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If you’re a late bloomer to the social media game, well this is your opportunity to jump on the bandwagon and hit the ground running. Small-to-medium sized business owners, THIS IS FOR YOU! This conference is a MUST for your business to be successful in a socially-connected marketplace. Social Media Day will help you establish …

Extraordinary customer service is hard to find. Those rare, truly positive experiences with a corporation creates a lasting impression and converts us to customers for life. I have often dealt with corporate giants as they try and work through simple problems, but I am usually left disappointed and with no improvement to my predicament. This …

With the endless amount of advertising we encounter each day, it’s easy to ask: does any of this actually work on me?  This question has fueled many debates and we believe we have answers in our new comic.   (Thanks to Fresh team member Trevor Essmier for the putting this together)  

Imagine backpacking through Europe.  While strolling down the streets of Vienna, you walk into a console booth, log in and immediately have access to your personal computer. Instantly all of your personal data, programs, settings are at your fingertips. Hard drives are a thing of the past and cloud computing technology is the future.  This …

To better understand why we need creativity and designers more than ever before, we present you a snippet from a speech by Jeff Dance given at the Seattle Design Center, illustrated by Fresh team member Trevor Essmeier.

Let’s face it,  the human attention span is not what it used to be.  This is why having an online video is a vital tool for promoting your business online.  Studies show that the presence of a web video increases web traffic by 100%, website clicks by 30% and increases the number of calls generated …

One of the best tools I’ve found to manage my growing Twitter following is ManageFlitter. If you’re a big Twitter fan, like myself, and have not given this tool a try, then you are really missing out. It’s a great way to manage Twitter followers/followings in bulk.   (*see word of caution below) What made …

Being a developer these days is both easier and harder than it used to be. We have the benefit of “standing of the shoulders of giants” and leverage a lot of technology that wasn’t there before. Imagine trying to build Facebook using nothing but Assembly language! However, we also live in a far more complex …

A year ago today, we celebrated three employee birthdays at our office: Benjamin Lehrer, Mike Whitmore, and Elisha Terada.  They just so happen to all have the same birth day.  This may not sound too surprising if you are working at a large corporation, but what if there are only 8 working in the office? …

Wikipedia is the 7th most visited site in the world and one of the most debated resources in academics. Two years ago, my co-founder Steve and I had our own great debate and discussion over the use of Wikipedia for knowledge. It ended in a consensus: Wikipedia is the first place to look and the …