Pacific Business News has announced this year’s winners of the Fastest 50 small-business awards program, and Bump Networks is among this year’s fastest.

Fastest 50, now in its 16th year, recognizes growth by small-businesses over a three-year period, in this case 2007 to 2009. Nominations are open to any privately owned Hawaii-based business with revenues of $15 million or less. PBN, in conjunction with First Hawaiian Bank and PKF Pacific Hawaii LLP, will host the awards luncheon on Thursday, August 19th at the Halekulani hotel.

The event will begin at 10:45 am with a reception in the upstairs outside ballroom for this year’s 50 and the event sponsors. Lunch will follow at 12 noon in the upstairs ballroom. The keynote address will be provided by Ted Davenport, Master Developer for Subway in Hawaii with 121 stores statewide. Mr. Davenport also brought Ruby Tuesday Restaurants to Hawaii in 2002.

Bump Networks was awarded the “Excellence Regional Silver ADDY Award” from the American Advertising Federation at the 2009-10 Pele Awards

According to the Pele Awards website, “The Pele Awards is a creative competition designed to recognize the best advertising and design work created in Hawaii during the preceding calendar year.

The Pele Awards competition is open to any individual, company or organization engaged in the business of advertising or design work in Hawaii. There is no limit to the number of entries a person or company can enter. Work entered in the Pele Awards can not be entered in any other ADDY competition across the country.  To enter the Pele Awards, work must have been conceived and created within the Hawaiian Islands, although production services may be used outside of Hawaii.”

Local winners, including Bump Networks’ designs, will go on to participate in the national ADDY awards competition in Orlando, Florida. on June 12, 2010.

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The launch marks the second collaboration between Bump Networks and the HFPA. Bump Networks created the previous version of GoldenGlobes.org in 2005, prompting the HFPA to approach them to update the site for the 67th Golden Globe Awards.

Held annually since 1944, the Golden Globe Awards recognize the year’s top achievements in film and television. Broadcast in over 150 countries and attended by Hollywood’s elite, it represents one of the largest entertainment industry events of the year with guests such as Brad Pitt, Steven Spielberg and more.

Official Site of the Golden Globe Awards and Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA)

Bump Networks was presented with W³ Awards in four categories. The company’s newly launched MapGigs.com was awarded a silver W³ for best “Experimental” site, while their work on PadillaDesigns.com was recognized with a silver W³ in the category of “Consumer Goods.” They also won silver W³ Awards in “Real Estate” for their design of Sotheby’s International Reality and in “Self Promotion” for Bump Networks own homepage.

Nearly 3,000 companies compete in the annual W³ Awards, and winner selection is based on meeting the strict standards of excellence set by the IAVA.

Bump Networks wins four W3 Awards in 2009

You will also be able to improve your Alexa rankings if you advertise on ExactSeek, the search engine that Alexa uses in its daily results. You can also improve your Alexa ranking if you buy advertising space in DMOZ and other web directories. Remember that the more directories that your website is on, the more traffic you will have, the more backlinks you will collect, and the higher your rating will climb.

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When your form asks your user a question, you want an answer- a piece of information that the user has and you do not. This represents an investment, even if it is only a tiny one, by the user in the relationship with your organization.

The quality of the information that you can collect depends on the quality of the relationship at the moment when you ask the question.

A form demonstrates how much you know about the user, and how personal a user perceives your site and company to be. If your form asks illogical and inappropriate questions, then your company image and credibility may be damaged and cause users to take their business elsewhere. For example, if you are creating a form on your website that would allow users to sign-up for an e-mail newsletter then it would probably be inappropriate to ask for a home address. When the user sees the questions on the form asking for this personal information, they will probably respond by asking, “If it is an e-mail newsletter, why do they want my home address? Are they going to send me something I didn’t ask for?” Users are much less likely to answer questions if they can’t see how it benefits them. However, if the user gets a free catalog when they sign-up for the e-mail newsletter, then you have provided a reason for them to give you their home address. You may still want to make answering the question optional, but the point is that you can’t ask for information without establishing to the user the benefit of providing that information.

The key to asking the right questions is knowing your users and user groups. For this reason, it is best to use a qualified firm with marketing experience who can evaluate your target audience and create appropriate and logical questions for your form. Additionally, you should choose a firm who is able to cohesively merge these forms into your website’s design. At Bump Networks, we have created over 150 websites and countless forms in multiple markets. We have an innate understanding of what forms will work on a specific site, but we also make sure that every question will be appropriate for the context we’re dealing with. To make sure the forms on your website are optimized, contact us for a quote today.

Wouldn’t you just love to work in your pajamas and let your business operate 24 hours, 7 days a week whilst you enjoy the finer things in life? Never to have to commute to work another day, or take orders from people you don’t like very much. It’s not an illusion; the internet has opened the gateway for many successful individuals, starting homebased businesses from a simple idea into an online household brand, turning over hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Internet start-ups are by far one of the most cost-effective ways to start doing business, compared to the far more expensive and risky route of a conventional brick-and-mortar business start-up. The cost benefits of an internet start-up include eliminating; leasing office space, insurance, warehouse and even employees. The only main expense with starting an online business is the cost to develop and publish it online, after which you’re ready to trade. The great benefit of an online business is it’s potential presence to anyone, anywhere in the world, at anytime. Automated e-commerce features make it possible for orders to be taken on a website at anytime, even whilst you sleep.

In today’s more conscious and demanding consumer world, people prefer to simply log online from their homes and purchase something on demand. It is a dynamic and fast changing face to the world of business, posing great opportunities for those ready to seize it. Bump Networks, an established Hawaii-based web design and development service offers the full, one-step solution to get your business start-up from idea to a live e-commerce powerhouse. Bump Networks have set up dozens of businesses online, effectively and efficiently with established success. The same can be done for you. We have on board, highly skilled designers, expert writers, experienced web programmers and the most creative thinkers. With a team this good, you will receive paramount attention to your online business start-up. Call Bump Networks today for a free and immediate quotation.

Hiring a marketing firm with experience creating successful logos is the first step to creating a company image that will work for your consumers. This will also allow you to get a logo created for your business in a decent amount of time. When you work with Bump Networks we will bring you the experience and expertise of a whole team of professionals that will work with you to create a logo that will work now and in the future. Bump Networks has experience creating logos that

1. Grab the attention of target customers
2. Distinguishes the company from the competition
3. Representative of the business
4. Simple
5. Memorable

When you work with Bump Networks, you’ll find that creating a logo can be a streamlined process that helps you work toward the success you see for your business. We’ll work with you on ideas that you might have and help you create something that will take your marketing efforts to a whole new level.