Big Sea Baitshop

A new site Big Sea launched in October, 5minutemystery.com, is getting a lot of buzz in the blogosphere and even some broadcast TV news airtime. We’ve been featured in Australia, Germany and Japan as well as numerous US-based technology and education blogs and websites.

• ABC’s ‘TechBytes’ segment, aired across the country on local ABC affiliates.
• TechCrunch really started the buzz a few weeks ago.
• Aussie Geek Podcast featured us in their ‘From the Wire.”
• Families.com blogged about us in their ‘fun’ department.
• Homeschool Buyer’s Co-op is partnering with us to share the service with their 33,000 members

Since we were expecting a soft-launch without a lot of hoopla, we were quite surprised and pleased at the immediate response. ABC.com asked for our ‘media relations team’ when they called - and were quite surprised to find out that we are but a team of 2 working on this project!

We’re really excited about all kinds of new features we’ll be adding to the site, making improvements and adding capabilities. Stay tuned!

Referred to Big Sea through 5 Minute Mystery, ROK Brothers needed a new site that will be able to grow and expand with their business. A leader in fleet brake parts for police, municipal and commercial fleets, ROK has a goal to eventually start an ecommerce/retail side of the business on the web.

We set up a very easy content management system for ROK to be able to add new products and change their content. The site is structured with flexibility and SEO in mind so that adding retail capabilities in the future will be a simple add-on.

This one has been in the works for a while and we’ve finally got some content live. Greenlife Solutions is a unique property management company in St. Petersburg, Florida. They wanted a fresh, clean look that clearly communicates. With a seasoned copywriter on board, this site speaks visually as well as textually - which is a huge boon in usability.

Stay tuned for the addition of active listings for rent/lease, a few simple Flash components to add some movement, and of course more imagery sprinkled throughout the site over the next few weeks.

I just spent the past couple months working on a new layout for The Price Group Realty. I’ve been working with David Price since 2003 and he’s one of those Realtors that ‘gets’ the web. He understands what an awesome tool it is and how important it is to his clients and prospects. He has always been eager to make the site better, bigger, and provide more useful content - so the old site was getting a little cluttered.

The new design is sleeker and cleaner with a much more modern (and compliant!) look. It’s also ridiculously search-engine friendly - and this site already had awesome placement thanks to David’s constant tending. It should only get better.