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Posted by John Sieczkowski in SEO, Social Media, Website Design

Social media has become a staple in marketing. What’s a great way to get new clients? Connect to them through social media. It’s a way to have your current clients vouch for you to random strangers. If they see good comments made about your company then they are more apt to choose your business. Everyone has heard of twitter, and people have differing opinions on it. Some love it; some hate it. But – did you know it truly is a fantastic way for your business to share up-to-the-minute news about your company? Sixty percent of its users “tweet” on … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sieczkowski in Misc, Print, SEO, Website Design

With the down economy for the past 5 years a fair number of people who have lost their jobs are giving a go at starting their own business. High unemployment rates and a tight job market, some have decided this was the time to be their own boss and take that step into owning their own business. This is great! And our company can help you market yourself and make your one man operation look like a million bucks without breaking the bank. However, we’ve seen it too often that people think they can put up that website, sell online, … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sieczkowski in Misc, Social Media, Website Design

In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama set himself apart from Senator John McCain by a great deal when looking at technology and the web specifically. Senator Obama was younger and more tech savvy. His staff was as well and understood the reach they would have and how they could get their message out to the young people. Obama and his staff utilized a fabulous website that was interactive and gave viewers what they were looking for. There were videos to help explain his message and relay new information on his site. Signups to get emails from the candidates group and … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sieczkowski in CSS-HTML Coding, SEO

This is the time of year that companies are looking at their budgets for 2012 and also reviewing how things went in 2011. The Century Marketing crew has seen a big shift the last year and believe this trend will continue for 2012. A lot of companies are leaving print advertisements in magazines and phone books and instead opting to spend that money on their websites. A good monthly SEO program and a custom designed, top notch site designed to not only grab your visitors but to help you be found on Google, will cost less than half of what … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sieczkowski in Misc, Website Design

Web clients a lot of times want a content management system (CMS) setup on their site so that they can do their own updates. Oftentimes these updates consist of changing some text, adding a new picture here or there, or other very small updates. We offer to do these basic updates as long as they are limited in scope at no charge to our clients who host their websites with us and are clients in good standing. The majority of clients will send updates once every 3 months if that. You have a business to run! Our turnaround time is … Continue reading →

Posted by John Ogilvie in Design, Photography

In marketing, images are everything. One’s branding can be off if the right images are not used in the right place. What makes the most effective marketing is having a strong message and having a strong image to represent that message.Why is it necessary to hire a professional photographer to capture the moment? In this blog, I hope the importance is explained to you.

Posted by John Sieczkowski in CSS-HTML Coding, PHP Coding, Website Design

“As a website becomes more sophisticated, so must the code that backs it.” I read this quote from this website http://www.tizag.com/phpT/phpsessions.php as it was talking about PHP sessions. I don’t really remember how or why I ended up on this page but that quote has stuck with me and becomes even apparent as the web changes. So companies want a more interesting website and even one that does so much more than provide text and picture information, even on that has some artificial intelligence. WYSIWYG editors (What You See Is What You Get) and the untrained employee can only go … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sieczkowski in Misc, Website Design

A good number of small businesses don’t really know what goes on to have a website up and running. Many tell stories of how an old employee had a son who’s friend did websites on the side and they took care of everything…but no one knows who they are or how to get a hold of them. We can get you our web hosting but what’s a domain name? We’ve heard it all.

Posted by John Sieczkowski in Misc, Social Media

We were recently at a roundtable discussion about Social Media and what small businesses should do with it. For those that don’t know, one of our web related services that we offer is SEO and Social Media, so, this roundtable was right up our alley. Most everyone knows about blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and others but aren’t sure how to utilize these social media tools to obtain more business or don’t have the time and resources to dedicate towards making it work well. It’s expensive whether you do this yourself or hire a company to maintain it for you. To stay … Continue reading →