This month marks August Ash’s tenth year in business. During these ten years, August Ash has grown from a one employee company to a thirteen employee company consisting of positions in sales, marketing, management, customer relations, and of course, web design and web development. With 240 active client relationships today, we look forward to continuing to serve customers in the Minneapolis area and beyond with consistent, thoughtful service; quality, custom web designs; and innovative web solutions.

We’re currently looking to add to our professional, talented team of designers and developers. See our employment page for current opportunities with August Ash.

Whether you’re looking to work for us or with us - we’d love to hear from you!

A new website for the Minnesota family law firm Butler, Huson, & Allen, P.A. gives the firm a fresh and professional look, while also allowing the attorneys to provide valuable resources and support for their clients.

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August Ash collaborated with Competitive Image Publishing to create PortraitofPassion.com, a website dedicated to a book that features the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team. The book, written by teen author Gail Stewart with photos by sports photographer Paul Philips, is an inspirational book including in-depth interviews with the members of the 2007 U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team.

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Recent research from the PEW Internet and American Life Project says that while more than half of Americans (66%) that are online have made a purchase online, three quarters of them (75%) either agree or strongly agree that they don’t like giving out their credit card and other personal information online. So, what does this mean for your retail business and taking it online? Does Internet users’ skepticism of the security of their online information prevent them from actually making purchases? And, more importantly, is there anything you can do to ease this concern?

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Our last blog post weighed the new features some search engines are offering against the trusted results users receive from others – namely, Google. New data may answer the question posed as to how long it will take - if any length of time is long enough – for new features from other search engines to draw loyal searchers away from Google. But from a perspective of searcher loyalty, is Google really the clear winner?

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Are the new features some search engines are announcing enough to win over loyal searchers from trusted engines?

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We’ve already told you all the great things you can find out about your marketing results with internet marketing and website tracking, but internet marketing gives you control even before you decide exactly what message you’re going to market.

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Internet marketing is often a mysterious topic that business owners face with skepticism. You know how a print ad works: You give a publication your creative, and you know you’ll be able to see it on a certain page of that publication. With the internet, you know you want more visitors to your website and you know what words you’d like them to find you for in the search engines, but how do you get from these ideas to results? How do you know it’s going to work when no one has a guarantee with Google? While internet marketing is certainly a less familiar form of marketing than print or television advertising, there’s much more certainty and far fewer guesses with this type of marketing than with traditional marketing.

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Google AdWords ads… those sponsored listings on the top and side of your Google search results…are probably the closest thing you can get to a guaranteed rank in Google. But, as the methods Google uses to determine natural rankings can change quickly enough to make you dizzy, so can the methods they use to determine Google AdWords rank. (And yes… people do look at these ads…and even click on them… and give your business money… all in a few easy steps, which Google tracks for you).
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Many of us today can’t imagine our lives without the Internet – for better or for worse. Some of us - present company included - literally make a living through the Internet, whether that be through web design and marketing or online sales. Sometimes, though, we’d do anything just to have a day with no email, online news, or instant messaging.

Seeing so many people chained to their laptops and blackberries, it can seem hard to imagine a society more addicted to the Internet than our own – but clearly, South Korea is in the lead.

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