Google My Business Free Online Web Course!
As the Internet continues to grow, it is increasingly important to get your business online. One of the vital tools to help grow businesses online presence is Google My Business. When setup, it allows a business to show in their local area with ease, transforming the process that customers now take in finding the information, product or service they require. With Google My Business being a free to use tool, it really is worth looking in to and will help drive your online presence forward.
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Web Design Spotlight: Gingerich Plumbing, Heating, and Air
Gingerich is a Southern Pennsylvania company, they serve all of York County, which is quite close to our office in Hampstead Maryland. Gingerich reached out to us specifically because their website was outdated and broken, and they had already begun a rigorous radio ad campaign that was directing lots of traffic to the broken site. We planned a fast track rush job on the new site in order to prevent losing leads.
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Carroll County MD Graphic Design Spotlight
Check out the sweet reach in, they requested vintage style tattoo illustrations with their logo and brand colors. They turned out awesome and we are so excited for the public to start reaching their hands into that cooler for cold brews!
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Web Design and logo Spotlight: Jamie Fay Holistic Wellness
Jamie Fay Holistic Wellness was a referral to us that we were exceptionally excited about. Sometimes designers can get stuck in a rut of designing a lot of service style websites that feel very similar. Jamie came to us with a vision board filled with fantasy images, deep bold color palettes and so much whimsy!
Yes. yes to all of that.
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Website Design Spotlight: Rooted In Nature of Maryland
We used beautiful bold pictures that feature the company’s excellent landscaping techniques and work. Rounding out the amazing hero images and accent photos are fine tuned SEO that will help with organic local leads, both commercial and residential.
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Website Design Spotlight: Restaurant La Jarochita
When designing this website, we chose a bold theme with Mexican illustrations in eye catching neon colors. Bold Cap fonts, and a focus on real food pictures makes the website design flow and the user experience easy and exciting. We hope that the website visitors will be able to smell the food and hear the Mexican music playing in the background while browsing the new menu.
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New Client Spotlight
This site is clean, built for function, and strong in typeface and imagery. We chose to use large hero images throughout and focus on natural pictures that featured natural light, to relay that “home grown” environmental feel, we also wanted to stay away from those typical green color schemes that a lot of companies in the Medical Cannabis Sector tend to get sucked into.
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Carroll County Car Graphics Project
We partner with The Wrappers to provide our clients high quality Vinyl pieces from a local source. So when we got a call about creating some wheel caps, we said: "SURE."
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Client Spotlight: Casa Nuova Designs
I enjoyed working with this Sykesville Maryland small business to give them a classy, clean, modern logo design. We also supplied them with 100 free business cards to get started and so they’d have their logo in print, it is always very exciting to see your brand new logo on actual collateral.
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4 Reasons you need to add Every Door Direct Mail (EDDM) to Your Carroll County, MD Marketing Programs
No matter what you are trying to promote and when you are trying to promote it, Every Door Direct Mail is a great way to boost your Maryland business. You can send anywhere from 500 to 5,000 EDDM pieces per day per zip code, which gives you the flexibility to start smaller and then go big when you are ready. We are offering a special for our Maryland customers and providing a complete postcard mailer, design + printing + postage all for one low price!
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Please Help us Welcome our Summer Intern Angie!
Angie will be helping with graphic design assignments, learning marketing basics, social media, website design basics, and probably a lot more! We are hoping to be able to help her grow her skill set and her knowledge of the industry over the next few months.
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HM&D Receives 2020 Award of Excellence in Packaging Category
Hampstead Marketing and Design is elated to be a recipient of the highest award, the award of excellence in graphic design for our Pipe The Side Crowler Label Design.
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Beware of Discount Marketers During This Time
Just like usual though there are marketing professionals (using that word lightly) and agencies that are not blessed with our large funnel of customers and are grasping at straws for new business. Offering a discount is wonderful, but offering discounts so deep that they are too good to be true, that’s a red flag.
Sailor Jerry said it best: “good work ain’t cheap and cheap work ain’t good.”
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COVID-19 Google My Business Updates
Starting this morning, March 25th, 2020, Google My Business, or as I like to refer to it: My SEO Overlord, added a new COVID-19 Update feature for businesses.
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Website Design Spotlight: Eldersburg Renovations
The previous website was good, but it lacked a modern look and feel, and needed SEO assistance. We updated their site with subtle animations on the home page, and elegant hero background images. The home page is full of responsive anchors for information, but the internal pages are also easy to read and highlights a photo gallery with work portfolio.
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Small Business Marketing During the CoronaVirus; What Should I do?
What should small business in Carroll County, MD do during the Corona Virus State of Emergency?
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Website Design Spotlight: Ideal Auto
Let us introduce you to one of the newest web design clients to call themselves HM&D family, Ideal Auto Group. Ideal Auto Group features two business facets, an auto body shop and a sales and service company. Ideal Auto has two locations, one in Hanover Pennsylvania and one in Upperco Maryland. They are focused on being honest, trustworthy, and community driven (pun intended).
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Client Spot Light: Stacey Brown & Love, Loss, and the Secret Sauce
Stacey wanted a logo for her business, a business she hadn’t quite figured out yet, we talked about her goals, ambitions, direction, and where she what she wanted to grow into. Using all of her ideas and desires we roughed out 3 rounds of logos until we finalized on the delicate, bubbly, version you see above.
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Your Facebook Image Size Quick Guide for 2020
So you post a picture to Facebook and the image gets cut off, what is going on!
Small business, large business, either way, it’s hard to keep up with changing image size restrictions.
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HM&D Top 10 Picks For a Hampstead, MD Small and Local Valentines Day
I’ll be breaking down where in town to find everything you need for the perfect Valentines Day this year, whether you’re on a budget or looking to blow this one out of the park, ala Andy proposing to Angela on the Office.
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