Florida Coastal Adds Twitter to Communications Strategy

On the heels of the March BROADcast reporting on the use of Twitter for business, Florida Coastal School of Law has launched its own official Twitter micro-blog. “We are using it as a means to reach prospective and current students, as well as our 2,000+ alumni living across the country,” says Brooks Terry, Marketing Director.…

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Keeping Tabs on Twitter

If your company is looking for a new ways to find or reach customers, we suggest you look into Twitter. It has moved quickly beyond the world of social media-savvy teens and into marketing departments and board rooms. We use it ourselves, and other companies like Dell, JetBlue, H&R Block, and the Lakeland, Florida, Police…

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Picture Your Face on Facebook

Picture this scenario: You need a campaign to reach the 20-somethings in your town. You place an ad on Facebook. You also place print and radio ads that run concurrently. The results: through the real-time monitoring on Facebook, you learn that your ad received nearly two million views and 500 click-throughs to the page you…

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The End of an Era

November 6th marked the end of an era as, after nearly nine years, we bid Harrison adieu. He left BroadBased to launch an entrepreneurial foray into franchise restaurant ownership. Harrison, with his father-in-law and brother-in-law, purchased a Church’s Chicken franchise. The first store will open on Normandy Boulevard in the coming months. Harrison was honored…

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Trends in Marketing

Recent surveys show marketing directors dramatically increasing interactive and digital marketing budgets. You’ve all heard the truisms in advertising and marketing: In lean times, ad dollars fall. But it’s in those times when marketing is more important than ever. Marketing strategies are much more complex now than merely a print and ad budget. There is…

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Legacy Trust Company

Legacy Trust Company of Ponte Vedra Beach is an independent multi-family office offering wealth management for multi-generational families. Partners Kip Zebroski and Kristin McLauchlan wanted to update their existing site with a new message and graphics that better represented their complete “Life Management” philosophy. “The process was incredibly easy from our perspective,” said McLauchlan, chairman…

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What to Get the Guy Who Has Everything

If you’re looking for something to buy the guy who has everything — or just in the mood for a big-game daydream — you have to check out the Web site of John Rigby & Co., maker of the world’s finest custom firearms. The legendary firearms maker engaged BroadBased Communications to evolve the nearly 300-year-old…

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A Company eNewsletter Can Significantly Improve Leads

A very good friend of ours said recently, “I really like your email newsletter. I’m going to steal the idea.” Er, thanks? As they say, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery! We don’t mind sharing a good thing, but let BroadBased give you a hand in the design and launch of your e-newsletter. Our…

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3…2…1…Launch!

Manson Construction This world-class marine construction company, headquartered in Seattle, Washington, wanted an online portfolio to showcase its extensive line of services. LBA Financial North Florida’s largest CPA firm allowed us to unleash our creativity, and the SEO (search engine optimization) strategy was already paying off on Google within days of launch.

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Hey! What Happened to My Google Ranking?

Search engine optimization strategies have produced extremely strange search results since about mid-March, when Google updated its algorithms and the way that search returns are gathered. One of the first causes for concern surfaced when the industry began noticing that consistently solid sites disappeared from top-ranked positions and that search returns were not nearly as…

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