314media offers custom WordPress Design and WordPress Development.  Cusotm themes, blogs build to match your existing website, custom WordPress website themes, WordPress customization and design, and all things WordPress.  We also offer WordPress as a CMS so that you can convert your entire site over to WordPress with a new design.

We are an official WordPress consultant listed on the CodePoet directory and we offer competitive pricing on custom WordPress Design and development.  Contact us for more information about our WordPress Design Services.

If you current blog or WordPress web site needs a new design, contact the WordPress specialists at 314media to recieve a custom, code complient, WordPress design in a little as seven days.  We offer custom WordPress design and web design services and we are available to develop a WordPress Design for your new WordPress website.  Contact us for a risk free, no-obligation quote on building a custom WordPress design for your web site.  We offer affordable prices, prompt, professional service and exceptional customer support after the inital sale.

We look forward to your WordPress Design project!

When you start a new web company or create a new website or start a new business, one of your first questions will be “how do I get traffic?” After all, traffic means more sales, more clients, more advertisers… and more money. And while you can implement Adwords campaigns and other paid methods, the most valuable traffic is that which comes organically and directly from the search engines. Natural, organic traffic from Google, Yahoo, and the others is free, it is specific, and is already partially pre sold. Which makes good search engine optimization a key part of building and improving your website.

Looking around the web for ways to improve your traffic and rankings, you probably came across plenty of offers for SEO services. But if you have never contracted an SEO company before, you may not know if it is worth it. Do you even want an SEO professional for your site? The answer is a resounding yes. For five very important reasons.

1. In depth SEO knowledge. As a webmaster, you have access the limitless material about SEO. There are webmaster and SEO forums to look at, and lots of paid courses, “tricks,” and materials. But no matter what you read, you will never be able to amass the knowledge that an SEO services professional has. And why? Because you have to focus on other elements of your website. An SEO professional can focus 100 percent on SEO… because it is what they do, and they do it exclusively.

2. Professionalism. An SEO services company works only with search engine optimization, and so must always keep up with new methods and ideas. They are SEO professionals. And a big part of doing SEO as a profession is using little known methods that webmasters cannot implement on their own. Among these methods are things like the analyzing the psychology of your visitors, the usability of your site, etc.

3. Results. You can learn elements of search engine optimization and put them into use yourself. You can submit articles, try to use social media, and do you best to optimize your pages for the search engines. Even so, your results will not be as good as those you would get using SEO services. Why is that? Because SEO professionals not only know and use all of the methods that you do, they also have a wide range of alternative SEO methods. SEO services get the kind of results that you cannot… and they do it quickly.

4. Time Savings. Working on the search engine optimization of your site takes time. Sometimes a lot of it. You have to read up on new SEO news and methods, write content and articles, and build links. This does not just mean work… it means time. If you hire SEO services to do this sort of work for you, you will have more free time to focus on your own areas of expertise.

5. Value of investment. Some SEO services cost more than others, and sometimes they seem too expensive. But only when you do not take a closer look. The truth is, cost goes in the opposite direction… it is too expensive not to get SEO help. Because doing your own optimization involves spending money, too… and you end up spending more than you should on wasteful “tricks” and resources that cannot help you. Though using an SEO company means spending money, it is a much more efficient use of your investment.

Contact 314media to learn how we can optimize your web site for a better organic search placement.  We are a St. Louis based web design, WordPress, and SEO consulting company and we have a proven track record for increasing page rank and search engine placement.  Contact us today to learn how we can help your business become more visible.

According to HubSpot.com “The way people shop has changed drastically – people are much more in control of what information they receive and how they receive it. The Internet and the emergence of sites like Google, Yahoo, MSN, digg, and del.icio.us has changed the dynamic of how people purchase products. People are now much more able to get information about different vendors, products, and industries themselves without interacting with your company directly. By the time they reach you, they are much farther along in the sales process but you know much less about them.”

There are many different options for an inbound marketing campaign.  Some of these methods include:

• Search engine optimization (SEO)
• Pay per click (PPC) advertising
• Blogging and leveraging the blogosphere
• Buzz marketing
• Facebook, Twitter, MySpace
• Targeted landing pages
• Conversion tools
• Sophisticated analytics
• Viral Videos

Not all investments make the same return.  314media can develop a comprehensive strategy to attract more visitors to your site and to make the most of your marketing campaign budget.  After all; it’s about results…

WordPress has been vastly superior to other CMS systems because of it’s ease of use and simple development cycle.  Most features are available right out of the box or with free third-party plugins.  Why spend time on custom development when most business and client features already come standard.  Speak with 314media to gain valuable insite and consulting services to learn the WordPress best practices and which plugins and features work well together.

314media offers hourly consulting rates, custom development, WordPress theme development, graphic design, inbound marketing and much, much more.  Contact the Saint Louis WordPress professionals today to learn how your company or organization can take advantage of the many features that WordPress can offer.  The short development cycle and quick-to-launch features are what makes WordPress one of the fastest growing CMS systems for your web site build.

314media can provide a custom WordPress website build as well as traditional web design building.  We are a website builder that takes great pride in our work and simplicity of billing.  Contact us today to learn how fast and affordable building a website with WordPress can be.

Inbound Marketing is marketing focused on getting found by customers.

In traditional marketing (outbound marketing) companies focus on finding customers. They use techniques that are poorly targeted and that interrupt people. They use cold-calling, print advertising, T.V. advertising, junk mail, spam and trade shows.

Technology is making these techniques less effective and more expensive. Caller ID blocks cold calls, TiVo makes T.V. advertising less effective, spam filters block mass emails and tools like RSS are making print and display advertising less effective. It’s still possible to get a message out via these channels, but it costs more.

Inbound Marketers flip this old marketing stereotype and bring clients (inbound) to you!

Instead of interrupting people with television ads, they create videos that potential customers want to see. Instead of buying display ads in print publications, they create their own blog that people subscribe to and look forward to reading. Instead of cold calling, they create useful content and tools so that people call them looking for more information.

Instead of driving their message into a crowd over and over again like a sledgehammer, they attract highly qualified customers to their business like a magnet.

The most successful Inbound Marketing campaigns have three key components:

• Content – Content is the substance of any Inbound Marketing campaign. It is the information or tool that attracts potential customers to your site or your business.
• Search Engine Optimization – SEO makes it easier for potential customers to find your content. It is the practice of building your site and inbound links to your site to maximize your ranking in search engines, where most of your customers begin their buying process.
• Social Media – Social media amplifies the impact of your content. When your content is distributed across and discussed on networks of personal relationships, it becomes more authentic and nuanced, and is more likely to draw qualified customers to your site.

314media can provide a solution for your business that brings together blogging, social media, and search engine optimization.  Contact us for a risk-free quote to learn how your business can benefit from inbound marketing and get started today.

As the economy slows down, companies are turning to Inbound Marketing because it is a more efficient way of allocating marketing resources than traditional, outbound marketing. As Brian Halligan puts it: “When you’re inbound marketing, the thickness of your brain matters a lot more than the thickness of your wallet.”

There are three specific ways Inbound Marketing improves on the efficiency of traditional marketing:

• It Costs Less – Outbound marketing means spending money – either by buying ads, buying email lists or renting huge booths at trade shows. Inbound Marketing means creating content and talking about it. A blog costs nothing to start. A Twitter account is free, too. Both can draw thousands of customers to your site.  The marketing ROI from inbound campaigns is higher.
• Better Targeting – Techniques like cold-calling, mass mail and email campaigns are notoriously poorly targeted. You’re reaching out to individuals because of one or two attributes in a database. When you do Inbound Marketing, you only approach people who self-qualify themselves. They demonstrate an interest in your content, so they are likely to be interested in your product.
• It’s an Investment, Not an Ongoing Expense – When you buy pay-per-click advertising on search engines, its value is gone as soon as you pay for it. In order to maintain a position at the top of Google’s paid results, you have to keep paying. However, if you invest that money in quality content that ranks in Google’s organic results, you’ll be there until somebody displaces you.

314media can provide a solution for your business that brings together blogging, social media, and search engine optimization.  Contact us for a risk-free quote to learn how your business can benefit from inbound marketing and get started today.

314media is the fastest growing SEO and Web Design & Development company in St. Louis.  We offer CMS SEO, static HTML SEO, PPC Analysis and management, as well as cutting edge web design and development and inbound marketing.

We are official WordPress consultants and have experience with other CMS systems that  may need SEO optimization and configuration.  We offer daily, monthly, and quarterly programs to raise your page and traffic rank with the search engines.  No matter what content management system you are using; 314media can develop a solution to meet your companies online marketing objectives!

Contact us today for more information about our CMS SEO packages and products and learn how we can increase your page visits and web site traffic.

Contact 314media for free web hosting for 12 months with every new web project.    We are offering free Premium, WordPress, and eCommerce web hosting for all new projects that are booked through March 2010.  This free web hosting deal may never happen again, so take advantage of starting that new business and receive free website hosting for one full year.  Simple brochure sites, eCommerce websites, online stores and WordPress can all be hosted with our free 12 month package.  Book your project today by using the simple form below!

314media can develop a custom WordPress solution for your website.  As your focus shifts or new opportunities arise, 314media can repair, add on to, or rebuild your WordPress powered website or blog.  314media can provide the necessary support and consulting services for these types of requests.  We offer affordable rates and we use the latest in compliant coding to make sure your website is using the latest technology.   We offer WordPress consulting by an hourly rate or by a package price.

We offer WordPress support, WordPress hosting, WordPress consulting, WordPress web design, WordPress web building, Custom WordPress themes, custom WordPress plugins, shopping carts and ecommerce, and search engine optimization.  Contact the WordPress professionals at 314media for more information about our WordPress products and services.

314media offers a WordPress.com to WordPress.org conversion service for those unfamiliar with the process.

Setting up WordPress on your own server can be a challenge it’s self.  314media offers WordPress setup and installation services in addition to our WordPress.com to WordPress.org Conversion Services.  We can help you install the software, migrate your posts and content, and setup your WordPress theme in a matter of hours.  If you just need to change web hosts on a WordPress.org blog; we offer that service as well.

We also offer WordPress web hosting for as low as $5 per month that comes with our Expert WordPress Web Hosting Support.  Contact us for more information about our WordPress website hosting, WordPress.com to WordPress.org conversion services, or our WordPress customization and theme services today!