Web Design Companies, Seattle

While I’m pleased as punch at our growth and success, and extremely grateful for such sharp and capable co-workers, there’s always room for improvement.  

So, we’re hard at work on several exciting offerings that will help our customers:

• uncover new web marketing possibilities,
• better utilize your existing site resources, and
• have more fun on the web.

Thank you all for your continued support!

Please let us know if there’s anything we can do for you.

There are right and wrong ways to manage your email newsletter(s) and it’s important to know the difference:

The Wrong Way to Manage Your Email Newsletter

Whatever you do, don’t send your newsletter via email to all of your subscribers using your normal email program (Outlook, Mac Mail, Thunderbird, Windows Live Mail, Gmail, etc).

We occasionally receive broadcast email messages where the sender has addressed the message to themselves and pasted all of the recipients in the BCC field of the email. While this hides the email addresses of your list recipients, it can cause a bunch of other issues including:

• poor email delivery
• there’s no good way to get tracking & statistic information
• it’s more difficult to maintain your list(s)
• lack of professionalism.

There are better ways, than entrusting your email marketing effectiveness to chance, or your Internet Service Provider.

The Right Way to Manage Your Email Newsletter

Managing an email newsletter can be quite time-consuming. That’s why we’re now offering email list management.

We can work with you to create effective email marketing campaigns:

• Create professional looking email newsletter templates
• Setup a mailing list service (we love MailChimp – they even have a free plan to help you get started)
• Import your mailing list subscribers
• Segment your email list
• Send your newsletters on a schedule
• Write and/or edit marketing copy so that it inspires action!

Interested in discussing your email marketing needs? Please contact us and we’ll setup a free consultation.

If you’ve used our design and hosting services, we’d love it if you’d take a few minutes to write a testimonial.

If you need a place to store your bits, visit IvyCat.com and use coupon code: wcpdx10.

We’ll take great care of you and even give you a free Pro WordPress installation.

Enjoy WordCamp!

Hope to see you there. If you can’t make it, I’m guessing they’ll live stream the event as they have for the past few years, so keep an eye on WordCampPortland.org.

Cheers and I hope to see you there.

We’re hiring a full-time Web Support Specialist.

For more info, questions, or to apply online, visit West Sound Workforce, the best staffing agency in the Puget Sound!

WordPress 2.9 contains loads of new features including:

• Global undo ”trash” feature that protects you from accidentally deleting content.
• An improved built-in image editor that lets you crop, edit, rotate, flip, and scale images.
• Batch updating of plugins.
• Easier embedding of video.

There are also a lot of under-the-hood improvements that make WordPress easier to develop with, more flexible with data, and more customizable.

See the WordPress 2.9 Release Notes

If you need help upgrading your WordPress, or would like to know more about it, please contact us.

Save 10% now on all new web and reseller hosting accounts for life.

Eric recently gave a presentation at WordCamp Seattle 2009 entitled “5 Free Ways to Bulletproof your WordPress Site,” which gives some spiffy tips on making your WordPress-powered site more secure, usable, and enjoyable.

• Read the blog post
• Watch the video at WordPress.tv (5 minutes)

We’ll be there learning nifty new things with our WordPress-loving peeps, making a presentation, and offering some awesome web hosting specials.

Feeling Lucky?  Win Free Hosting at WordCamp Seattle!

Bring your bunny’s foot for good luck and stick around for the door prizes, because we’re giving away five Plan 2 hosting accounts at WordCamp Seattle!

WordCamp Seattle 2009 Hosting Special

Save 25% on any of our shared hosting plans when you use the code wcsea at checkout.

You’ll actually save 25% on top of our great prepayment discounts so you can get a combined savings of almost 45%!

• We’ll gladly install WordPress for you for free, if you like.  We want to spread the WordPress love!
• We’ll help you move your site for free if you’re hosting elsewhere.
• We have a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee so you can buy now with peace of mind.
  
• Not attending WordCamp Seattle? Never fear, we heart you anyway!  You can still take advantage of our WordCamp special!

Take advantage of this amazing deal and order now because our spiffy WordPress special expires on October 31st, 2009.