Who Else Wants a Free Blog?

fountain city square

Media317 and Untamed Media Group have teamed up to create an exciting new platform for Columbus area residence. It's called Fountain City Square and it is a unique blogging platform designed to prove our neighbors a way to communicate and connect with one another about the community in which we live.Blogging is nothing new and there are many platforms to choose from, blogger, blogspot and wordpress to name a few. They all are great platforms, but they do not provide a simple way for information centered around a single community to connect. That is what Fountain … [Read more...]

HOW TO: Build site traffic for your small business website

building site traffic

Building site traffic is not like the movie "Field of Dreams."  Just because you build it, doesn't mean they'll come.  You have to do some planning and intentional work to get visitors to your website through organic searches.  You could spend your hard earned cash and create a pay-per-click campaign and get some site traffic, but to really build site traffic naturally, you need to follow a few specific guidelines.The purpose of this post is to help shed some light on what the small business owner can do to help build site traffic.  There are no magic bullets … [Read more...]

Grow by Blogging

Computer demands blog update

If you own a small business and are not running a blog on your website, you may be missing a lot of potential business.  One of the key elements of quality marketing is getting people talking about you and your products or services.  This social communication, whether online or in person, is critical for growing a successful small business, it builds likability and trust.  The quickest way for you to be involved in that conversation is through your own company blog.  Every small business should be blogging! Why Blog? - It makes it easy to add regular content to … [Read more...]

Demographics helps focus your online marketing

Customer Demographics

One of the fundamental rules of marketing or business is know your audience.  If you intend to sell a service or a product to a consumer, you MUST know the ideal consumer.  Characteristics like age, gender, income level, family status, affinity sites, etc are small pieces of demographic data that help you clearly focus on who you need to be targeting you marketing message.Getting this data is not incredibly difficult to obtain, but most businesses fail to learn who they need to target.  This post will provide you with a couple helpful tools that will aid you in … [Read more...]

HOW TO: Add My Business to Google Places

Google Places

Many small businesses struggle trying to figure out how to get their website to rank high in Google searches.  With all the recommendations about SEO and Page Ranking for organic traffic, it is easy to loose sight of the objective, be found in Google. For most small businesses, the primary market is local.  They are doing business in their community and spending time marketing to that community.  So, why is it so important to be number one in Google search for someone outside you local community?  It isn't!  It's just bad business to spend time marketing to people … [Read more...]

Facebook releases security enhancements

Facebook - Mark Juckerberg

If you haven't noticed, Facebook has been facing alot of criticism lately over its privacy policy.  It hasn't been a very easy few months for the young leader at the center of the internet universe.  It seems that many facebook users, have become upset with the policy changes and the Open Graph.  Some have even proposed quitting Facebook.This week, Mark Zuckerberg discussed the new changes with the Washington Post.  And today he announced the changes at Facebook offices.The FIXThe solution to the privacy issues rest in three sets of simple controls: a single … [Read more...]

Small Business Marketing with No Budget

Small Business Marketing

When it comes to running a business, marketing budgets often get overlooked.  This could be a problem if we lived in a world where large marketing budgets were needed to effectively reach your clients.  With the power of the social web, a small business owner can now spread the word about products or services with NO BUDGET!  The social media accounts are free and using them effectively usually only requires an investment of time. The fact is, however, that the primary obstacle facing most small businesses today is not budgets, but finding an effective strategy that … [Read more...]

Free Facebook with any Wireless Provider

O.Facebook.com

For Facebook users who do not have a data plan with their wireless carrier, accessing their Facebook account has been impossible.  Until now!  Facebook has just launched a new way for people to access Facebook anywhere, anyplace, and at anytime: 0.facebook.com.  It is a new mobile site that includes all the key features of Facebook, but it is optimized for speed. When using the mobile internet, we are faced with two main challenges - speed and cost.  Either access to the internet is too slow to enjoy its use or the data plans offered by wireless carries are cost … [Read more...]

Bridges Learning Center Site Launch

Bridges Learning Center

Media317 is proud to announce our latest project.  We have redesigned the website for Bridges Learning Center in Columbus, GA.  The Learning Center offers education for children with autism.  The old site was simple and clean, but very difficult to manage and update.  The Learning Center does not have a webmaster to manage and maintain the site on a regular basis, so the site quickly became outdated. Media317 was given the opportunity to redesign the site and provide a platform that would allow the staff of the Learning Center to manage and update the site.  We … [Read more...]