Several restaurants in Jackson insist on providing two-for-one deals. As a customer, I'm not complaining. I find a partner or several sets of partners in crime, and we head out to taste restaurants that I would otherwise not frequent during the year. While I'm not in the restaurant business, I would think this to be a big mistake from a business point of view. I feel most restaurants could benefit...

Heather and Mel chatting with entrepreneurs, freelancers and others to go over Gliffen's Tips & Tricks from Web Designers. We went over Do-It-Yourself website building steps verses hiring a professional. There are clearly pros and cons on both sides but no matter what route you decide to take it, this information is important to keep in mind. Some key points: Do you research on what's the right web builder for...

Thanks to all that joined the workshop "Introduction to Marketing with Mailchimp." We wanted to share with you Heather's presentation that you can refer to as well as her handout and Heather's notes. Mailchimp is meant to be a tool to reach your audience, customers and potential customers. Let's use the tools available to us with a better understanding of how they can work for your business or organization. The...

We are ready to go with 3 more of our free workshops! After reviewing the results from our survey, we decided to provide a variety of topics and focus in as we go. We are going to continue on with three more workshops with Wordpress, Mailchimp and Tips & Tricks from Web Designers. Our workshops will be roughly about 1/2 hour presentation and then another 1/2 hour of questions and...

After our first round of Gliffen Designs' Workshops we had great feedback on material, length of workshop, time for questions/answers, suggestions of new topics as well as the benefit of having presentation material afterwards. We wanted to share with you a presentation that Heather DeVine put together for "Introduction to Facebook as a Marketing Tool." She talks about the importance of what Facebook is to small/large businesses, non-profit organizations and...