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Spruce Up Your Logo, Set Up Expectations

Website design should reinforce brand by portraying culture, atmosphere and adhering to general design guidelines. And while it may sound like I’m stating the obvious… your logo is the pillar of your brand, with prominent website placement and from which all styles are derived. A logo is your brand identity. And I bet you can...
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Google+ Cutting Dead Weight

Google has considered Google+ a failed experiment for a few years now and eventually led to the creation of Google My Business (GMB) in late 2014. The G+ social media network has been plagued by low participation and engagement since the start, and due to those same issues Google has decided to cut the dead...
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Increase SEO with Traditional Marketing

While web marketing is our jam, we still believe in the power of traditional marketing to reinforce your online brand. Even at JM, we use traditional marketing efforts in the Omaha metro and we believe the branding power it gives directly effects our SEO. For years, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been thought to be...
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JM Gives Back to CASA

Our web design and web marketing team is excited to announce that for the month of July, we are donating $250 to CASA for Douglas County for every website sold. CASA for Douglas Country is a JM customer, and after working to build its website and being moved by it's cause, we can't think of...
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Optimizing Google My Business for Multiple Locations

Google My Business has been around since 2014 and was intended to make local SEO efforts easier for local businesses. Recently, we wrote about the excellent FREE opportunity Google My Business provides to businesses amid a competitive Search Engine Result Page (SERP), and we provide a step-by-step guide for building a Google My Business page...
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Pay-Per-Click, SEO or Both?

In an ideal world, you would be focusing efforts on both SEO and paid advertising to increase website traffic and increase sales. Both can serve you more traffic and increased qualified leads. Maybe you're not sold on Pay-Per-Click, or SEO is not going to give you the instant results you need, OR you just straight-up...
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How to Handle Complaints on Social Media

The world of customer service has dramatically transformed from phone call support lines to a host of mediums including phone, email and social media communications. And, if you're in the business of serving people you know that much of customer service is addressing complaints and making customers feel heard. We're in an age where many...
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Avoiding or Correcting Duplicate Content

Duplicate content is any substantial portion of content that appears anywhere on the Internet more than once. Content is considered duplicate when it appears on your website AND someone else's website. It's also duplicate when it appears more than once on the same website URL. Duplicate content is not something that will necessarily penalize you...
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What is Quality Website Content?

Website content is, perhaps, one of the most critical components of success for your website. In recent years, Google has put more and more emphasis on valuable content. So much so, that you’re likely to struggle with SEO success without putting thought into your website content and content structure. We’ve said it a million times,...
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Meet Carl Jacob, JM’s Tech Support Specialist

JM's newest team member is Carl Jacob, Tech Support Specialist. From over-the-phone troubleshooting to back-end server builds, Carl keep JM’s internal team and JM’s clients’ websites and email running smoothly.     As a Tech Support Specialist, Carl works within a growing department at JM where consistent growth and continuing education on technologies and strategies...
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