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If you’re reading this as a small business owner with products and services and to sell, Tyrus Design can help. Chances are, your small business targets certain demographics in Michigan based upon age, sex and even geographic region. If your small business is already marketing to particular demographics in Michigan, great! If it’s not marketing to certain demographics in Michigan, you should start. But either way, Tyrus Design can help you create a new small business identity or even build ...

Having a good-looking and informative Website without a quality search engine optimization (SEO) campaign is like opening a storefront in the middle of the desert. No one’s going to find it! SEO content writing will help get your small business Website found by your target audience. So whether or not you’re an established small business or an up-and-coming small business located right here in Michigan, don’t leave your Website’s reach and success to chance. Instead, read on to see ...

The cornerstone to any quality search engine optimization (SEO) campaign is keywords. Here’s why. Keywords get your Website found by your customers. Keywords move your Website up in the search engine results. Keywords make your business grow as customers find you instead of the competition. Without a foundation of strong industry and geographic keywords, your Website might as well be playing hide and seek among all the other small and big business Websites in Michigan.

But have no fear! At ...

Let it be known. Google, Yahoo, Bing, MSN and all other search engines are not all-knowing oracles. Sure, they give you great answers when you ask. But they merely know how and where to find the best answers to your particular question.
So, if your small business has an answer or a solution to someone’s question, you need to know how to let the not-so omnipotent search engines find your Web site. The key lays in search engine optimization, or ...

One of the hardships of being the owner of Tyrus Design is I don’t have the luxury of having a personal assistant. It would be so nice if I could have someone that took care of all my appointment scheduling and made detailed list of all the tasks that need to be completed in order to maintain a healthy growing web design business. Unfortunately my wife won’t do it so I have to turn to the electronic world ...

Having a website for your small affordable business should be simple and uncluttered. Encompassing a clear and clean navigational system on your site is crucial for your small business’ rankings. ­Once your site looks updated and you’ve included links to your Facebook account you’re small business website is just about there.

Don’t be a twit…..tweet!

The last ingredient to add to your site is a Twitter Feed that displays your Twitter updates and the people you’re following on Twitter. If that seems ...

Earlier we examined some of the basics elements needed to upgrade your website if it’s a few years old. In case you didn’t catch that post some of the easiest things you can modify is your web design look and you site’s navigation. There are a few other things you can do to your website that will keep your small business digitally updated.

Facebook me!

Whether you offer digital or physical product and services or you should include a link to your ...

Have you ever been given bad driving directions? I mean really bad directions?

It’s always frustrating to get bad directions. But it’s something that everyone encounters at one time or another. People who give bad directions don’t put themselves in the shoes of the person who has never been to that particular location before. They write down to “turn here” and then “turn there”, but they never give you specific details that will help you get there.

The same can be said ...

I recently joined a local business organization to help small business owners in my area market their company in the web and print media. This is the typical response I get the after introducing myself and what I do:

“Oh, I already have a website and I’m happy with it.”

This awful phrase sticks in my ear like water after a swim. And it annoys me to no end. It’s not the fact I’m losing a potential client, it’s the fact that ...

The internet is still in its infancy. Understanding the science behind this rather new medium can takes years and by the time you feel like you have a grasp on things, it changes. The internet is a melting pot of many different cultures, popular trends, social demographics, the advances of technology, and digital engineering. For the first time in history more people have claimed that they would give up television before giving up the internet. Why? Well, think about it: ...