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Microsoft Not Supporting Internet Explorer 8, 9 , & 10 after January 12th!

It feels like just yesterday when AOL dominated a majority of cyber communication and web browsing.  Even then, Internet Explorer seemed like a strange secondary product to some.  As AOL seemed to trickle away, Internet Explorer pretty much was the exclusive tool for internet users and their browsing needs. Around 2002, just over 90% of internet […]

WooCommerce Goes 0-10 Million Real Quick

Over the last 10 years or so, there have been a plethora of eCommerce solutions being put out there.  It seemed like for the first 5 years of the recent decade, every new solution was going to be the “next best thing”.  Yahoo really kicked off the millennium with their turn-key solution (which some businesses […]

3 Tips to Land You in Google’s 3-Pack Local Results Box

Big changes have occurred in Google’s highly sought after local results box, as these searches will now return only three results instead of seven, and the top three results will be without contact information.  With these new changes in effect, here are 561 Media’s 3 tips to optimizing your site to fit into the 3-pack […]

Optimizing Your Investment – Next Step to Success

So you’ve got a clean, beautifully designed, functional website – now what? Now it’s time to Optimize Your Investment so that your target market can find it, and use it effectively, even if they don’t know it exists yet. Think about it this way: if you owned a surfboard shop in San Diego called “Surf & Sun”, […]

How To Work With People in Business

Whether you are an entrepreneur, an “account executive” (i.e. salesperson), an employee or a bum knowing how to work with people can make or break you. As we all hear pins drop and quiet whispers of disbelief that a company is actually encouraging you to use other people, let’s clarify a little and get you […]

How will Google’s new SEO requirements affect your business?

Most of us don’t have the convenience of “unlimited data” from our mobile carriers anymore.  Therefore, we monitor how much data we are pulling when we aren’t under the protective umbrella of wonderful WiFi. With that being said, Google is taking into consideration things like how quickly your page can load on a mobile device, […]