Google Data Studio Comparison Colors Wrong

We have been working with Google Data Studio ( https://datastudio.google.com ) especially since it is now offered fully to the public without limits. It is an amazing tool to give an elegant, customizible display to your Analytics or Adwords data report. Check out our introduction post, What is Google Data Studio?. One of our first …

What is Atomic Design?

Originally termed and explained in a book by Brad Frost, Atomic Design is a process of designing using smaller pieces called “Atoms”. Then taking those building blocks and creating, “Molecules,” “Organisms,” “Templates” and “Pages” which are ever increasingly larger collages of their smaller components. By creating modular pieces of code containing HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and Javascript you are able …

Intro to AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages

We have been recently researching different ways to help increase site speed and performance, especially on mobile devices. It seems in some ways the web is going back to when I first started web design in the early 2000’s. We were designing for 640px x 800px dimension and trying to keep the code as clean …

Facebook Live for Small Business

Facebook Live and other streaming video services are great ways for small businesses to market and promote their goods and services. Some of the benefits of marketing using Facebook live include; it’s is easy to setup on a large and diverse network, Facebook seems to give importance to live video posts, and live video is …

Getting Started with Google Data Studio

Getting started with Google Data Studio is a breeze. You will need to have your google account login handy.Go to datastudio.google.com and login.  Make a copy of the “[Sample] Acme Marketing Website” template. Start by changing the data source. Slide the blue slider at the top right to edit mode. Select one or more charts …

What is Google Data Studio?

Earlier in the year google launched Google Analytics 360 Suite a data visualization and reporting platform for large enterprises. On May 25, 2016 Google dropped a free version of Data Studio for the rest of us! So what is this “data visualization suite and reporting platform?” Basically Data Studio is a Google Analytics custom dashboard report on …

Why can’t I boost my Facebook post?

We recently created the 25 second video below to promote our business online. We posted it on our Facebook Business Page: https://www.facebook.com/inforestcom/. We started getting traffic from the time we posted the video (356 views and 572 people reached) at the time we created this post. Not viral but not bad for a small web …

An Introduction Into Google Adwords

Google Adwords Google.com/adwords/ Adwords is Google’s advertising platform that allows business to advertise on google searches, YouTube videos., etc.. Basically where Google gets most of it’s billions from. Adwords allows you to advertise in any specified location either Princeton, NJ or Globally. Signing up for Google AdWords is free. You only pay when someone clicks …