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This entry was written by Joël Théard
May 1, 2008 at 4:52 pm
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We’re very excited to say Labgfx is now proud corporate charity sponsor, helping raise money for The Providence Academy. Providence means “To Provide”. This Not for Profit school with two campuses in Orlando, they provide a very unusual program to students who do not fit within the box of public or private school. Their students come to them with a variety of diagnoses including High Functioning Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Asperger’s Syndrome, ADHD and Learning Disabilities.
We are able to sponsor The Providence Academy through Jonathan Czarny and The One Lap of America (OLOA) motorsport event. Czarny and his co-driver Jonathan Miller will be driving cross-country to race track to race track all to raise money for The Providence Academy. The competition is based around getting the fastest time rather than wheel-to-wheel racing.
Best of luck guys, we’re looking forward to seeing photos of the event and will be checking your travel blog daily! Also, be sure to check out our new page called ‘Charities‘, dedicated to this great event.
This entry was written by Joël Théard
February 21, 2008 at 10:57 pm
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We are excited to say we’ve been getting a lot of web traffic thanks to a few good xhtml/css design galleries that accepted our site. We’d like to thank a few that came up on the first pages of Google when you search for Labgfx!
http://thewebaward.com
http://w3csites.com
http://cssdrive.com
http://www.css-design-yorkshire.com
http://www.boxedcss.com
http://www.css-gallery.co.uk
Thanks all!
This entry was written by Joël Théard
February 13, 2008 at 1:15 am
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“Take one thing at a time” is a hard mentality to follow when you wear many hats and are responsible for so much. Although as time progresses Labgfx is moving forward in a positive way.
So far we’ve accomplished a lot I think in such a short time. Let’s re-cap the last 2 months or so.
Create our business model and website design
Business card creation & distribution
Spreading the word to friends & family
Launching our site. (v1)
Completed our first paid project as Labgfx
Conducted a ton of SEO methods
Utilizing social marketing & blogging
Started a new project
Launched our second site (v2)
That pretty much leaves us up to present day, now I’m sure I left our minor daily things we do but the above are the most significant and beneficial to us.
Thanks for everyone’s support, we really appreciate it and are looking forward to the upcoming months, we will soon be registering for an LLC.
This entry was written by Joël Théard
February 3, 2008 at 8:11 pm
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In efforts to reach out and find more clients without relying on referrals and word of mouth, Labgfx has created a Guru.com profile! We are excited as Guru’s service will showcase our name to a broader audience, and now we’re able to bid on projects as well as be chosen for them!
This entry was written by Joël Théard
January 25, 2008 at 1:48 am
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I’m sure you’ve all noticed the Flickr widget on the right of the page, we’re showing off some photos that we like to look at. They randomize whenever the page refreshes, very soon we will begin posting photos concerning Labgfx! So stay tuned for more new photos in the near future!
This entry was written by Joël Théard
January 21, 2008 at 7:40 pm
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So here we are, Labgfx jumping onto the social-media bandwagon. None the less, we are here and that is the important thing, right? Well, not really. While browsing around the internet on my lunch break, I came across a blog called Citizen Agency; they’re a “consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development, and marketing.” I think I read almost every post on their blog during my then extended-lunch-break, and I genuinely felt something real from their blogs.
They had categories describing their adventures during their startup, news about what the team was getting into, events, and just how they’re progressing in general. It made me think for awhile about how Labgfx should present itself to the community. I knew we wanted a blog, but I thought of it only as a way of delivering key-messages, announcements, and client success stories.
On the other hand I’ve also read the blog posts concerning Dreamhost billing almost all of their customers 7.5 million dollars in total. They wrote about this catastrophic error in their blog and most of their customers took great offense by how they loosely and jokingly they responded to a critical problem.
All in all we decided will be using a certain level professionalism that people expect and a genuine realness that people like to hear, we’ve decided how to present our blog.
So… shifting my view on what should be a blog for a company; Labgfx is going to graciously follow in Citizen Agency’s footsteps. I greatly appreciate the knowledge the people over there have indirectly given me. Kudos and best of luck to you guys!
This entry was written by Joël Théard
January 18, 2008 at 1:00 am
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If you haven’t read the ‘fancy version’ of Who We Are on our main website, then let me tell you. Labgfx is at least a decade old idea. Time was definitely not always on our side, between determining careers, moving to another state, getting our college degrees, and working in the professional work force, Labgfx just never appeared until now. Theo and I have known each other approximately since 1995. Between the both of us we’ve had more ideas than a person knows what to do with.
Moving forward to the present day, we find ourselves overwhelmed with ambition, & determination. Between planning, writing, designing and launching our company website, working with pre-existing clients, and developing new ideas so we can expand, we’ve got our hands full with work. We’re going to make the best of this blog, and really communicate to the people.
We look forward to all of you who follow us in our ventures, as Labgfx progresses we will keep everyone who’s interested in our success (and/or failure) up to date as best as we can.