Mass Market Distribution, Gettin in the Door

Posted in: Business Strategies, Graphic Design, Marketing Strategy, Packaging Design, Website Development- Sep 13, 2011 Comments Off

So you want to put that great new product on the shelves of Wal-Mart. Sitting in the Wal-Mart buying office lobby is the Star Wars Bar scene of mass market distribution. You can’t believe the array of products and hopeful Willie/Willimina Lomans. Smiles and shoe shines all around and the most powerful of all…the receptionists. [...]

WordCamp Boston 2011 Review

Posted in: Reviews, Wordpress- Jul 25, 2011 5 Comments

This past weekend I (MatthewTNelson) spent my time with technology professionals from all over the New England region to meet, discuss and learn more about one of our favorite pieces Website technology, WordPress.

Building a better hospital website with WordPress CMS

Posted in: Hospital Marketing, Wordpress- Jun 14, 2011 1 Comment

Does this sound like your hospital website content publishing process? ALL of your hospital website content needs to be fed through one person who has to actually build the pages using an HTML editor which is a slow, time-consuming process and puts a finite cap on the amount of information that can be shared through [...]

WordPress Child Theme Set Up & Use

Posted in: Wordpress- Jun 07, 2011 4 Comments

Today, I (Matthew T Nelson – Interactive Media Director here at FirstTracks Marketing Group) will be giving a presentation at NEAUG (stands for New England Adobe Users Group) on how to set up and use Child Themes for WordPress. My talk will include details on how and why you should be using child themes to [...]

4 Quick Tips and Must Have Tools For New CMS Users

Posted in: Content Management, Joomla CMS, Search Engine Optimization, Web Design, Website Development, Website Usability, Wordpress- Jan 28, 2011 Comments Off

My job here at FirstTracks Marketing presents me with the opportunity to build WordPress and Joomla CMS websites for many diverse clients in industries such as Education, Assisted Living, Health Care, High Tech, and many more. But want to know the one thing that is the same with almost all of these websites and clients? [...]