(MANCHESTER, NH | BOSTON, MA) – Millennium Integrated Marketing is pleased to announce that President, Linda A. Fanaras, has been honored by Enterprising Women magazine as a recipient of the 2015 Enterprising Women of the Year Awards, which pays annual tribute to the world’s top women entrepreneurs.
Honorees were recognized at this year’s 13th Annual Enterprising Women of the Year Awards & Conference, which was held at Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. To earn this distinction, honorees had to demonstrate clear business growth and be considered a leader in their own communities for mentoring other young women and girls to be entrepreneurs. Award winners were recognized in seven categories determined by their annual sales revenues.
“I was honored to be included among such a great and dynamic group of women,” says Linda. “Events like the Enterprising Women of the Year Awards make me very proud to be a woman business owner, and if I can inspire even just one girl to pursue her business dreams than I know I’ve done my job. These awards are so important because women and girls everywhere should be empowered to be a next industry leader.”
About Millennium Integrated Marketing
Millennium Integrated Marketing is a strategic marketing firm that integrates successful online and offline strategies for business growth. The firm seeks to become every client’s valued and trusted partner by providing dynamic ideas, strategies, and tactics that deliver measurable results. Millennium Integrated Marketing, with offices in Manchester, New Hampshire and Boston, works with companies across industries, including higher education, technology, healthcare, non-profit, and professional services. For more information, call 877-873-7445 or visit www.mill-im.com. Millennium Integrated Marketing can also be found on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.
About Enterprising Women magazine:
Enterprising Women, with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina, is the nation’s only women-owned magazine published exclusively for women business owners that chronicles the growing political, economic and social influence and power of entrepreneurial women. The magazine provides a friendly meeting place, a public forum and a national stage for the critical issues confronting women’s businesses and daily lives from the unique perspectives and experiences of entrepreneurial women. Published in both print and digital editions, the online edition of the magazine reaches nearly one million readers in 185 countries. For more information, please visit http://enterprisingwomen.com or call (919) 362-1551.
(MANCHESTER, NH | BOSTON, MA) – Millennium Integrated Marketing (Millennium) is excited to share that they have been selected by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts to receive two 2015 Communicator Awards. Millennium was honored with a 2015 Silver Award of Distinction for an Annual Report in the Medical field, and a 2015 Silver Award of Distinction for Home Design Website for websites in professional services. The first award recognizes Millennium’s creativity in visual design for the 2014 Speare Memorial Hospital Annual Report. The second award highlights Millennium’s innovative website design for the home design professionals, Yasharians.
The winners of the 21st Annual Communicator Awards were announced on April 26, 2015. The awards are judged and overseen by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts, a 600+ member organization of leading visual arts professionals. Millennium was picked out of an overwhelming 6000 entries to earn two Silver Awards of Distinction, which requires a score of at least 70 to 89 on the judge’s 100 point scale standard of excellence.
“Millennium is honored by this accomplishment,” states Linda Fanaras, President of Millennium Integrated Marketing. “The Communicator Awards have established a 19-year history for honoring excellence in the visual arts, and we are extremely proud to be recognized for our continued creativity and innovative thinking.”
For a full list of recipients, visit: http://www.communicatorawards.com/winners/
About Millennium Integrated Marketing
Millennium Integrated Marketing is a strategic marketing firm that integrates successful online and offline strategies for business growth. The firm seeks to become every client’s valued and trusted partner by providing dynamic ideas, strategies, and tactics that deliver measurable results. Millennium Integrated Marketing, with offices in Manchester, New Hampshire and Boston, works with companies across industries, including higher education, technology, healthcare, non-profit, and professional services. For more information, call 877-873-7445 or visit www.mill-im.com. Millennium Integrated Marketing can also be found on Twitter (@MillenniumIM), <http://twitter.com/MillenniumIM>, Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/MillenniumIM>, and LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/companies/millennium-integrated-marketing>.
About The Communicator Awards
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for communication professionals. Founded by communication professionals over a decade ago, The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best in advertising, corporate communications, public relations and identity work for print, video, interactive and audio. For more information, visit: www.communicatorawards.com.
With mobile devices overtaking desktops as the screens of choice for online users, the benefits of having a website designed to work on any device are many. While it’s been important for a while now to have a responsive web design for your business, it hasn’t been a requirement.
In two weeks’ time, Google is hoping to change all that. Come April 21, they’re going to start penalizing websites that aren’t optimized for mobile devices. Here’s what you need to know to be prepared.
Why is Google Updating Their Algorithm?
It’s all part of their ever-continuing effort to make it easier for users to find the most relevant and timely results, regardless of the device they’re searching from. While past updates to their search engine algorithm have made it easier for mobile users to find mobile-friendly websites, this latest step appears to be a far more drastic measure towards changing the shape of Google and improving their product to keep up with the times.
After the update goes into effect, Google will begin weeding out non-responsive websites and making them harder for mobile users to find in their results pages.
What Does This Mean for Your Website?
The good news is that, even if your site lacks responsive web design, this latest update will only affect your mobile search rankings. The bad news is that it’s definitely going to affect your mobile search rankings, which are just as important – if not more important – than your desktop search rankings.
While Google has yet to announce specifics in regards to how they’ll punish websites that aren’t optimized, they did state that the update “will have a significant impact on [their] search results.” Since Google doesn’t usually extend a warning like this in the lead-up to updating their algorithms, it’s safe to assume that the warning should be heeded unless you want to see a drop in your PageRank, customers, and conversions.
While companies in the past could still get by without implementing responsive web design, a non-responsive website will soon be a non-option. With roughly 30% of today’s web traffic coming from mobile users and an overwhelming majority of them clicking the first link on a results page, responsive web design will soon be a requirement.
How Can You Continue to Rank?
The first step is seeing if your website is mobile-friendly. Thanks to Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test, it’s as easy as inputting your URL. If it passes the test, you should be all set. If it fails, you’ll want to have your website analyzed as soon as possible to determine which design areas are posing the greatest detriment. From there, you can begin addressing them accordingly by having your site redesigned by a professional web developer.
In addition to avoiding a significant penalty from Google, a mobile-friendly website will prove invaluable towards attracting new customers and improving your site’s overall functionality. While it’s one thing to have a website, it’s another to have one that caters to your customers and won’t prevent you from reaching new ones.
If you’d like to learn more about the benefits and importance of having a responsive web design, check out our blog post on good UX and good UI.
About Millennium Agency
Millennium Agency is a nationally recognized, top woman led B2B branding, positioning, and digital marketing firm who knows how to create value that emotionally influences your customer’s buying decision, giving you the competitive advantage. As your trusted partner in B2B software technology and manufacturing, we provide the branding and positioning framework that make an impact – so you can focus on what you do best – run your business successfully. With offices in Boston and New Hampshire, and a worldwide presence, the professionals at Millennium Agency would like to learn more about your business. Visit www.mill.agency or book time here.
Meet Jessica Cafarella: our stellar marketing intern here at Millennium Integrated Marketing.
As a Marketing major at Southern New Hampshire University with a minor in Social Media Marketing and Project Management, Jessica has taken to life at Millennium like a fish to water. When she’s not surrounding herself with all things marketing, you can find her developing photos in the SNHU dark room and trying something new.
As for how Jessica made her way to Millennium…
(MANCHESTER, NH | BOSTON, MA) – Millennium Integrated Marketing, a branding, digital marketing and public relations firm, that integrates successful online and offline strategies for business growth, has been honored in two categories of the Service Industry Advertising Awards for 2015, including Website and Special Video. The SIA Awards are the sole provider of advertising awards to specifically recognize achievements in the service industry. With most advertising awards being focused on consumer goods, packaged goods, and other tangible products, SIA awards recognize the advertising contribution made specifically to the service industry. SIA awards include accomplishments in best service industry advertisement, print communications, websites, TV radio and electronic communication, and social media.
Meet Delaney Dameron: intern extraordinaire at Millennium Integrated Marketing.
Originally from San Antonio, TX, Delaney has lived in nine different cities in six different states but calls Atlanta, GA home. Currently a senior at the University of New Hampshire where she’s majoring in Business Administration with a focus on Marketing and a minor in Economics, Delaney has also played for the UNH women’s volleyball team since her freshman year, going so far as to help them win back-to-back conference championships. She’s also a big fan of yoga, photography, and painting.
Meet Jenna Szostak: all-star intern at Millennium Integrated Marketing.
Hailing from Carver, MA – the home of Ocean Spray cranberry juice – Jenna is currently in her senior year at Saint Anselm College where she’s been studying Communications and dominating the pitch for the women’s soccer team. When she’s not hitting the books, you can probably find her getting lost in Pinterest. She has nothing but great things to say about her time at St. A’s and would rather not think about having to graduate in two months.
The results are in, the people have spoken, and Millennium Integrated Marketing has been named the Best Public Relations Agency at the 2015 Best of Business i.e. BOB Awards!
This year’s big event was once again sponsored by the New Hampshire Business Review and the theme of the night was “Wild West.” There was live music from acclaimed fiddler Skip Gorman, a (fake) shootout on stage, and just about everyone dressed the part. It was a great event for a great cause with a proceed of the evening’s proceeds benefiting New Horizons for New Hampshire.
Thanks to everyone who voted for us and congratulations to all of this year’s winners! Maybe next year we’ll finally win Best Bakery…
(Manchester, NH | Boston, MA) – Millennium Integrated Marketing, a strategic marketing firm that integrates successful online and offline strategies for business growth, has been nationally recertified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
(Manchester, NH | Boston, MA) – Millennium Integrated Marketing, a strategic marketing firm that integrates successful online and offline strategies for business growth, is pleased to announce that Linda Fanaras, president of Millennium Integrated Marketing, will present at the University Professional & Continuing Education Association’s (UPCEA) 2014 New England Regional Conference. The conference, entitled “Driving Change,” will be held on October 29-31, 2014 in Manchester, VT. (more…)