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All Devices Hail Responsive Design – 2013′s Industry Standard

Responsive web design for PA, MD, and beyond. Imagine this: Your website has a sort of artificial intelligence and conforms beautifully to every device – smartphone, Ipad, Tablet, laptop, and desktop. Sounds like a futuristic dream right? It’s not. Let me welcome you to the future and give this new reality a name – responsive [...]

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Connect with Catherine Lockey

Social media platforms are a wonderful way to make new friends, generate new business, and stay connected to loved ones.   Each platform has its own culture and preferred modes of communication.  Of course, as C.E.O. of oz 2 designs and  blogger for The Creative Marketing Channel, I often leverage social media to tactfully market my [...]

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Stand Out with Social, Search, and Content!

SEO for Lancaster, PA and beyond. “To stand out you need to be wherever those customers are looking and that means social, that means search, that means word of mouth.” – Lee Odden, CEO of TopRank Online Marketing A few weeks ago a tweet by Bob Tripathi, founder of Instant E-Training, alerted me to a [...]

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Simple SEO for Small Businesses

SEO for PA, MD and beyond @oz2designs in East Berlin, PA Sharks circle when food is nearby and small businesses who vaguely grasp SEO are good food.  Perhaps your business has received a call like this, “Hi this is James Walker, data service provider for Google, Yahoo, and Bing.  Hey listen wanted to give you [...]

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Corporate Content Marketing for Best in Class Results

Best in class companies utilize content marketing for brand awareness, customer acquisition, lead generation, and customer retention. It’s no surprise more than 60% of ALL companies plan to substantially increase their content marketing efforts in 2012.  Why is content marketing so popular? What content marketing tactics do best in class companies employ? Here, in part [...]

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6 Ripoff Dead GiveAways: Don’t let that Marketer Make a Clown out of You

SEO for PA and MD and beyond. Part 5 of a 6 part content marketing series. This week I realized I’m surrounded by a plethora of SEO marketing clowns who relentlessly call and knock on my clients’ doors. They weasel their way in, these filthy clowns, and dazzle my clients with false data and poor [...]

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Content Marketing Myths

Six Content Marketing Myths – Digital Marketing Wisdom for Businesses

Content Marketing for Lancaster, York, Harrisburg, Camp Hill, PA and beyond – Part III of a Six Part Series. The biggest trade show in the world is happening right now and it’s hard to miss those businesses participating.  That’s because the show is online and active participants know how to show up on search.  Share/Bookmark

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Your Content Marketing Core Matters

Content Marketing for Baltimore, Maryland and beyond – Part II of a Six Part Series Businesses around the globe know content marketing brings traffic, leads, and conversions. From social media to webinars there are a multitude of content marketing assets. Yet, each and every content marketing strategy must begin – and end – with your [...]

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Content Marketing ROI

Content Marketing: What it is and Why it Works

Content Marketing for PA and MD businesses – Part I of a Six Part Series. A marketing and PR phenomenon has exploded online and its name is content marketing. Businesses of all sizes know content marketing brings active participants more traffic, leads, and conversions.  Data shows the more content you have, whether it be website [...]

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Hurricane Irene stalks the east coast

Social Media for Peace of Mind

Cell phone service. We take it for granted until there is an emergency and we can’t text or call our loved ones.  This is what happened to me and thousands of others after Tuesday’s earthquake. A Linkedin post by Bill Leachman from the Linked Locals Adams York group aptly describes how many were feeling: “…my [...]

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