Hobbs Painting, Inc., a Salem Oregon Painter, recently launched a new web site.  The site was built by Third River Marketing, an Oregon web design and marketing firm.

“We’re excited to step into the digital marketing age with this new web site”, stated Jim Hobbs, owner of Hobbs Painting.  “This will be a great way to showcase our projects and demonstrate the professional results that our company provides.”

Be sure and check out  the helpful information about residential and commercial painting as well as concrete flooring solutions for garage and other flooring needs.  Also,  be sure and become a fan on Facebook.

Key project features include;

• built on the WordPress content management system with a custom design
• complete social media integration including custom designed Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook channels
• built in blog for articles
• online videos
• and more …

As the baby boomer generation ages and families find themselves caught in the “sandwich” generation, many families are finding home health care to be a viable option to take care of family members.

When Chuck Mullin founded First Call Home Health in 2002, he had the desire to look beyond traditional home health and instead take a modern, holistic approach and look at the needs of the whole person. His goals were accomplished as he built a successful home Salem Oregon home health care company.  Now the company has recently debuted a new web site and online marketing initiatives after working with Third River, a Salem Oregon web design and marketing firm.

“With the mainstreaming of social media, blogging, and video, we felt like now was a great time to update our web site in order to better share the vision of holistic home health with a wider audience”, stated Jacob Mullin, administrator at First Call Home Health and Chuck’s son. “By providing tips, resources, and updates on a more regular basis, we can help more families as they experience the need for home health care.”

The new web site incorporates a blog, video Q&A, a newsletter, and full integration with the company’s social media profiles.
“We’re excited about the possibilities of connecting in new ways and building a wider audience via our newsletter, blog, Twitter, and Facebook”, added Jacob.

Sadly, the senior Mullin did not get to see the end result of all their efforts, as he became ill and passed away earlier this year. Fortunately his vision lives on as First Call Home Health continues to be a leader in holistic home health care in Salem, Albany, Corvallis, and the mid-Willamette valley.

Key project features include;

• built on the WordPress content management system with a custom design
• complete social media integration including custom designed Twitter, Youtube, and Facebook channels
• built in blog for articles and healthy living tips
• video marketing with interviews and FAQ videos
• email newsletter
• and more …

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We all know that fund-raising is an ongoing challenge for just about every youth ball team, choir, band, troop, and other youth organizations.  Endless magazine sales, car washes, candy bars, and cookie dough sales drives are common ways to raise money, but Joel Rumrill, founder of InkForKidsOnline.com, felt like there should be another option.

“I was on my way home one day and my wife called and said we needed an ink cartridge for the printer so that our son could finish has school project that night”, Mr. Rumrill states as he recalls how the idea got started. ”I stopped by a local national retail chain store and paid $43 dollars for one color ink cartridge. I was shocked at the price, but I had to have it now. I’ve been buying my ink cartridges on-line for several years getting great quality products at half the cost compared to retail.”

In the days prior to that event, Mr. Rumrill estimated he had shelled out over $50 to the neighborhood kids supporting various baseball, band and other fund raising efforts. I thought, ”I wish these fund raisers sold stuff you actually needed instead of 1 pound candy bars or tubs of over priced cookie dough. I love to help the kids programs, but I hate wasting my hard earned money on stuff like this.”

That’s when the idea came to me, “start a company that sells stuff that most house-holds are already purchasing, save them money and enable youth organizations to profit from this market.” It’s a win win situation for everyone.

So Mr. Rumrill started doing some research and InkForKidsOnline.com was born.  He then contracted with Third River, a Salem-based web design and marketing firm, to help him build out the complete e-commerce store and the affiliate fund raising program.  Today, the new printer cartridge web site offers affordable pricing on the most popular ink cartridges for today’s printers, and a hassle free way for youth organizations to raise much needed funds.

“We are very excited to be able help launch InkForKidsOnline.com”, stated Tim Fahndrich of Third River.  “It will provide a great way for countless youth organizations to help raise much-needed funds, and it represents a strong value for consumers.”

Some of the key features of the new web site include;

• complete e-commerce shopping cart
• cross-selling features like  “you might also like these products”
• product reviews
• ability to easily add new products and web site content using a content management system
• flat rate shipping of $4.50
• featured ‘top sellers’
• ability to share products on social media sites and via email
• shopping integration into the company’s Facebook fan page
• a 15% revenue share affiliate program to help organizations raise money
• … and much more

Here’s how the affiliate fund raising program works;

1. Sign up your youth organization for the affiliate program
2. Once signed up, you can get special affiliate links that you can send out via email, in letters, and on your web site
3. When shoppers visit the InkForKidsOnline site through your link and make a purchase, the affiliate program will track it all and give your organization 15%
4. Once per month, InkForKidsOnline will pay all affiliates with at least $50 in earnings.

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Staged to Sell & Northwest Home Remodeling LLC, a Portland Oregon Home Staging firm, recently launched their own marketing makeover with a little help from The Third River, Inc.  Michelle Seidelman, owner of Staged to Sell, had attended a seminar on social media marketing taught by Tim Fahndrich, president of The Third River, Inc.  She loved the concept of social networking, blogging, and creating more Google juice, but knew that she didn’t have the time nor the expertise to pull it off by herself.

Staged to Sell knows home staging. They stage over 150 properties each year in the greater Portland area.  Staged To Sell owns a vast collection of beautiful furniture, art and accessories ranging in style from formal traditional to urban chic. Staged To Sell prides itself on it’s fine reputation for excellent customer service, quality work, and competitive pricing with payment options.

Working with The Third River, Inc, they now have a brand new web site that allows them to manage themselves by publishing short home staging tips and showcasing home staging projects and success stories.  Michelle recently tweeted her first tweet and wrote her first blog post using the new web site.

Platform:  WordPress

Key Features:

• Content Management System
• Dynamic drop-down menus
• search engine friendly
• branded Social Media marketing channels
• Viral Social Media marketing loop
• Custom WordPress theme
• New marketing video
• Easy navigation

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Nathan Good’s  passion for the environment and 25+ years of professional experience produced an award-winning portfolio of homes, wineries, galleries, bridges and recreational facilities. According to NW Home magazine, his work has distinguished him as one of the Top 50 Architects in the Northwest for the past three years.

As they began looking for ways to share their passion, they decided that a company blog would be a great way to share articles and techniques about sustainability and green architecture.

Through a mutual friend, they connected with The Third River, an Oregon web design and marketing firm, and decided to create a new blog that became a less formal extension of their existing web site.  They contracted with The Third River to design a custom WordPress blog that reflected their design preferences and to integrate it into their main site. We’ve heard that some of Nathan’s well-known sketches might even end up on the site. Check it out their Architecture blog.

In addition to the WordPress installation, The Third River is also working with Nathan and his team to create a more effective social media marketing strategy and additional search engine optimization.

Platform:  WordPress

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The David Chandler Team, a leading Oregon home loan company kicked off the new year with a brand new web site developed by The Third River, Inc.  David had a key set of features in mind when he first approached us, including wanting to use WordPress since he had used WordPress on another site.  David really understands the power and flexibility of using WordPress coupled with articles, videos, and social media to help him build strong visibility for his Prospect Mortgage branch office.

With over 1000 mortgages in the last 4 years, The David Chandler Team at Prospect Mortgage is one of the Oregon’s best home mortgage providers.

Platform:  WordPress

Key Features:

• Content Management System
• Featured Content Section
• Dynamic drop-down menus
• Very search engine friendly
• Email Newsletter
• Integration with Social Media
• Live quote request
• Customize header and WordPress theme
• Ability to feature videos
• Easy navigation

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JD and Kristina Ribali had tried just about everything when it came to advertising their McMinnville lawn care business, Green & Clean Lawn Care & Household Services.   Then they came across the idea of doorhangers … and it worked.  In fact, it worked so well that they started a business creating and distributing marketing materials for other companies, and DoorPoint Ads was born.

As their business grew, they knew that they needed a web site but couldn’t seem to find the time to get it done.  So they hired The Third River, Inc., a Salem web design company, to design and build a web site.  Their two primary objectives are 1) showcase the services they provide and 2) showcase local coupons from their advertisers.

Because the coupons will change each month, they needed a content management system that allowed them to change the coupons out quickly and easily.  We selected WordPress for the job because of it’s flexibity and ease of use.

We also setup an email marketing program for them that allows customers to sign up to receive an email each month when new coupons are available.  Coupons are currently on the site from merchants in Salem, McMinnville, Sherwood, and Newberg.

Platform:  WordPress

Key Features:

• Content Management System
• Drop-down menus
• Ability to click on coupons and print out just the coupon
• Email Newsletter
• Contextual sidebar (allows for different sidebar items depending on where the user is in the site)
• An ongoing maintenance program to keep things updated

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While we were at it, we also built a new web site for the lawn care company too!