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Tasty Online Marketing for Restaurants

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, seo, social media, viral marketing

Consumer reports have continuously found that consumers (just like you and me) prefer the recommendations of their peers instead of other advertising means. Why? Because it’s (for the most part) unbiased and since these friends and colleagues know you well, you assume they would know what you like and have your best interests at heart.

Fear and Mystery of Web Design

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, accessibility, design, flash, self-reflection, seo, speaker reviews, user experience

I presented at AIGA Arizona Say Anything on November 10th. Here is the write up of the talk based on the slides that were presented that evening

Changing Gears: Career Move

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, design, life news, project management, seo

I’ve left my position at Terralever as a front end architect to explore other opportunities within the Phoenix area. Over the last few months I’ve developed an interest in other aspects of the web industry, not just xhtml/css. I’d like to expand my abilities in areas such as web marketing strategy, seo/sem, design and other

Links of the Week Vol. 3

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, advertising & marketing, links of the week, seo, viral marketing

Adaptive Path Employees share their new years resolutions with their users. Some of them are very much work related, some not so much, but I thought it would be interesting to see what other web professionals are reflecting on at the beginning of this year. http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000875.php This amazing Honda Accord ad required 606 takes, cost

THE Brian Shaler

THE Brian Shaler

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, new idea!, seo, speaker reviews, things to do, viral marketing

So I got to sit down with Brian Shaler yesterday during the Phoenix BarCamp and really pick his brain regarding his recent boost in popularity on the net. I’ve been on a big personal branding kick and I’m trying to talk to anyone who’s someone to ask them how they “did it”. Not necessarily to

EVofC Search Term Going Nuts

By aprilholle | general observation, self-reflection, seo

I’ve been getting a TON of hits for the search term “evofc”. Now, at first I thought there had to be something else that was picking up the audience and mis-guiding them to my site. So I took a look at the results, headlamps and a soccer team… college enrollment codes…. hmm. But you’ll notice,

Letters from Code Camp

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, seo, speaker reviews, things to do

So I spent a good chunk of time yesterday over at the Phoenix’s Desert Code Camp and I must say, what a great set up! There were lots of sessions available for most every type of coder. I found two sessions to be especially interesting, SEO for Coders and Designing the Obvious.  The SEO for Coders

Desert Code Camp

By aprilholle | XHTML/CSS, advertising & marketing, flash, new technologies, seo, things to do

Come one, come all to Desert Code Camp! Want to learn more about a new technology or how your peice of the development puzzle fits in with another? Maybe you just want to hang out with a bunch of geeks for two days?  When: September 15th & 16th Where: UAT Campus Classes are filling up now, so

SEO Optimized EVofC

By aprilholle | advertising & marketing, seo, wordpress

We have recently hired on a GENIUS of a woman named Kay at work. She does all our SEO implimentation and organic keyword creation, etc. Basically, if you want to be in the top 10 on Google, she can make it happen. While Terralever has always been a results driven company, Kay is amazing in