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Postcards

Talented kids design Wigtown Show postcards

Talented kids design Wigtown Show postcards
They were asked to design a postcard promoting the show, which takes place on Wednesday 5th August. Wigtown Agricultural Society's chairman and vice had an incredibly difficult job choosing the winners from the dozens of entries from Creetown …
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BBB warns of new hoax involving postcards
“The problem with these postcards is there's no identifying information on the postcards, just an 800 number to call,” said BBB Spokesperson Dan Hendrickson. “In our experience with postcards like these is they're not good news, they're bad news and …
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SMS Marketing

Caktus Group Wins Two Communicator Awards for Web Design


Durham, NC (PRWEB) April 30, 2015

Caktus Group, the nation’s largest Django web application firm, recently received recognition for its design excellence on the PyCon 2015 website. The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts awarded Caktus two 2015 Communicator Awards: Gold Award of Excellence in Event Websites and a Silver Award of Distinction in Visual Appeal. The Communicator Awards, with over 6000 international entries, is considered the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence for communications professionals.

“We’re very proud of the team and what they were able to accomplish. It’s wonderful that the judges of such prestigious awards found our work compelling,” said Colin Copeland, Caktus Group Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. “The award also is a great nod to the efforts of the PyCon 2015 organizers. It’s fantastic for PyCon to be in the company of other large brands such as the Canadian Olympic Team, Lexus, and Red Hat.”

The PyCon 2015 website, built on behalf of the Python Software Foundation, supports the largest annual gathering for the open-source Python programming language. With a bright, clean, and playful modernism, the colorful stripes allude to both Python and the event’s venue, the Palais des Congrès de Montréal. The team working on the site included Trevor Ray (Designer), Rebecca Muraya (Developer), David Ray (Developer), and Ben Riseling (Project Manager).

ABOUT CAKTUS GROUP

Caktus is the largest custom Django web application development firm in the US, building web and mobile tools for businesses and social good. Major projects include the development of Libya’s SMS voter registration system, the first of its kind in the world. Clients include Cox Media Group, UNICEF, International Rescue Committee, and Discovery Communications.

ABOUT THE COMMUNICATOR AWARDS

The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio. This year’s Communicator Awards received thousands of entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the

world.

The Communicator Awards is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from a “Who’s Who” of acclaimed media, advertising, and marketing firms. Please visit aiva.org for a full member list and more information.







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Internet Marketing

Web Design companies awarded to the top 10 design excellence


San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 21, 2014

To set a sign and receive the greatest amount of website traffic, companies known switching companies web design guidance. After 10 better code design, best design firms websites to excel in a variety of categories such as brand development and smooth e-commerce transactions. These companies have rates of 10 best design for its creative style, compelling graphics, personal craftsmanship, customer service and world class acquired.


Big Chute Inc this design company Web site prior month. This agency provides high technology solutions tailored to each client and a smooth surface, personal customer service interaction. The second winner is Old City Press Co, known for custom e-commerce and invitation design for a variety of platforms solutions. To complete this lot is Forix Web Design. They offer customers the latest images from online advertising. The company also provides customers with branding, digital marketing and content optimization on several different search engines.


One of the winners of the Award for best website development is the Blue Fountain Media code. It offers its clients services of mobile applications, web design and top quality Internet traffic has increased SEO. The development company also provides a high level of creativity and business outside-the-box solutions for their customers.


Another winner in this category is maxburst branding, increase social media, SEO and design service offerings. Dotlogics is also known for its powerful platform for mobile web development, the increase in Internet traffic and e-commerce solutions.

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Online Marketing

Landscape Architecture & Design Services Procurement Category Market Research Report from IBISWorld has Been Updated


Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 02, 2014

Landscape architecture and design services have a buyer power score of 2.4 out of 5. This score reflects moderately poor negotiation conditions for buyers resulting from high demand, a low availability of substitutes and high product specialization within the market. Demand for landscape architecture and design services dropped during the recession, but it has been rising steadily during the three years to 2014, driving up prices for buyers. As demand is restored, buyers continue to lose negotiating power, even though prices are still below prerecession levels. Landscape architecture and design services provide buyers with customized solutions that untrained suppliers cannot easily produce. This limits the number of suppliers capable of offering the service, which, in turn, limits the number of vendors that buyers have to choose from and the extent to which supply can keep pace with demand. “Consequently, buyers are facing suppliers with limited incentive to negotiate or maintain lower prices,” according to IBISWorld business research analyst Daniel Krohn.

Buyer leverage is projected to continue to shrink during the next three years as demand drivers such as business growth, the value of residential construction and government funding for universities rise and apply additional upward pressure on demand. Rising demand will offset competitor growth forecast for the next three years and further limit the amount of suppliers available to the buyer. “Buyer power is, consequently, projected to continue to be strained,” says Krohn.

Nonetheless, buyers maintain some leverage in the market thanks to low market concentration. Low market concentration increases the viability of top-tier suppliers and keeps barriers to entry in the market at bay. The landscape architecture and design market has, as a result, remained somewhat competitive despite recent surges in demand.

The complexity and size of the buyer’s project will impact the amount of negotiating power it has. Buyers with larger, more complex facilities will be better able to attract both large and small service providers, increasing the number of suppliers available to them, the value that suppliers are likely to put on their business and their buyer power. Major vendors include Hammel, Green & Abrahamson Inc., AECOM and Belt Collins. For more information, visit IBISWorld’s Landscape Architecture & Design Services procurement category market research report page.

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IBISWorld Procurement Report Key Topics

This report is intended to assist buyers of landscape architecture and design services. Landscape architecture and design service suppliers prepare drawings and specifications for the development of land areas. They use their in-depth knowledge of grading, drainage and horticultural and structural spacing to plan and create useful, attractive arrangements of natural and constructed elements that conform to governing codes and regulations. This report excludes landscape construction services and maintenance services like installing and caring for trees, lawns and gardens.

Executive Summary

Pricing Environment

Price Fundamentals

Benchmark Price

Pricing Model

Price Drivers

Recent Price Trend

Price Forecast

Product Characteristics

Product Life Cycle

Total Cost of Ownership

Product Specialization

Substitute Goods

Regulation

Quality Control

Supply Chain & Vendors

Supply Chain Dynamics

Supply Chain Risk

Imports

Competitive Environment

Market Share Concentration

Market Profitability

Switching Costs

Purchasing Process

Buying Basics

Buying Lead Time

Selection Process

Key RFP Elements

Negotiation Questions

Buyer Power Factors

Key Statistics

About IBISWorld Inc.

IBISWorld is one of the world’s leading publishers of business intelligence, specializing in Industry research and Procurement research. Since 1971, IBISWorld has provided thoroughly researched, accurate and current business information. With an extensive online portfolio, valued for its depth and scope, IBISWorld’s procurement research reports equip clients with the insight necessary to make better purchasing decisions, faster. Headquartered in Los Angeles, IBISWorld Procurement serves a range of business, professional service and government organizations through more than 10 locations worldwide. For more information, visit http://www.ibisworld.com or call 1-800-330-3772.







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SEM Marketing

PPC & SEM Solutions Driven by Cognitive Science & Experiment Design: A New Search Marketing Paradigm to Boost ROAS & the Persuasion Magnitude of Online Marketing Appeal


(PRWEB) October 03, 2014

PPC, SEO, Social Media, and Email Marketing Solution Technical Guides driven by cognitive science and experiment design is able to provide effective cross-reference points to validate the campaign performance by experimented treatments on both macro and micro levels. In addition, Thincr’s researches found that: (1) PPC (Pay Per Click) enables web marketers to zoom in on the most significant variables in their experiment designs to gauge the effectiveness of their campaign treatments, thus raising their ROAS (Return On Ad Spend); (2) the injection of persuasion tactics into the campaign treatments allows them to accelerate the conversion process. As very few researches or technical sources have tapped into the development of search marketing solutions from the perspectives of cognitive science and experiment design, Thincr LLC would like to share its research findings in its Search Engine Marketing Books by digital format as follows:

PPC book, Cognitive Search Marketing & Paid Search: Theory, Experiment, Practice and Tactics: A PPC Paradigm Powered by Persuasion and Cognition, is written to enable internet marketers to improve their profitability and ROAS while leveraging Quality Score, CTR (Click-Through Rate), conversion rate, traffic quality, and extend the customer reach of their PPC / AdWords Campaign. In addition, this Pay Per Click book also demonstrates the techniques to facilitate positive attitude change toward the target products or brands while propelling conversion strength, rebuilding a brand image or reinforcing a positive one. Furthermore, it will also show content providers the top tips to monetize their content through AdSense. Highlights of this paid search book are listed as follows:

Cognitive ad creative writing techniques featuring Cognitive Dissonance Theory by Leon Festinger, A-B-X model by Theodore M. Newcomb, and Hierarchy of Needs by Abraham Maslow.
The deployment of placement-targeting to enhance contextual targeting, featuring Standard Placement Targeting and MRI Placement-targeting by Site.
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The Illustration and example of how to apply Pearson’s Product Moments & Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient in an experiment design to identify the marketing elements that are able to provide the most significant positive impact on customers’ attitude change toward a defined conversion.
Strategic keyword generation featuring critical topics on development of Seed Keyword List (SKL), the development of cognitively transferred terms, the analysis of the search query reports and meta tags of competitors’ websites, the techniques for generating long-tail keywords, the deployment of tactical keyword grouping and so many more.
The illustration of 20 top tips for strategic bidding and tips for tactical organic and paid listing arbitration to reduce campaign cost.
The Illustration of conversion attribution model and its application by example, and the adoption of view-assist and view-through to identify the latent conversion contributors for effective marketing resource allocation.
Google Instant’s impact on paid search featuring the tactics for the implementation of geo-modifier and the techniques for strategic alignment with Google Instant to increase CTR (Click-Through Rate) on ads, as well as their conversion rates.
Techniques for maneuvering language mode, removing major landing page barriers and constructing effective USP, offer, and credibility elements to leverage conversion rate.
Techniques for facilitating a positive and persuasive setting for content consumption while providing landing page optimization tips for lead generation and landing page real estate planning, as well as element allocation.
Implementation of Google Web Optimizer (GWO) and the interpretation of Combination and Page Section Report to: (1) learn how different page element variations perform on a page section and identify how a particular page section affects the test results in terms of relevance rating; (2) identify the combination of page elements that is most likely to produce a significant improvement on conversion rate.
Proven tactics for building an AdSense oriented site through: (1) the adoption of a matching theme and effective page real estate management; (2) the analysis on the nature of different ad units and the illustration of the high-performing spots on a webpage to place these ad units.
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Based on web developing, content, and interpersonal perspectives, the book, Integrated Search Marketing Solution & Organic Search: Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, and Email Marketing: Winning Formula for SERP Dominance, is written to enable web marketing practitioners to: (1) enhance ranking competency on SERP (Search Engine Results Page); (2) monetize content; (3) facilitate business localization to capitalize local business opportunities; and (4) expand customer base and extend content reach while increasing their lead retention rates. Highlights of this integrated search marketing book are listed as follows:

Systems to build up a Facebook empire and expand Facebook fan base, featuring: (1) the techniques for deploying speakers in the leading and supporting roles; (2) tactics for expanding fan base via implicit and explicit, as well as external heterogeneous and homogeneous FB fan groups.
SEO server-side optimization featuring: (1) must-have tactics for Improving site performance to gain better SERP (Search Engine Results Page) ranking; (2) domain name optimization; (3) technical procedure for the adoption of 301 redirect to retain SEO metrics; (4) implementation of XML site map and Google Sitemap for better site indexing; (5) configuration of robot.txt to increase site relevancy; (6) web programming techniques to facilitate a fast and secured user experience; (7) strategic content categorization; (8) proper configuration of ViewState in a web application; (9) the practice of Exception Handling and the adoption of custom 404 page to increase visitor’s retention rate; (10) the use of SSI for content syndication; and (11) tactical construction of a self-supported hub of authority.
An SEO walk-thru to avoid duplicate content by: (1) the deployment of harsh symbol and canonical URL; (2) the configuration of Google’s parameters handling; and (3) the adoption of Google preferred domain in Google Webmaster Tools.
The techniques for strategic Internal link placement based on the notion of page segmentation and optimization of structured markup with a keyword-oriented USP to produce a distinguished organic listing while implementing a keyword-oriented facet navigation to produce an effective search process.
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About Thincr LLC:

Committed in developing integrated online marketing strategic solutions, Thincr LLC is specialized in providing consultancy in the realms of image reinforcement, branding, persuasion, and attitude change through Paid Search, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media, and Email Marketing. Thincr LLC is dedicated in publishing while supporting growth and innovation and providing online businesses efficient and valuable references to assist them to excel in their marketing campaigns.