Koos Wealth Management
I just wanted to give a shout out to my good buddy Adam Koos. His wealth management company is being honored in the November issue of Columbus C.E.O. Magazine:
Best Financial Advisory Firm:
Independent advisory firm Koos Wealth Management, Inc. of Dublin topped global giant Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for his year’s Best of Business ranking.
K Studio Dance Party!
Party on, dude! We launched another website recently for our good friend Kelly from K Studio Dance.
K Studio Dance. Wordpress integrated website.
The website itself is a basic Word Press integration. We also added Face Book Like buttons on each page so her clients could easily give some “shout outs” from Face Book. On the first day the buttons were available, the site got 73 likes, increasing traffic from about 10 hits per day to over 100+ hits for the day the Like button functionality was launched. We are now working on some SEO loose ends to get the website more noticeable on search engines like Google and Youtube.
The Fork Dorks have arrived
Over the past few months we have implemented a slew of new small web applications.
Fork Dorks
One of our latest websites is the result of a couple of dorks with big appetites. Every day for lunch, we go through the same routine. Instant messages start shooting back and forth around 10:00 AM. Propositions, negotiations, and ultimately decisions are made over email, text messages, IMs and occasional phone calls. We go to lunch and “talk shop” about our nerdy jobs and generally enjoy the company. None of us are really culinary experts, but that does not exclude us from having the right to an opinion. One of our consensus opinions was that local food blogs do nothing but gush over anywhere they report on and that is where Fork Dorks was born. We can’t pair a wine with a steak, but we can give a real opinion about where we ate.
The site has also played a neat role as a test location for some new techniques. We used Word Press with a super basic template and rolled the site out over a weekend. Since then, we implemented some basic integration points with Flickr and Facebook. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys the fruits of our labor.
OSU HomeBase … new look… same purpose -> none
Tailgating, Ohio State Football
The brainchild website of the business, OSU Home Base underwent a new look. OSU Home Base is a website dedicated to our alumni group and Ohio State Football. The purpose is to serve as a general forum for old friends to stay connected and to meet new friends with common interests. I created this site as an undergrad student and during one of its many transformations, I got a lot of attention and a few job offers. I got enough offers, in fact, that I decided to go a little bigger and start my own business… and Home Base Web Solutions was born.
Green Leaf EAS website complete
Green Leaf Energy Audit Services
The Green Leaf Energy Auditing Services website launched this week highlighting another complete solution provided by Home Base Web. Using a Word Press Template, we customized the logo, designed the website, and set up both web hosting and email services… all in about a week.
It was a pleasure working with Gary and Cindy Ungerer and we wish them the best in their new business venture. We look forward to offering our continued support for all of our customers for all of their online needs.
Building websites gets personal
Baron Landscaping
Some of the toughest clients are family. A major part of effective project management is defining your client’s expectations early in the project. The problem with working for family is that there are always implied expectations that don’t always get put on paper. You also usually work for a discount, if not for free, so motivation to work extra hours to get things done is pretty low. Fortunately, my brother isn’t a computer geek like me. The fact that he has a website at all gives him an edge on his competition so customer satisfaction was pretty easy to achieve. I also know that those discounts and implied expectations are a two way street… so now I have the coolest landscaping on the block.
Check out Baron Landscaping and if you’re in North East Ohio and your yard needs help, call up ole’ Danny Boy and tell him Mike sent you. I’m pretty sure you won’t get a discount, but you will make both of us happy.