Author: Angela Haarmann

Kolbeco RAPIDFIRE: Angela Haarmann

It’s no big surprise that our very own walking bundle of happiness, joy, and love began her career at Kolbeco on Valentine’s Day in 2014. If you’ve worked with her, you know her for her awesome web development and digital marketing skills, as well as her tremendous care and willingness to dig in and help…
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Your Website: Where Art and Science Live Happily Ever After

Many people like to think that art and science live in two totally different worlds. There are even different sides of the brain that control creative thinking versus analytical thinking. So it may seem that the two might be at odds. But there’s at least once place where they exist in harmony, and that’s your…
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There’s no such thing as a free web click

Everybody loves free, right? Web traffic is no different. Why pay to be found in Google’s search results if you can be found there for free. But is it really free? When we think of search engine results, we tend to break them out into two categories – the paid results at the top and…
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Three Simple Rules for Getting Email Attention

Did you know that an estimated 206.6 billion emails are sent & received every day? 206.6 BILLION. EVERY DAY. Think about how many emails you get on a daily basis. Which ones get your attention? Which ones fall into a black hole, only to be lost, ignored, or deleted before the sender even has a…
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Your Website is Launched! Now What?

Launching a shiny new website is an exciting time. You may think once that is done just sit back and watch the web traffic roll in, right? Well, that’s not going to happen, not at least until you get local search engines to help you, as you would most definitely need quality vendors to help…
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Content Writing and SEO; like bread and butter

When we’re talking about a website the term SEO comes up a lot… Search Engine Optimization. You know what it stands for and you know that you need it, but how do you GET it? What really goes into optimizing your website for organic search? The answer is simple, and not so simple at the…
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Are Your Customers Committed? Try a Burrito Party.

We are all motivated by different things, big and small. That’s what makes the world go ‘round, right? That’s also what drives a big part of marketing; finding out what motivates people. I recently found out that motivation can start small but turn into a much larger, and deeper, commitment. A commitment to myself, to…
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Get the Picture?

I have thousands of pictures on my computer; vacations, school plays, birthday parties. I’m not in 95% of them. I think that’s a reality for a lot of moms, and I’ve accepted my role as the designated family photographer. But I started to notice something else; I had no clue what was happening in some of the…
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What the heck is a Hatchimal?

Every year, it seems there’s a hot toy that every kid has to have. Remember the days of the Cabbage Patch Kid? The Furby? How does a toy become the “it” thing on a kid’s Christmas list, anyway? This year, that hot toy is the Hatchimal. What in the H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks is that??  For anyone with…
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We’re all in this together

My kids don’t know any different. They were born into our police family. Almost every room in our house has some sort of “thin blue line.” Our closets are filled with police fundraiser shirts and even a freshly minted police costume for trick-or-treating this year. It’s who we are, and that’s nothing new. But it…
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