Busy Beaver is a Chicago company that is close to our hearts as a fellow active supporter of the Coleman Center. I recently got an email from Alex White that included this attractive invite to their grand opening. If you are in the market for some pretty cool buttons, give them a try. Congrats Busy [...]
One of the more interesting trends in Internet marketing today is the idea of outsourcing content creation and copywriting. Here’s how it works: you run a small business, you become too busy with work, and on top of that – as though your calendar wasn’t crazy enough, as though you actually had time – you [...]
Internet marketing gurus have said over and over that “content is king” – but some people seem to think that in order to be crowned as royalty one only needs to dress up their website with blocks of text here and there. This isn’t the case. The content and copy on your website may be [...]
Online advertising has evolved – and continues to evolve – so rapidly that secrets, tips, advice are coming from all corners. Just Google “PPC tips” and you’ll see what we mean. Businesses and marketers are keen on increasing their pay-per-click conversion rates and ROI, and they wouldn’t hesitate to try out this new piece of [...]
The best-looking websites aren’t necessarily the best performers. Not these days. Here at Lakeshore Branding we’ve put together web design and development solutions that enable you to perform at the highest level and get the best results on the Web. Yes, our creative thinking can generate new shiny logos and stunning graphics, too. But more [...]
This week we received an email from a DePaul student (Go Blue Demons!), who was looking to interview a web design company about usability. I spent some time thinking about it and developing some answers and I thought I would share it on our blog- Enjoy! (1) Describe the company. Briefly describe the products they [...]
All of us have been busy between our businesses, blogs, side projects, and countless professional & networking events. If you are interested in some of the other blogs we write for, contribute to, or help manage, look no further: GreenWerk’s Green Eco Friendly Bloghttp://www.greenwerkspro.com/blog/This blog covers green and environmentally friendly news from Chicago and around [...]
I was searching for a low cost option to for a phone number and came across Google’s newest acquisition GrandCentral. This free service gives you a local phone number that you can forward anywhere, voicemail you can customize based on who’s calling (friends, family, co-worker’s etc), listen to your voicemail on-line and even a website [...]
