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One of the worst ways try to send mass emails is through your desktop email client. Many businesses simply copy and paste contacts [...] Continue Reading…

In support of a great group of talented musicians and more importantly to support ongoing music education, we wanted to promote the Reno Big Band’s UNR Band Fundraiser Event. The event is held at the Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch.

Sunday - September 28
5:00PM - 7:00PM
BUY TICKETS

This concert takes place at the Hawkins Amphitheater in Bartley Ranch Regional Park. The outdoor amphitheater is an ideal concert setting with stadium style seating giving all concert-goers amazing views of the musicians.

Reserve your tickets now before [...] Continue Reading…

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It’s Friday but truly my Wednesday and I’m feeling a little emotional and wanted to take a few minutes to say Thank You for everything that happened this last week and am very much looking forward to the next! Have a great weekend!

1. Thank You
- to the following new Nevada web design clients and new Oregon web design client for allowing all of us at Westward Strategy to work with you and your business. We truly appreciate the relationships.

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WINNEMUCCA — Although the J.C. Penney store closed a decade ago during a mining bust, there’s still a Wal-Mart and a couple of Western clothing stores. The Martin Hotel offers excellent Basque food, but the next best dining choice may be the Pizza Hut.

There’s one theater in town — this week offering either “The Dark Knight” or the latest Mummy installment.

And there’s a 4-H horse show at the fairgrounds this weekend.

Laugh if you want, but [...] Continue Reading…

Pew found that the use of search engines, both the large generic kind and the small site specific kind, has risen dramatically since 2002. Where the use of email on a daily basis rose just 15 percent, the use of search rose 69 percent.

The best part is Pew gives us the demographic information to go with their study.

Those who are using search engines [...] Continue Reading…

“We think this new site will be a state-of-the-art platform for getting employer’s and job seekers together. One of the largest challenges we face in growing the local economy has been the difficulty that our businesses have had finding the employees that they need. This new site will potentially allow us to have a global scope in our recruiting efforts. The site [...] Continue Reading…

After being a Web design developer for a local company, Kristy Crabtree decided to open her own company. Westward Strategy & Design Group was established to offer professional services to the small companies that might not want to invest large sums of money to get onto the Internet to promote their services or products.

“I had worked my way up in 13 years with my employer, from an apprentice to director of professional services, and I was managing 12 to 15 technical and creative designers,” Crabtree said. “I wanted [...] Continue Reading…

I have long admired Opera for their educational aspect and their desire to advance the skill level of web workers everywhere. Looking over the outline of the documents it appears this is almost identical to the way I was educated at the University of Idaho and, [...] Continue Reading…