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Small Business Saturday: Nov 27

Business Owners: Sign up – it’s painless and free and may just do you some good in these tough times.

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IMPORTANT: HOW FAST DOES YOUR SITE LOAD?

Google made an announcement last week that could affect a lot of small business owners.  In short, how fast your site loads is becoming more and more important if you want to be/stay at the top of the pile in search results. If you think your site may load to…

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Real or Photoshop?

Sometimes it’s tough to tell if a photo is real or created by a talented creative using Photoshop.  Well, here’s a site that claims to be able to tell the difference:  Image Error Level Analyser How does it work?  Every time you save a jpeg, there is some quality loss. …

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Target Marketing By Zip Code

Thanks to EDC Solutions in Vancouver, WA for pointing out this great tool.  Type in a zip code or address and see what area is covered on a map.  What a great way to target direct mailings! http://maps.huge.info/zip.htm They have a lot more map tools, too: USPS Zip Code Boundary…

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Halloweentown?

It’s been a looong time since I’ve gone trick-or-treating myself, and I sometimes am sad that today’s kids don’t get to know and enjoy the Halloween of my youth.  I’m talking homemade costumes, family decorated yards (some to invite and others to scare the bejesus out of you), brown paper…

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It is easy to blog!

I’m sitting with a client right now, showing her the ScribeFire plug-in for Firefox, and how easy it makes blogging.  Have you checked it out yet? Scribefire plug-in for FireFox ~Keleigh

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Happy Customers Make For Happy Beachdogs

“Fantastic job on the e-letter!!!! As usual…. Do you know how much we appreciate you and your crew? You just don’t know!” –World Kite Museum & Hall of Fame Thanks, Kay & Sharon.  YOU have no idea how motivated we are by praise! :-DD

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This week in funbeach-land

As the Visitors Bureau’s membership drive winds down (final-final-last-chance for inclusion in the Beach Vacation Planner is Thursday, about 2:00 pm.), we’ve made changes to member information such as enhanced listings and photos.  New members won’t go online until late December, but we do our best to update changes in…

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We're baaaaaack….!

You may have noticed we took a break from the blog.  Partially, I’ll tell the truth, we’ve just plain been busier than a cattle dog at round-up.  But also because we wanted to see what would happen if we just QUIT. We use our own site a fair amount to…