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J2O Designs is pleased to welcome San Antonio hot spot, Smooth Lines Salon & Day Spa.

We look forward to working with owner Michelle Taylor, a local celebrity and style guru.  Michelle’s vision for a strong culture is one of many reasons for the salons success. All of her efforts are put towards building a team of employees that have a passion for their skill. Offering a variety of salon and spa services as a network salon for exclusive companies like Bumble and Bubmle, Wella, glo-mineral and Cellex-C helps to make it one of San Antonio’s finest salons and day spas.

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In trying economic times, small business are looking for ways to make their advertising dollars go the extra mile. There are many cost-effective marketing initiatives that come to mind such as social media marketing, targeted direct mail and referral programs. However, there is one that most often gets overlooked – joining a local business association.

Some shy away from these organizations because they feel it will take too much time and don’t feel like taking on another project. What most people don’t realize is that even if you never go to a breakfast, trendy happy hour or mixer, never serve on a board or agree to do fundraising your business can still benefit from being apart of a chamber, business organization or trade networking group.

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J2O Designs is pleased to welcome Pyramed Heath Services.

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J2O Designs, Inc. partners with Tri County Technology Institute to debut new website

With the assistance of J2O Designs, Inc., (www.J2Odesigns.com) a strategic web design and advertising agency, Bartlesville, Oklahoma based, Tri County Technology Institute (TCTC) unveiled its new website (www.tctc.org).

The redesign leveraged the institutes’ existing branding and color scheme, created a custom designed site with an abundance of features, and advanced functionality with faculty and students in mind. Integrating powerful new search and multimedia video tools allows the institute to better communicate its services and commitment to its students and the community.

The site is built with a robust content management system and boasts over 200 individual pages with seamless and easy-to-use navigation. Interested prospects can use the site as a tool gather information on career clusters and specific courses both part-time and full time available at TCTC. The institute was named the ‘2010 Best Place to Work in Oklahoma’. To help communicate new opportunities to qualified candidates, the site now boats a state-of-the-art career services section that displays career opportunities and an online application process that is designed to support the school for years to come.  In addition to designing the public portal, J2O Designs, Inc. also redesigned the Tri County Technology Institutes’ intranet with providing a platform for faculty and staff to easily interact and communicate administrative requests.

“For both the public website and the intranet portal, we knew our greatest challenge was going to be displaying such a wealth of information in an effective and easy-to-use manner,” stated Jim Odom, J2O Designs, Creative Director, “The feedback from new students and focus groups has been extremely positive. We are pleased that were able to create balance. TCTC offers hundreds of courses and is a leader in the community. Our goal was to capture the spirit of the school appealing to a younger audience while at the same time portraying the website in a clean and professional,” state J2O Designs Creative Director, Jim Odom.   

To learn more about Tri County Technology Institute, please visit www.tctc.org. To learn more about J2O Designs, Inc., please visit www.J2ODesigns.com

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About J2O
J2O (jay-two-oh) Designs, Inc. is a full-service, strategic marketing firm that is constantly redefining the services it provides. The team of over 30 designers, coders, writers, strategic brand managers provides a variety of services that working together create campaigns both large and small helping businesses communicate the right message to the right audience at the right time. J2O Designs, Inc. expertly adapts to the ever-changing internet trends and economic developments. It is an agency large enough to deliver successful national campaigns but small enough to provide the flexibility and agility that clients need.

About TCTC
At Tri County Technology Center, we are dedicated to inspiring success through life changing learning experiences throughout the northeast Oklahoma counties of Washington, Nowata and Osage. We prepare students for life by teaching them the skills and behaviors necessary for employment in today's hottest careers. The skills you learn can help jump start your career or prepare you for college. Courses are offered in both full-time and short-term formats to meet the needs of the student.

As a certified small business incubator, TCTC is encouraging the growth of the district in these difficult economic times. We also continue to offer self-employment, small business management and safety training.

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Favorite past-times for many young girls is playing with dolls and reading Bible stories. The inspired creative team at TheFreedomGirls.com have developed a line of products designed to bring both to the hearts and minds of young girls all over the world.

The Freedom Girls is an active children’s ministry designed to facilitate parents in the efforts to provide children with the knowledge that the Lord knows them personally and by name (Jeremiah 1:5, Exodus 33:17 and John 10:3). The first product consisting of a contemporary story about RUTH and an accompanying doll was unveiled earlier this month in Austin, Texas with rave reviews.

Over the past year, J2O Designs had the pleasure to be apart of the start up efforts and has assisted with corporate branding, web design and social media consulting.

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The staff at J2O Designs is pleased to welcome new client, Bulls-eye SBT, a business of champions.

For over four decades, the Bulls-eye SBT brand has been the power and genius behind some of the most famous Staffordshire Bull Terriers in history. This special group of champion canines will soon receive the rock-star treatment that they deserve. The champions will be honored with a website showcasing each Bulls-eye champion as well as a social media campaign to celebrate the breed and the people behind the scenes  that have made winning a way of life.

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The staff at J2O Designs is pleased to welcome new client, Goose Hill Farm Estate, a gorgeous property located in upstate New York.

The 20 acre property is currently for sale and looked to J2O Designs to help market its history, features and many benefits. J2O Designs has provided assistance with web design, print materials and a social media campaign.

http://www.goosehillfarmestate.com/

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Business is changing. The internet and social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, YELP and YouTube) offer new opportunities that businesses only dreamed about in years past. Social media sites allow businesses to increase brand awareness, provide customer service, generate new leads and drive traffic to the company website, products and services.

Facebook alone boasts 400 million active users where each day more than 20 million people become fans of business related pages. With overwhelming numbers like these, it’s no wonder that research shows businesses backing off aggressive print and billboard campaigns in favor of strategies that encourage direct contact with customers and prospects through the company website and social media platforms.

At J2O Designs, we feel that small businesses are in a prime position to attract big on-line attention. No matter your profession or product line, with the right website and social media marketing strategy, we know that you can have a standout year even in this tight economy.

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As small business owners we are approached every day by energetic sales people promising us foot traffic and increased sales. It's tough to know which way to turn and where to invest limited advertising dollars to generate the largest return.

Humor me and join me in a quick exercise. Let’s identify all of your possible marketing initiatives. Your list might look something like this:


Web Site
Print Advertisement
Commercial
Billboard
Special Events
Direct Mail
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Promotions/Discounts
Online Directory

Ok, now let’s prioritize them based on success…....

hmmm…You’ve seen a pick up in business since the last direct mail campaign….facebook brought in that awesome lead last month….the commercial is great and you’ve received a lot of nice comments… it’s difficult arrange the list in order of importance....

Now, rather than trying to prioritize,  arrange your cards like the spokes on the wheel. What out of all of these should go in the center? If you're smart, you will say your website…that’s right the company website.

All of the initiatives are imperative to small business marketing but one is not more important than the other. All of them working together like spokes on a wheel keeps a business  moving forward. However, if you think about it, it’s the website that is the hub that all roads lead to. You can’t accept credit card orders on Facebook or YouTube. You can’t communicate everything about your business on a direct mail postcard or billboard. But what you can do is make a great impression in these spaces and provide your URL to give those interested a central location to learn more about your business.

We always encourage our clients to put their URL on everything….promotional merchandise, direct mail, vehicle signage, social media….you get the point. It always baffles me when I see a small business advertising in a slick magazine that cost thousands of dollars but doesn’t have a website or even worse, has a website but doesn’t include the URL on the magazine ad. (You know who you are). Having an active marketing strategy in place is great but don’t forget to drive traffic to the resource that has it all…your website.

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Today I am so proud to officially launch the new and improved J2O Designs website.

The new site is a more accurate reflection of who we are and the key services that provide. In addition to new branding resulting in a new look and feel, the updated site goes above and beyond to display our work and our depth of services that we provide. Like our business model, the site puts the spotlight on our clients through featured client promotions and news and updates about the happenings of our clients. Guests can learn more about what’s going on here at J2O Designs through our staff blog and twitter updates.

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