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Happy Hour Pal Now on the Big Island!

A.S. Designs has recently teamed up with Happy Hour Pal, a happy hour guide website that helps users find happy hour information, including menus, daily specials, basic business information, maps, GPS-based directions, check-in rewards, and more!  This locally owned and operated start-up is based on Oahu and also has a free app that takes the guess work out of going to happy hours with updated food and drink menus and detailed day of the week specials at your finger tips.

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Effective Social Media Strategies

A report  done by Gigya, says that in the second quarter (April to June) Google+ only has about 2% of the Social Media sharing market, which is a small but substantial increase from the previous quarter, while Facebook is still the number one source of logins and shares.

We like to give our clients the best of both worlds, or in this case, the best of four worlds, and it looks like we’ve got the right idea.

In the office, we use all social media platforms to help not only market our clients, but ourselves. We use our Google+ Hangout to have meetings with each other and clients, our Twitter to present our blogs and short snippets of information, our Facebook for awesome pictures or articles we like, and of course Pinetrest for a little bit of everything.

Your marketing plan should involve one if not ALL of these social media platforms. If done correctly, you too can have great success with each …

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What has your Social Media Done for You Lately?

I’m sure you’ve heard a lot of news lately about how FacebookTwitter, Google+,  and all other venues for social media are NOT the best route to promoting your business or product, but the truth is, it does work. It’s all about strategy and making sure you define and REdefine your marketing strategy frequently.

If you are an every day poster on Facebook and continually post pictures of your favorite dog or pictures of food you’ve prepared, this might have worked for you to get a base audience, it is NOW time to change that strategy and come up with something new. All marketing strategies need to be reevaluated every so often just to make sure they are working.

Read this article on ways to boost your marketing with Facebook and see what areas you could change to better serve your target audience.

To see the full article click the link here:

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Google+ Brings a Whole New Meaning to “You Wanna Hangout?”

Google+ has now surpassed Twitter as the world’s 2nd largest social media networking site.  Part of what makes them such a great site is Google+ Hangouts, where users can meet up and chat about a specific topic or just “hangout.”  Since Hangouts are essentially web-based video and text conference rooms, it is no longer necessary to fly in business members from around the world for meetings, nor do you have to exclude your international friends from a group discussion.  Plus it’s FREE!  Thanks Google+!

You can even save your Hangout sessions and have it set-up to auto-post them to YouTube afterwards.  This is helpful to people who aren’t able to make it, or, as is our case, in such a different time zone that in order to make it you have to wake up 2-3 hours early than you normally would.

Another interesting aspect of Google+’s Hangouts is what some companies have been using them for.  For instance The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is having Q & …

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The Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors

Finally a good infographic explaining up to date SEO Factors with definitions and everything…Thanks Search Engine Land!!!!

Search engine optimization — SEO — may seem like alchemy to the uninitiated. But there is a science to it. Search engines reward pages with the right combination of ranking factors, or “signals.” SEO is about ensuring your content generates the right type of signals.

Our chart below summarizes the major factors to focus on for search engine ranking success (and thanks to Column Five Media, for the infographic design).

The Search Engine Land Guide To SEO explains factors in more depth…click here to learn more

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New Online Community Calendar Created by AS Designs

Finding and announcing a community event online just got a lot easier and faster.

AS Designs proudly announces the development and launch of QuickEventz™.com.  QuickEventz.com is a FREE, all-inclusive, map-based community calendar, providing a central site for finding events, fairs, festivals, sports, fundraisers, showings and other community events that are happening in a local area.  The goals of QuickEventz.com are to bring people together, and make it quick and easy for visitors and locals alike to attend events they enjoy as well as help make events successful.

“As a schoolteacher and community member, I have always wanted to have a fast way to find out what is going on in my neighborhood,” says QuickEventz.com founder Patty Gutzeit. “With this website and, soon a mobile app, I can find and share the community events I want to see and participate in.”

Developed by AS Designs & Services LLC

Created by, AS Designs & Services, this new website makes it easy to discover what’s happening in a local community, all mapped out using Google Maps.

“Working with Ian and his team has been …

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Workshop: Intro to Social Media Marketing Video

You asked for it, and here it is…the video of the Introduction to Social Media workshop that we offered at the end of April 2013. Presented by

educator and marketer, Cymber Quinn social media expert, Taryn Fowler ASDS pooh-bah, Ian Hatch.

This video covers the entire marketing cycle and how Social Media fits into the big marketing mix. We briefly touch on the differences between Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google+ and more.

Best of all, you’ll learn how a surfing Easter Bunny got 19,000 likes.

We welcome your questions and comments here on our Web Development BlogFacebookGoogle+ or Twitter pages, and look forward to seeing you at our next class soon.

Mahalo to all participants for making this a fun class.

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