At Greg Banig Design & Marketing we work with leading website technologies as well as leading marketing technologies. One of our firm’s core competencies is in Customer Relationship Management (CRM) program design and build. We typically lean toward Salesforce.com as our CRM solution as we are one of San Diego’s leading CRM and Salesforce.com consulting firms. Developing a Salesforce Web to Lead form in Flash One of the key strengths of Salesforce.com is the system’s a... Read Full Story

Are you interested in building a joomla website but don’t want to jump through the design hoops? Numerous sources for Jooma templates exists and many offer award-winning Joomla tempates that can easily be customized to match your company brand. Developing a Joomla Website with a Template At Greg Banig Design & Marketing, a San Diego based marketing firm that works in Joomla development, we turn to RocketTheme.com for many of our Joomla website templates. Why We Like RocketTheme.com... Read Full Story

If you have a website with a contact form you’re probably aware of the problem of spam submissions. Spam submissions are automated submissions to a website contact form. These submissions are generated from programs that scour the web and locate contact forms that contain a “comment” field. The spam programs submit the contact form with bogus information and links to the website the are marketing in the comments field. Their goal is to locate contact forms that post the subm... Read Full Story

Do Landing Pages work or are they an effort in futility when it comes to Search Engine Marketing? The quick answer…it depends. This article examines the key components of a Search Engine Landing Pages and how you can successfully design and utilize these tools to increase search engine marketing. We also discuss the pros and cons of Search Engine Landing Pages and what most people do incorrectly when implementing a landing page strategy. What is a Search Engine Landing Page? The 10-sec... Read Full Story

At Greg Banig Design & Marketing we’ve looked at, and used, content management systems (CRM) for years. We dabbled in Mambo years ago, and while it was “cute” at the time, it was far from an end-to-end CMS solution for businesses. Well, a couple of years have gone by and in 2008 we at Greg Banig Design & Marketing are promoting Joomla websites, the evolution of Mambo, to 100% of our new clients and recommending that existing clients transition to the Joomla platfor... Read Full Story

Public relations - a professional trade that has been known to take a back seat to Marketing and Sales - seemed to have been left behind on the web in the past years. One need only look at marketing and ad agency brochures to realize that how Marketing professionals flocked to the web. We’ve been inundated with Website Marketing and Internet Marketing talk, not to mention the entire new industry of Search Engine Marketing. But what happened to Public Relations on the internet? For all ... Read Full Story

Want your business listed high on Google? Want your website indexed quickly with Google? Want to make your site available to local businesses? If you answered “no” to any of the above you’re in the wrong place. If you’d like to implement some easy and FREE tools for getting your site ranked with Google, you’re in the right place. An easy, and often overlooked, way to accomplish all of the above is the “Google Local Business Center”. The Google Local B... Read Full Story

So, you’ve jumped on the blog bandwagon. Great. Your new problem is “if you build it, will they come?” Effectively marketing a blog requires many of the same steps as traditional website marketing, along with a few specific steps to blog marketing. Step 1: Content is King As with tradtional website marketing, you should keep in mind that content is the most important factor in marketing your blog. You need relevant content, unique content is best, that speaks to an audience.... Read Full Story

So, you’ve jumped on the blog bandwagon. Great. Your new problem is “if you build it, will they come?” Effectively marketing a blog requires many of the same steps as traditional website marketing, along with a few specific steps to blog marketing. Step 1: Content is King As with tradtional website marketing, you should keep in mind that content is the most important factor in marketing your blog. You need relevant content, unique content is best, that speaks to an audience.... Read Full Story

Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs have been a hot topic in search engine marketing for the past five years or so. What is SEF? A search engine friendly url is a url that has been rewritten so that special characters (#, %,&, ?, etc.) are removed. Example, Bad URL: http://www.gregbabnigdesign.com/marketing?_public%relations/ Example, SEF URL: http://www.gregbanigdesign.com/marketing-public-relations/ Why SEF? Most search engines, and search engine spiders, take issues with special charact... Read Full Story