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The Boomerang Effect | April 15, 2013

Kris Bates  

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]

June Marketing Roundup | June 26, 2012

BatesMeron  

It’s a summer marketing roundup, and we’re having a blast. Pour yourself an ice-cold drink and enjoy some fun reading on summer marketing campaigns, an end to looking dumb on Facebook, a font that’s rejuvenating a city and more. Selling…[more]

6 Questions for: Josh Schneider | June 5, 2012

Becka Bates  

Josh Schneider is one of the best repositories of plant knowledge you’ll ever find. As Principal at Cultivaris, he brings revolutionary new plants to the horticulture industry. As our client and friend, he introduces us to the cool new plants…[more]

6 Questions for: Julie Colbrese | March 6, 2012

Becka Bates  

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]

Guest Blog Post: Website, Show Me the Money | February 21, 2012

Brad Ferris  

Brad Farris, principal at Anchor Advisors, stopped by the blog just last month. However, he shared something so insightful in his own newsletter that we couldn’t resist featuring him again. As a service business, we sometimes get jealous of our…[more]

Pinterest for Business | February 14, 2012

BatesMeron  

Pinterest: if you’ve heard of the site, you probably think of it as a place for virtual window shopping, DIY crafts and planning weddings to grooms who may or may not exist. But don’t write this new social media site…[more]

Top Projects of 2011 | December 29, 2011

BatesMeron  

For our final Top list of the year, we bring you our top projects of 2011—the jobs that most challenged us, inspired us, rewarded us and paid dividends for our clients. We’ve gushed about some of these projects before, so…[more]

The Internet’s Last Few Addresses | March 10, 2010

Kris Bates  

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

Clint May  

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]

XML: The Sweet Spot of Data Sorting | October 13, 2009

Kris Bates  

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]