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 [...]

Assisted Living Facilities: Find your Voice

Posted in: Assisted Living- May 31, 2011 2 Comments

For assisted living homes, independent living facilities and nursing homes, effectively marketing your business can be difficult. When reliance on word-of-mouth is all you’ve got the stream of potential residents can run dry quickly. Granted, having people out there recommending your facility is fabulous but is that enough? How do you influence the “deciders” and [...]

How Powerful is your Hospital’s Community Connection?

Posted in: Hospital Marketing- Mar 02, 2011 Comments Off

What does a powerful community connection mean? In the world of marketing and communication it’s a measure of how quick and agile you can be in responding to and communicating with your direct and extended community. Can you post information to your website quickly and easily? Are you using social media outlets to build and enhance loyalty for your organization?

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? [...]