A little logo for our community youth programs

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I have always been quite involved in the community, coaching sports teams, sitting on community group boards and I do my share of pro bono work. An old friend sent me an email the other day, desperately looking for some help on designing a logo for a basketball program she was running at the Hyde Creek Community Centre. She needed something catchy and cool the teens wouldn’t be embarrased to wear as a t-shirt or even be part of. She sent over her rough concept which was great, gave me the title and a couple catch phrases to work with. I dug into my trusty font vault and found a nice font that wasn’t too graffiti styled but still was fun and casual. I through in a little swoosh stripe to add some motion and some extra sporty outlines. It’s important to take into consideration the final use of a logo and I made sure this one would easily be used for a 3 or 1 colour screen for getting t-shirts done.

Client Feedback:
I LOVE IT!!
Thanks Randy!! You’re awesome!
Maria )

The Social Media Series

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Over the past year, we have been spending more and more time on developing social media marketing strategies for our clients. What’s changed, why is social media becoming important? Facebook, Twitter, blogs… many of my clients have asked me, what this stuff is all about and how can it build my business? Well, I guess the best way to sum it up is the “word-of-mouth network” just got really big and really efficient.

Millions of people use the internet everyday to conduct detailed research of products and services, discuss hobbies and interests, shop and congregate on all sorts of places online. The tools and websites that which people now refer to collectively as “social media” all include ways for people to express their opinions online. Where are people discussing your industry and the products and services you offer? If that place exists, you should be there to monitor and participate in the conversation. If it doesn’t, consider starting a place for colleagues and customers to gather and revel in information central for your market.

Over the next few months, we will be digging in a little deeper to discuss the strategies to drive your social media campaign and why it should be an important part of your marketing plan. If you would like to sign up for our newsletter for monthly updates and specials, please use the form at the bottom of the page.

Cheers,
Randy Friesen

New Vehicle Wrap

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If you are interested in getting a vehicle wrap for you business, give us a call. We recently designed a full vehicle wrap for CDC Construction located in Vancouver, B.C. They just bought a 2010 van and wanted to wrap it with a racey new look instead of the typical boring construction wraps. We went through a few concepts together and the final product turned out fantastic. Here are a few photos they sent over.

5 benefits of social media marketing

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1. Branding Opportunities

Initially it was important for companies to make sure they had all the various domain names that relate to their brand (.com, .net. .org, etc.), it is now becoming important for companies to make sure they secure their brand on social media… Read More

Panthermedia now offers Mobile Websites

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Well, as promised we have started to launch websites you can view on your mobile devices!

We now offer two versions of mobile website. Firstly our more advanced option, which allows for the site to function on popular touch-based smartphones like iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, PalmTM Pre/Pixi, and BlackBerry StormTM. Over 90% (and growing!) of the mobile-web surfing world will be able to see your incredible mobile website. Read More

New Customer Support Feature

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We’ve had some of pretty busy years here at Panthermedia and at times get overloaded with emails from prospective clients, contacts within the community groups we volunteer and of course our valued clients. There have been numerous days I sort through 100+ emails and during those busy times, important ones can slip through the cracks.

To help keep important client requests and concerns organized and prioritized, we have implemented a support ticket system. We have done some testing the last few weeks and so far so good, there might still be a glitch or two but I think it’s ready for beta launch. I would like to encourage our clients to try out and give us some feedback on how it works. It’s pretty simple and allows you to check progress and communicate more efficiently with me or the developer working on your project.

To access the page, go to the Client Area located in our main navigation bar or click here to dive right in.

Slogans – Send us yours

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So you may of noticed we have some random quirky slogans under our logo that change on every page load. When Mike and I were working on our site and logo redesign, we had come up with some great professional sounding slogans but they all sounded a little stuffy and not who we are. Things are pretty casual around here, we work hard to play hard. We joke around and have a good time. As we continued on, things got a little sillier and came up with some super funny ones, mostly inside jokes and probably crossing that line. In the end, we decided on “We design stuff good”. However, we wanted to keep our site a little quirky and wanted to keep some of our late night slogans alive so we installed a script to randomize the slogan. Here is where you come in, if you have a good one for us, fire it over, if we like it and use it, we will send you the coveted, limited edition, Panthermedia T-Shirt. email yours to mysloganrules@panthermedia.com

iPhone and mobile websites

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We are starting to develop mobile versions of websites, we currently have a couple in the works and will be releasing them later in June. We are implementing a customized mobile theme for wordpress sites that is modelled after Apple’s app store design specs, it loads lightning fast and shows your content beautifully, without interfering with your regular site theme. The mobile theme transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application experience when viewed from an iPhoneTM, iPod touchTM, AndroidTM, or BlackBerry StormTM touch mobile device.

For non-wordpress sites we are developing mini-sites that focus on specific information about your company that visitors would be looking for on the go. Contact info, location, maps that sync to your phone and brief overview of services and products.

Stay tuned for our future releases and sign up for our newsletter below.

InContactPro now offers more custom fields.

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If you’ve been poking around your subscriber lists lately, you may have noticed that there are now up to 20 custom fields available per list, in addition to name and email. That’s right, we’ve doubled the maximum number of custom fields available to you and your clients!

This has been a very popular request amongst clients wanting to synchronize their favorite CRM software with their subscriber list, or import a detailed customer contact list into InContactPro. So, we agreed – 10 custom fields just wasn’t enough for what some would consider standard contact information, let alone all the other details you may want to include in your subscriber list. Note that each field can contain up to 250 characters.

Contact us to help integrate this new features into your web form or import a detailed customer list.

Busy Year

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I can’t believe we are in May already, time has flown by. It’s been a fantastic start to the year at Panthermedia, the addition of Mike to the team has really helped stay on top of development. We have launched 5 websites this year including a massive online catalog for C&S Tile Distributors and a 60-page catalog for IS Eyewear. Check out our Portfolio section for more details.

Coming up this spring, we have another website for Theme Magic about to launch as well as our new Panthermedia site. We have a number of new sites on the go as well as a promotional merchandise program for PJS Systems and Sanyo. We will diving in a little deeper on the impact of HST for both us and our clients in the next few weeks and are encouraging clients to speak to us as soon as possible so that we can pencil in projects prior to July 1, 2010