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Parris Racing Concepts Enjoys A New Logo

January 15th, 2009 2 Comments

Parris Racing Concepts, an exciting up-and-coming company in the two stroke engine motor sport industry announces a new logo designed by Montana’s best logo designer David Howlett of the web development and graphic design studio Manifest Creative.

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5 Steps to Succeed Online in 2009

January 9th, 2009 0 Comments

1) If your business doesn’t have a website… IT’S TIME TO GET ONE. 2) Simply having a website is not enough… IT HAS TO BE FOUND. 3) E-brochures don’t work… YOU MUST HAVE A CALL TO ACTION. 4) Find something to sell online… IF NOT – WHY NOT? 5) Blog… Blog… BLOG!!! Need More Tips? If you are left wanting to learn more, please contact Manifest Creative in Bozeman, MT and we’ll be happy to set up a free initial consultation.

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Remember that poll?

January 1st, 2009 0 Comments Remember that poll?

From time to time, we publish polls on our blog in hopes of learning a bit more about you. Whenever we release a new poll, we’re sure to archive the old one on our website. If you would like to see the results from one of our previous polls, continue reading…

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Cool Animation of the Progression of a Logo

December 19th, 2008 1 Comments

A cool and interesting animation of the progression of a logo design for the non profit organization Esperanza Center in Bozeman, Montana. This non profit organization has been the beneficiary of some engaging pro bono graphic design and web development by Manifest Creative.

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Logo Progression – Bozeman, Montana Non-Profit Gets A “Brand” New Look

December 17th, 2008 9 Comments

The detailed progression of a new logo for the Esperanza Center, from initial design to the finished product.

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10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your LinkedIn Group

December 12th, 2008 0 Comments

“the success of your group often directly correlates with the efforts you put in to it”

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E-mail Marketing for Beginners – Create Your List

December 12th, 2008 3 Comments

Today we’re continuing in our recent vein of articles… Baby steps for beginners who would like to improve their Montana internet marketing; but don’t know where to even begin.
This article will focus on e-mail marketing, specifically, how to create a list of people and addresses to mail to.
What is e-mail marketing?
E-mail marketing is the process [...]

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Google brings Street View to Montana

December 9th, 2008 0 Comments

Today, Google.com sent me an interesting press release. They’ve announced that their service “Street View” is now available in Montana. At first glance, it appears that a great deal of ‘metropolitan’ Montana is included in this release.
What is Street View anyway?
Street View is a part of Google Maps. There are 3 main types of views [...]

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Bozeman, MT Search Engine Optimization Update

December 8th, 2008 0 Comments

I wrote in an earlier post, about an experiment I’m currently running about local search engine optimization (SEO) in Bozeman, MT. In that post I made some predictions of what would happen after I registered with several national websites that feed local results to search engines.I predicted that the following things would happen:

No significant improvement for [...]

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5 beginner tools for internet marketing

December 5th, 2008 11 Comments

While these recommendations are fairly basic, and many may feel that they go without saying, I wanted to highlight them here:
#1) Your own domain name
Domain names usually cost about $10 per year from sites like GoDaddy.com. Do a bit of research and try to register your business name or an easily remembered domain name. Shorter [...]

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