Monday, May 5, 2008

.net Magazine Features Sacramento Web Site Design

We were recently recognized by .net magazine, a globally recognized magazine focused on the latest trends in web design and development, for our work on the Roseville Health & Wellness Center web site redesign. Here's what they had to say:

"Neat, accessible, fast loading and intelligent - that's Roseville Health and Wellness Center's website. It has the kind of flair and graphical polish that many a CSS website misses, yet manages to be packed with content and photos without looking cluttered or throwing up error messages in W3C tests. Blast Advanced Media are old hands at this type of site, producing dozens of equally impressive standard-based beauties, but Roseville's colour palette and treatment of the photos are uncommon and make it an instantly recognisable visit. Roseville must be chuffed with the quality here, and there will be no need to change the design for years to come."

Visit the Roseville Health & Wellness Center Website
Visit the .net Magazine Website

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Thursday, April 3, 2008

Raving Fans: Placer County Probation

"The site is FANTASTIC! It's been a great asset to our business."

Chris Atrim - Placer County Probation

We provided Placer County Probation with a secure file management system that integrates the exchange of documents both internally and externally through an easy to use web based system.

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Monday, March 3, 2008

Raving Fans: Audio Editions - Love our Project Management

Autotask is Project Management made easy.

It's efficient and effective. All service desk tickets are centrally located, making it easy for all members of our team to view the status of each project and provide input. Accounting is also simplified; invoices include ticket numbers, making it easy to review projects billed.

Blast's personal service is exceptional. The response time by Blast's programmers and designers to a service ticket submission has always been within the hour, very often within minutes. And projects have always been completed quickly and to our satisfaction.

Autotask is just one of many innovative tools Blast has implemented that has contributed to the ongoing success of our company for the past seven years. Not only is the Blast team on the forefront of Internet technology, they're also a really great group of people. We highly recommend working with them.

Sincerely,
Kathy Young - Audio Editions

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March 3, 2008 12:56 PM
Jesse Kliza said...: Hey Kayden,

It's great to hear feedback like this! Thanks for sharing!

Please let us know what we can do to continue to make YOUR customers YOUR raving fans.

- Jesse; March 3, 2008 1:46 PM
Kayden Kelly said...: Thank you, Jesse!

We are very happy with Autotask which powers our online client access/project management system. It allows our web design and marketing team to be more efficient and focus more of their time delivering better solutions that meet or exceed our clients' expectations.

Again thank you for helping us to interact better with our clients and for all the great work you are doing at Autotask!

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Monday, February 11, 2008

Partner Raving Fan: Closed Loop Marketing

"Kayden and his team at Blast have been great partners. Not only do they have great strategy, design and technology skills, they have a strong methodology and the project management and client service expertise to make every project run smoothly. We've worked with a lot of web design agencies over the years, but Blast is the first place we go when we need web design help - for ourselves or our clients."

» Lance Loveday
Founder & CEO, Closed Loop Marketing

We partner with Lance and Closed Loop Marketing on large-scale, enterprise level online marketing projects by integrating our user centered web sites with their expertly managed paid search campaigns. Their recent client list includes Hewlett-Packard, Quicken Loans, InsWeb, SalesForce and WebEx. Lance recently co-authored a book titled "Web Design for ROI, Turning Browsers into Buyers & Prospects into Leads." Learn more about the book or purchase it!

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Monday, January 21, 2008

Raving Fans: Audio Editions

"Our trust in Blast Advanced Media has been amply rewarded. We have become a viable e-commerce company whose revenues have quadrupled since we first began working with Blast Advanced Media. Our growth in overall internet sales has increased 20% within the past year alone. Our orders have increased from an average of 32 per day to an average of 274 per day - and climbing. Our web site statistics clearly demonstrate that traffic to our site is continuing to increase significantly. And calls to our customer service representatives about web site problems have been eliminated.

Need we say more? Blast Advanced Media is simply the best. And we have the revenues and stats to prove it."

» Kathy Young
Audio Editions

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Raving Fans: Design Green Alliance

"I seriously got chills from this. Absolutely perfect from my point of view. I'll get some feedback, but I'm super impressed. You guys rock!!!"

» Tim Loveday
Founder, Design Green Alliance

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Raving Fans: Teichert

"Thanks so much for all of your work, creativity, and follow-through. You and your team have done such an awesome job. I love the look and flow of this! You guys are awesome!"

» Becky Sabin
Corporate Communications Lead, Teichert Construction

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Raving Fans: Wells Fargo

"Time has flown by but I have not forgotten the excellent service you provided. Not only was I impressed with your work, but your customer service and quick turnaround were AWESOME as well! Thanks for helping us meet our deadline and making our team members shine."

» Erin Baily
Communications Specialist, Wells Fargo

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Raving Fans: Revionics, Inc.

"They pushed us to think about a lot of things that we wouldn't have otherwise considered. These included search optimization, user aesthetics, and messaging...very clear and very collaborative; the project was delivered on-time and on-budget. They really know their stuff here."

» Todd P. Michaud
President and CEO
Revionics, Inc.

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Raving Fans: CSAC-EIA

"Thank you for suggesting this feature. I think it will be helpful, not to mention save time and money for both of us in the future. We really do appreciate your suggestions!"

» Laura Turlington
IT Manager, CSAC-EIA

"I can't begin to tell you how impressed we are with these applications. This project has come out way more awesome than we anticipated. Thanks for all your work on this!"

» Anna Marie Willis
Underwriting Manager, CSAC-EIA

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Raving Fans: Hewlett-Packard

"Thanks, you guys are always so fast, great! I greatly appreciate you keeping an eye on these and other HP invent standards!"

» Eef Tulp
Project Manager, Hewlett Packard

"I just want to say that you did an excellent job on this project and I can't wait to work on our next project. This the best Flash Product Demo that we have seen. You guys are marvelous!"

» Jacquie Weber
Hewlett Packard

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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Why DesCor Builders is a Raving Fan

Dear Kayden,

On behalf of DesCor Builders, I want to thank you and your staff for the outstanding job that you did updating our website.

We chose Blast Advanced Media for your qualifications, which are impressive, but also for your knowledge of our culture and how you embraced our values, which is just as important to us. We were confident that Blast would create a website that clearly represented "Who We Are" and you have done just that.

The entire experience was enjoyable and your project team, lead by Joellyn Detjen, was very responsive to all of our needs, a pleasure to work with and the quality of work is second to none.

The anticipation of the new website energized our entire company and we even had a company party to celebrate the launch.

Blast Advanced Media has created a website that everyone here at DesCor is proud of and the feedback that we have been receiving from those who have visited the site is overwhelmingly positive.

Please do not hesitate to use DesCor Builders as a reference in the future.

Brad Des Jardin
President
DesCor Builders

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Raving Fans: Business Central

Kayden,
I wanted to take a minute to thank your team for excellent performance as of late. I feel a large part of this is thanks to some great work by Shalee. She has proven to me that the TEAM Blast has been trying to build is really coming together. My products have been coming to me with much better Quality control, and the communication has been far above what I have experienced Up Until Now. I had a few questions about wording and such, Shalee was very informed and gave me excellent feedback as to why things are the way they are. Furthermore Yesterday in my hour of most need she was there stayed on the phone with me until I was comfortable that I would be successful in getting the flyer delivered. This was HUGE it not only helped me to save face and deliver when I said I would, but was a huge statement to me and the commitment Blast has to my success. Please give her my thanks and encouragement to keep up the outstanding work.

» Kevin Osborne
Director of Technology, Business Central

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Thursday, October 18, 2007

Raving Fans: PARMA

Can you find out something special that Joe likes. It was his birthday yesterday and Shanti and I want to send him something. Gift certificate to his favorite pub? A bouquet of chocolate chip cookies? Can you subversively give us some ideas? Working with him is a dream come true - I can't begin to tell you how thrilled we are to have him on the PARMA project.

» Brenda Reisinger, PARMA

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Raving Fans: AVOLENT

Joe,Thank you for your excellent work! Every time I get your emails with the problems solved - I'm thrilled.The work around for the pop-up block issue works well and will prevent site abandonment. The Overview PDF will be saved as an older Acrobat version - thanks for the catch. Thanks for fixing the graphic loading issue, as well.I'll be passing through a few more fixes in the next few weeks. Greatly appreciate the fast turnaround.

» Daria Storojev
Marketing Programs Manager, AVOLENT

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Friday, September 7, 2007

Raving Fans: WeDrive California

My thirty years' in communication has involved everything from schlepping a TV camera through a corn field in Iowa to interview then-candidate Jimmy Carter to creating and implementing marketing plans for the global launch of the Ford Mustang. In all that time I have never found a more talented and creative bunch than the crew in Roseville , the Blast Advanced Media team. Their mix of creative passion and savvy grasp of technology make them the hottest firm in the states. Jump on now before these guys are so hot you can't get near them!!!

» Bill George, President, Nimbus Marketing & PR
on behalf of WeDrive California

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Raving Fans: PARMA

"Shalee and Joe,

I fell in love with Blast the first time I walked through the doors in Auburn. I believed in the vision Kayden painted for us and I believed in the company. I couldn't imagine PARMA working with anyone else and I pushed the Board of Directors to see the value of upgrading our database and website. There were a few unforeseen rough spots where I was wondering if I had been mistaken. Leaving the meeting today I know I was right to have whole heartedly supported Blast. The two of you did an outstanding job in helping us prepare for a new season and also for this meeting we have coming up in which we will demo the site. I also very much appreciated your financial/business input, Shalee, as I think it will help to prevent a few of the issues we faced previously.

Anyway – a thousand thanks for the time you took today to meet with us. I feel like the solution to add the WYSISYG interface for the letter function was a really a simple and elegant solution for PARMA's needs and while a minor part of the meeting filled a huge problem area for the organization."

» Shanti Rood, PARMA

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