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The Boomerang Effect | April 15, 2013
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BatesMeron often gets boomerang calls from potential clients. What are boomerang calls? That’s when someone gives us a call or meets with us, tells us their website needs and then finds out that the cost will be much more than…[more] |
6 Questions for: Diane Yetter | October 30, 2012
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Diane Yetter, CPA, MST is the president and founder of YETTER, a sales tax consulting and tax technology firm in business since 1996. But that doesn’t encompass everything she does. Diane is a strategist, advisor, speaker and author in the field of…[more] |
Tips of the Trade: Get a Good Online Dictionary | May 1, 2012
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Whether you’re a professional writer or just compose the occasional email, you need a good dictionary. One with a thesaurus. The dictionary is to make sure you’re spelling words right and words mean what you think they mean; the thesaurus…[more] |
Tumblr Gone Tablet | April 3, 2012
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If you’ve ever squinted at a blog on your Kindle Fire, you know that tablets aren’t a great reading environment for the blog format. Thanks to Pressly’s launch of a self-serve platform for bloggers (another reason to love Canada), any web publisher has…[more] |
6 Questions for: Julie Colbrese | March 6, 2012
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Sometimes we’re so proud of our clients, we could burst. We get very close to them and their brands during the brand development process, and when we see them doing great work and achieving great things, it’s very personal to…[more] |
“Steal” This Blog. | January 10, 2012
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I’ve spoken before of the fear some business owners feel when giving away “free” advice through blogs. I said, and still think, that the fear is unfounded. The benefits of sharing your knowledge far outweigh the potential that some nefarious…[more] |
The Internet’s Last Few Addresses | March 10, 2010
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Network engineers predict that the Internet will be down to the last few hundred thousand (or fewer) web addresses by the end of 2010. These aren’t the domain names you type into a browser to surf, but the IP (Internet…[more] |
Solid Roots for Beautiful Growth | January 5, 2010
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In the early part of the summer of 2009, Plug Connection (one of BatesMeron’s oldest and dearest clients) came to us with a need to redesign a website for their popular brand, Organiks. This would go far beyond a superficial reskinning of…[more] |
Microsoft’s (Anti)Viral Secret | October 28, 2009
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Of the 250 million Americans who use the internet, around 90% use Microsoft Windows. Of those, the vast majority either have an antivirus program that is out of date or no antivirus at all. (Many computers purchased come with at…[more] |
XML: The Sweet Spot of Data Sorting | October 13, 2009
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Some websites have “About Us” sections with five bio writeups, others have product catalogs with hundreds of entries. But many sites we’ve worked on this past year lie somewhere in between, and that’s when we’ve found XML to be just…[more] |
