Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 | Business
It’s always exciting to have new people join the Slamdot family, so it’s our privilege to bring Melissa Fagan on board as a new project manager and web developer! We’re thrilled to have her as part of the team here, and look forward to her being a part of our continued successes.
Melissa has worked on projects with us in the past, so she’s familiar with Slamdot, which will make her transition extremely smooth. She has also been trained directly by Elaine Frank, who recently switched careers to pursue her dream of event planning with the city. We’ll all miss Elaine, and have enjoyed her being a part of Slamdot’s growth. She has contributed significantly to our success over the last couple of years, and wish her the best as she moves on!
Monday, February 21st, 2011 | Buzz/Press
It’s here. We’ve taken the concept of an online business directory, and finally made it cool.
Welcome to Slamdot Circle, the place for small businesses to get listed, get recommended and generate business. The real power of Slamdot Circle, you ask? That comes from the viral nature of recommending a business, which gets immediately posted to Facebook, reaching that person’s entire network of friends. Anyone can connect to Slamdot Circle through their Facebook account, allowing them to “Recommend” businesses, and post that recommendation to their Facebook news feed, automatically.
A business can also list their basic contact information, but with Slamdot Circle they now have a centralized listing that links to all of their social networking profiles, including Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Flickr, YouTube, and Foursquare, with more coming soon!
We’ve developed Slamdot Circle to be simple and clean, with an easy way to recommend and show support for your favorite businesses! Please check it out and leave us any feedback you might have. It will continue to evolve as we add more features, but we’re excited to have it up and running with a growing number of businesses getting listed and recommended. Come join the Circle.
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010 | Podcasts
I recently had the opportunity to go on air live with Ed, Bob, Mike and the crew over at WNOX-FM 100.3 News Talk here in Knoxville. We discussed the many facets of web marketing, including website design, social media, online privacy, advertising and the rise of mobile connectivity. The entire conversation was about 20-30 minutes, and I had a great time. I was interviewed and asked a number of questions regarding the use of websites, and tools like Facebook and Twitter, to help businesses reach out and engage with their customers.
You can listen to the entire interview below.
Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 | Just For Fun
We may run the risk of leaving someone out, but find all the washy “Seasons Greetings” and “Happy Holidays” a little distasteful. So, if we left you out, leave a comment and let us know for next year!
All of us here at Slamdot’s “Website Workshop” would like to extend a very special thanks to all of our customers and friends who helped make 2010 our best year ever. We wish you all the best success in 2011!
The Slamdot Store will be closed Friday, December 24th, but our 24/7 support team will still be available, even on Christmas day, via email if you need us!
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 | News & Updates
With 2010 coming to a close and 2011 around the bend, we’re excited to announce some great new additions to our product and service lineup, all of which have been reflected with updates to our website.
First, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of a brand new website package, called Premium. This package provides all of the features and marketing tools of the popular Business package, but with a totally unique design built from scratch. Now customers needing stronger brand integration can work with us, using a proven platform that works, with a handcrafted design, tailored just for them.
Next up, Ready. Set. Logo! provides our customers with an affordable, streamlined logo design that can be added to the purchase of any full website package, providing a crisp, professional brand for their business. It’s the perfect fit for anyone who already knows what they want their logo to look like, and just needs our help bringing it to life. And, it’s ready in just a couple of days!
Lastly, let’s talk a bit about OnSite Mobile Support. In addition to group trainings and seminars, we can assist with basic email configuration and installation of FTP software, among other services, so look for “Slamdot on Wheels” around your neck of the woods! Can’t come to us? We’ll come to you! Oh, one more thing…
We’re rolling out the icing on the cake with our exclusive Slamdot VIP Program for top customers who require additional care and access to the best expertise each month. VIP includes our Pro hosting plan, priority technical support, proactive website software upgrades, monthly website changes and no-charge access to our monthly SlamCamps. There’s also a little something extra that only VIP customers will know about :)
Saturday, October 9th, 2010 | News & Updates
You’re invited to Nightmare on Gay Street, a family-friendly Halloween event hosted by Slamdot, on Friday, October 29th, from 5:30 pm to 10 pm, on the 100 Block of Gay Street in downtown Knoxville, with a private Haunted Open House at the Slamdot Store for our customers and friends.
For all those souls who dare, come join your fellow humans…dead or alive…and bring your young to partake in the night of fright and eve of enchantment, where we hope you’ll escape unscathed to tell your own twisted tale of….
- Live music
- Trick-or-treating
- Costume contests
- A pumpkin carving contest among downtown businesses
- Creepy critters from Ijams Nature Center
- A Bounce house
- Kid’s Halloween games
- Face painting
- Ghost stories
- Food vendors, including Bread of Heaven Catering BBQ, Larry’s Coney Island, Rita’s Ice, and funnel cakes from Concessions by Cox!
- And much more!
At the Slamdot Store, we’ll be having a private Haunted Open House for our close friends and customers. We will have beer, wine, Halloween music, and a bone-chilling scene to mingle and network with others, along with some fangtastic door prizes.
For the official Nightmare on Gay Street flyer, please visit http://www.nightmareongaystreet.com/, and share this with anyone you know, including zombies, ghosts, goblins, werewolves, vampires, witches, mummies or any other supernatural beings you may be acquainted with.
Please RSVP no later than Monday, October 25th, to rsvp@slamdot.com with your name and the number of additional guests you will be bringing.
We’re requiring all those attending Slamdot’s Haunted Open House to RSVP, as we’re limiting entry to those who are signed up to come. However, all are welcome to come out for the Nightmare on Gay Street event!
Driving directions are available on our Facebook event page.
We’ll be celebrating our 5th year anniversary in style tomorrow, August 31st, from 3 pm to 8 pm at the Slamdot Store in downtown Knoxville at 108 S. Gay Street.
Since our initial announcement about the 5-year anniversary party, we have scheduled Phil Williams from Newstalk 98.7 FM to come out and do a live remote broadcast here at the Slamdot Store from 3 to 6 pm, so come out and listen live in person!
We’ve also partnered with one of our good customers, Bread of Heaven Catering, to bring a smoker and provide some of the best BBQ in East TN right here at the store! They’re one of the best kept secrets in town, and if you’ve had their food, you know why you need to be here. If you haven’t, don’t blame us for any regrets about not showing up…
In addition to the great food and live Phil Williams broadcast, we’ll be giving out tons of door prizes, including gift certificates and goodies from Elegant Essentials, The Shrimp Dock, Angela Floyd Schools, The Irish Times, ECO Clean Carpet Solutions, Spirit Driven Coaching, Coffee and Chocolate, Tea at the Gallery, Meadow View Greenhouse, and the Knoxville Opera!
There will also be beer, wine, some great music, and of course, like always, some tasty Italian Ice from Rita’s Ice. Please come join us as we show our support to all of our customers and friends who have helped Slamdot hit the 5-year milestone.
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010 | Buzz/Press
Josh Ault with WATE 6 came by the Slamdot Store today to interview Elaine Frank about the 100 Block Party details, happening on October 1st at 5:30pm.
Josh also spoke to Daniel Monday about the 100 Block opening up to pedestrians and traffic and how we’ve been impacted so far.
Look for it tonight at 11:00pm on WATE 6.
Not only can the websites we develop go mobile, but now our support team can, too. We’ve begun to put together our fleet of Slamdot service vehicles with the addition of a newly-wrapped Nissan Cube. With our OnSite Mobile Support, we can come to you and your office for website or social media training, seminars, basic email configuration, FTP client setup and other related support issues.
Check out what’s coming to a street near you:
Thursday, August 5th, 2010 | News & Updates
Slamdot turned 5 years old today (Happy Birthday to us!), which is amazing. We have done a lot and come a long way in 5 short years, and we’re already looking forward to the next 5 years ahead of us. This fall we have a lot of new things going on, and we are very excited about everything that is happening, especially with the Slamdot Store. We have received numerous positive comments about it, with overwhelming support from our local community of Knoxville, TN. Business continues to get better and better by the day, and more people are realizing how easy and accessible it is working with us in the retail format.
We’d like to thank our awesome customers, and our close friends and colleagues, who have been with us all of these years and understood our vision for the future. We hope to continue improving our services even further, and offering many more options to our clients.
Since starting out working remotely from home, to the handful of smaller offices we’ve called home in between, and opening the first Slamdot Store earlier this year, we have loved every minute of the journey and can’t wait for more. We hope those who are available to join us in Knoxville on August 31st will come by the Slamdot Store to hang out from 3 pm to 8 pm, as we gather in celebration.
Thanks for 5 great years, from the entire Slamdot Team!
