Blog Posts from 2011

When using social media for business (or nonprofit) purposes, it's a good idea to make sure the content of your interactions is useful for your audience. In this blog, we've talked about using Facebook for business, how to use Twitter, how to make your social media count, and ...

It should come as little surprise that more sales each year, especially during the holiday shopping season, are taking place online. But the extent of that trend remains newsworthy, bolstered by statistics that show strong increases in ecommerce purchases.

The businesses that succeed today are the ones who recognize that shopping channels change, outreach methods change, and communication tools change, but one aspect through it all hasn't changed: customer service rules and best practices.

If you're managing your business or nonprofit's Facebook page, how are you gauging the success of your efforts? If it's simply the number of likes your page has, the following argument is worth reading.

For more than six decades, Bondo® has been helping do-it-yourselfers fill in, patch, and generally make everything look better. Through the use of Bondo's varying lines of putty, glaze, coatings, and other tools, owners of all kinds of items have been able to restore their possesions to significantly better condition.

August Ash friend and client Kieran Folliard was recently featured on Fox 9's "Buzz" show. In the segment, Folliard, joined by his Marketing Manager Jane Bartel, shared a brief explanation of how his 2 Gingers whiskey came to be. They also demonstrated how to make a Big Ginger at home using the Irish-distilled whiskey.

We’ve known for years that the time it takes a browser to load your webpage can affect how often that page gets visited, and to some degree, how Google ranks that page. But over the past year or two, the role of “site speed,” a common term for that measurement, has begun playing an increasingly significant role in SEO.

If you don’t have analytics installed on your site’s pages, however, you won't even be able to discern whether your newly discovered situation is due to a spike (or drop) in traffic, or simply a change in how that existing traffic is behaving on your site.

August Ash is proud to announce the launch of another significant new website. 2 Gingers Whiskey, the signature whiskey from Irish-born and Minnesota-celebrated Kieran Folliard, has itself recently launched here in the Cities.

August Ash is excited to announce the launch of Rockabilia.com's new website. This new redesign replaces a previous design (also from August Ash) that was made live years ago.