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Welcome to our 6th E-Newsletter
Dear Subscriber,
Spring into action!
The winter months are the perfect time to clean your closets, spend time with family, and get that web site fixed! This month we'll give you some great ideas on how to get that marketing material to earn its keep!
We hope you enjoy our Sixth Issue. If there's anything you'd like to see covered in future issues, drop us a line at cc@sonoradesignworks.com or just hit reply to this email.
Jim & Heidi Somers
Sonora DesignWorks
Web Traffic Reporting made simple...with Google Analytics
Analytics is a free service provided by Google that is used to help document information about your website and its visitors. We create an account for your website at Google, and then place a small snippet of Google Analytics code onto your web pages.
Some of the information we regularly use from Analytics:
- How many of your goals get met.
- Where visitors find your site.
- How long visitors stay on your site and how many pages they view.
- How many visitors return to your site.
- How many visitors "Bounce" (click the back button immediately)
- Where visitors are physically located.
There, your life just got easier!
Marissa 
Marissa has been a designer at Sonora DesignWorks for the past 10 years. She has been working with the company since she left college where she trained as a graphic designer, and enjoys the creativity and challenges the job presents. "I was fresh out of college, looking for a job, and my sister Briana mentioned the great company she was working for. Sonora was looking for new designers, so I went down, got hired on the spot and I've never looked back. It's a great company to be a part of; it's family-oriented, and the flexiblity is great, especially since the arrival of my son, Jasper. A lot of the projects we work on allow us to really stretch our creativity to the limit, and that's something I really value."
Marissa works primarily with the design aspect of project development, including website design, logo design, and graphic layouts such as brochures and flyers, but she also assists with coding and development of web projects. She also works with illustrative projects, providing custom artwork for clients. Marissa lives in Concord, New Hampshire with her husband, James and son, Jasper.
My Hobbies:
Illustration (mainly cartoons, especially children oriented), Painting, Sewing, Hiking
My Goals:
Expand my creativity, Mountain bike this summer
Introducing:
"FRESH IDEAS!"
Videos
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video must be worth a million!
Reading is nice, photos are better, but VIDEO can capture an audience and convey an idea or concept like a static photo can't.
And with the introduction of YouTube and other social media sites, posting videos on your site is very quick and effective.
If you have a video, just post it to YouTube, grab the embed code, and add it to your web page. Or send us your video on disk and we can convert it easily for use on your site.
Does your Website need an Extreme Makeover?
Is your website not performing and creating new sales but you're not sure why? Are you still using the same site your cousin did for you in college? Or worse yet, did you do it yourself using a free program? These days, a website is the first impression prospective buyers have of your business - so it pays to have a good one. Now you can get a FREE analysis of your current site - and how you can make it better - from Sonora DesignWorks.
