Tag: marketing

The Art of Business Photography

Our client needed a way to distinguish his photography practice for a valuable new niche. Businesses need great photography to stand out – and stock photography, generally, just doesn’t do the job. Our client identified that businesses who were willing to pay to secure distinctive imagery didn’t even realize how beautiful, fully custom photography was within their budget. The photos in his portfolio are striking, and make the case well. But what was missing was a compelling presentation and storytelling…

Around the Office: On the Importance of Websites, Building a Brand on Pinterest/Instagram, Making Meaningful Content, and More!

Around the Office is a weekly group blog of what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Social networks are, of course, a great way to drive traffic to a website, and David and Daveed found it astounding this week that some major companies ignore the marketing potential of image-oriented social networks including Pinterest and Instagram. If you need some inspiration, Donna Moritz. provides some great tips on how businesses can use Pinterest, a social network that has grown to 10 million users faster…

Around the Office: Patternizer Backgrounds, Shopp E-Commerce, Marketing as Storytelling, and More!

Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Building an e-commerce WordPress website? Savvy developer Scott recommends the Shopp plugin, which he decided to use partly because it works, and partly because of the depth of documentation for both developers and users. After all, we prefer plugins that we can figure out how to customize easily. And our clients appreciate having something they…

Before You Open Up Shop: 5 Guidelines for a Functioning E-commerce Business

By now you’ve likely heard about how the Internet is transforming business, and at least a few e-commerce success stories. Whether you’re hoping to put your existing business on the Web or start a new online store, making the plunge into e-commerce can be rewarding. But it’s best to get your business started online properly. In this post, we’ll look at some things to consider before opening an online store. 1. Let them help themselves One of the major differences…

Around the Office: 2012 Trends and Predictions, Social Spam, more

Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. In the first week of 2012, we wondered whether the doomsayers were wrong about their cataclysmic predictions about the year 2012 given the general lack of fire and brimstone. We were interested in what Nettuts+ counted as their year-end web development trends and their predictions — and we had some of…

Around the Office: Colour Gradients, Coca-Cola Changes Colour, more

Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the OnlineFriendly.biz team and Kobayashi Online have found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Daveed has been using a new online tool from Colorzilla that creates colour gradients using CSS. Select any number of colours, adjust their position, and the Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator give you a preview of how it will look, as well as the code to apply it to your website. Brent…