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60 Seconds on the Web: Opportunities in 2012

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What are we doing at Dogs of Design Studios to ensure that we're getting enough exposure on the web? More importantly: What are we doing to ensure we're in front of a targeted audience? 4 Questions, 5 Resolutions, and 10 Actionable Steps to get 2012 started on the right foot.

"Every 60 Seconds on the web over 695,000 Facebook Status Updates are posted online." 

The scalability of online interaction has grown incredibly over the past year of 2011, it's almost unmanageable—almost.

60 Seconds on the web

WordPress Design Services Launch

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The launch of our WordPress portfolio and official announcement of WordPress Website Design and WordPress Development Services.

With the most recent updates to the site comes a full announcement of our WordPress Services.  We've been doing WordPress jobs for months for those brave clients who would ask directly for WordPress, even though it wasn't officially on our services list. 

One might say that for a time WordPress Design was apart of our secret menu.

DOD Videos: Branding & Marketing in the Viral Age

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Dogs of Design Studios rolls out a video discussing the benefits of the different avenues of marketing available today. The rise of the digital age and boom of viral marketing.

At the end of 2010 the Studio got together to work on a promo video for an insurance convention.  The concept for the video, in its infancy, was about as drab as selling insurance itself.

Financial Services Industry Advertising Infographic

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online advertising
Financial Services Industry advertising study by MediaMind shows the benefits of video advertising.

Back in march, MediaMind released a video infographic study showing detailed statistics concerning the insights into the Financial Services industry by analyzing 28 billion ads.

The total spending by the Financial industry stacked up as follows with Online Advertising at the top of the list:

The Dog Pack takes San Jacinto Peak by Storm

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Photoblog
The dog pack went for a hike on one of those elusive days off that we get so little of.

This past Friday, July 30th, a number of the pack set out at 5AM for the San Jacinto Mountain Peak.  
Max, Rick, Cayley and I took Black Mountain Trail starting at 830AM and headed for the peak. 7.25 miles to the peak, the trek spanned a change of 4,500 feet in elevation. The entire 14.5 mile round trip took me 10 hours. The others made it back at different times.  

Here are just a few of the photos to catalogue our epic foray into the wild.

Dogs of Design Widescreen Wallpaper Summer 2010 - The Towers

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The Summer 2010 wallpaper designed by Ricky Perez

It's been a while, but we're back and we've got some new, fresh content for you ;]

Our very own Ricky Perez designed this season's new wallpaper design. Things have been busy since the last wallpaper back in spring of 2009, but that's good in this harsh economic climate, right?

Anyways, without further ado, the Dogs of Design Widescreen Wallpaper of Summer 2010: The Towers.

The Studio at Play: Photography June 17th

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Photoblog
Just a few shots around the office

Sometimes just some fun pictures from the office are in order. We hope you enjoy these and look forward to the future photo posts.

Dogs of Design Photography Los Angeles - Photo 1

Dogs of Design Photography Los Angeles - Photo 2

3 Steps to Better Conversion: Making Users into Buyers

Jordan Ryan offers a few tips for upping your rankings on search engines

How many people show up on your website? A couple hundred? A couple thousand? If you don't have a tracking system installed on your site, I'd really recommend getting one. Analytics systems, such as the free Google Analytics, are invaluable to improving ROI for you website.

Basic Tips for Personal Online Reputation Management

Social Networking do's and don'ts

When diving into the online world for the first time it's important to take note that, with the advancements of Search Engines, almost all of your public information can be found fairly easily.  That's why I am going to give you some general tips on good practices for managing your personal online reputation.

(I will probably cover some tips for small business online reputation management and how it differs on a future post.)

Dogs of Design Wallpaper Spring 2009

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Desktop background designed by Jordan Ryan

Recently, the Dogs have been working extremely hard on multiple projects over the past few months.  It has been one project after another down here at the Studio, and sometimes, it pays to take some time to do something creative just for the heck of it.

So without any further ado, I bring you the Spring 2009 Dogs of Design Wallpaper for your viewing pleasure and full functional use.  We hope to bring many more artistic peices to your attention in the future here on the blog, simply because we like what we do here at the Dogs of Design.