search. Whatever you call it, SEM is a cost effective way to get your business in front of thousands of potential local customers who are searching for your products or services right now!
A New Website for the Chamber of Commerce of the Mastics & Shirley
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Being a member of a Chamber of Commerce is a good idea for any small business. It provides great networking opportunities as well as getting to contribute ideas on how to improve business in your area. Electric Bricks is currently a member of three Chambers: the Chamber of Commerce of the Moriches, the Greater Middle Country Chamber of Commerce, and the Chamber of Commerce of the Mastics & Shirley (board member).
We were both please and excited to be asked by the Mastic-Shirley Chamber to redesign their website and make it something that the membership could be proud of, as well as a tool to help give them more exposure. Here’s a quick tour.
You Need to Get Serious About Your Website
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A Website Needs to be More Than Just a List of Services
Once upon a time, most websites were a just collection of simple pages that briefly described a business. There was typically a useless homepage, an about us page (that usually had a boring company history and maybe a photo of the owner), and a services or products page that was seldom more than a short list of the things the company could offer. 10 years ago that might have been fine. But today’s Internet user expects more. And if you’re not giving it to them then they will look somewhere else.
We Gave the Merckling Chiropractic Site a Major Adjustment
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Merckling Family Chiropractic had a problem so many bustling doctor offices have. They were so busy taking care of their patients that they had let their aging website site site idle. By today’s standards, the site was poorly laid out and looked dated, had cluttered and confusing navigation, and was all but unusable on a smartphone. But you may ask yourself, “if they’re so busy, who cares if their website gets old?” The answer to that question is simple – all of their current and future patients!
See You at the 12th Annual Building Business In Brookhaven Expo
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We are happy to announce that Electric Bricks will be attending the Building Business In Brookhaven Expo Networking & Business Trade Show on Tuesday, October 18th from 5:30 – 8:00pm at Brookhaven Town Hall in Farmingville. The Expo is sponsored by the Brookhaven Business Advisory Council.
A Major Turning Point
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To my valued (and future) clients:
As many of you know, while I have always placed the highest priority on the work I do for my clients, Electric Bricks has been what could have been referred to as a “side business”. Very often I would ask my (very patient) clients to schedule phone calls and meetings to evening or weekend hours so that I could give them my undivided attention, rather than try to squeeze them in on my lunch break during normal business hours. In the more than eight years since I started Electric Bricks this has only rarely been an issue, yet it was still an inconvenience and I want to let you all know that I sincerely appreciate your willingness to accommodate my less than accommodating schedule.