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Heart of Texas Real Estate Logo Design

Calvin Hanson — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:13:48 +0000

Heart of Texas Logo Design

Kimberly Fowler of Heart of Texas Real Estate Group wanted a logo that set her real estate company apart from all the other logos that featured the state of texas and a heart in various forms. After talking with her, we decided including the elements of the horse and the state flag of texas. I created a one color design as well for use on business cards as a foil stamp or metallic ink.

Heart of Texas Logo Design One Color

Kimberly Fowler is a realtor near Waco and Temple, Texas. If you are interested in real estate in this area, visit her website: www.heartoftexasgroup.com

Rosewood Properties Logo Designed

Calvin Hanson — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:01:35 +0000

I just finished up the Rosewood Properties Design. They needed something that conveyed their high quality custom homes in Greenville SC. After a few revisions that played with circles, ribbons, house elevations, and leaves, we decided to go with a simple but classy, personal script font and a serif font for the “communities”. The end result is below.

Rosewood Properties Logo Design

Rosewood Properties is a high end new homes builder in Greenville SC. Visit their website here.

Red Roosters Chicken and Wings Logo Design

Calvin Hanson — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:51:37 +0000

Right now I am working on a logo for Red Roosters Chicken and Wings. I just finished up the first concepts. My clients requirements: Red and yellow colors and two roosters.

I kind of like the “R” turned into a Rooster head but it is a little different from what they are wanting. I like to give my clients a few options besides even what they think they want because sometimes they end up loving it!

What do you think?

Red Roosters Logo Design

Reedy River Rickshaw Logo Design

Calvin Hanson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:38:33 +0000

I just finished up with the Reedy River Rickshaw logo design. Check it out here:

Reedy River Rickshaw Logo Design

They will be offering the Rickshaw service in downtown Greenville, SC so if you need to get to the west end from main street, look for these guys!

Design Inspiration Added

Calvin Hanson — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:38:04 +0000

I just added a new page called Design Inspiration where you can see some of my work. Also for other sites with inspiration, look down the right column and I have a few links under the Graphic Design Inspiration heading.

Check it out here: Design Inspiration

Cabinet and Tops of the Upstate Logo and Marketing

Calvin Hanson — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:11:29 +0000

Cabinet and Tops came to me with a need for a new logo and complete revamp of their branding. Myself along with the owner Shawn have been working hard on getting advertisements, business cards and their website all looking consistent throughout their marketing materials.

Cabinets and Tops of the Upstate Logo

Above is their new logo. They wanted something that reflected their service to high quality home builders. I wanted to create something unique so I took a script font and modified it quite a bit in Adobe Illustrator. I took it into Adobe Photoshop after to add shadding and create a more photorealistic logo. It can however be simplified for use on t-shirts and vehicles.

Cabinets and Tops is located in Greenville, SC. Visit their website here.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): The myths revealed

Calvin Hanson — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 20:29:40 +0000

Many businesses large and small are getting mislead by SEO companies. The reason? Not many people know what SEO is or how it can help them. It is my goal to give my customers relevant accurate information that never misleads and it angers me to think that people are being taken advantage of!

I’ve decided to define elements of search engines and some tactics to help drive traffic to your website.

#1 way to get on top of Google: Have the most relevent content on your subject and have lots of it!

There is a reason big company’s get on top, and it is because they have massive amounts of relevant information on their website. As a result, other websites start linking to the site because it has the best content and that increases the sites performance even more in Google’s search.

Ok..what does “On top of Google Search” actually mean? (see picture)

GOOGLE ADWORDS PPC (pay per click):

Contrary to belief, you can get on top if you pay enough. It is through Pay per click advertising. For example I know of a company in my area of Greenville, SC that pays around 3-4 dollars for the keyword “homes in greenville sc”. They consistently are in the top 1-2 spots for that keyword.

GOOGLE LOCAL

Depending on what you are searching Google might display the Local Search which is FREE to your business! Click here to sign up: Google Local Sign Up

GOOGLE ORGANIC SEARCH:

These results are what is put through the Google Algorithm and spit out as the most relevent. As you can see from my screen capture sometimes it actually isn’t the TOP.

WHAT CAN I DO TO GET PEOPLE TO MY SITE:

Just like investing, you want to diversify. Set up your advertising budget and advertise on Google Adwords or Yahoo’s PPC service.

There are many articles on being Search engine optimized. Why not get info from the search engine you want to get results from GOOGLE! Click here to read what they say. With the information you read, apply it to your website. Get your webmaster to submit a site map to google so you site will be included in Google’s search index. Get in local search directories like Google Local and Yahoo Local (Also: do a search for “local search directories” and sign up for all the free ones).

Advertise your website on your product, cars, business cards, letterhead, logo, signs, anything you want to drive “direct” traffic to your website.

Is google the only search engine I should advertise on?

It does have 80% of the searches. Yahoo!, Microsoft’s Live.com, Ask.com and others make up the rest. If you are ok with advertising to 80% of the searches then its up to you. I would advise using at least Yahoo! as well.

If you need help with submitting your site to google or want me to set up and control your PPC campaign, contact me.

MORE RESOURCES:
I just found this site today by Quickbooks and it is a good SEO resource: http://www.onlinemerchantnetwork.com/