Our Philosophy: You should have total control and ownership of your site’s look, function and content, your hosting choices and your domain.

Our Policy: You select your hosting and domain registry provider (we can assist you with this if desired); You do your own content management (we can get you started and provide training or manage it.for you if desired.)

Web Site Option One

We will:

• Consult with your company about your Web Site, and
• Build a Social Media HUB-Web Site designed specifically for your business.

You Get:

• Theme Layout
• One hour of Design Time
• Web Log
• Two Blog Entries
• Content Pages
• Two Social Media Connections (Face book, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, etc.)
• One Hour of Training- Content Management and Organic SEO Techniques.

We Install:

• Your Web Ready Content
• Links, Categories and Navigation
• Search Engine Optimization Plugins
• User-Centric Modifications
• Comment-Spam Protection
• Daily Backup System
• Google Analytics or similar tracking system
• Webmail Account
• Wysiwyg editing aids
• And more.

Starting At $799.00

Graphic Design: From business cards to billboards, we can design, manufacture and deliver all your print-media promotion at great prices.

Web Site Option Two

Includes Option One - PLUS

• Custom or Premium Theme
• One extra hour of design time -( Total two hours).
• Four extra Social Media Connections (Total six)
• Ten Web Log entries (Total twelve)
• RSS News Feeds with content relevant to your industry.
• 2 Hours of Training (*Total three hours*) option one plus: Writing for the web and SEO, Business blogging, Social media marketing, Netiquette.

We teach you how to run your Social Media Marketing Empire effectively and efficiently.

1. Post to all your social applications at once, including your weblog – Free!
2. Use RSS feeds and specialized searches to gather industry news and media daily that you can use to blog, microblog, bookmark etc., which increases your authority, web ranking and reader base – Free!
3. Find out what customers are saying about you, your competitors and your industry in real time - Free!
4. Find out who visits your page and from where – Free!
5. Learn to use the free and honest way to increase your Search Engine Authority as recommended by Google – Free!
6. Learn the easy way to write copy for the web using your branding key words naturally for organic SEO - Free!

Starting At $1199.00

Call 727-894-5266 for more information.

*Re-pointing of existing domain ($55.00 *minimum)
*Logo design, if required, is additional

Hospitality Realty Associates is a new client.

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

If you are just starting out, this may be the ticket.

St Pete's Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

If you don't have a large number of items on your site for sale, a PayPal button may be all you need to bring in a little cash or to subsidize the cost of shipping a promotional item (ideal use case). If you don't already have a company PayPal account, establishing one is easy.

Although this video covers the "Donate" function, the sales function are similar and similarly easy to set up.

St Pete's Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Graphics Web Design, St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.

It’s a dirty job, but somebody is going to have to be the Facebook-Twitter-Yelp-Flick’r-YouTube functionary in your office. If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed that a large fraction of your officemates’ time was being spent dinking around online with social media apps anyway; why not nominate one of those slackers to be your web representative?
The Wall Street Journal WSJ Blogs (a WordPress joint, BTW) suggests this very thing:

As social media grows, many executives and business owners are trying to figure out what difference a tweet or Facebook post can make to their bottom lines. And as a recent Wall Street Journal article points out, it’s often the younger employees in the workplace who are leading the way.
“In the companies where we see a high-level executive really ‘getting it,’ there’s a younger person in the company helping them understand it,” said Laura Fitton, whose company Pistachio Consulting coaches executives on how to use Twitter for business.

Read the whole story on Wall Street Journal Blogs: Digits.

St Pete's Seven North Web Design & Graphics Social Media-Hub Website: Leveraging WordPress for Easy SEO and Lower Cost.

Call 727-894-5266 or email us to get a free quote or consultation from Seven North Web Design & Graphics of St Petersburg, Tampa Bay, Florida.
Your logo can be the centerpiece of your web design, or it can appear to be just a tacked-on afterthought. The difference is not only in the thoughtfulness and skill of your web designer, but in the design of your logo itself. Some designs are more flexible and better for web page headers than others. If you are thinking about re-designing your corporate identity package, think about how your logo will look on your web-site.
Although not specifically concerned with logo design as it pertains to web design, this article from Crowdspring.com addresses the broadest concerns of the logo design client:
From “10 Logo Design Tips For Buyers”

4. Flexible A logo should be visible and distinguishable on a big billboard from 100 meters away or on a small business card from to 20 millimeters away. It should also work well in different size formats like for example on business cards, brochure, t-shirt design and other marketing materials such as embroidery, stamping, embossing, etc.
A good logo will work well in many colors and in just one or two colors (yes, black is a color). A good logo will work well on light backgrounds as well as dark backgrounds, even on multicolored backgrounds.
Many start-ups and smaller companies use their logo on a few marketing materials but use something else on other materials. Be sure that you use your logo consistently and be sure that your logo allows you the flexibility to do so in multiple formats.

Read the whole Crowdspring piece here.

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Call Seven North Web & Graphics Web Design at 727-894-5266 in St Petersburg, Florida to talk about setting a WordPress website as the hub for your social media marketing program.

Twitter brings the To Go orders and a new sense of community. If they can do it in Houston, it can be done in St Petersburg:

Nothing can build your brand faster than being or doing something remarkable. Seth Godin, author of the recently released Tribes calls this becoming “The Purple Cow”. Cohen didn’t set out to become a Purple Cow - but with one brief 140 character message - that’s exactly what he’s done.

On October 31st, 2008 Sean Stoner (@maslowbeer) was hungry. As a regular customer at CoffeeGroundz he sent the following Twitter to Cohen:

Read the whole story here at Blog of Mr. Tweet.

Call Seven North Web & Graphics Web Design at 727-894-5266 in St Petersburg, Florida to talk about setting a WordPress website as the hub for your social media marketing program.
How can they buy you if they can't see you?

From Online Marketing Blog

http://www.toprankblog.com/

Traditional marketing tactics would emphasize making an offer that makes so much sense, like swapping a messy icebox for a modern refrigerator at the same cost; consumers would “buy in”.

The problem with continuing to rely on that model of marketing is increasing numbers of consumers ignore formal marketing messages and offers. If they don’t notice the offer, they can’t respond to it.

As the social web eliminates physical boundaries for making connections with friends, family, like minded individuals and even the brands people buy from, there’s more interest in a participatory or social marketing process. Consumers connect about things of interest to them and brands have an opportunity to listen and engage in conversations in a way that demonstrates the value of their products and services. There’s an opportunity to provide value, before seeing a direct return. The give to get principle for social media participation by brands results in goodwill, educated consumers and buzz.

A good example of that includes creating social network groups to provide consumers a place to socialize and for brands to introduce new products, gain feedback, crowd source ideas, “energize” brand evangelists and listen/respond to concerns. Mashable has a good write up on brands that use Facebook Fan pages that do this such as Pringles, Coca Cola, Starbucks, Adidas and Red Bull.

Read the whole story here.

Not necessarily the best recommendation, but in this case I'm proud that Uncle Sam uses open source software like WordPress so widely. This list is from M. Jaquith, who writes the fine Mark on WordPress.

Here is a list (probably not all-inclusive) of United States government agencies or organizations using WordPress (whether privately or publicly):

Air Force
Army
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Coast Guard
Defense Intelligence Agency
Department of Energy
Department of Homeland Security
Department of State
Department of Treasury
Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Marine Corps
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
National Geospatial Intelligence Agency
National Reconnaissance Agency
National Security Agency (NSA)
Navy

Full article here.

-Via Cozmolabs:

WordPress is slowly making it’s way into the corporate world as well: Yahoo, CNN, New York Times, Ford, Nike are just a few of big names that implemented it for it’s ease of use, fast development times, cost reduction and easy maintenance of the platform. Oh… and U.S. Government Agencies are also using WordPress.

Here's a diagram of Seven North's recommended SMM set up: