Rawdesignr – Web Design Chicago

We are very excited at rawdesignr to show off our iPhone app in the store when it gets accepted.  It will have our blog feed, twitter feed and most importantly our portfolio.  This would allow anyone to follow us that much easier!  Will keep everyone posted when it is published.

I was one of the lucky few to get my hands on a book by the founders of huspot (http://www.hubspot.com) called Inbound Marketing.. Well, I actually bought it from amazon.com, so I’m not sure if that makes me lucky or not.

The full title is called Inbound Marketing – Get found using Google, social media, and blogs. The book lived true to its name and gave its readers content on how to use social media and blogging to your advantage. I really hate long book reviews so here’s my take:

• Outbound marketers are old school (not the cool kind of old school)
• Create a lot of content and it must be remarkable. Basically, your content must be the shiznit or nobody will care
• **** your website! Blogging is where its at. (To be fair, they just placed more emphasis on the blog. Rawdesignr is a web company, I wouldn’t throw it under the bus like that!)
• Always know how your content is doing on the web. In other words, make sure your shiznit is trackable, and optimize your shiznit where necessary.
• Hire Digitial Citizens – You need web veterans on your team, and you need them bad. Check how many followers they have, how often they write on their blog, how many connections they have on linkedin etc

Overall, the book gets 5 stars from rawdesignr. Check out their inbound marketing blog

Google Maps GPS with turn by turn navigation. Amazing. It’s also voice activated. More importantly, those app users can no longer say “There’s an app for that”. Check out the link below, and you must watch the youtube video that goes along with it.

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We have officially launched our social media campaign and we will be sharing our results as we go along. Our goal is to become a leading social media marketing provider in the Chicagoland area. To start it off, here is what we have in place so far:

Blog: http://blog.rawdesignr.com
Facebook Fan Page: http://www.facebook.com/rawdesignr
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/rawdesignr
Yelp Business Page w/ customer reviews: http://www.yelp.com/biz/rawdesignr-chicago
Our Goals

Send out a bi-weekly newsletter
Keep the Content Short, Sweet, Relevant & Interesting!
Showcase client work
Blog at least 3 times a week.
Blog about latest news & trends
Show case client work
Build up our facebook fan page
Goal is to have 500+ fans by the end of July
Share latest news & trends
Tweet at least 3 times a week
Goal is to have 500+ followers by the end of August
Client Work

Rawdesignr has just launched the Young Irish Fellowship Club website. It is a fully integrated e-commerce site on a WordPress CMS platform, with twitter & flickr integration. The link ishttp://www.youngirish.com