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Consultant in Action: Consulting for Dockery Design

At Dockery Design, consulting for a business can be a day-long affair, a multi-month engagement in their office, and everything in between. Consulting for a live, working business often involves a learning curve as our team comes to understand their current business workflow, their vendor interaction, and their marketing plan. Once we see how their

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HATE: How to get people to HATE your blog

by Tyler Dockery, creative lead at Dockery Design

I do a small amount of work with bloggers— helping them to redesign their sites, and punch up their content. One of the minor complaints that I hear rather often is that “people seem to HATE my blog. No matter what tack I take, visitors leave and don’t

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Customer Management Software (CMS): A Primer

At Dockery Design, we know that most web designers and developers prefer Building their websites by hand. If  this turns out not to be an option, they will follow up by building websites with open source CMS, because they got a lot of support from online web communities. Rapid development of plugins for these open

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Add Retweet Counters to Your Website

Tyler Dockery used to cringe when he suggested that his new clients should consider the mantra “Eat Twittter, Sleep Twitter! and Now Blog and share now on Twitter”. Find those words lame? Do you know that several larger design firms and business networking sites have 40% 0r more of their traffic coming from Twitter alone! So

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