Cas Johnson is the Lead Web Developer at Absolute Marketing Group in Moorhead, Minnesota. She volunteers her time for the FMVA, enjoys being a wife and mom, and attempts to keep edible plants alive through the short Northern summer.
5
Aug
10
Working with the Thematic framework for WordPress can be really fun, especially when you have the freedom to use filters on the meta information for posts to style your post date to look like a calendar.
What it looks like originally:
The original, unstyled post with the date and author showing … read more
22
Apr
10
As many people have unfortunately found out, there’s a wrong way to setup a Facebook Fan Page for your business.
Case in point:
Your business partner uses their personal Facebook Profile to setup a Fan Page for your business. They’re the Creator of that Fan Page, and can grant your Facebook Profile … read more
1
Apr
10
Insiders within Microsoft reveal Internet Explorer 9 for Mac
The announcement of Internet Explorer 9 by Microsoft has many users excited about the newest IE experience, but since Microsoft discontinued support for Macintosh computers with version 5.5, Mac users have been left out in the cold. Until now.
An inside source at … read more
30
Mar
10
Need a low-cost Web presence? You might want to consider a blog.
Blog. It’s an Internet buzzword/phenomenon. Google the word “blog” and you’ll get over two billion results returned. Everyone’s talking about them, and it seems everyone’s got one. But what good are they to your small business or organization? You … read more
18
Mar
10
Absolute Marketing Group won 19 total awards at the 2009 ADDY awards Friday, February 26th. The four-year-old firm walked away with 7 gold awards, 11 silver awards and a Judge’s Choice Award. The number of gold awards and total awards was the second most awarded to a company in the … read more
6
Jan
10
When your average Joe visits your store or your organization, you want their experience to be positively fabulous. If they come looking for the solution to a problem, you want to deliver with speed and efficiency so that they’ll have a good perception of you and your brand and will … read more
22
Dec
09
After working with WordPress for several years and combing through countless “top 10″ WordPress plugin blog posts for plugins that A. Work well and B. Are updated regularly and don’t break with core upgrades (often), I’ve come up with my own cache of WordPress plugins I go back to on … read more
18
Dec
09
Happy Holidays from Absolute Marketing Group.
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25
Nov
09
There are less than 30 days left in the Holiday Shopping season before Christmas – Are you ready? Or are you joining the millions of people staying in this weekend for the busiest online shopping days of the year?
Whether you’re staying at home to shop from the convenience of your … read more
26
Oct
09
In Parts one and two of this series, I addressed some important questions about creating or updating your online marketing efforts. The last question you should ask yourself before implementing a new or improved feature of your online marketing or website strategy is “Is this feature or anything associated with … read more
Posted in The Absolute Truth, Web Development, social media
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Tagged copyright, email, email marketing, Facebook, features, legal, license, Marketing, social media, spam, tos
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22
Sep
09
Several months ago, Luke posted an article titled, “Is This Possible?” talking about the limitless capabilities of the Internet. I’d like to take this idea one step further. The real question isn’t “Can we do this?” but “Should we do this?
When it comes to website design and function, there are … read more
Posted in The Absolute Truth, Web Development
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Tagged business, costs, customers, development, feedback, functionality, goals, Google, information, maintenance, Marketing, media, money, needs, objectives, online, online marketing, productivity, questions, sales, technology, time, training, Twitter, usability, visitors, Web Development, website
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26
Aug
09
So you’ve jumped into Social Media and are Tweeting, Following and Friending like a Pro. Great. You’re also commenting intelligently on blogs and sending out RT Luv on a regular basis. Fabulous. So – who’s talking about YOU, and what are they saying?
If you’re logging directly into Facebook and Twitter, … read more
Posted in social media
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Tagged alerts, brand, email, Facebook, monitor, notifications, online, reputation, rss, social media, tools, tracking, tweets, Twitter
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