No Posts for 3 Months!? Here’s Why…

Author: Adam Helweh
 

Can you believe it? I can’t. 3 quick months have flown by since my last post on this blog. I swear I have a good excuse or two. Actually, I’m not too keen on the fact that I let so much time lapse between posts, but I’m back to share with you what has been happening in in our corner of the world. Then you can be the judge.

So rather than bore you to death with a torturously long post that most folks will never read, I am going to attempt to quickly fill in the gap on what I and the Secret Sushi team have been up to. Here we go!
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Web Analytics – Why You Should Be Peeking Under the Hood

Author: Adam Helweh
 

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Google offers tons of free tools to do all kinds of things like create online spreadsheets, find directions to a local restaurant, manage your photo collection, or share a family calendar. Whether you have an established web presence or are looking to launch your first site, there is one free tool from Google that everyone should be using. That wonderful tool is called Google Analytics.

Google Analytics provides very detailed insight into how people are interacting with your website. By just placing a small piece of code within each page of your site you will start receiving answers to questions like:

  • How many people visited my site during the last month?
  • What state (or country) do most of my visitors come from?
  • What search terms do my  visitors use to find my site?
  • Is my site getting any traffic from social networks? If so, which ones?

But answering these questions is just the tip of the iceberg. With some understanding of what your trying to accomplish with your web site there are a number of ways to dive deeper into these numbers and glean valuable information about just how effective your web presence might be. (more…)

 

Want to know a Secret… Sushi?

Author: Adam Helweh
 

Secret Sushi Site Snapshot

It’s been 3 years since I started this company and there is one question I am asked almost daily. In our line of work that question could be any number of things. For example:

  • What are your services?
  • How can I increase the visibility of my website in Google search results?
  • How can we improve the interface and overall user experience of our web application?
  • What the heck is social media and how can my business benefit from it?
  • What are some effective ways I can market myself and my business online?
  • Would you like fries with that?

Believe it or not, those questions pale in comparison the being asked “Why the name Secret Sushi?” followed by “What a great name!” I figure it might save some time if I were to simply answer that question right here, right now. Maybe then I could send everyone who asks to my here get the scoop? I’ll tell you why I wont do that, because I love the conversations! (more…)