Inside the Box: February 2010

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Small Box Turns 4
Meet Leigh Marino
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February 2010

Small Box Charges Full Speed Ahead in 2010

We've taken a couple months away from the newsletter, hope you haven't missed our riveting insights or found yourself up at night wondering, is the team at Small Box busy enough these days?

Most definitely busy.ï¿½ Our design staff has been putting together the best work in our history lately, our programmers are building some interactive e-commerce tools, and our operations have been realigned to focus on production over project management.

But here's the good news:

Small Box is now 4

Hard to believe but it's true. Jeb Banner and Joe Downey called the company Small Box as a reaction to the super sized trends in business.ï¿½ Since then we have worked with over 200 businesses, hired 13 employees with no turnover, and our mission stays the same:

Good design will help your branding and improve the usability of your site.

Content Management gives you the keys to your website and helps you react to changes in the marketplace without expensive retooling of your site.

Search Engine Optimization will get you search engine page ranking results you need and steal business from your competition.

Meet Leigh Marino
Creative Director

SmallBox is excited to introduce you the newest member of our crew:ï¿½ Creative Guru - Leigh Marino!

We've admired Leigh's talents for quite some time, so when the opportunity came along to bring Leigh aboard we jumped at it!ï¿½

With over 20 years experience in marketing, branding, design, and creative direction on almost every stage imaginable, Leigh's expertise has been an invaluable addition to our team.ï¿½ Leigh is also a seasoned musician, which seems to be an unofficial requirement for employment here at Small Box.

"We had worked with Leigh on previous projects and could iimmediately tell she had a perfect mix of talent and charsima that we look for when bringing in new members to our team", states Jeb Banner, Small Box CEO.

We're excited to have Leigh aboard and looking forward to utilizing her experience in 2010!

On the Web's Leading Edge

Confessions of an Unapologetic Platform Agnostic
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Jeb was having lunch with his buddy and "Social Media guru" Kyle Lacy the other day. Somehow they started talking about their idiosyncratic fondness for using pen and paper as their CRM (Customer Relationship Management) "software". By the end of lunch Jeb realized he was a full blown Platform Agnostic.ï¿½ More>>

In Praise of Print

It felt a bit odd for Jeb to write this post. After all, he runs a web company which means he works almost exclusively with digital media. Yet Jeb just loves print.ï¿½ Jeb predicts that the superior user experience of the printed word means it will not only be around for a long time but also remain one of the most popular media for the foreseeable future.ï¿½ More>>

How Facebook Improved Our Quality of Life

People talk a lot about the power of social media. Mostly it's just talk, no real examples. Here's one that dramatically improved the quality of our lives here at Small Box.ï¿½ More>>

National Episcopal Health Ministries

With health care being the foremost issue on the public mind, National Episcopal Health Ministries chose a uniquely opportunistic time to evaluate its old website and recognized the need for a change. NEHM is a pioneering health ministry organization leading the way in the promotion of health ministry in Episcopal Congregations.ï¿½ï¿½

Their team envisioned the new site as a tool that would allow them to better connect with health ministries throughout the country, and to be an unprecedented resource in health ministry information and education.

Our team designed a warm and engaging site that embodies the organizations message of health and wholeness. Usability and ease-of-use were highly important features, and the layout was structured to create a natural flow throughout each section of the site.ï¿½ï¿½

The final result is a world class site and a productive tool for NEHM and its constituents.

See the NEHM site for yourself

Theoris

Based in Indianapolis, IN, Theoris is a full life cycle IT professional services and software firm offering strategic, project, and staffing based solutions tailored to meet the specific business needs of their clients.

Theoris came to to Small Box in need of a facelift.ï¿½ They had outgrown their old site and were looking something that would portray the quality service and top tier software products that their company is known for. They also needed an easy to use recruitment and job listing area that made potential consultants feel confident that Theoris could help them pursue their careers and succeed.

Our team designed and developed an enterprise level site that gives Theoris a sophisticated and accessible online presence representing their extremly solid product and service orfferings.ï¿½

The new offering perfectly transitions their online presence from a dated and typical business site, into a representation of Theoris quality in the new decade. We also designed and built a sophisticated employee extranet from that has reshaped employee time tracking and human resource access for the entire company.ï¿½

ï¿½See the Theoris site for yourself

Thank you for taking the time to read our newsletter! If your company or organization needs web design, search engine optimization or internet marketing, including pay-per-click, please let us know. Our rates are very competitive, our work top notch and we deliver on time. We guarantee you will be happy with the results!

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