Archive for December, 2009

Top 15 Las Vegas Graphic Design Resources

Tuesday, December 29th, 2009

We’ve compiled a list of the top 15 graphic design resources that can help you prepare your marketing materials, and help market and grow your Las Vegas business:

  1. Creative Portfolios, Projects and Collaborations - behance.net
  2. Paper Mills, Printing Paper, Fine Paper & Specialty Paper - paperspecs.com
  3. Free Multimedia Magazine Subscriptions and Free White Papers - creativepublic.com
  4. 1001 Free Fonts - Download Free Fonts for Windows and Macintosh - 1001freefonts.com
  5. Adobe Illustrator Tutorials, Free Illustrator Tutorials - adobeillustratortutorials.com
  6. Stock Layouts for Brochures, Flyers & Newsletters - stocklayouts.com
  7. Logo Design Inspiration Blog & Collection of Great Logos - logodesignerlogos.com
  8. Business Templates, Images and Brochures - HP Small and Medium Business
  9. Graphic Design Resources for Illustrator and Photoshop - Shapes, vector images, stock photos - designers-revolution.com
  10. 30 Excellent Resources for Graphic Design Freebies - sixrevisions.com
  11. Graphic Design Blog Featuring Tips, Tutorials and More - youthedesigner.com
  12. Pantone Colors, products and guides for accurate color communication - pantone.com
  13. Stock Photography: Search Royalty Free Images and Photos - istockphoto.com
  14. Lorem Ipsum Generator from designerstoolbox.com
  15. 70 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials and Resources - sixrevisions.com

Perkolate Launches Sevens and Above Website

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009

Perkolate Marketing and Design of Las Vegas is proud to announce the launch of its latest website for Sevens and Above at www.sevensandabove.com.

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About Sevens and Above

Sevens and Above, provided by ONGS Capital LLC, is an online dating service designed to help adults find successful relationships. With over twenty years of relationship experience, at A Great Date, the commitment is to provide the tools that will help you find the person with whom you can have a great date, maybe more!

Top Effective Marketing Strategies for Las Vegas Business

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Marketing your Las Vegas company is the current economy is now more important than ever. Without effective marketing strategies in place, you will not be able to reach new potential customers, and as we always say, if you aren’t marketing, your competitors surely are.

With this in mind, I’ve compiled a list of links that discuss and outline top effective marketing strategies for businesses:

If you need assistance with constructing a Las Vegas Marketing Strategy, please contact Perkolate at 702.341.0085.

Las Vegas: PCI Compliance Defined

Sunday, December 13th, 2009

You may have heard of the term “PCI compliant” but if you are process credit cards and take payments with your Las Vegas website, you definitely know what it is.  PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance was created by major credit card issuers to create standards that protect personal information and keep credit card transactions secure and it involves several factors that need to be kept compliant. If you fail to meet the PCI compliance standards, you could face fines or lose your credit card processing abilities for your business.

As an overview, the basic requirements for PCI compliance are:

  • Build and Maintain a Network that is secure
  • Protection of stored cardholder data
  • Maintain a vulnerability management program
  • Strong control measures for cardholder data
  • Monitor and test network frequently
  • Keep an Information Security Policy

Here are some in-depth helpful links to articles to help you understand all of the details of PCI compliance:

Hispanic Marketing for Lawyers, Las Vegas

Friday, December 11th, 2009

If are a lawyer, then you need to figure out how to market yourself so that you speak to as many customers as possible. After all, the more people who know about your services, the more likely they are to one day use them. This doesn’t mean that you should advertise only to one group of people but to as many different groups as possible. An often overlooked population is the Hispanic community. More and more people in this world speak Spanish and are looking for lawyers who understand this. This is why it is so important to really consider one’s Hispanic marketing options. The following are just some of the many ways that you can target this community.

The first thing to do is to create a Spanish language website. Creating this ensures that the Hispanic community will be able to quickly and efficiently access important information about your law firm and about your services. Additionally, such a website shows this community that you care about their culture and respect their language. This could really be the reason that a person decides to use your services versus someone else’s. Make sure that when you build this website you not only use the Spanish language but use people and images that remind this community of themselves. The more specific you make this website to the intended audience – the Hispanic community – the more successful the website will be.

Once you have a Spanish language website, you can incorporate search engine optimization (SEO) techniques into it. This will increase the likelihood that the Hispanic community will learn about your website and about your services. Consider the Spanish words that people may use when looking up information about lawyers. By incorporating such words and phrases into the website, you can be sure to increase traffic to your website. The more traffic a website has, the higher the likelihood that people will end up using your services.

Don’t underestimate the power of targeted direct mail. By sending direct mail that includes not only Spanish but also relates to the Hispanic community’s customs and traditions, you will then be able to stand apart from other lawyers looking for new business. Direct mail is exactly what it sounds like: direct. By learning about this culture and using Spanish on such marketing items, you can be sure that this population will be that much more likely to remember you.

Ultimately, when it comes to Hispanic marketing for lawyers, you want to make sure that you show this community that you respect them. This means using their language, understanding their customs, and showing them that you generally care about their needs. Once you do this, you can focus on everything from SEO content on your Spanish language website to SEM targeted at Hispanic community. The more people you can speak to, the better: This brings in more clients who bring in more money.

For an evaluation and assistance, contact perkolate at fullsteam@perkolate.com or call us at 702.341.0085. Se habla espanol.

Perkolate Launches VegasBestExtensions.com Website

Saturday, December 5th, 2009

Perkolate is proud to announce the launch of its latest website for VegasBestExtensions.com. Perkolate designed the logo, website and extensive flash gallery.

About VegasBestExtensions.com

Safe, Natural looking, Reusable, Remy, Non-chemical, Non-glue, Gorgeous Human Hair Extensions! Vegas Best Extensions services are available in Las Vegas and Los Angeles hair salons. Whether you are looking for fun and excitement, or a full head of long beautiful hair; your dream is a reality with Vegas Best Extensions.

Vegas Best Extensions, Inc. was founded by Paul Juma, a professional stylist, master colorist, and well respected hair extensions artist. Paul is certified by American Board of Certified Hair colorists (ABCH).

For more information about Perkolate contact us at 702.341.0085 or visit our website at www.perkolate.com.

Must Have’s to Market Your Las Vegas Website

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

When a Las Vegas business is looking into whether to invest in web marketing or to stick to local business it is good to know the pros and cons of working on the internet along with how to make a successful and widely exposed website. This way a business can properly decipher whether expanding onto the world wide web is right for them.

How to market websites?

There are many ways to market a website, some important and vital in the success of a web based business, and some more on the optional level. Some examples of vital needs in marketing a website are:

Web Development Related Marketing

When marketing online the way your website is put together and designed is vital in getting your business into the top of the search engines above all potential competitors. Some examples of making a good website are keeping all concepts within the website all related to one topic which is your business. Use an easy to remember domain name with a popular URL such as dot com or dot net. And also make sure your URL will not be confusable with a competitors so you do not risk losing business to someone else.

Search Engine Optimization

There are many very complicated concepts in search engine optimization such as installing meta tags, creating codes which make bot crawling easy to achieve on your website so search engines can easily index every page of your website, and more. When utilizing search engine optimization it is good to think about investing in a professional web design company in Las Vegas. A professional web design company can easily create very complex coding within your website to help you get your business an increase in visitors in a short amount of time.