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Pinterest Spam Problem

So while we do Social Media Marketing for a living at BLaST Creative, we don’t use Pinterest because of all the SPAM! I heard a rumor last week that Pinterest had dealt with the issue. Sadly, I am here to tell you that it is not true. I created a BLaST Creative account last week [...]

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MontanaFair’s New Focus – Energy Day

The boom of the oil fields is reaching out to touch everyone. The people involved and the discussions pursued at Energy Day at MontanaFair were indicative of the broad range of businesses and organizations that are engaged, as they unveil a new source of economic opportunity, stemming from energy development. Sometimes it was surprising to [...]

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Sex And The Bakken

“If the Bakken is rock’n don’t come knock’n!” There is not just an oil boom in the Bakken, but an STD boom as well! “Sexually-transmitted diseases have risen to a record high in the area,” said Deborah Thompson-Hall, a registered nurse at the health center on the Fort Berthold Reservation in New Town, less than [...]

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Google Offers Free Websites to Small Businesses in Montana

How to jump start small business website creation in Montana? Google has teamed with Intuit to offer a free website design, a free domain name and free server hosting for a year. While 97 percent of consumers go online to look for local products and services; a large majority of small businesses in Montana lack [...]

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Online Marketing 2012

Has Online Marketing taken over in 2012? Well, lets just say that traditional marketing isn’t dead, but if you aren’t doing some form of online marketing you risk extinction! And traditional marketing-newspapers, television stations and radio stations are scrambling to fill the void, because they know the reality that their companies face. Unfortunately the sales [...]

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Facebook Timeline For Brands-Made Easy!

Well it’s official, if you have a business page on Facebook either you’ve converted to the new timeline already or Facebook will do it for you next week. Like everything with Facebook-there are pros and cons. The bottom line, none of us have a choice and the change is coming, so embrace it while you [...]

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Where Have The Ethics and Integrity Gone

Climbing aboard the Synergy Station Train has been a thrilling and exciting experience! It’s exciting to see businesses grow, to see business owners excited about new opportunities opened to them not only in the Bakken but around the globe and throughout cyberspace as well! But it all hasn’t been a bed roses! No I’m afraid [...]

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SEO…Optimizing Your Website…What Does It All Mean?

In the beginning…there were websites, many, many websites. The myth that we all believed was…build them and they will come! So we built and we built and we built, cyberspace was getting crowded with all of these newly designed websites, but no one was coming. Some business owners gave up quickly. Other business owners, tried [...]

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Social Media and Marketing in 2012

2012 is quickly approaching and the number one question that I am asked is how does a business owner spend their marketing dollars? The face of marketing has changed and how we market a business has really changed! Do you use the phonebook? Newspaper? Magazines? Social Media? Online Directories? TV? Radio? The answer is that [...]