http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/ Wed, 07 Mar 2012 09:54:54 GMT en-us http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/funny-advertising-agency-commercial.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/funny-advertising-agency-commercial.cfm Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:37:00 MDT Advertising agencies love it when a client gives them free reign to do what they want. That had to be what BGH Air Conditioners in Argentina did with their agency Del Campo Saatchi & Saatchi recently. It's all about branding here and having fun with it. After all, who hasn't had a father, husband or granfather appear in a similar mortifying position at some inopportune moment in life? We can all relate, have a good laugh and thank BGH Air Conditioners for lightening up our day! Avenue 25 is a top ranked Phoenix advertising agency and Phoenix web design firm. Let us put our traditional and internet marketing skills to work for you. Our website designers, graphic design and marketing professionals know how to do it right. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/web-design-phoenix-google-rank.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/web-design-phoenix-google-rank.cfm Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:15:52 MDT It surprises me that so many businesses don’t realize how important their Google rank is to their business. Companies who do “get it” happily spend thousands or even hundreds of thousands of dollars on search engine optimization for their website every year and are making a killing. They’re picking up their customers and your customers too. They know when their site ranks well the return on their investment can be staggering. But just how many people will click on your site if it’s ranked # 1 versus #5 or even #10? Slingshot SEO completed an enormous 6 month web study to find out. Here’s what they found regarding website position and percentage of searchers who clicked on the listings: #1 position = 18.2%, #2 = 10.05%, #3 = 7.22%, 4 = 4.81%, 5 = 3.09%, 6 = 2.76%, 7 = 1.88%, 8 = 1.75%, 9 = 1.52%, 10 = 1.04%. If you’re on page 2 or more, forget about it because it’s much less than 1%. So what does this mean? Say your Chinese restauran http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/bbc-interactive-web-video.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/bbc-interactive-web-video.cfm Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:54:59 MDT We love fun stuff, so we had to show you this quirky new interactive BBC iPlayer video. It's creative, techy, web designer fun that most suits in any large organization would consider a waste of time and money. That's why we also give a round of applause to the BBC suits who either approved this project or had the cajones to let the creative team have a little fun on the company dime. Avenue 25 are leading Phoenix web designers, intenet marketing and branding professionals here to kick you and your business up a notch. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/google-stock-internet-advertising.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/google-stock-internet-advertising.cfm Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:40:14 MDT Just how is Google doing? Wrap your noggin around this… Google is predicted to take home more than 70% of all U.S. mobile ad dollars in 2012. AdMob, Google’s mobile ad network currently accounts for 24 percent of U.S. mobile network ad buys. The next largest is Millennial Media which carries less than 17%. Now take Google's 24% and add it to their vastly dominant share in the mobile search ad market. You'll find that Google is poised to take home more than 70% of overall U.S. dollars spent on mobile advertising in 2012. Millennial will account for 4.9%, Apple should carry 4.5% and Yahoo and Microsoft about 2.8 percent each. Avenue 25 is one of the oldest, most respected Phoenix advertising agencies, graphic design, website design and internet marketing firms in Arizona. We do it all and we do it right. Come to the professionals. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/best-pumpkins-website.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/best-pumpkins-website.cfm Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:24:08 MDT So you think you're pretty special with those little orange pumpkin carving tools? Then check this out on the Daily Beast website. Pumpkins by artist Ray Villafane take pumpkin carving to a whole new level. More like sculptures made out of clay than a giant orange vegetable, we love that he hasn't taken the scary-freaky out of the holiday. Want to amaze your friends and family and co-workers? Go to Villafane's website and spend a few bucks to learn his secrets and buy his tools. Then quit your day job because you'll surely be turning out masterpieces like his in no time. Avenue 25 is Phoenix Arizona's best web site design, internet marketing, advertising and graphic design firm. Call the advertising agency with the experts who do it right. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/search-engine-marketing-phoenix.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/search-engine-marketing-phoenix.cfm Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:09:57 MDT The Avenue 25 team are top ranked website designers, search engine and internet marketing professionals located in Phoenix, AZ. Okay, we’ve all gotten the emails and seen their ads... broken-English promises from dubious SEO and link building companies that sound too good to be true. Most are associated with India or some Eastern European country. You think Hey, it’s only a thousand bucks so what’s the worst that can happen? Well here’s how it works... You give them your money and if you’re lucky they’ll just take it and never speak to you again. If you’re not so lucky, they’ll add your link to hundreds of their own temporary websites and directories (Google hates this.) They’ll create fake accounts on forums and make bogus comments with a link to your site. Forum owners and users hate this and some will report your site to Google. And if you’re really unlucky, you’ll get added to this dubious company’s spammin http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/career-steve-jobs.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/career-steve-jobs.cfm Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:33:54 MDT This is a fun, short video animation of one of the greatest heroes of our time. The constant, amazing, financially successful new works and marketing genius of Steve Jobs will be greatly missed throughout the world. But by none more so than by those of us holding Apple stock. Currently holding more cash on-hand than the U.S. Government, we remove our hats for the company and the man who have achieved more success in the last 10 years than the greatest nation on earth. Okay, so the video is kind of lame, but scroll down that page and watch a young Steve Jobs' 1984 unveiling of the new Macintosh. I'm feeling sentimental right now. Avenue 25 is Phoenix, Arizona's best web design, advertising and marketing firm. Complete web site designers, web site developers, search engine optimization, internet marketing, graphic design, packaging design, social media, advertising plans, marketing plans, television, radio and more. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/get-on-the-bus.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/get-on-the-bus.cfm Fri, 05 Aug 2011 14:17:08 MDT WIN-WIN advertising! When do you ever get to feel really GOOD about where you are putting your advertising dollars? Advertise on a big yellow school bus! Not only will your message reach thousands of potential customers, but your investment also provides a revenue source for the Paradise Valley Unified School District and its students. Your company image gets a huge boost as you are viewed as supporters of local education. Think 58,000 impressions every day for an entire year for less than the cost of one good-sized newspaper ad. Jump-start your advertising plans with the start of the new school year! Avenue25 advertising, graphic design and web design studio was chosen 2011 Best of the Valley Graphic Design Firm and administers bus advertising for PVUSD. rusty@ave25.com (Rusty Pile) http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/great-new-foot-locker-nik.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/great-new-foot-locker-nik.cfm Fri, 29 Apr 2011 09:14:31 MDT We love this new online branding commercial put out by Foot Locker and Nike. It seems to appeal to both new and old school and makes us want to watch it again and again. The branding is powerful, giving a strong attitude and personality to both companies. We won't even knock it for being blatantly derivative of the old school intros to Fresh Prince of Bel Air and even older school Fat Albert cartoons (although more technologically advanced.) We think the similarities make the ad and the brands more subliminally appealing in a nostalgic, feel-good way. Well done Foot Locker. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/pssst-wanna-buy-a-faile.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/pssst-wanna-buy-a-faile.cfm Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:11:58 MDT That's right folks MySpace is on the auction block again starting at a paultry hundred mil. Previously sold to News Corp. in 2005 for $580 mil., MySpace took a nosedive when people abandoned ship for FaceBook in 2009. It never recovered. But perhaps YOU have great plans for its recovery? If you do, remember Avenue 25 is here to help you completely revamp the website's design. Maybe puppies and kittens? People like puppies and kittens. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/how-to-keep-customers.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/how-to-keep-customers.cfm Fri, 08 Apr 2011 10:12:33 MDT Just go the extra mile and treat EVERYONE as YOU would like to be treated. We think it's that simple. Rhonda Abrams writes in USA Today: Whenever you can, try to make the customer happy. Is the customer always right? Anyone in business can tell you that they’re not. But whatever you can do to exceed their expectations and solve their problems increases their loyalty to you. Avenue 25 has been treating its advertising, marketing and website customers and vendors this way for 20 years. It also helps us sleep at night. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/google-s-new-page-speed-a.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/google-s-new-page-speed-a.cfm Wed, 06 Apr 2011 10:13:16 MDT How fast is your web page? Check out Google's new page speed tool. For website designers and website owners, this is awesome. It analyzes your web page speed, then gives you suggestions about how to make it faster. Test your site. If you care about search engine optimization, search engine marketing, your website bounce rate or how long visitors stay on your site, this should interest you. If you want help making your site faster, give us a call. Avenue 25 has the leading Phoenix website designers, SEO and search engine marketing professionals. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/happy-beards-and-beers-da.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/happy-beards-and-beers-da.cfm Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:13:47 MDT http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/saying-yes-to-reciprocal-.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/saying-yes-to-reciprocal-.cfm Wed, 02 Feb 2011 10:14:23 MDT For years search engine marketing professionals included reciprocal linking in their SEO strategies. You know...I'll add your link on my website if you add my link on your website. Then there was talk about Google punishing you for reciprocal links so people avoided it. Many search engine marketing pros still believe this bad information and will only do one-way linking for their clients' websites. They're missing the boat and their clients are paying for it. So what's the real scoop? The truth is, exchanging links with other reputable sites is a good thing. Google likes it. If a good site is requesting a reciprocal link with you, by all means do it. It will help your search engine position and bring more people to your website. What Google is against is the automated, large-scale, linking systems. If you get caught in one of those, you're going to need more than a shovel to dig your way out. To avoid these schemes, don't use any internet marketing company located ov http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/trademarks-vs-copyrights-.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/trademarks-vs-copyrights-.cfm Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:15:16 MDT We help a lot of new businesses and products get off the ground with marketing, branding, naming, etc., so we get this question a lot. Although we're not a copyright, patent or trademark attorney, here are the basics: Trademarks protect names, logos and other company or product marks, taglines and catchphrases. Copyrights protect original creative works such as books, movies, songs, paintings, photographs, websites and choreography. Still confused? Check out LegalZoom.com for more info. I always recommend Legal Zoom as a great site to save a lot of money when trademarking your name and logo! Avenue 25 is a top Arizona advertising agency, website designer, internet marketing, graphic designer and branding company. Contact us when it's important your project is done right the first time. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/stop-looking-so-dumb-.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/stop-looking-so-dumb-.cfm Fri, 17 Dec 2010 10:16:09 MDT You know you do it. We all do it, and shame on you! Most of us will form an immediate opinion of you AND your organization based on your written mistakes, and it ain't pretty. But alas, this website portends to save the English speaking world from our most common grammatical faux pas. FIVE GRAMMATICAL ERRORS THAT MAKE YOU LOOK DUMB. Avenue 25 Website, Advertising and Graphic Design is ranked as the top graphic design firm in Phoenix and one of the top web design and web developers in Arizona. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/And-Then-There-Were-2.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/And-Then-There-Were-2.cfm Fri, 19 Nov 2010 11:22:00 MDT The race to be named the best is now down to 2. Only 2 weeks left to vote. Vote here. – arizonafoothillsmagazine.com http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/Now-at-WalMart-Our-very-.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/Now-at-WalMart-Our-very-.cfm Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:18:02 MDT  Now at the biggest retailer in the world. We designed the identity and packaging for DreamBoneÂ? "The Healthy Alternative to Rawhide". Be on the lookout in the pet treat aisle. It's a unique product that looks like rawhide but isn't. Very digestible and actually healthy. Ingredients like chicken, sweet potatoes, corn, carrots and peas make them taste great too. We're pretty proud.  http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/It-s-Going-Going-It-s-g.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/It-s-Going-Going-It-s-g.cfm Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:47:06 MDT Whether it's a cursing parrot or a catchy company video, once it goes viral there is no going back. Viral videos are as their name implies, videos that have caught on with a large number of people. You have all seen them before, it's that link you get in your email saying you have to watch this funny clip. Avenue 25 has been doing online videos for a few years now but with the help of Youtube online videos have taken on a whole new meaning. A viral video is a great and affordable way to get your business out there; all you need is a little creativity. Check out this recent viral video Avenue 25 completed for Desert Troon Company. http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/You-Like-Us-You-Really-.cfm http://www.ave25.com/word-on-the-street/posts/You-Like-Us-You-Really-.cfm Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:45:09 MDT We’ve been selected as one of the top Graphic Design studios in the valley. You can vote once per day through November. Vote here. – arizonafoothillsmagazine.com