Graphic Design Services by Myrtle Beach Website Designer

Graphic Design Services

 

Whether you have a brand-new business, or have been doing it for decades, one of the most important things in the world of business is BRANDING. Someone needs to see your brand and know who you are and what you do.

Most importantly, they need to recognize it, whether it’s on your stationary, your store sign, your website or your hat.

For this reason, we at Myrtle Beach Website Designer put lots of priority on making sure your website reflects the rest of your business…your store, your pamphlets, your brochures, your business card, etc.

Many times, however, we do site design for a company that has not yet built their brand, or is in the process of re-branding. If you fall into one of those categories, we can custom-design all of your promotional material, just as we custom-design your website.

We focus on being eye-catching, informative and inspiring…we want to inspire people to open their wallets to you!

We also put lots of importance into uniformity…when someone looks at your brochure, your website or one of your other advertisments, we want them to know that they are all for the same business, without having to read the fine print.

Most other website designers have no interest in getting involved in your graphic design, and most other graphic designers have no interest in getting involved in your website. This means that you end having to either hire two different companies, or have your web designer outsource your graphic design to another company (or vice versa). This leads to higher costs and a longer wait time.

Fortunately, Myrtle Beach Website Designer has a flair and excitement to every aspect of design, from coding, to illustration, to photography, to 3D rendering, and everything that falls in between! When you look at the sites we’ve designed, you’ll see our passion at work in every inch of those sites.

If you’re ready for creative, professional and beautiful graphic design for your business from Myrtle Beach Website Designer, click here to Get a Quote and to find out about our Best Value Guarantee! Or for more info about these and other services, email us at spike@spikecohen.com or call us at (843) 902-7256.

Whether your business is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or Tasmania (or anywhere in between), trust Myrtle Beach Website Designer to handle all of your Graphic Design needs!

Online Marketing/Promotion & Link Building Services by Myrtle Beach Website Designer

Online Marketing & Link Building

 

Every bit as important as a high search engine ranking is high popularity among other sites. Have you ever gone to a website, and you’re reading where it says “Wow! Here’s a site that is the best ever when it comes to such-and-such, click here to go their site…”? That’s called a link.

The best compliment you can get from another site is a raving review from them, followed by a link to your site. That’s the Internet equivalent of a “word-of-mouth campaign”, and it even helps your search engine rankings too!

Google and Yahoo have figured out that, the more links a site has, the better and more relevant it must be, and they weigh their rankings accordingly. It is VERY important that your site have links to it from other sites, and vice versa.

Another important means of getting your site out there for the world to see is through internet directories and social bookmarking sites.

Internet directories are the online equivalent of the yellow pages. The most well-known internet directory is Yahoo! Directory, but there are literally thousands of others, and we’ll get you on every single one that pertains to your site.

Social bookmarking sites are the online equivalent of a community corkboard. The most popular social bookmarking sites are Digg, Del.icio.us and Clipmarks, and we’ll get your site on them too.

Having your website listed on these sites helps get your name out there, and it also has the positive side effect of giving you a higher search engine ranking. After all, Google and the rest know that if your site is so popular that it has all these mentions on other sites, then you must be a site worth placing higher on their search engine too!

The fact is, most website developers will never mention internet directories, social bookmarking sites or link-building to you, and if you ask them about it, they will downplay their importance. But the fact is, these things are the future of online advertising, and if your site isn’t on the wagon, it will be left far behind.

Myrtle Beach Website Designer can manage a massive online marketing and link-building campaign to help your site gain popularity, and your business gain revenue! And we don’t get you a couple links….we get you HUNDREDS of links! Sometimes THOUSANDS, depending on what business you are in.

And all of this, with NO Spamming or any other illegitimate means of marketing. All of our marketing and link-building is “organic”, which means that all the sites linked to yours are doing so voluntarily and without any monetary incentive. They are doing it because they want to mention how great your site is!

In addition, we give information and regular updates about your site on this blog, which is the highest-ranked Web Design Blog in the Grand Strand! This gives you even more exposure!

As always, we can provide these services as part of a Comprehensive Website Package and we can also provide these services for an already-existing site.

If you’re ready to have your website promoted all over the Internet by Myrtle Beach Website Designer, click here to Get a Quote and to find out about our Best Value Guarantee! Or for more info about these and other services, email us at spike@spikecohen.com or call us at (843) 902-7256.

Whether your business is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or Kazakhstan (or anywhere in between), trust Myrtle Beach Website Designer to handle all of your Online Marketing, Promotion and Link-Building needs!

Custom Web Design & Development Services by Myrtle Beach Website Designer

Custom Web Design & Development

 

Myrtle Beach Website Designer has been have been serving the website needs of businesses across the US and Canada for over 10 years. With this advanced knowledge and experience in web programming, development, and design, we are the right choice to develop your website.

Choosing a website designer for your business can be very time-consuming, and incredibly frustrating. In addition, finding a website design/development company that actually follows through with their promises, and does so at a good price, can be equally difficult.

Myrtle Beach Website Designer is proud of the reputation we have built with our clients, and are eager to share it with you! Click Here to see some Testimonials!

We strive to make websites that are beautiful, user-friendly, easy-to-load, functional and have all the features that your business needs on your site. Not one more or one less. We also believe that your website should accurately reflect the personality of your business. Click Here to see a Portfolio of some of our most recent work!

We are located in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This means that, unlike some other companies, when you call or email us for assistance or support, you will be conversing with an American who speaks English fluently. In this increasingly-globalized economy, that is become more and more rare, especially when it comes to technology-related companies.

 

Our websites offer the following features:

Custom Design
When you have us design your site, rest assured that you won’t end up finding another website that looks exactly like yours. We custom-design every Custom Website and tailor it to suit your businesses personality and needs.

E-Commerce
If your business needs to be able to sell products and/or services directly from your website, Myrtle Beach Website Designer offers fully-customized E-commerce solutions. Through our e-commerce portal, your business will be able to sell your products/services right on the website, and you’ll be able to accept payment via all major credit cards, bank cards and PayPal.

Integrated Google Map and Driving Directions
If your site is designed to promote a physical location (restaurant, store, law office, fitness center, etc.) one important thing for your site’s viewers to know is how to get to where you are. For this reason, we design your site to have an interactive Google Map integrated into it. In addition to showing your location, viewers can use the map to get directions from any location to you, no matter how far away. Click Here for an Example.

Comprehensive Solutions
When you come to Myrtle Beach Website Designer for your Comprehensive Website Package, we don’t just make your site and hand it off to you. We roll in exactly the services you need, including Hosting & Maintenance, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Online Marketing & Link Building, Graphic Design and anything else your website needs!

 

If you’re ready to have your site designed or re-designed by Myrtle Beach Website Designer, click here to Get a Quote and to find out about our Best Value Guarantee! Or for more info about these and other services, email us at spike@spikecohen.com or call us at (843) 902-7256.

Whether your business is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or Mogadishu, Somalia (or anywhere in between), trust Myrtle Beach Website Designer to handle all of your website design and website development needs!

Salsa Bootcamp and Salsa Party – Look What We Did!

 

Those who follow our blog will remember the site we made for Salsa Queen Productions, who does Latin Dance Classes and Events in the Myrtle Beach area!

Well, Bingles and I can hardly resist an opportunity to break loose and dance all night long!So we’ve been swept up in Salsa fever (and Merengue fever, and also Bachata….um, bronchitis).

On the Salsa Queen site, they list upcoming Latin Dance Events in the Myrtle Beach area. The most recent was the Latin Dance Bootcamp, followed later that night by the Salsa Party at the Caribbean Bar & Grill in Myrtle Beach.

Because we were busy, well, dancing, we didn’t get a lot of pictures, but here’s one that Adalia, the Salsa Queen herself, took of us during the bootcamp:

I believe we are doing the Bachata in this one.  Bachata is Bingles’ favorite dance.

The Salsa bootcamp is basically a 5-hour salsa class, where you are taught everything from the basics all the way to some higher-level intermediate stuff. It’s really a great way to learn how to salsa quickly!

We’ve been taking her classes on a somewhat-regular basis, so we weren’t exactly starting from scratch, but it’s always good to get a solid refresher course.

Then later on that same night, we went over to the Caribbean Bar & Grill and got down at the Salsa Party!

Here’s a picture I took of Bingles dancing with Ernie, one of the other dance students:

Unfortunately, the batteries died after taking one picture (don’t buy a camera that uses AA’s) so this is the only one I got.

BUT, if you go over to the Salsa Queen Productions Picture Gallery, you can see some more pictures of both the Bootcamp and the Party.

We will be doing more of these parties and bootcamps in the future, and hopefully we’ll bring a camera with a full battery next time.

Domain Name Registration Services by Myrtle Beach Website Designer

Domain Name Registration

 

Not ready to set up your website, but already know the domain name you want? Or do you already have a domain name, but want to transfer it from company that is currently holding it for you?

Myrtle Beach Website Designer can register and transfer domain names for your business!

For those who don’t know, a domain name (also known as a URL) is that thing you type to go to a website. For example, our blog’s  domain name is myrtlebeachwebdesign.wordpress.com. Every website has a domain name.

If you are purchasing a Comprehensive Website Package or Easy Site from us, then the cost of registering or transferring your domain name (URL) is already included in that package!

For those who just want to register or transfer their domain name, then the cost is only $15 per year for each domain name you want to register or transfer! That’s only $1.25 a month!

 

We can register or transfer the following domain name types:

.com .info .me .biz

.net .ws .tv .asia

.org .us .mobi .ca (Canada)

All for only $15 per year

 

If the domain name you want isn’t available, we can help you find a suitable alternative name to register.

If you want to register or transfer your domain name for your website, or you want more information about these and other services from Myrtle Beach Website Designer, click here to Get a Quote and to find out about our Best Value Guarantee! Or for more info about these and other services, email us at spike@spikecohen.com or call us at (843) 902-7256.

Whether your business is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or Botswana (or anywhere in between), trust Myrtle Beach Website Designer to handle all of your Domain Name needs!

Website Hosting Services by Myrtle Beach Website Designer

Website Hosting Services

 

Once a website has been created, it needs to be hosted. Just like your business, your website needs a place to be located.

Your business may be located at a storefront, an office building, or in your home. Your website is located on a Host. Hosting is the service that keeps the site online.

Unlike many other website design companies, we provide hosting to you as part of a Comprehensive Website Package! We like to think of ourselves as a “one-stop shop” for all your web needs.

If you have an existing site that needs hosting (or you’re paying WAY too much for your hosting) we provide the same affordable hosting services to existing websites as well.

Myrtle Beach Website Designer is a web hosting service provider. We are located in South Carolina, and we offer hosting service for websites across the planet. While most hosting providers offer one or a few plans, we offer customized hosting solutions for each individual client. We make sure that you are provided with no more, and no less, hosting service than you require.

In addition to our hosting services, we also offer website maintenance plans. Once your site is up and running, you may want to make minor additions, removals and “tweaks” to the site as it goes along. Myrtle Beach Website Designer can provide those maintenance services to you.

Whether you have had your site designed by us and are receiving your hosting as part of a Comprehensive Website Package, or you had your site designed by someone else and wish to switch your hosting and maintenance services to us, you are provided with the best service at the best possible price.

In addition, unlike most web hosting companies, we allow upgrading/downgrading of your hosting plan at no charge for the change!

 

All of our hosting services offer:

UNLIMITED HITS!

UNLIMITED Data Transfer!

99.9% Uptime!

Redundant Power!

24x7x365 Monitoring & Management!

Redundant Network Equipment!

24x7x365 Customer Service on site!

Redundant Climate Control!

Engineers on Staff 8 AM to Midnight 365 Days!

Redundant Fiber Entrances!

Redundant Tier One (T1) Backbones!

For those who don’t know what some these things mean, they are the best that can be offered when it comes to website hosting infrastructure!

 

Many website hosting companies try to attract businesses by offering ridiculously high amounts of disc space. Have you seen hosting providers who offer you up to 5GB of space? Well, would you be surprised to know that your site probably will need less than 1% of that?

Most websites use about 50-75MB (that’s 0.075GB). Your site may need more than that, but if you don’t, we at Myrtle Beach Website Designer think that you shouldn’t have to pay for it. Our web hosting services are custom-tailored to meet your specific website’s needs.

If you’re ready to have your site hosted by Myrtle Beach Website Designer, click here to Get a Quote and to find out about our Best Value Guarantee! Or for more info about these and other services, email us at spike@spikecohen.com or call us at (843) 902-7256.

Whether your business is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or Timbuktu (or anywhere in between), trust Myrtle Beach Website Designer to handle all of your website hosting needs!

 

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Services by Myrtle Beach Website Designer

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

If you’re like most people who surf the Internet, you use a search engine like Google or Yahoo to find what you’re looking for online. Normally, you only need to click on the first few results that come up.

But have you ever wondered who decides which websites come up first? Well, the engines’ super-computers use a complicated and ever-changing formula to “figure out” which websites are the most relevant to your search.

That’s all fine and good, but what’s important to you is, how do you make sure that your site is listed at the top of those engines? After all, you can have the greatest site in the world, but if no knows it’s there, then you might as well not have one at all.

That’s where Myrtle Beach Website Designer comes in! We specialize in Search Engine Optimization, or SEO. We use a series of SEO techniques to make sure that your site gets the highest search engine ranking possible!

Of course, we have to make sure that you are ranked high for something that you actually do. If you sell cars, and you come up at the top of rankings when someone is searching for lawn chairs, that’s not going to help you, which is why we research the best search terms that are related to what you do, and focus on making your site rank as highly as possible for those searches!

In fact, if you found us via a search engine, then you got a first-hand showcase of our ability to get high rankings for our sites!

 

Here are a few of the SEO techniques we use for your site:

Generate pages and coding designed to follow search engine guidelines.

Develop “META tags” which provide description and keyword info to the search engines.

Modify site content to make it as search engine friendly as possible, while still maintaining the integrity of your site design.

Create XML Sitemap, which helps search engines navigate through your site more easily, and putting your site at a higher rank for more regular “crawls” by the search engines. This allows your website’s new content to be shown on search engines more quickly.

Check HTML, JSP, ASP, PHP, CSS and any other coding for possible errors.

Submit your website to all the major search engines (including Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, AOL Search, Altavista, and more).

Submit your website to hundreds of other smaller search engines.

All of the above services can also be retro-fitted onto websites that have already been created.

 

Our SEO services can be rolled into a Comprehensive Website Package for you! Or, if you already have a website, but you aren’t getting as many hits and visits as you should, we can do SEO for existing websites as well.

Never take it for granted that your website design company designs your website to be search engine friendly. The fact is, most web designers don’t even know how to optimize your site for search engines, and they will probably never even mention it. And most web designers charge obscene amounts of money for the service if they do offer it, or they’ll just hand you over to a 3rd party company to do some “jury rigging” of your site to make it more search engine friendly.

If you’re ready to get the highest search engine rankings possible for your website by Myrtle Beach Website Designer, or you want more info about these and other services, email us at spike@spikecohen.com or call us at (843) 902-7256.

Whether your business is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina or Guadalajara (or anywhere in between), trust Myrtle Beach Website Designer to handle all of your Search Engine Opmtimization needs!

 

Rental Management – Myrtle Beach Real Estate Services by Cohen & Associates

 

As a service  to one of our clients, Cohen & Associates Real Estate, we showcase their listings, services and other information from their Myrtle Beach Real Estate Website.

Today, we showcase one of their Real Estate Services, which is their Rental Management Service:

 

 

Myrtle Beach Rental Management Services

Want to make some well-deserved money from your home, condo or townhouse? Not willing to sell at today’s prices?

We don’t blame you. In fact, our recommendation to people who do not NEED to sell right now is to wait a while until things get a little more favorable to sellers.

That’s all fine and good, but what if you need to make some income from the property? If you’re not living there, and you’re not selling it, it’s just sitting there.

Well, Cohen & Associates has just the plan for you! The residential rental market in the Myrtle Beach Area is VERY STRONG!

This is good for several reasons: first, it shows that people are still moving here, but they just aren’t quite ready to buy. Maybe they need to sell a property elsewhere first, or they’re getting their credit in order to get the best financing terms possible. Or maybe they’re just waiting for prices to “hit bottom” so they can get the best deal possible.

In the meantime, they need somewhere to live. Why not make some money from that reality?

Cohen & Associates has had a 100% success rate of finding tenants for the rentals that we manage. Go ahead, Click Here check out the Rentals Section of our For Sale & Rent page. We’ll wait here.

What did you see? That’s right, they’re all rented. For most of those properties, we secured good tenants within a week or so of putting it up for rent! That’s money in YOUR pocket!

You may have considered putting your property up for rent in the past, but it just seemed like too much of a hassle. Finding a tenant, making sure they could afford the rent before agreeing to let them in, collecting the rent, dealing with maintenance and repair issues, etc. With Cohen & Associates, you put us to work and wait for the money to roll in! It’s THAT easy!

 

Here is a breakdown of the services we provide throughout the rental management process:

• Advertising of Property to Secure Tenant:
  • We advertise your Real Estate for Rent on CohenMyrtleBeach.com, Google Housing Search, Craigslist, Postlets, and nearly 30 other sites.
  • We Show your property and screen prospective tenants.
  • We collect information, credit score and rental applications of prospective tenants.
  • We act as liaison between you and the tenant and write up the rental agreement according to the terms you specify.
• Collection of Rent and Maintenance of Property:
  • We collect and hold the security deposit. We can also collect and disperse rent, if you choose.
  • We collect rent prior to the 5th of each month, and collect late fees, if any.
  • We instruct the tenant to let us know of any maintenance needs in the home (appliances, electrical, etc.)
  • We conduct regularly scheduled inspections of the home to make sure that everything is in order.
  • In the case of maintenance needs, we tell you about the need, set up the professional to come out and take a look at it, and then have the quotes sent to you. It is required that you approve all work that is to be done, and after that we coordinate getting the professionals back in to do the needed work.
  • In the case of non-payment of rent or any other ongoing violation of the rental agreement, we work with you through eviction process. Thankfully, we have only had to do this one time in all the years we’ve been managing rentals.
• Transition from one Tenant to next Tenant, or back to Landlord:
  • Once the lease is up, if the tenant or you choose not to renew, we begin the process again of marketing the home and securing a new lease.
  • We coordinate the transition from the old tenant to the new tenant.
  • If you choose not to rent the home anymore, then we coordinate the transition from the old tenant back to you.
• These transitions include:
  • Bringing in professionals to determine if any work needs to be done.
  • Making sure that all of your household belongings remain in the home.
  • Making sure that all of the tenants’ belongings go with them.
  • Helping you determine how much, if any, of the tenants’ security deposit needs to be retained to pay for any unexpected repairs.
  • Upon your instruction, releasing the security deposit (or remainder of the deposit, if any) to the tenant. 

 

 

In short, there is NOTHING we don’t do in managing your property!

For more information on the services we can provide you as a Grand Strand Area Real Estate Rental Management Company, or for any questions you may have about Myrtle Beach Real Estate, Contact Cohen & Associates today! 

 

 

Online Showcasing Service Provided by Myrtle Beach Website Designer.

Shoveling Snow in Canada – Look What We Do for Love!

As I mentioned earlier, I just got back from beautiful, sunny cold, miserable Toronto.  And boy, is my throat tired (from coughing).

And no, it wasn’t all fun and lizard games either.  The wonderful thing about being slowly encased in snow is that you have to regularly shovel your way out.  This accomplishes very little, other than making you feel like you have some control, when in reality God is toying with you.

Bitter?  No.  But this is an excellent time to mention that Myrtle Beach is beautiful and sunny right now.  I walked around wearing shorts today.

So in case you are interested in looking at purchasing homes in a beautiful resort town where people wear shorts year-round, go to CohenMyrtleBeach.com!

Anyway, here are the pics:

 

Here I am, starting off on my trek to clear off the driveway and sidewalk.  I am wearing: 2 jackets, 2 pairs of pants, oversized boots, 2 pairs of socks, gloves and a hat. 

 

 

At the beginning, I felt like I was wasting my time.  Oddly enough, I felt the same way two hours later, when I looked outside and saw that everything was covered in snow again.

 

 

You’ll notice that Bingles’ neighbor is selling his house and moving away.  I wonder why….

 

 

Here I am, pissing in the wind shoveling more snow.  Bingles had fun telling her neighbors that this was my first time shoveling snow.

 

 

As you can see, I had no idea what I was doing.  At all.

 

 

At this point, the driveway was “done”, which means that it was safe to drive over for about 30-40 minutes.  Good job, Myrtle Beach Website Designer!

 

 

Next comes the salting.  Did you know they use actual salt?  I thought the term “salting” came from how you sprinkled it on the ground.  I had no idea it was real salt.

Amazing.

 

 

Bingles felt that I could be trusted with an ice scraper, even though I had never used one before.  I’m glad to report that no one got hurt.  Unfortunately, no ice was scraped either.  Again, I had no idea what I was doing.

So anyway, that was fun.  Once again, any person who is living in Canada, take some time to come down to Myrtle Beach.  Spend a week here, and then seriously tell me you want to leave.

Oh, and our gas is a lot cheaper too…

Latin Dancing in Myrtle Beach – Look What We’re Going to Be Doing!

Normally, we showcase the things that we’ve done in Myrtle Beach (and elsewhere).  But this time, we’re going to showcase what we’re GOING to do!

You may remember the SalsaQueenProductions.com website I made a couple weeks ago.  I’ve also done some flyer and promotional graphic design for Salsa Queen as well, including this flyer:

 

For those who can’t read it, here’s what it says:

SALSA!  MERENGUE!  BACHATA!

Latin Dance Classes
Mondays and Wednesdays
7:00 – 7:45 Beginners
7:45 – 8:30 Intermediate
Only $5 per Class!

Adalia’s Salsa Social
Every 3rd Saturday
7:00 – 8:30
Light Refreshments Served
Bring Friends & Family
Only $3 Entrance Fee!

At the Pepper Geddings Recreational Center

For more info go to
www.SalsaQueenProductions.com

 

For those who are interested in Latin Dancing, come check out the Classes and Events that Salsa Queen Productions offers!