Crowdsourcing your next logo

Back in the day, if you needed a logo design, you’d pay a few thousand dollars in exchange for a handful of designs. These days, there’s a better way.

Welcome to the world of crowdsourcing! In this video, I take a quick look at LogoTournament – a service that we use and recommend.

Facebook for business

In this video, we take a quick look at how to create a Facebook page specifically for your business, and completely separate from the personal side of Facebook.

TweetDeck : your social dashboard

If you’ve talked with us lately, you know how important it is to be active on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. But, you’re busy doing what you do, so how do you keep up with everything?

In this video, we take a quick look at TweetDeck – an application that makes it easy to stay connected.

Wufoo : funny name, great forms

In this video, let’s talk about Wufoo, a great web-based service for creating and capturing website forms. It saves time, money and just makes life easier. Watch the video to find out how.

We use Wufoo on most client websites, and even use it for our own Contact Us page.

Forge3 email blast : behind the scenes

Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how we sent the recent blast email telling people about the new Forge3 website.

The first part of the video is stuff that we typically do for clients, and the second half shows some of the powerful reporting that’s available to monitor response and overall effectiveness.

Dropbox is your next shared drive

Dropbox is what today’s business technology is all about. It’s today’s “shared drive” – and it rocks. It’s simple, easy-to-use and is transparent to getting work done.

Here’s a quick intro and how we use it to store and share files with clients and team members.

To tweet or not to tweet

Who isn’t talking about Twitter these days? From small-time freelancers to Fortune 100 companies, everyone is on Twitter. Are you?

If you’re not, you’re probably at least curious about what the fuss is all about. So, let’s take a quick, high-level look at Twitter.

Website effectiveness tracking

How do you know if your website is paying for itself?

To determine the effectiveness of your website, you need to track the activity generated by it and measure it against the cost the create and maintain the website. Here are a few suggestions to consider.