Showing posts with label Vermont Design Works SEO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Vermont Design Works SEO. Show all posts

Monday, May 16, 2011

Air National Houston Launch

Vermont Design Works and iMarket Solutions recently launched a new site for Air National Houston. Air National is an existing company that has expanded into the Houston area after many successful years running a full HVAC service company in Tampa, Florida. As a brand new company in a new market, they are actively building relationships, establishing a customer base, and providing responsive customer service.

For the new website, we will be working with them to post 3 blogs per week of interesting and topical subjects related to the comfort for homeowners at the beginning of summer. Check out their new site: http://www.airnationalhouston.com

Friday, October 1, 2010

Stock Options 101

Vermont Design Works just launched a great new website that supports the http://www.terrystips.com/ project. Terry gets so many questions about basic stock options information, that we wanted to create a website dedicated to the basics of trading stock options.

On Terry's Tips behalf, I acquired the URL http://www.stockoptions101.com/ from a person that was not using it. The URL had been registered for a few years so it already has good history online despite not having a good website full of content.

Then, Terry wanted the site launched quickly...of course. So we used Vermont Design Works "template" program where we took a standard installation of our ContentWorks content management system with a standard set of tools. In just a few weeks, we had the site designed and built and ready for content. Terry, despite having limited technical skills, was able to populate the site with content, set up navigation, and get the site ready.

We launched the site and we don't even know how, but Terry got his first sale without doing any advertising of any kind. Just another reason why content is king!! Publish good content on your website that speaks to your audience and is full of good keywords and google will give you traffic!!

More on the success of this site as we start to actively promote it online.

Cheers, Andrew

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Ben and Jerry's April Fools Website Revealed

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Local Firm Vermont Design Works Partners with Ben and Jerry’s on Cloned Milk “April Fools” Website

Burlington, VT, April 1, 2009 - For the past week, a website for “Cyclone Dairy” (www.CycloneDairy.com), a company that allegedly produces milk from cloned cows, has been the subject of intense speculation in the blogosphere: are the company and the website real? Are consumers really drinking milk from cloned cows?

This morning the website was revealed to be an “April Fools” joke by Ben and Jerry’s, intended toraise awarenss that food from clones could be in our food supply and consumer have the right to know. Milk from cloned cows is in fact approved for consumer consumption by the FDA and does not have to be labeled as such on food packaging.

The website was created by local web and graphic design firm Vermont Design Works (www.VermontDesignWorks.com).

“When Ben and Jerry’s came to us with this idea, our entire team was excited by it,” says Vermont Design Works owner Andrew Allen. “We have a long history of working with Ben and Jerry’s and with other socially responsible companies. This fit right in with our mission.”

The challenge in designing the site, says Vermont Design Works’ Director of Web Strategy Craig Chevrier, “was to make what looked almost like a perfectly legitimate corporate site, but hinted at activism. We had to strike just the right balance so that when the truth was revealed, it would all make sense.”

“Once bloggers found the site, it took off like wildfire,” says Allen. “We’ve had a great time following the online forums. People were speculating that it was animal rights groups, Food and Water Watch, etc.. But all the buzz has done exactly what it was intended to do – to create awareness and get people thinking seriously about an important issue affecting our food supply. We are proud to be a part of this project.”


For more information about Vermont Design Works’ involvement in the Cyclone Dairy project, please contact cyclone@vtdesignworks.com or call 802.383.7679. For more information about Ben and Jerry’s anti-cloning mission, visit www.cyclonedairy.com, where videos and activism links were posted this morning.

Vermont Design Works was founded in 1999 to help businesses and non-profit organizations build a presence in the marketplace and on the web by offering a full range of graphic design and website development services. The company jumped into the Vermont business community with a big splash by designing the 2000 summer marketing campaign for Ben and Jerry’s ice cream. Since then, Vermont Design Works has created hundreds of successful websites and graphic design projects for large and small businesses and nonprofits, including Nantucket Nectars, Equipe Sport, New England Naturals, GlobalZ Data Processing, and Gardeners Supply “Flower Power” Fundraising.

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Thursday, August 14, 2008

Tim Obarski, our new SEO specialist

Recently, I hired Tim Obarski, formerly of Burton Snow Boards and SEO Creation Labs. Tim will be doing Search Engine Optimization, Pay Per Click management, and overall search strategy for us at Vermont Design Works. I might have him work on my making “Andrew Allen” #1 in Google project. He will definitely be doing work on getting Terry's Tips up to top 10 for “stock options trading”.

Tim has experience with backlink strategies, directory and search submissions, meta and content optimization, and in particular social media marketing strategies. Combined with my local and content optimization experience, we are going to make a great team. Welcome aboard Tim!

In the first week that we have posted Tim’s bio on our site, he is now #1 in Google for “tim obarski”. Not too bad to start…