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City of Harrington, Del., Chooses Delaware.Net

October 21st, 2009

The City of Harrington, Delaware recently awarded Delaware.Net the contract to rebuild their website. Harrington researched web design companies from around the country. The proposal from another competing municipal website design vendor for the city’s website was over $30,000 and a included a 3-year contract commitment for hosting the site. By contrast, Delaware.Net prepared a strategy for the city to prepare a new website interface, install our proven content management system for cities, a request tracking system, a city Intranet, a new police department website, a mass emailing system, live training, and much more. Delaware.Net saved the city over $15,000 with the project, and was able to offer more features and better support. » Read more: City of Harrington, Del., Chooses Delaware.Net

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Posted in City Website Design, Content Management System, Delaware.Net, Inc., Local Delaware, Municipal Website Design, Web Design, Web Design Pricing

Tags: City Website Design delaware harrington Municipal Website Design

Free Delaware Search Engine

March 20th, 2009

For those of you that have a real brick and mortar business in Delaware, you can now get a free listing for your business on Delaware.com (a site that I own). Premier listings are also available for only $50 a year. This is an easy way to get a powerful inbound link to your website (Google likes those inbound links).

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Posted in Delaware.com, Local Delaware

Tags: Delaware.com seo

Realtors using Blogs, Facebook, and Google for fun and profit

February 19th, 2009

We are in the Web 3.0 world now. Realtors are just starting to get it, but most of them don’t get it. Not all of it. Not yet.

It took a while, but Realtors are finally coming around to Web 2.0, Web 3.0, social networking, whatever you want to call it. It is becoming clear to Realtors (finally) that building a website and waiting around for Google to find it simply doesn’t work. This is a good thing! It means that they are waking up to the reality that we are LEAVING THE INFORMATION AGE and that we are ENTERING THE PARTICIPATION AGE. While this is a positive step, and Realtors are using more of these social solutions online, many see them just as a tool for profit instead of a tool for SHARING THEIR KNOWLEDGE and building credibility.

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Posted in Articles, Blogs and Blogging, Email Marketing, Facebook, Internet Industry, Local Delaware, Real Estate SEO, Real Estate Web Design, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engines and SEO

Tags: Blogs and Blogging Facebook Realtor SEO

Kelly McKown (my wife) featured in Delaware Today Magazine

October 22nd, 2008

Delaware Today’s Magazine‘s November 2008 issue did a feature on “Women Shaping Business” in Delaware. You can see the article that mentions Kelly on page 76 of the magazine. Kelly is the President of Incorporating Services Ltd., which is based in Dover, Delaware. The article mentions how Kelly assisted the company in tripling sales over a three-year period. ISL has 35 employees and three offices. You can see the whole article online now.

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Posted in Local Delaware

Tags: delaware incorporating isl kelly mckown

City of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware Chooses Delaware.Net

July 21st, 2008

Since I was a kid, I have fond memories of going to the Delaware beaches. Rehoboth Beach has always been a special place for me. The boardwalk, the shops, restaurants, all of it. It still has that charm that brings a flood of Pennsylvanians and Delawareans to the beach. Rehoboth IS the beach for many folks.

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Posted in Delaware.Net, Inc., Local Delaware, Municipal Website Design, Team-Logic CRM, Web Design

Delaware.Com Real Estate Portal Launched

May 5th, 2008

I just launched a new real estate portal on Delaware.com. The new real estate search engine for Delaware includes all homes in both Delaware area MLS databases. This allows us to offer a local real estate search that covers ALL of the available homes in Delaware. Each morning, we syndicate over 60,000 homes into our databases. With newer XML-based MLS data being integrated, we will expand this database even further.

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Posted in Delaware.Net, Inc., Delaware.com, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, Real Estate SEO, Real Estate Web Design, Search Engines and SEO

Delaware Expo Trade Show – A Huge Success

March 6th, 2008

Three years ago, I came up with an idea to get a little more local exposure for us, and to also help out area chambers of commerce. The idea was to have a business-to-business (B2B) trade show, where businesses that sell to other businesses could mix and market. On March 5th, we held our third one. It went great!
Thanks to all of our customers, friends, and partners that attended the Third Annual Delaware Expo Trade Show. The weather was perfect yesterday and we had over 1,000 attendees at the show. The exact number was close to 1,200. Our show is now the largest business-to-business networking event in the state of Delaware, with over 120 exhibitors. We got a lot of positive feedback on the show, and some ideas that we will use to make the 2009 show even better.

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Posted in Internet Industry, Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, My Presentations, Search Engines and SEO

Online Etiquette â€“ Mixing Politics and Business

January 6th, 2008

Here we go again, another election year…

Election years can be dangerous times for business owners that have strong political views and little self-control. Especially for those who force those views down the throats of their customers, employees, and peers. While I feel that it’s commendable for anyone to be passionate about their convictions and views (I know I am), there is a proper time and place to voice those views. Email makes it painfully easy for anyone to instantly forward a political view, comment, article, video link, etc. in the blink of an eye, automatically alienating at least HALF of the people that they are sent to. Recently, a local business owner did just that when they sent me a politically-charged email.

More after the jump.

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Posted in Local Delaware

2007 accomplishments – and looking ahead to ’08

January 3rd, 2008

2007 was a good year for Delaware.net. We grew 24% overall, and web design project revenue grew 90%. Our staff also grew, and we accomplished most of our goals, including launching new applications. Lots more is coming in 2008, and if you want to hear about some of our plans, click the link.
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Posted in Delaware.Net, Inc., Internet Marketing, Local Delaware, Real Estate Web Design, Site News

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