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Small Business Photo: A Smart Website

I met Laird Brown over a year ago and have enjoyed getting to know him and his Phoenix, AZ photography business. As a savvy and cost conscious small business owner, Laird has created a lot of his marketing collateral himself. I will tell the truth here—I normally turn my nose up at self-made marketing materials especially websites. Most of the time they look very templated and have very poor content.

Laird’s website is absolutely the exception. It is not a super sophisticated design but it looks nice (and not at all templated) and more importantly the content is completely optimized to the needs of his consumer. You can tell from his website that he totally gets his client, knows what they want, and has made it easy to find.  Check out Laird’s website below or at smallbusinessphoto.com along with a few of my points on what makes this website so strong.

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Profile: Southgate Grill at the Chandler Radisson

Today I had lunch with Amy Lees, catering manager for Southgate Grill in the Radisson Hotel in Chandler. I met Amy a couple of weeks earlier at a Chandler Chamber seminar on social networking. She was interested in learning how to use social media to promote the hotel amenities. And I was easily enticed with an offer for free lunch.

My lunch at the grill was awesome. The menu is brand-new and not what you expect for an Arizona hotel—Mediterranean cuisine. The food was delicious. I had a pita sandwich with hummus on the side. I had eaten lunch with another designer at Pita Jungle a few weeks earlier and the Southgate blew their lunch out of the water.

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