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Written by Stu Kushner

A Bit of Information about Mobile Apps

A mobile app is a software application tailored to operate on smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Mobile apps could not exist until cell phones were devised. The earliest mobile phones used a microchip for the delivery and receipt of messages – but that was so 90’s. Actually the very first cell phone call was made in 1973! The device used for this historic event weighed 2 pounds, cost $4000 and – as you might expect – did not have any mobile apps.

Mobile apps first came on the technology scene in handheld computers like palm pilots that were all the rage in the 1990s – but quickly disappeared as innovations to mobile phone technology. With each passing generation of mobile phones their ability to manipulate information and store information grew exponentially thereby opening the door for what is now the phenomenon of mobile apps.

Mobile app development itself is a process in which mobile app developers who have an expertise on a particular platform will perform the coding and programming required to create the final product. This has opened up a whole new employment field and mobile app developing companies are constantly in search of persons with this expertise. Today mobile apps for businesses incorporate a variety of competencies including (but not limited to) inventory management, shopping carts, accounting and much, much more.

And, while some sites will offer you directions on ‘how to create your mobile app in 12 steps’ it is probably a better solution to leave this to the experts. In fact, one industry heavy-hitter claims there were three phases to the mobile app development trajectory beginning with simple telephony and progressing to gaming (such as the once popular Snake whose creation opened the door for broader applications of software that would run apps on phones) and finally to apps that are content oriented and maximize their usefulness without being a nuisance. Many apps vie for the honor of being your ‘home screen’ which moves their viability to the ‘top of the heap’ – a coveted position for any app.

If you own a business or service the question is no longer ‘should you have a mobile app’ but ‘why don’t you have a mobile app’? This is truly the marketing medium of today and tomorrow.

Join the mobile app revolution. Contact the experts at Progressive Office to learn more about how to create and launch your own mobile app.

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Email Marketing is NOT Extinct

The internet is a beautiful thing. Over the years it has grown and evolved and it has become a juggernaut that commands the attention of everyone and everything. You can find and do anything on the internet. You can now talk to and see your pen pal in China, you can find rare and expensive trinkets not found in stores, you can stay informed on what is happening in the world from multiple sources and not just the local paper, and you can run and market your business, reaching people who would otherwise go through their lives sadly unaware of your existence. There are multiple ways to reach these prospective clients all over the world. You can out yourself out there on the multiple social media platforms, you can work to build your Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and you can use email.


Email was one of the first gifts the internet brought us. It was helping us stay connected and reach out long before the days of Facebook and before there were search engines that you even had to figure out how to increase your presence on. Progressive Office has experts who are well versed in the art that is email marketing. If you’re anything like me, your inbox is full of email blasts that you have not read or taken the time to delete. Email is a very adaptable method for marketing your business. Instead of putting a thought on your social media profile that can be seen by anyone who cares to take notice, the professionals at Progressive Office can help you directly target the people and groups you want to target, and then adapt your emails to each one. By finding a way to help personalize your emails, Progressive Office is actually making your prospective consumers feel like you are talking specifically to them, even though you just sent out ten thousand identical emails.

The benefits of email marketing are vast. The specialists at Progressive Office can be there to help you with the quick response that will help show how effective your email marketing strategy has been almost immediately. You can reach anyone in the world with email, and shortly after they receive the information, you will know if it hit home with them based on how they respond. Email is tried and true method of reaching the masses, and Progressive Office has the minds that can help you run a well-oiled email campaign that will set your business apart from the others.

Please make sure to contact the professionals at Progressive Office,470-430-1777 for all your web design, digital marketing, and mobile app development needs.

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Building a Consumer Friendly Social Media Presence

Before it became a billion dollar empire, Facebook was designed to be a way for Harvard students to connect with one another. Fast forward fifteen years and it is a social media juggernaut that has spawned many wannabes and spin off sites used by roughly 3 billion people worldwide. Today social media is far more than a platform for old high school sweet hearts to reconnect. It is as powerful a business tool as any website, commercial, or ad, and maybe even more so.

You can have the nicest website and best company in the world, and it means absolutely nothing if people do not know that it exists. Social media can increase awareness for your brand, and subsequently increase your leads and sales. By having a social media presence, it puts your business out there to be noticed by billions of people. When creating a social media presence for your business it is important first to develop a goal. The professional at Progressive Office are adept strategists when it comes to developing your social media presence. Progressive Office will go through the benefits and drawbacks of specifically trying to generate new business, create loyal customers, and targeting strictly local business, for example.

Many consumers will have already done their homework long before they decide to frequent your shop. It is crucial that you have adept and interesting social media profiles. The experts at Progressive Office specialize in making your social media profile trust worthy, knowledgeable, and approachable. It is important to show the consumer that you are the best at what you do, and Progressive Office can help you write thought provoking articles for your social media profiles that show that the level of your expertise is second to none, and this will, in turn, display that your business is trustworthy for the consumer and provide them with confidence in your abilities to match their needs.

Your personality is just as important to the success of your profile as anything. You can know more about how to get from A to Z than anyone on the planet, but if your delivery of your knowledge on the subject is bland and dry, the consumer will not be able to relate to what you are trying to put out there. It is important to let your personality shine through your social media profile. The specialists at Progressive Office can help you build a Social Media presence that not only meets your goals, but manages to do show in a way that shows of your knowledge and own personal flair for your business.

Please contact Progressive Office at 470-430-1777.

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The Importance of Web Design

I remember, in the early days of the internet, it was impressive just to see pictures and maybe even a little sound on a website. Today web design is on another level. The graphic design of websites works to make them appealing to the eye. Then videos, testimonials, music, all get included to round out the entire package of a website. Web design in 2019 is crucial to the success of businesses. Not just to catch the attention of the consumer, but in order to even be found by a prospective client.

Many websites get revamped in order to improve their SEO, Search Engine Optimization. SEO works to ensure that a website can be found by a search engine such as Google or Yahoo!. In order for the SEO to be effective, it is important that a website is designed I a manner that makes it responsive. If a website doesn’t respond properly when it’s pulled up, the user will most likely move on. Progressive Office specializes in designing websites that not only look great, but function properly. The different services that Progressive Office can provide for your business will ensure that your website not only is found by the search engine, but it will respond properly for the user.

What we’re talking about here is User Experience. It doesn’t matter what your product is, if the User Experience is negative, they will not use your product or recommend it to other possible clients. Think about it for a moment. . . If you run a restaurant, and all of your servers are dirty and rude to the guests, and the orders came out wrong or incomplete, you’d have an empty restaurant. The same idea applies to web design. You need to have someone managing your web design who not only knows what they’re doing, but they need to care about the experience your client has. When Progressive Office builds a website, the first thing they ensure, after responsiveness, is speed. This is the first thing that a user cares about, whether they realize it or not. If a website takes five minutes to load, the user is going to go looking for another business whose website pops up instantly the way it’s supposed to.

At the end of the day, websites are like human beings; none of them are perfect. Progressive Office always works to adjust, change, and upgrade your website as needed so that your business can stay at the top of the digital food chain. Your web design is crucial to your digital marketing strategy. It’s the first step, and no matter what you are trying to accomplish, if you can’t take the first step you will never reach your goal.

Please feel free to contact us at Progressive Office at 470-430-1777.

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The Benefits of Social Media Marketing

Have you ever been on Facebook and gotten thoroughly distracted from the messages your friend is sending you because you saw a video of a puppy playing with a banana peel? The next thing you know you’ve fallen down a rabbit hole of dog videos and you just keep clicking and clicking and you have no idea what you’re clicking, you just want more puppies! Well, if you’re anything like me and this has happened to you, then you have fallen prey to a form of Social Media Marketing. With each click you were actually boosting one website or another, whether you realized you were doing it or not. Social Media Marketing is a huge tool that businesses utilize to help draw in forthcoming clientele.

Progressive Office can help you reach your marketing goals by taking advantage of the billions of people who use the various social media sites on a daily basis. Social Media Marketing is a tool that businesses use in order to put themselves in the sight line of their desired audience. Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter are just a few of the social media platforms that are visited by people all around the world each day. By advertising on these sites businesses can reach people that would otherwise go through life happily unaware of the existence of these companies.

If you are looking to build word of mouth, increase sales and referrals, even if you are just hoping to provide a better means of customer service and feedback, Social Media Marketing is an extremely effective tool to help you reach these goals. The services provided by Progressive Office can not only help you get your business right into the heart of the nitty gritty battle that Social Media Marketing is, but Progressive Office will also be able to advise you on which sites NOT to use. It’s important to know which social media outlets your target customers are using, and Progressive Office has the expertise to help you sort through which sites to spend your time on.

One of the biggest down sides of Social Media Marketing is the time that it consumes. Social Media Marketing is a delicate flower that needs to be nurtured minute by minute not just to bloom, but to survive. Perhaps your business does not have the time or the staff or the budget necessary to allot the proper resources to your Social Media Marketing campaign. Progressive Office can not only help you with that issue by taking the time to help you build your customer base, but they can also help manage your company’s reputation, which is the end goal of any serious Social Media Marketing effort.

Please feel free to contact us at Progressive Office at 470-430-1777.

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Stop and Block Referrer Spam

Website Design, Internet Marketing, DCI recently started noticing some new traffic on the websites that we host and manage. What was unusual was that the sites were showing up as referral sites on almost every one of our websites. Our sites all get traffic from Google, Bing, Yahoo and such. But the 2nd and third tier traffic usually comes from more industry specific sources. So, when almost all of our sites were getting referred traffic from a single new source, that was a bit alarming.

We were the victim of Referrer Spam. Referrer Spam is created by unscrupulous marketers that create a network of web crawlers that seek out websites and create fake traffic to them. The traffic gets recorded into the analytic logs on the websites in order to fool the search engines in the hopes of creating higher page rankings for the marketers clients.

The traffic that they create does not physically harm the websites. But it might damage the page rank of your site if Google and the rest decide to punish sites that don’t protect themselves against these crawlers. So, I researched how to block the Referrer Spam and found that although I can’t keep the bots from visiting my client’s sites, I can keep them from accessing the logs that record their visit. That way the traffic they are trying to create does not show up in the analytics. So, it’s like they were never there.

Do you have analytics on your site? If you do, look for Referring Visits from the following sites:

  • .darodar.com
  • bestsub.com
  • buttons-for-websites.com
  • casinobonustips.com
  • civilwartheater.com
  • co.lumb.co
  • cukwiki.com
  • econom.co
  • entourank.com
  • ilovevitaly.com
  • make-money-online.7makemoneyonline.com
  • semalt.semalt.com
  • similarpages.com
  • webstatsdomain.org

We had three of these crawling around on our sites. They boosted the traffic but the fake numbers were not helpful. And keeping our sites clean and honest will boost our credibility with the search engines. So, I believe that this was an important task. If any of these are showing up on your site, call your website develop immediately and have them install safeguards against this intrusion.

Or, call us at 202-462-4290. We will look at your site and advise you at no cost.

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Creating Compelling Content Through Blogging (A How-To)

By ScottOfford

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Blogging is a great way to get additional content into your website that both your visitors and the search engines will like. But there are a few things to keep in mind when starting this kind of content creation endeavor. Below, I explain how my internet marketing company does it for (and explains it to) our own clients. First, you need to set goals.

Goal Setting

Determining your marketing goals will help you in many ways, such as, giving you the ability to measure the impact of your effort. It is crucial in the development and maintenance of a content strategy. Goal setting can help you in better tracking and measure those desirable actions of your website visitors and can even lead to helping you understand from where your best visitors are coming.

With marketing online, an integral part of the process is tracking ROI.

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Creating Magnetic Content

Marketing, SEO, Content Writing,Website ManagementI have two businesses. Or, maybe your can look at them as two divisions within one business. This site is my website design and Internet marketing business. And the other division is my office computer cabling business at www.ProgOffice.com. I created two separate websites because the work is very different and to put them on one site would dilute the expertise of each.

But where they do complement each other is in my ability to use my marketing skills to attract business to my cabling site. I do that by following these basic guidelines:

  • Create a site that is clear and easy to navigate
  • Make the site interesting
  • Project a professional image
  • Create helpful content
  • Optimize the content to make it attractive to the search engines

There are other things but those three are my basics. And if you do a search in Google for “office cabling in Washington DC”, you will probably see my site on the first page. You might find it there more than once.

Typically, the home page attracts the most traffic as the landing page for a visitor from a search engine. But my site gets most of it’s traffic from two special pages that I created. Those pages are a cabling pricing page and also a page that is an analysis of cabling upgrade choices. Writing those two pages more than doubled the traffic to my website and it helped establish my little cabling company as an authority (in the eyes of Google) in the cabling community.

Those two pages attract visitors to my site from all over the world. It answer two of the most important questions in the cabling industry. And the first one, pricing, is one that most of my competitors are reluctant to share.

And my reward is that if you are looking to get computer network cable installed in the Washington DC area and you look for a company on Google, Progressive Office Cabling will almost always show up on the first page.

So, what you need to do is think about the very most important questions that your clients might ask you and then write about it and put it on your website. If you do, you just might double your traffic. The worst that can happen is that will have some additional, new helpful content on your site.

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Most People Won’t Actually Read Your Landing Page – How to Get Your Message Across Anyway

By Sean Work

F-Pattern

The world today is cluttered and busy. With millions of pages online, people have been forced to filter their content intake. They consume only the content that is relevant to them.

The unfortunate bottom line is no one will read your great offer on your stunning landing page if it isn’t relevant. And, it can’t convert if people don’t read it. That’s why you need to write your landing page with all three types of viewers in mind – readers, scanners, and bottom feeders.

The Three Types of Readers and How to Reach Them

You can optimize your landing page to appeal to each type of reader. By looking at the behavioral psychology of different viewers and how they consume information on the web, you can create an effective landing page that will result in the most conversions.

1. Readers are your most loyal viewers. They start at the top of the page and read every word throughout the post. They are your ideal viewer. However, we live in a world with increasing Internet “clutter” and decreasing attention spans. Therefore, the vast majority of your audience will not fit into this category.

How to reach them – To take care of your readers, there’s just one thing you have to remember. Content is king. All you have to do to win over a reader is present clear, powerful body copy.

2. Scanners read your headline and a few sentences in the introduction. If they’re still interested, they continue to skim through, focusing on your subheadings, highlighted terms, and images to determine if a specific section is worth taking the time to read. Scanners read very little of your content, focusing instead on the words and images that visually stand out.

Scanners, most likely, will make up the majority of your audience.

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The Art of Thinking Sideways: Content Marketing for ‘Boring’ Businesses

By robinparallax

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In this article,  I’ll examine the art of thinking sideways for one of the slightly more tricky marketing clients I’ve worked with. I hope that this will provide an insight for fellow content marketers and SEO’s in similar scenarios.

It’s amazing what you end up finding online working in the SEO game. Some of the most obscure business sectors have thriving communities and many online magazines and publications. It’s really quite staggering.

What any SEO or content marketer should know is that there really is a conversation happening online in every industry. However niche it might at first appear to be, positioning your client to become a part of that conversation is the challenge!

Boring Businesses

I’ve worked on a pretty mixed bag of clients over the past two years or so. From pharmaceutical services to interior design products, and from renewable energies to our digital agency’s own efforts.

But one client has really stood out in terms of being a  boring  business. However, this has actually become the most fun and exciting campaign I’ve worked on.

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