Website Design You Can Afford

We all want to get perfect, reliable and amazing web design services and web development at a low cost. Let’s face it, everyone wants to get the best website, but no one wants to pay tons of money for it. Lots of companies claim to have the lowest prices for web design, but once you start to shop around, you will find that a lot of these companies can’t compete and deliver a good quality, well designed website. This is what has made our company stand out from other website design companies. Serious SEM works on a price structure that allows us to tackle any project and do it at a fair price point. We provide reliable, bug free and

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Do you know how to talk to a designer?

Graphic designers and business owners often don’t look at things the same way. And this is great! It can add a lot to a project and give a business the creative edge that only a graphic artist can bring to the project. But often times business owners don’t speak the same language as a designer, so what is being said is not always translating how you mean it. My goal is this post is to help you, as a business owner, learn about how a graphic designer talks and thinks, and help you better communicate with us. The better the business owner and the designer communicate, the better your project will turn out in the long run! Often time’s designers

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The Age of Anti-Advertising

In September of 2014, the new social network Ello sparked a tremendous amount of attention with its promise to become the Anti-Facebook. Ello is now receiving roughly 45,000 hourly requests to join, based primarily on a short manifesto on advertising and social media: “Your social network is owned by advertisers. Every post you share, every friend you make and every link you follow is tracked, recorded and converted into data. Advertisers buy your data so they can show you more ads. You are the product that’s bought and sold … We believe a social network can be a tool for empowerment. Not a tool to deceive, coerce and manipulate — but a place to connect, create and celebrate life. You

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Social Media Marketing for Small Business

Startups in Nashville and around the world don’t fail because they can’t get the product built; they fail because they can’t acquire customers. So how can you build a customer base and keep them talking about your business, whether it is here in Nashville or anywhere else in the world? More and more of Nashville is moving to social media marketing, and we at Serious SEM are being asked by our social media marketing clients to improve their social media strategies both here locally in Nashville and all over the country. This is a flexible, evolving medium with amazing potential to: Encourage business growth in Nashville by engaging targeted customers in Nashville. Improve your existing website presence and drive traffic

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What is a promoted Pinterest post?

A promoted pin is simply a paid ad on Pinterest. It allows you to target your ideal consumer based on a number of filters, much like Facebook and twitter do. The promoted pin is then pushed out to the users who either fit your filtered parameters, or to users who have shown an interest in the keywords attached to your pin. Promoted pins run on a cost-per-click (CPC) system. Each campaign has a daily budget and duration. You are able to adjust both these numbers as the campaign is running, and as with any CPC system, you only pay when someone clicks on your promoted pin. Pinterest suggests you be authentic when you choose what pins to promote. The same

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Is Print Marketing Dead?

Print’s Not Dead: Print Marketing Will Continue to Thrive Many people believe that the print market is dying and that internet marketing is the wave of the future, when in fact, the print industry is far from dead. Print marketing has continued to grow and evolve along with the upsurge of new technology. According to a Pitney Bowes survey, 76% of small businesses say their ideal marketing strategy encompasses a combination of both print and digital communication. BIA Kelsey’s study shows that direct mail marketing dominated ad spend by local retail advertising, garnering over 43% of total retail advertising in 2012 and is predicted to remain the leading advertising method in local ad market in 2017. Print is (and will

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Content is King

If you want people to care about what you are sharing, you need to know where you want the action to lead to. Things like messing with a share buttons positioning, when they are pushed and other variables can all play a part, but in the end you still need to provide excellent content to highlight your great service/product. Sharing and having your content stick is a tricky thing; despite it being a buzz word and the entire craze, we’re still largely unsure about how it works. This goes double for the internet and many website designers (who try to double as internet marketers), where countless people are under the crazy idea that they can post any crap they want,

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6 Ways To Make More Money Online!

1. It’s vital to show off your products in a manner that looks appealing and attractive to your customers. The use of E-Commerce with high resolution photos coupled with concise descriptions will help make a great impression! Call us today at Serious Inc.; we are proficient in internet marketing, website design, website redesign, and using E-Commerce to sell your products! 2. Your policies should be easily accessible from your website’s homepage and easy to understand. Returns, shipping costs, guarantees, etc. are all important information that should be explained thoroughly in your policies page on your website. Honesty is greatly appreciated by everyone and will help to positively impact your customers purchase decisions. 3. Be safe and secure! Gaining your clients

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6 Ways to Spruce up your Website Design

1. Website development must optimize for mobile use! These days everyone is on the go and if your current website design doesn’t look good or is not responsive on a phone or tablet, you WILL be missing out on customers who are on the go and using mobile devices. Fortunately, you are in luck and website design or website redesign can be easily achieved with a simple phone call to Serious Inc. We are available for all your website development needs! 2. Integrate social media into your website development! Use of social media in your website design will help promote your brand and assist your company’s deals to go viral. So, don’t be shy! Add Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, and

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Good UX Leads To Better Website Design

Think about the websites you use every day or at least every week. Now think about some of the sites you visited and then left right away. How much of the content on each page was relevant to you and your interests? How hard was it to find the information that you were looking for? How difficult was it to perform the task that you wanted to complete? When it comes to the internet there are two types of websites. Ones we want to go to, and ones we have to go to. If you look at the sites you use often, I would bet the ones you want to visit supply a lot more information you desire in a

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