Recent DDoS Attacks
We’ve made it through the most recent bashing of DoS Attacks! The most common question we’ve gotten this past couple of weeks, in one form or another, is “What is a D0S Attack and why do I care?” SHORT ANSWER: your website goes from normal traffic to hundreds of times…
Are you ready for the summer?
We do quite a bit of promotional print at this time of year for festivals, events and attractions. Rack cards, tickets, business cards, brochures, maps –all the things necessary to bring people to the venues. We’re fortunate to have a longstanding relationship with most of these organizations, which means they…
There’s Big Impact in Small Cards
Full color business cards are very affordable. Smart business owners use them for all kinds of things besides, er, business cards. Here are a few things we’ve printed in the business card size over the years: Coupons – Easy to tuck in a wallet, everyone has somewhere to tuck a…
How to Fill Seats When You Change Your Restaurant’s Format
When Long Beach Washington’s Crab Pot Restaurant & Seafood Market decided on a format change and remodeled their restaurant over the winter, they knew they needed to get the word out to customers –and potential customers– about the change. Moving to a “Crab Shack” model where orders are made at…
Getting Your Broadcast Email Read
We talk a fair amount about how to cut down the spam in your own in box. But what about when you want to send a group, or broadcast, email to your customers? Especially in light of recent changes at Google, Yahoo, Hotmail and the like, who are ‘conveniently’ separating…
How to turn a low-resolution photo into a hot business card
Great new cards just in for Kathy at Akari Bungalows. Love the updated look and texture of the recycled paper. Call us when you are ready to update your business cards 360-642-4431
Just in Time For Holiday Mailing
The Long Beach Peninsula Visitors Bureau’s 2014 Events Calendar Rack Cards arrived today on skids. Members can stop by the Visitor Center at the intersection of Hwys 101 and 103 in Seaview, WA to get some to add to holiday mailings.
Spam Wars: Group Email Addresses
Today’s installment of “Spam Wars” focuses on group, or role-based email addresses. Role-based addresses have traditionally been company addresses defined by a job rather than a person: secretary@, info@, security@, etc.. More recently, companies have been moving away from group addresses managed by several people to a more stable management…
Spam doesn’t just come in a can anymore
Quite a few of our clients have experienced a dramatic increase in spam in recent weeks. Spam rolls like that; it will hit one site HARD and then spider out to each of the links it finds there. Meanwhile, the servers that host all this spam traffic have to remain…
Site Connection Problems? You’re not alone.
04/23/13, 5:50 pm One of our servers, Merton, is experiencing problems caused by a denial of service attack. At this time, we are enabling hardware protection to help mitigate the attack. You may experience intermittent connectivity problems with the sites on this server until the attack subsides. There is a…
