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Latest Project: Mutual Fund Website Design for Bandon

UPDATE: Bandon Capital Management was acquired by Logan Circle Partners in late 2014. The beautiful website we spent months building was unceremoniously retired as part of the transaction. Mutual Fund website design made easy Publicly communicating anything in the...

50% off a Social Media Makeover for WIN NW

Social Media Makeover for WIN members For the rest of March, we're taking half off our social media makeover! Social media is one of the first places new customers are going to "meet" you and your company. What will that first impression be? Make sure your Facebook,...

3 Things You Can Do To Get Your Website Noticed

Well, you built a website or had someone build one, you added the url to your business card and now the online leads and sales are going to start rolling in, right? Well...not really. Many companies take the technological leap onto the Internet and don't see the...

What Does Workshed Do?

A Simple Question What do we (Workshed) do? The imprecise answer is that we build websites and help businesses with marketing; it's also an oversimplification of what's really going on. The reality is that these are just outcomes - solutions to a challenge, but not...

Websites That Cost Nothing & Baking Pies

What do you do? Part of what we do at Workshed is help our clients distill their value to potential customers into bite-sized chunks that are easily understood. It's a lot easier to do for other people than it has been for our own business. In truth, we do a bunch of...

The Heart of Business

You are at the heart of your business. Your company most likely began with a dream and your willingness to work hard to make that dream a reality. Your passion was channeled into creating logos and an identity to define who you are and what you will be contributing to...

Day 24: If Your Website was an Employee

Superstar or Slacker? If your website was an employee, what type of an employee would it be?  Would it be a superstar or a slacker?  Fortunately, great websites (unlike employees) can be built. Simple not Easy Creating an awesome (a technical term describing...

How to attract your ideal customer

We believe in using inbound marketing to attract clients rather than 'interruption marketing' where you pester customers to buy from you.  Think of inbound marketing as Connection Marketing.  You connect with your ideal customers by helping them. How does...

Day 22: A New Mission

A Little History For those of you unfamiliar with my (Joe's) other life, I've spent the last 12 years (until Tuesday that is) as an investment adviser helping clients prepare for and maintain their retirement.  While researching investments, I had the opportunity to...

Day 21: Learn to code

Computer code touches nearly every aspect of our modern lives.  Even if you don't plan on making a living by writing it, it's probably a good idea to at least have a basic understanding of what's going on.  Heck, you might even enjoy it. One [free] resource I've used...