It’s official we are a Hootsuite Certified Partner

March 23, 2012 By
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Simplex Studios is proud to announce that we are now a HootSuite Pro Solution Partner! HootSuite is a social media management system for businesses and organizations to collaboratively execute campaigns across multiple social networks from one secure, web-based dashboard. Key social network integrations include Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, plus a suite of social content apps for YouTube, Flickr, Tumblr and more. Earlier this year HootSuite hit 3 million users with over 700 million messages sent through over 6 million … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Events, Marketing, Social Media, Tools

Free Google Adwords credit for your business

March 20, 2012 By
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Let's get your business to show up on Google! We have 20 new $100 Google Adwords coupons to give away to businesses who want to get in front of new customers. Run an easy-to-create ad on Google that appears to potential customers searching your area for exactly what you offer. Google wants you to create your ad and run it before June 30, 2012 to use the $100 in free advertising. This is a great way to get started. Message us and we will send you one!   *Edit* Please provide the following Type of business you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Small Business, Tools

INFOGRAPHIC – How Inbound Marketing Works, From Start to Finish

February 21, 2012 By
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Hubspot is the leader of inbound marketing articles, how to's, infographics and internet marketing guides. Today they have released the "How Inbound Works! - Infographic" which analyzes the 5 steps to website success! Step 1: Create & Maintain a powerful website! (WordPress!) Step 2: Generate more traffic - Enter in Blogging, Social Media, SEO & PPC Step 3: Convert Traffic To Leads - Landing Pages, Call to Actions, Compelling forms/captures Step 4: Convert leads into sales - Lead segments, nurturing, email … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Social Media, Tools

How to get up to 5GB of extra Dropbox space for free

February 10, 2012 By
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Its friday and everybody likes getting something for free right? Dropbox is offering up to 4.5GB of extra space, if you try out their new beta app From their forum post [via dropbox forum] There is a newer forum build than this one. Go get it here: http://forums.dropbox.com/forum-build.php Another day another build. We're trying to snipe all the most common bugs. Keep plugging in those cameras! During this beta period, we are also offering additional free space to test automatic uploading of photos and videos. For every … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Link Love, Small Business, Tools, Web Apps

How we shaved 3 seconds off our WordPress website load time

February 9, 2012 By
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So how do you speed up your site? Short answer: Awesome Hardware + Caching. Long Answer see below. Our WordPress website (simplexstudios.com) used to average between 6-9 seconds of load time. On busier days we were looking at up to 12 secs of load time which had to be addressed, immediately. With a recent move to Firehost and the addition of MaxCDN we were able to cut our load time in half! We opted for a basic setup with Firehost itself and we are only using very basic caching within our WordPress setup. Simplex … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blogging, Cloud, Hardware, Tools
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