Local Web Design Company Celebrates 20 Years in Business in Cape Breton!

CAPE BRETON WEB DESIGN + GO SMART MEDIA + HALIFAX WEB SOLUTIONS

As a member of the local Cape Breton Chamber of Commerce, Tom Mills has truly become a web services expert in Atlantic Canada helping hundreds of local business owners succeed online in the past 20 years!

After graduating with honors in Web Development and Business (4 years from NSCC, McKenzie College, and Island Career Academy) Tom got to work developing a process of finding regular clients, creating professional looking websites, and marketing them online as a Google Partner.

Tom Mills started "Cape Breton Web Design" back around 1999 in the days of dialup internet when the Rankins were just in their hay day! Things were much different back then when t took like an hour to upload a mid sized photo to a website server.

At that time, there was very little in the way of eCommerce as anti-spam services and SSL certs had yet to be developed. Using your credit card online was sure to result in some sort of hacking attempt. Trust in purchasing products online was certainly lacking in the lates 1990's early 2000's.

Brick and Mortar stores were just grasping the concept of putting their products and services online to attract a new market where they could sell their products to a whole new audience. But it would take another few years and secure web services before trust was established and local business owners were able to hire us to build them an online web store.

Cape Breton Web Design used local hosting solutions at Silicon Island, Sydney NS, at first to host it's web design customer's content, files, pictures and graphics. Larger hosting solutions like Hostgator, GoDaddy and NameCheap came into play a few years later on who offered more robust cpanel hosting services for customers with unlimited bandwidth, email accounts and WordPress CMS platforms.

A Humble Beginning

It certainly was a slow learning curve in the early days of web development in the Maritimes.

Tom Mills, chief owner operator of Cape Breton Web Design, and now owner of the new digital marketing agency "Go Smart Media - goSmartMedia.com" says it was a slow process getting customers to sign on out of the gate twenty years ago.

Customers didn't really see the true value of a website at that time. Local real estate companies, bands, car sales showrooms, personal websites, and retail stores were among the early clients for Cape Breton Web Design. Businesses were looking for something else beside word of mouth and business cards. To them, that's all they needed to do business locally in Cape Breton.

My how things have changed since those early days! Nowadays, business owners from Cape Breton to Halifax all have websites in the hopes of gaining exposure on major search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Helping Local Business Succeed Online

Flash ahead two decades later to 2019, Tom doesn't approach the concept of developing and online presence lightly. Working with medium to large scale clients in the United States and right across Canada, has really given him the experience and skills necessary to build robust websites for customers that are optimized for the search engines, viewable on most mobile devices, and are able to be shared on a large variety of social networking channels.

Tom has learned how the big boys do it. He has taken carefully crafted marketing plans and applied them to local business right here in Cape Breton, Halifax, Moncton, Montreal, London ON, and Western Canada. Clients right across Nova Scotia have signed up for web design projects, and then have followed up by hiring Tom's Company "Go Smart Media" for local SEO Services and other digital marketing services to get them to the next level of success.

So by signing up for monthly web services such as Web Management and SEO, businesses who hire Go Smart Media get the attention they deserve online. They should expect more website traffic which turns into leads, phone calls, and orders for their products or services. They should expect their social media presence to attract a larger GEO targeted audience.

For example, businesses who have started off with under 200 Facebook Fans have seen their Facebook page blowup to between 2000-3000 Facebook Likes in just a few short months after signing up for a social marketing package.

So it's all relative when it comes to doing business online. By hiring a full services web development and marketing company right here in Nova Scotia, businesses are sure to succeed when they partner with an experienced and affordable web tech like Tom and his company GoSmartMedia.com

A Full Web Services Company

Go Smart Media, a full services web development company in Nova Scotia, specializes in helping small to medium size businesses get found online through carefully customized web design projects, creative marketing, and solid communication with their customers.

Whether you need a personal website or full eCommerce web store, Go Smart Media (Cape Breton Web Design) can help with SEO, website content, marketing, PPC, Facebook Ads, Google Reviews, Testimonials, and newsletters to name a few.

There is no end to the number of digital marketing services required to build a Google footprint and attract a targeted audience on the web.

If you require a customized WordPress website, HTML site, PHP site, or a eCommerce website to sell your products or services, Go Smart Media can help local clients not only in Cape Breton, but in Atlantic Canada get more website traffic, leads, and sales in order to become successful business owners. If you simply need a domain name and hosting account, we can help with that as well. That's actually a great place to start!

Custom Web Design: Need Custom Web Design Services in Sydney, Halifax, Moncton? Go Smart Media would be happy to meet with you to speak about your next web project – [email protected] | 1-888-736-2382

Digital Marketing: Need internet marketing or digital marketing services in order to promote your brand online, then contact one of our digital marketing experts – [email protected] | 1-888-736-2382

SEO Services: Need SEO Services to get found high in Google and other major search engines for your keywords in any given market? Go Smart Media would be happy your next SEO Web Optimization campaign!

Social Media Marketing / Management: Need Social Media Marketing and Social Management Services? Go Smart Media can create and then manage all your website content, and share it with major social media channels including Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Tumblr, Reddit, and Twitter. Go Smart Media specializes in running robust social marketing campaigns, contests, and email marketing campaigns to build a targeted audience and to grow a loyal following online. All Facebook posts, comments, likes and reviews are managed keep your reputation online intact! Contact us to find out more - [email protected]

Developing and Converting Online Opportunities

The key role at Go Smart Media would be to identify and convert online growth opportunities on the web which will grow your business. Digital marketing is a combination of several online marketing services such as the following:

• Development of new business via internet marketing strategies
• A great looking website that showcases your products or services
• Organic SEO (search engine optimization) growth to beat local competition
• Website and social media integration (sharing web content on social media)
• Paid digital marketing (Facebook Ads, Google Ads)
• A social media strategy that creates content geared towards the client
• Email Campaigns to build a database of loyal followers (monthly newsletter)
• Video marketing is a way of quickly grabbing and keeping a viewers attention online

We have developed websites for Corporate, Real Estate, Travel & Tourism, Bed and Breakfast, Music Industry, Auto Sales, Retail Sales, and Personal & Professional Blog Development.

There is not a market in the past 20+ years that we haven’t designed a website for. We even provide web design services for tourism based sites, non-profit, government, schools, bands, fishing companies, Lawn & Garden, Marine Outfitters, print shops,  as well as for personal or professional blogs.

It's been a privilege to work with a whole host of Cape Breton companies in the past twenty years such as Don Cherry's Sports Grill, Gillis Home Building Center, Meat Cove Campground, and Mackley Equipment to name a few.

It Is Time To Stop Just Giving Away Business to Local Competition!

Stop knocking yourself around trying to figure out how to bring in extra business when you can let our marketing experts work for you – 1-888-736-2382 | [email protected]

GoSmartMedia.com will offer you a FREE SEO Analysis (Website Analysis) to your email.

We will follow up by calling you or emailing you back, which ever you prefer, to talk about an SEO Subscription Plan is just tailored to the needs of your company. Web Design packages are geared towards a price point that all Nova Scotia businesses can afford.

The question is, can you afford not to have web management, SEO, and marketing solutions to do business online in today's marketplace.

Tom Mills has truly become a local digital marketing expert in Atlantic Canada literally helping hundreds of business owners get found online for their products and services in the past twenty years!

Start off with a free website consultation today to see where you stand and to bounce some ideas off a local web professional - 902-304-1302 | [email protected]