DesignWise Studios of Door County – Web Marketing, Inbound Advertising, Social Media, Website Design, Video, Facebook

The January monthly SMBDC meeting is sponsored by Brew Coffeehouse, providing participants with delicious coffee and snacks on Wednesday, January 19 from 9 – 10:30 am. At the close of 2010 when Time Magazine named Mark Zuckerberg their person of the year, they not only paid homage to the creator of Facebook. They also recognized [...]

The very first Web page ever, was posted on the world’s first Web server at around Christmas, 1990 by the Web’s creator, Tim Berners-Lee. He also created the world’s first Web browser (designed to run on the NeXTStep operating system). By 1993 he had already created an interface not that much different than what we expect to [...]

The Christmas Story as told through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, Wikipedia, Google Maps, Gmail, Foursquare and Amazon…

Social networking means “More honey in Door County, when DCBs create a hive mind.” “In most human affairs, the idea is to think globally and act locally,” wrote Pulitzer Prize winning French humanist René Dubos in 1972. For more than four decades I have been following that directive in northeastern Wisconsin starting with the peninsula’s [...]

The basic “link:” search technique is quick, but may not be the best way to track a Website’s Link Popularity in Google and Yahoo. While it may be simple, using the link:yourdomain.com technique to trace backlinks does not provide anywhere near as much data as you need to make informed decisions. (Note there can be [...]

You have probably already seen “The Man Your Man Can Smell Like,” along with more than 15 million other YouTube viewers and countless traditional TV Superbowl fans. The 30-second Old Spice commercial that features actor and former NFL player Isaiah Mustafa is wildy successful in the ranks of viral social media campaigns and within the [...]

…by comparison, it took Twitter nearly 30 months to attract the same number of users. China’s version of Twitter is Sina’s Weibo. Currently the leading microbloging site, Weibo is experiencing phenomenal growth since it started about 10 months ago. Weibo currently has approximately 10 million users, averaging to 1 million new users per month. More [...]

For more than a decade DesignWise Studios has been promoting Door County’s arts, natural beauty, quiet sports and cultural heritage through various online endeavors including Door County Style, Chefs and Compass Magazines with a strong emphasis on demonstrating the impact of social media. “At first, there were just eight of us that decided to get [...]

What if you could scan through the status updates of 500 million people to search for any key words you were interested in tracking? How about if you could split it by gender? What would you search for? YourOpenBook.org says, “Facebook helps you connect and share with the people in your life. Whether you want [...]

“According to Forrester Research, 48 percent of consumers today now believe they have the right to decide whether or not to receive advertising.” – Bob Gilbreath in The Next Evolution of Marketing Consider just exactly what that means as you sit there with that remote in your hand, as you turn on the pop-up blocker [...]