February 2, 2010

Hey folks. As your Arlington based Website Design / Marketing company, we want to make sure and keep you in the know with tips and things to watch out for so you can start improving your company presence online and your marketing efforts overall. Today we will discuss tracking because if you can’t measure it, you can’t use it.  This is a simple concept that is often skipped over when going through the day to day activities of running a business and that is tracking information. I’m not talking about tracking sales and profits and all that. I am talking [...]

Tags: analysis, analytics, consultation, effective, effectiveness, marketing, passion, ROI, specialize, tools, Tracking, web anlytics, website analytics, websites

Category: The Big Cloud, The Buzz

January 29, 2010

Hey yall.  Good day and welcome to the new and improved BigCloudMedia.com.  After our last remodel, we decided we could do it even better and the result is out. As with all things, constant improvement is necessary to succeed and so as evident by our many redesigns, we are constantly improving our offering for our customers. Though we have a new look, we are still the same company with the same goals of servicing our clients in the highest possible way with the best possible results.  We still specialize in web-design, development and marketing and we would love to hear [...]

Tags: Big Cloud Media, logo, redesign, SEO, services, web design, website, website design, websites

Category: The Big Cloud, The Buzz

December 8, 2009

Hey folks. This post is about how to make sure your website headers match your content.  This is a short review of how to find them and also, what they should be.  You would be surprised how many website owners I have talked to that don’t know how Google and the other search engines are reading their content, and why it is being read a certain way.  Knowing and adjusting your website header content is a big step in getting your website on the right track for effective SEO and online marketing. How do I see my website header tags [...]

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Category: The Buzz

November 13, 2009

This is an exiting time for Big Cloud Media.  We just finished the revamp of our website and we also just finished the rebranding effort that was long overdue.  After consulting our clients on the values of a web-presence that matches the company, we have filled our own words and completed the task. This redesign of the company has certainly been a learning experience for us and from it we will certainly provide more insightful consultation on these matters, having been through them first hand. Watch for our logo to start appearing places.  We are developing new strategies and other [...]

Tags: Big Cloud Media, business, effective, new approach, new logo, new look, return on investment, services, website, website design, websites

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November 13, 2009

Return on Investment. It’s what we are in business for and ultimately, what we expect out of our investments at the end of the day.  So why not expect the same out of our online investments, such as our websites and online marketing efforts? The Return on the Online Investment is often ignored in the rush to achieve online web presence and to start establishing a basis for being found online.  What represents your business online?  Your website does and it does a fine job of it.  Is it sending the right message though?  If you send 10,000 people there [...]

Tags: Big Cloud Media, business, effective, effectiveness, investment online, online investment, questions, redesign, return on investment online, ROI, web analytics, website, website analytics, websites

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September 30, 2009

Big Cloud Media is proud to announce that we now offer 2 different kinds of SEO solutions for your business.  SEO is Search Engine Optimization and it is a blanket term for any techniques that will help to raise your ranking in the search engines. Our new SEO program takes it a step further and is focused on not only getting your website first search page presence when certain keywords are searched, but taking up 4-6 spots on that first search results page.  Imagine your website showing up in 5 results on the first page of the google search instead [...]

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September 23, 2009

Big Cloud Media just launched it’s BETA version of HelpMeFindIt.org.  This site is A Community Driven Site for Helping People Find Stuff In the Real World.  By that we mean people can register, post what they have found or what they are missing and put it out there for the rest of the users to help them find. This site just launched and we don’t really have any advertising budget so to speak, so we need your help in spreading word about this new site and getting people there to use it. Unlike other sites, this site is completely community [...]

Tags: beta, Big Cloud Media, bigcloudmedia, helpmefindit.org, launch, website, websites

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September 17, 2009

How many of us love to make new connections and find new clients online?  Well, I do, and I would like to share with you some different places that are awesome for online networking and also, why, especially now, becoming a part of online networking and social media sites is such an important part of business. To put it simply, social media and online networking gives you the power to make contact with millions of people all over the world.  Facebook topped 300 million users and is used by newscasters to get opinions on topics, by radio shows to get [...]

Tags: Big Cloud Media, bigcloudmedia, business, effective, facebook, linkedin, new clients, new connections, online, online networking, reputation, services, social media, websites

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August 21, 2009

How many times have you looked at your website and wondered just how effective it is?  Have you ever wondered where the people that visit are coming from or what search terms they used to get there?  If you have wondered these things, you are reading the right post because we are going to look into the awesome world of website analytics and go over some of the key info you can gather using them. Why do analytics matter? Through analyzing website analytics, you can gather info about the activities of your website visitors which you  can then compare to [...]

Tags: analytics, analyzing, Big Cloud Media, business, companies, effective, effectiveness, Google Analytics, Information, trends, visitor, visitors, website, websites

Category: The Big Cloud

August 21, 2009

Notice something a little different? Well I hope so cuz we recently finished the revamp of our old website. It is not the final version because we are always looking to improve our work, but it will do for now. Through this new website we can do much more with the functionality and that was a key segment in the redesign. For those of you who just loved the old one, you can still find it if you go to www.bigcloudmedia.com/oldsite. Stay tuned for our post discussing the importance of analytics on your website.  They are super important so don’t [...]

Tags: analytics, Big Cloud Media, functionality, new, questions, redesign, website, websites

Category: The Big Cloud