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Creativity at work – Macworld cover creation

This video is a great example of how much work it takes to put out a great product. Professional photographer Peter Belanger captures the creativity of photographing, editing, and design of the Macworld magazine cover with one of Apple’s iPhones.

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5 Major Benefits of Social Media, Search Engine Marketing and Optimization

A properly designed and developed website with current Search Engine Optimization (SEO) criteria and practices serves as a centerpiece of your online presence and marketing efforts. Periodic (at least monthly) keyword and content optimization of your website is crucial to proper exposure in search engines. Creating and building on relative content for your website, and…

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50 Ways to Grow Your Email List

A few years ago, everyone in business wanted to get their hands on your phone number or address to announce promotions or discounts. Today, the hot item is your email address. Most of the websites that you visit on daily bases have some kind of a sign-up form. Whether they are trying to give something…

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Facebook adds a new feature to Pages – Recommendations

Since Facebook introduced Pages back in 2009, there has been many updates and changes to their functionality. Some of them were great and others not so. For example, you used to be able to share your page with all of your personal friends, for some reason, when new page layout and design was released by…

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Verizon Small Business

This TV commercial from Verizon Wireless is a “must see”. The Small Business with the Best Technology Rules. See Susie’s technology in action. Susie’s lemonade stand receives a technology upgrade from Verizon.

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Design a Website on a Small Budget

These economic times are hard, and business owners have to make tough decisions on daily basis. When business cash flow is low; work is not coming in or the budget is being cut, one of the first things that gets neglected is marketing. It is very sad to see a business in the position of…

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Entrepreneur who breaks free

MasterCard just released this great TV ad, it’s an animated spot of an entrepreneur who breaks free from the confines of the corporate world and realizes his own dreams of starting his own small business.

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Advertise on DIF Design Blog

Get your message out in front of our audience. DIF Design is dedicated to providing quality website design, graphic design and marketing to local businesses. Our blog is about new technology, advertising strategies, innovation, web and print marketing, social media, networking and other topics related to every day business operations. Would your company like to…

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White House and Social Media

I was doing research on current social media usage trends. Many will say that every business should use social networking (after all its a free tool). The questions is, can any business adopt social networking practices that will return on their investment? In my humble opinion, the answer is simple – it depends on the…

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Clean. Simple. Bold. Apple.

The image above is from Apple’s home page. Clean, simple and bold message – “iPad is here.” This is a perfect example of why most people that mimic or copy websites, try to make it look just like www.apple.com. To this day, its one of the top 5 websites in my book. Dennis should be…

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