Applying the Web

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And, here’s the link to the beginning of our “do-it-yourself” tutorial, for those of you who we referred to the site.

…Reno Sparks Convention Center, Saturday 3/15. We’ll be exhibiting and attending as many of the breakout sessions as we can fit in. Check us out if you’re in the market for a site or have questions on how to create a “do-it-yourself” online presence.

I’ve been asked by the Nevada Small Business Development Center to teach a couple evening seminars focusing on online solutions for small businesses.

It is an honor to be asked and I’m excited to have a chance to talk about websites, search engine optimization, and email marketing with small business owners. The classes are inexpensive and I promise to answer as many questions as possible in the time allotted as well as getting through my entire curriculum.

You can register for the class on the NSBDC’s website. Register now. Space is limited.

Class Information (I’ll post detailed descriptions later this week):

Utilizing the Internet for Small Business
Date: October 30, 2007
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: REDFIELD Campus, 18600 Wedge Parkway, Nell J Redfield Bldg A, Room 213
City: Reno
Fee: $25
Registration: Online or (775) 784-1717

Search Engine Optimization
Date: November 6, 2007
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: REDFIELD Campus, 18600 Wedge Parkway, Nell J Redfield Bldg A, Room 213
City: Reno
Fee: $25
Registration: Online or (775) 784-1717

Email Marketing
Date: November 13, 2007 - November 13, 2007
Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location: REDFIELD Campus, 18600 Wedge Parkway, Nell J Redfield Bldg A, Room 213
City: Reno
Fee: $25
Registration: Online or (775) 784-1717

This week we launched a new site for Raven Electronics Corporation! I am exceptionally proud of this website. It features a clean design built on our powerful website content management system, plus a couple of interlaced website applications for organizing Raven’s diverse products and customer solutions, making this website one of my favorites.

Another great thing about this project were the people invloved. The people at Raven are experts in their field and love what they do - and the new website really will help them document those aspects of their business. It is a great feeling when we create a really exceptional website, then give it into the hands of people who will really use it and stretch its capabilities a little. Working with Trinity Applied Internet on this project were Kristy Crabtree (designer) and RBG Creative (home page Flash programmer). A huge thank you to both of them - their hard work, and awesome teamwork, shows in the final product.

Check out Raven Electronics’ new website, and if you ever need a custom piece of electronics or someone to develop a creative solution for your electronic engineering problem give them a call - you won’t be disappointed.

We built a lush, visually appealling website for Nevada Opera that is driven by our easy-to-use content management system. The staff at the opera is able to publish and unpublish sections and pages, modify the navigation, post events and news items, and control the images in the website template.

I encourage you to visit www.nevadaopera.org and support their performance of La Cenerentola on February 9th and 11th!

We just launched a blog and MySpace page for our friends at Discology. Discology is a great used CD store at the corner of California and Plumas in downtown Reno.

This was a great project because we got the chance to put together a lot of solutions to make a more powerful (and easier to use) final product. We use MySpace for social networking, Flickr for images, Del.icio.us for links, Google apps for Calendaring and business email, and Wordpress for publishing and tying everything together.

I have high hopes for this site – Discology already has a strong real-world network, and hopefully the new blog and MySpace page will allow the store to grow its network online.

I encourage you to take a look at the links below, as well as to stop in and see the shop. And get the word out, it’s an easy way to support a spunky independent small business in Reno.
View their website.

View their MySpace page.

I have tons of ideas brewing about how to help local businesses (the kind with character!) get online and promote themselves inexpensively.  But, that’s another post (or two, or three…)