The Media Works Blog
Tips and suggestions for business design and website management
WordPress Website Expert Help
We’ve been creating and managing websites in WordPress for over 13 years. The changes in functionality have been huge and for many of our clients those changes are too much to keep up on while they are running their business. We offer assistance with WordPress content management, WordPress updates, and WordPress options, such as ecommerce
Choral Concert Poster and Social Media Image Design
Concert Poster Design Concert Instagram Post Design This poster was designed for the MSU School of Music Choral department to advertise their annual Spring Concert. The second image is an Instagram ad designed for them to advertise on social media.
How to Request Google Reviews from your Clients
A quick, easy how-to for businesses to share a link with clients to leave google business reviews.
Getting the most out of your Social Media Marketing
Last week our resident Marketing Manager, Jason Mayr, gave a presentation to a group of Buffalo Restoration’s Clients. It is a great perk that Rachel Krug, the Business Development person for Buffalo Restoration, came up with. She adds value to her brand by providing valuable information free of charge to her clients. Media Works was
A few more tips for your Google Business listing.
My last post gave you the information on how to ask for and get reviews via your google business listing. Hopefully you have spent some time checking out your own business listing and getting it all shaped up. We went through that review ourselves as a follow up (practicing what we preach…) and we found
Asking for, and getting some reviews of your business through your social media
We all like a pat on the back for a job well done. We love it when our clients thank us for the work we do, but how often do we take it a step further and ask for a written review? It can be cumbersome and awkward, but it doesn’t have to be. We’ve
Training on SEO Best Practices, Blogging and Social Media
Media Works provides SEO, Blogging, and Social Media Marketing services. We also provide training to clients who would like to learn to improve their SEO on their own. Whether we host your website or not, we can still work with you to teach you how to improve your website’s SEO. We can also teach you
Content Management That’s Budget Friendly
Media Works helps small businesses do what they do best by providing services for what we do best. Here’s a great example of how to maximize your marketing ROI by using a strong business partner to help you update your website information quickly, easily, and affordably. http://mediaworksmt.com/project/website-content-management-assistance-for-bozeman-nursery/
SEO, Marketing Assistance and Logo Design
This small, home-based soap and lotion company in Twin Bridges, MT used our expert SEO services by our web developer, Kory. Media Works also designed their crisp logo for use in their marketing materials. Now they are able to compete in a much larger geography and look good while doing it. Logo Design for Twin
Use your elevator pitch and a quick professional website design as a placeholder page to get you and your new business found online
Launching a new business is intimidating, but getting a good website and web presence up and in place quickly should be easy. Follow a few straightforward steps when you’re beginning your work to plan your business and you’ll be well on your way to having a great online presence before you open your doors. Establish
“Getting Found Online, The Right Way” – Presentation for Bozeman Business & Professional Women
I’d like thank everyone who took the time to attend our “Getting Found Online, The Right Way” presentation on April 12, 2017, as well as for all of the positive feedback afterward. As promised, we wanted to make the key points of the presentation available online afterward, to encourage Bozeman BPW members (and our other website
Media Works is helping Bozeman businesses reach more customers with social media content marketing solutions!
As a small business owner it can be overwhelming to keep up with the various social media advertising strategies. Understanding Facebook, Facebook Ads, Twitter, Instagram, Google + and Google Adwords is not easy. Here’s a short summary of information to help you get the most out of your Facebook page: First off, is your Facebook
We’re happy to work with the Moods of the Madison Concert Festival for the map updates.
Last year we had a fun project to create a venue map illustration for the Moods of the Madison Weekend Concert Event. We were happy to hear from them again this year to make a few updates to the map now that the concert has become an annual event. Thanks so much to Michelle for
Media Works discusses careers in Graphic Design and Website Design at Big Sky and West Yellowstone High School Career Day
Kory and I were happy to be invited to attend the career fair at Big Sky’s Lone Peak High School this week. The school hosted students from West Yellowstone High as well. Media Works joined other organizations ranging from the US Army, the US Park Service, to doctors and chiropractors. Media Works was the only
Old photos and slides taking up space in your basement or garage?
Media Works offers both photo and slide scanning services. Our slide scanner allows us to provide you with digital copies of your slides that allow you to enjoy the memories- rather than keeping them stored away! Call us today if you have stored photos and slides you would like to have digitized. An example of
Working with short-codes for Galleries and Videos in your WordPress website.
Your WordPress website has a great gallery plugin, you add your photos to it, caption them, and have them all set to display just as you want them. The only problem is you don’t know how to make the gallery appear! If you have a gallery plugin that provides a “add gallery” button to your
Logo work by Graphic Design students at Anderson School
The 7th and 8th grade students that have been working with Lorelyn the past month have been great. They have been working through the design process to create logos for Rust on the Range, a local Bozeman company owned by Bryan Mackie (owner of AntlerCreek Wildlife Creations). The students worked in groups or alone to
Media Works teaches Graphic Design to Bozeman Middle School Students
Thanks to Jessica Stevens of Anderson School in Bozeman for inviting Lorelyn to teach a class on Graphic Design to the middle school students. Lorelyn has volunteered her time to spend and hour + over four weeks teaching the elective to 15 students. The class will cover an introduction to graphic design. She will give
Adding password protected or private pages to your WordPress website
A common question for many clients of our is how can they create pages that only certain people can see? How can they provide access to those pages? We’ve provided a brief summary of the steps to password protect pages or create private pages. As always…if you need help just give us a call at
