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In this very surreal moment, I wanted to take a moment to let all of our friends and clients know that we sincerely hope you all stay healthy and take the necessary precautions to keep yourselves, your families, and your coworkers that way. And while we at Electric Bricks have no illusions that the services we provide are in any way critical or even entirely necessary at a time like this, I wanted to extend any hand I can to my fellow small business owners at a time when we are all feeling a tremendous amount of anxiety, not just about the health of our loved ones, but about the health of our companies. The economic impact the COVID-19 pandemic will have cannot be underestimated, and I have a feeling that small business owners, like us, will bear the brunt of the fallout. But, like you, I’m not going down without a fight!
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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!
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.
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.
Major Hosting Upgrade Initiative Planned for EB Clients
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Electric Bricks is growing. And growing fast! Thanks to you, our customers, we have outgrown our current hosting environment. As more and more new clients sign on with EB (6 in the past month!)… and the complexity and sophistication of existing clients’ sites continues to grow… and the technology continues to push the limits of computing hardware… we need to adapt and migrate to a more robust hosting solution.
Electric Bricks is Now Electric Bricks LLC
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The initiative that started in 2015 to provide better customer service continues in 2016. Electric Bricks is growing. We’re in the process of expanding our services and bringing on more talent to broaden our offerings and to be even more responsive to our clients’ needs. And as part of that initiative we have officially become a limited liability company.
LIVE from the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium
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The (purposely short) article you are about to read was published as a demonstration during the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium.
At this very moment (or on Wednesday, January 13th, 2016, for those of you who aren’t reading this at the exact moment it was published) I am speaking at the Professional Development & Social Media Symposium held at the Nassau Country Club on Long Island. This event is being hosted by Meaghan Janedis, owner of Legacy Sport and partner at Glam Slam Gear.