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Remotely Access Your Network Drive

So awhile back we outlined how to set up an Ubuntu Network Drive. After some time, we realized how useful it would be to access all our files when we weren’t in the office. Who hasn’t whipped out their laptop at home and realized, “shoot, the files I need are still at the office.” So [...]

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Client Spotlight: Quality Restorations Inc

We would like to welcome Quality Restorations Inc. to the Tribeswell Web Design Portfolio. QRI is a concrete and building restorations company that works in the greater Chicagoland area. Their work has ranged from small buildings to massive apartment towers, to world famous structures. When we were approached to build their site we knew we [...]

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Why We Love the Nest Thermostat Website

So we were recently turned onto a Nest thermostat and their gorgeous website. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a new product by a collection of ex apple and google employees who together coalesce into a dream team of functionality and design experts. Right off the bat this site strikes you as downright beautiful [...]

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What They Don’t Tell You in Business School

As a business student I’ve been in the process of being groomed to meet the demands of the business world for the last four years. Or at least so I thought. To their credit, my professors taught me a great deal about business theory, ethics, problem solving, and communication. I always thought I would stroll [...]

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The Big Bad Best Buy

As you’re doing your holiday shopping this year be aware of the malicious and nefarious corporations that are out to steal directly from your wallet. I know that sounds dramatic, but its true. What businesses am I talking about specifically? Best Buy of course. Coming home for Thanksgiving means upgrading my parents computer and installing [...]

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Top 7 Marketing Apps I Couldn’t Live Without

This is a follow-up post to my ‘top 10 productivity apps’ post that I wrote a few weeks ago. These are my top 7 apps that my team uses every single day and we couldn’t live without. WordPress I wouldn’t have a business without wordpress. World class CMS, thousands of amazing plugins that do almost [...]

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The tougher IT gets, the tougher YOU get.

Starting a business, running a business, managing people… it’s no walk in the park. It takes a crazy kind of person to even start something in the first place, let alone endure those months where you have little to no income and what can seem like a mountain of problems and worry. It seems to [...]

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Dropbox

Seriously, thank god for dropbox! In an era all about cloud computing it takes the crown as the most insightful, useful, and downright innovative solution on the market. As a person who is constantly strung between multiple computers its vital I have access to the documents I’m working on wherever I am and with a [...]

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Is your website “Mobile-Friendly”? Smartphone adoption has reached critical mass.

The above graph was released by Nielsen in March of 2010. At the time they predicted that by Christmas of 2011 half the population would be using some sort of smartphone. What this means to you as a marketer is that now is definitely the time to start thinking about how to market your business [...]

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4 Super-versitile, Open and Free Sans-Serif Fonts to Use with the Google Fonts API

There are tons of great fonts to choose from in the Google Fonts Directory. These fonts can be used on your website through the Google Fonts API, and most are also free to download and use throughout the rest of your marketing. The problem with the vast majority of the fonts in the directory is [...]

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