Inside the Box: July 2010

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July 2010

Small Box is Heating Up
Summer is traditionally a relaxed time of year for small business, but we've decided to throw that idea in the pool even though it was wearing all of its clothes. We're just as busy as ever and launching new sites like water balloons! Check em out below.

We've also got a few tricks up our sleeves including planning the 2010 Broad Ripple Music Fest. Expect some big announcements regarding the festival very soon, but in the meantime check out some info on BRMF 2009.

We hope everyone's having as fun a summer as we are!

Team Small Box

Women's Fund

Women's Fund of Central Indiana is a world-renowned champion of issues that are impacting women. The goal for the new site was to convey this philanthropic passion by having just as deep of an impact on their visitors. We created a charming new design that expresses this passion in every sense and leaves a very effective impression on the user. The easy-to-use site structure makes finding information about the services the fund provides intuitive and simple.

See the Womens Fund Site For Yourself

Coasterstone

Coasterstone is the world's first truly absorbent coaster manufacturer- a company with so much history that it invented the category all together! The goal for this site was to create an extremely navigable and elegant interface for the 2000+ items in order to provide an ultimately harmonious shopping experience. Small Box devised a smooth and attractive layout on both the front and back-end of the site utilizing the sleek CS Cart e-commerce platform.

See the Coasterstone Site For Yourself

On the Web's Leading Edge

Checking in With Foursquare

Emily weighs in on the latest social media application to break into the mainstream: Foursquare. Do we need it? Are all of these social media applications too similar to each other for us to care? By gaining 500,000 users in one year alone, I would think not. More>>

Did 37 Signals Kill Their Golden Goose?

Jeb confesses his love for 37 Signals business model and points to a strategic error in their development as a business: dropping their clients and focusing solely on Software as a Service products. He thinks this leads to a halt in innovation, what do you think? More>>

The Demographics of Social Media

Ed shares his opinions on the difference between advertising and connecting within the social media marketing realm. Are they growing too far apart? More>>

Keeping Your Website Fresh

Jeb discusses the importance of keeping content fresh and consistent and shares some best practices for accomplishing this effectively. More>>

Meet Dan Fahrner
Marketing Consultant

Small Box is excited to introduce you the newest member of our crew: Marketing Consultant, Dan Fahrner

Dan has worked closely with the Small Box gang in many other roles prior to jumping on board - Festival Director for Broad Ripple Music Fest, Director for Musical Family Tree and even with his own previous music touring and management agency.

Dan Migrated to Indy by way of Ball State University in Muncie from where he graduated with BA in Entrepreneurship. He spent the next 4 years touring in the Indianapolis psych pop band, Everthus the Deadbeats, forming his own business and working as an assistant to the talent buyer at the Vogue in Broad Ripple.

Coming on board at Small Box in July 2010, Dan will be providing custom marketing solutions to Small Box clients, including social media marketing.

Dan lives in south Broad Ripple and spends much of his spare time with his wife Jamie. He also continues to manage a few bands (Jookabox, Elsinore) and promotes events here and there. When He's not busy doing any of the above, he spends time playing drums, riding his bike and making jokes.

We're excited to have Dan aboard and looking forward to utilizing his experience in 2010!

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