Zero-G Creative

SXSW 2011: Vote for Zero-G Creative!

Aug 20 2010

Once again, Zero-G Creative hopes to be well-represented in Austin this year at SXSW Interactive. We submitted our panel ideas and now we’re asking all of our friends to vote for us since it represents roughly 1/3 of the decision-making process.  Take a look at our panel submissions and cast your vote for us if you’d like to see us speaking at SXSW again this year. Thanks for your support!

Practice Safe Site: Avoid Being Cheated By Developers

by Erik Wolf and Stephanie Frost

Horror stories of entrepreneurs being ripped off by web developers and online marketing scams are everywhere. Some business owners have been burned so badly, they hesitate to invest anything in the web despite the fact that it plays such an important role in our increasingly digital society. But there’s no need to fear – while there may never be a means to ensure overwhelming success in a website or blog design project, there are a LOT of simple ways you can reduce your risk. Making sure that the right things are in the contract, protecting your down payment, and asking the right questions are just a few examples. In this session, we’ll discuss how to hire the RIGHT web partner/consultant/designer/developer/agency, how businesses can protect their web and online media interests and how to avoid being disappointed, scammed, robbed or otherwise taken advantage of. This presentation is designed to help attendees make the most of a limited web budget and steer clear of common pitfalls that will cost weeks or months of time and thousands of dollars.

WordPress: The Small Business Swiss Army Knife

by Stephanie Frost, Erik Wolf, Adria Richards and Jamie Turner

WordPress has been steadily growing in popularity as a CMS over the last two years because it’s free and relatively easy to learn–especially when compared with other packages like Joomla and Drupal. But WordPress is more than just a convenient choice — in many cases it’s the only web tool a small business owner is ever likely to need. WordPress isn’t just for blogs anymore, seamlessly handling media content, ecommerce, membership sites, search engine optimization, mobile sites, lead generation and much much more. Our panel of experts will describe the many uses and strengths of WordPress and demonstrate how WordPress is adaptable into just about any small business use.

Published by Stephanie Frost under Announcements,Trade Shows/Events