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7 Unique Ways to Increase Sales Using Social Media

1. Tag Users Involved with your Content: Build a stronger connection and relationship with contacts when you tag activity across social networks.  Whether it is potential customers or networking with leaders and influencers, make sure you know whom you are trying to target and if they are active on those networks. 2. Use Direct Messaging […]

Off The Wall Media Launches Responsive Website for Bijou Cafe

Our team recently launched a new responsive website design for Bijou Cafe.  Bijou Cafe is a well-known restaurant located in downtown Portland since 1978.  The restaurant is known mainly for their delicious breakfast but the owner, Kathleen, recently added dinner with live Jazz on Friday and Saturday evenings. The new website utilizes a responsive website […]

The Evolution of the Apple iPhone

With the launch of the newest addition to the iPhone family, the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, it is interesting to take a look back at the evolution of the most popular smartphone.  Back in 2007 when Apple first introduced the iPhone it was magical and revolutionary with a multitouch screen and 2 megapixel camera. […]

Why the New Hyperlapse App by Instagram Will Revolutionize Marketing

Instagram released an app letting iPhone users create time-lapse videos on the go.  The key feature on the app is the stabilization that keeps the images from shaking.  The users of the free app are about to move around and explore easily. The intent of Hyperlapse is to create videos that save automatically on your […]

Unlimited Olive Garden Pasta for 49 Days? Sorry, SOLD OUT

Olive Garden’s most popular promotion the “Never Ending Pasta Bowl” is back with an even better offer.  A lucky 1,000 people across the country were able to snag the limited number of $100 “Never Ending Pasta Passes”.   The passes went on sale Monday and sold out within 45 minutes.  Many fans were expressing their […]

The Smartest Engagement Ring of the Future

  Move over smartwatch, the SmartRing by MOTA might be the next big thing in wearable technology.  MOTA just announced the new device at the IFA Consumer Electronics Show in Berlin.   The ring wirelessly connects to your Android or iOS smartphone and receives notifications for text messages, emails, calendar events and incoming calls.  Facebook, […]

Great White Shark Attacks Twitter

Looking for someone new and interesting to follow on Twitter? How about Mary Lee, the 3,456 pound great white shark with a tracking device actively “pinging” her location via satellite transmitter.  In the past couple years five sharks were tagged with Ocearch to provide real-time tracking data.  Mary Lee has traveled 16,000 miles in the […]

Bud Light builds its own town ‘Whatever USA’ in Crested Butte, Colorado

Bud Light began its “Up for Whatever” ad campaign in ads for Super Bowl XLVIII where random fans off the street were sent on crazy celebrity-filled adventures. For this promotional campaign Are You #UpForWhaterver happening September 5-7th, Crested Butte will become the ficticous town of Whatever, USA. Bud Light has selected 1,000 fans across the […]

A custom jQuery method to AJAXify forms with .AJAXify()

// Function to AJAXify forms $.fn.AJAXify = function(resultscontainer){ // Check if the element is on the page first if(this.length){ // Keep track of original element var og = this; // Unbind submit event this.submit(function(e){ // Initialize e.preventDefault(); var postobj = {}; // Loop through each child element and add to post object og.find(‘input, textarea, select, […]