Facebook Fan Pages are all the rage, and for good reason. A Fan Page can help you connect with your current customers - open a dialog with them that can improve the customer experience for them and improving the bottom line for you. Do you remember the movie where Mel Gibson could read women's minds? Well this is nearly as good. Don't wonder what your customers are thinking. Find out. But till now the problem was that you had yet another technology to learn and apply. But with our unique Fan Page builder, it's easy. We'll even let you begin with a basic free version to get things up and going. Find out more here. ...read more

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRLog (Press Release)–Aug 14, 2010– Las Vegas, NV -- SBE Media was asked by SkyDiver, Inc., back in April of this year, to develop its eponymous website, SkyDiverInc.com.  Recently released, the website provides industry specific information to users from location of dropzones, tips from expert skydivers, to forums where users can ask questions and classifieds where users can buy and sell equipment.  "We were very excited when SkyDiver Inc., asked us to be their development partner on the website," states Thomas Brophy, Managing Partner of SBE.  "It provided us with an opportunity to show off not only our creative/stylistic talents, but also our technical acumen by developing a fully integrated website which includes advertising areas, webstore and forum area for members to interact."# # #SBE Multi-Media is a media and software systems provider for small-to-midsize businesses. We offer our clients a host of services including: website design, custom software and database development, SEO, eCommerce solutions, as well as, brand management and development. ...read more

Las Vegas, NV - SBE Media recently launched its newest, Simple But Effective (SBE) online website development platform, SBESite.com. SBESite.com caters to users and business owners who '1) do not have a large amount of money to dedicate to building a website and 2) need a website which is easy to maintain and grow as their business grows,' states Dan Slatkin, development engineer of the new site. "In these tough economic times business owners are looking for every penny they can save while not sacrificing quality and we, at SBE, believe we have provided them with that solution," Slatkin stated. SBESite.com was developed of the award winning WordPress platform. The completely free base plan is loaded with everything a user could need to get a simple blog, website, or online store front up and running. With over 100 free templates to choose from, there are plenty of choices to fit various design needs. In addition, each website is loaded with e-commerce and SEO tools to allow each user to full customize their website. ###### SBE Multi-Media is a media and software systems provider for small-to-midsize businesses. We offer our clients a host of services including: website design, custom software and database development, SEO, eCommerce solutions, as well as, brand management and development. For more information, visit SBE's website at http://www.sbemedia.com, or contact SBE directly at 702.338.1973. ...read more

SBE Media launches $2/month ad free e-Commerce solution for small businessesApril 21, 2010 -- SBE Media continued its Simple But Effective (SBE) 2010 small business product campaign with the establishment of SBEsite.com.  'SBEsite was designed off the award winning Wordpress MU (multiuser) platform,' states Dan Slatkin, Director of Software Development.  'By using Wordpress as a starting point for our application, we are able to provide our customers with a cost effective means of delivering their products and services to the market.'How it works, each website/blog is created as a subdomain of SBEsite.com.  This allows us to operate this service at a relatively low cost, which in turn allows us to pass the savings onto our customers.  For $2/month users receive a subdomain at SBEsite.com example (yoursite.sbesite.com), an installed and ready to go wordpress package pre-loaded with themes, plugins, and widgets, E-commerce package, and SEO tools.  Additionally, every theme, plugin, and widget has been tested by our staff of qualified experts to insure they work like they are supposed to!  ...read more

Summer Workshops from the Arizona Technical Schools at Collins CollegeUpcoming Graphic Design Workshops Collins College now offers one-day Graphic Design Workshops to aspiring graphic designers with interests in Flash, Photoshop, and Illustrator.  The workshops also provide a valuable forum for the exchange of knowledge and ideas. All courses are led by faculty at the Collins College main campus, with brand new classrooms and brand new spaces to explore. Schedule of upcoming workshops: Illustrator• July 10, 17, 24 • Shane HsuThis workshop covers the foundations of vector-based artwork in order to create digital illustrations, graphics, and interfaces. Students can develop skills to create their own illustrations and will experiment with type to use as a graphical element.  Upon completion student should be able to: •Demonstrate the use of vector-based art to create images and graphics for print, web or video use;•Experiment and manipulate type for graphic purposes; and•Create original illustrations using Adobe Illustrator®, a vector- based software.This workshop will be held in 2-hour sessions over 3 days, April 24, May 1 and 8, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm for a total of 6 hours of instruction. $295 per workshop Photoshop• July 31 and August 7, 14 • David PinterThis workshop has been designed to give students a basic understanding of raster-based software (Adobe Photoshop®) to create, manipulate, and modify images. Focus will be on understanding the tools to modify and/or create images and image formats for print, video and web applications. Upon completion student should be able to: •Demonstrate the use of raster-based art for print, web or video use;•Demonstrate competency in utilization of Photoshop tools;•Differentiate between raster and vector images; and•Determine appropriate resolution based upon output.This workshop will be held in 2-hour sessions over 3 days May 15, 22, 29, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm for a total of 6 hours of instruction. $295 per workshop Flash• June 5, 12, and 19 • Dave BellThis workshop will serve as a foundation course in Adobe Flash® covering drawing, animation, importing external graphics, audio and video elements to construct effective web interfaces. Upon completion student should be able to: •Demonstrate basic understanding of the principles of drawing and animating in Flash;•Demonstrate competency in utilization of Flash tools;•Determine when and where to use Flash for the web; and•Create a Flash timeline.This workshop will be held in 2-hour sessions over 3 days, June 5, 12, and 19 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm for a total of 6 hours of instruction. $295 per workshop Fore more information visit theCollins College Website. ...read more

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You proudly display no less than 5 Pantone Ringed Binders You know the difference between Reflex Blue, Cyan&PMS; 300 You have used a waxer with a foot pedal Working a photostat machine is an essential resume tool You used a Mergenthaler&love/hated it's painful existence Rubylith xacto skills are to be revered Clip art arrived monthly, & was inserted into giant blue 10lb binders… much of it was unuseable You routinely decorate a soda can to discard Xacto blades Your first mac (512) didn't have a hard drive… just disk swapping Proportion wheels are super easy to use & essential to life You know what bestine is, & secretly love the smell Metallic ink on uncoated or unvarnished stock is a rookie move You know what color PMS 485 is You embrace: double hit ink, spot varnish & press checks You can proof a blue-line without hesitation Typos live forever Lorem ipsum means NOTHING… why do clients insist on translating? Rapidographs are to be nurtured & cared for (especially the lavender) You understand that press checks happen during non-business hours You know how to SPEC type - an ancient, exotic & forgotten skill! ...read more

SBEMedia.com Signs Agreement with Liberty Group, Inc. to offer expanded services for their affiliates and customers in the Print-On-Demand Apparel IndustryIn its quest for high quality, affordable prices, SBE Media announces its agreement with based, Liberty Group, Inc., to offer its affiliate store owners more print options in the print-on-demand apparel industry. “With the addition of Liberty Group,” states Tom Brophy, President of SBE, “we are now able to offer a whole host of Direct-To-Garment (DTG) print options, which include larger print areas, increased quality and continue with our aggressive pricing strategy.”Since its inception, SBE Media has focused on becoming the low cost, high quality provider for the on-demand custom apparel industry. By focusing on its core business, apparel, SBE has been able to maintain greatly reduced prices while others in the industry have increased their prices due to expanded product offerings. Based on affiliate store owner feedback, SBE had been looking to increase its product line for the past month and had been testing samples from various printers across the country. On finding Liberty Group, Brophy states, “we found a family owned results oriented company with many of our same goals, as well as, strict adherence to product quality and cost, which greatly impacts the profitability of our affiliate store owners and costs incurred by their consumers.” About: SBE Multi-Media (www.sbemedia.com) is a full service Print-On-Demand (POD) and brand management/development multi-media solutions provider with e-Commerce store owners across the world.   Liberty Group, Inc. is a based family owned and operated direct-to-garment (DTG), embroidery and screen printing service company which focuses on the apparel industry.    ...read more

We’d like to thank all ourSlightlySick.comfollowers onTwitter,MySpace,Facebook,Mashableand the like, who have always encouraged us, or sent us death threats, about the style of website we run. It has been a long time coming, at least for your purveyors of sickness, that the Federal Government has gradually and continuously invaded our homes, our businesses, and now, our way of life. We are actuely aware that the size and scope of government was something that perplexed even our founding fathers, think Federalists vs. Jeffersonians. Although Jefferson abdicated his small government mentality upon his presidential win, it nonetheless seems to us that we need to get back to that small government mentality. The power and control of citizens over its government was abdicated a long time ago and it truly doesn’t matter how much you use the word “change” as it still feels much like the SAME!! It is within this vein that we are set to launch the firstpolitical partythat will be created by the people and for the people. As far as we are aware, this is the first political party to be created in an online and completely open format. We will use the Constitution as the basis for all party discussions. Each item and/or general party platform will be put up for a vote. (It is helpful to note that only US citizens, 18+, will be allowed to participate in the formation of the party.) All discussions will be posted for the entire US and world to see. We insist on transparency, and not just as a political catch-phrase, as such we will not illicit lobbiests, attorneys, etc. with all work necessary for the party’s formation to be completed by volunteers, as was the tradition of our founders, many of whom paid with their blood. If however, there becomes a time when paid staff and/or there is a need for paid contractors, it will be set to a vote and a quarterly budget and cost analysis will be posted on the forum website and emailed to all registered users. It is here that we begin upon a journey started by our founding fathers over 200 years ago and adapted to current times and via new communication mediums. To that end, I leave you with a quote from Teddy Roosevelt, “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.” ...read more

That's right ladies and gentlemen, we have officially launched the Beta site for HauntGeeks.com, the new name for all things Halloween.  Have questions about haunted houses, how to build props, or do you want to share photos and buy Halloween gear then you have now found your home.  Stop by www.hauntgeeks.com, also for those that are interested, we have a few moderator positions available please contact us at hauntgeeks@sbemedia.com Cheers, SBE Media www.sbemedia.com ...read more

SlightlySick University enhances its website and offers free custom apparel for new qualified blog postings SlightlySick U (SSU) (www.slightlysick-u.com), the online student, or community based blog, for SlightlySick.com (www.slightlysick.com), recently finished a substantial website upgrade.  The new website offers all the same content that SSU students expect, but is much easier to navigate and has many enhanced features.  SSU, is based, on a traditional online University, however, unlike other blogs available online, does not exclude or limit content.  SSU allows its students to pick the topics or courses they want to learn and discuss more about.  “Because of the broad spectrum of potential classes to be offered, we are always looking for new topics and issues to be shared and discussed within our community,” states , Content Manager for SlightlySick.com, which hosts SSU.   For its grand opening, SSU is offering a whole host of incentives for professors interested in teaching class. A few of the prizes include: free custom shirt give-a-ways for qualified posts and a limited run ‘I’m a Professor at SlightlySick-U’ hooded sweatshirt for those bloggers who post more than 15 classes in a semester. In addition to free apparel give-a-ways, professors and/or limited run professors are given free banner postings and links back to their website within their chosen class. Lastly, through SBE Multi-Media (www.sbemedia.com), SlightlySick’s parent company, professors can create their own free online e-Commerce store and sell class related products and designs on various apparel, with fulfillment services being offered through SBE Media. ### SlightlySick™University is a non-accredited public blog and social forum serving the world community. SBE Multi-Mediais a Print-On-Demand (POD) apparel and multi-media solutions provider with e-Commerce store owners across the world. ...read more

SBE Multi-Media focuses on its Simple, But Effective (SBE) Strategy Unlike traditional retailers, who are currently cutting inventory due to the current financial crisis, online apparel companies, such as SBEMedia.com, are increasing production. “In my opinion, custom printed apparel, or Print-On-Demand (POD) apparel, will become, in the coming years, an industry which will see continued growth as traditional retailers continue to decrease their inventories and discontinue product lines,” states Doug Walter, Production Manager for SBE. “The net result will be more stagnant apparel lines which will force consumers to look elsewhere for their clothing needs.”  SBE Media, unlike other POD companies, focuses solely on apparel, such as t-shirts, hats, totes, underwear, hoodies, etc., rather than on other textile products. By focusing on apparel, and constantly working with their vendors, SBE has been able to reduce overall production costs in half while maintaining high quality standards. By maintaining affordable wholesale and fulfillment production prices for its affiliate store owners, allows their affiliate owners maximum price flexibility in a fiercely competitive market. In addition to decreased product costs, affiliate store owners enjoy the following free services: e-Commerce/website hosting Custom website development capabilities, such as custom HTML/CSS coding features Unlimited product uploads and settings from store opening Advanced online apparel designer, which includes thousands of custom/semi-custom clipart and vector graphics Website analytics and traffic management systems Drop shipment services via affiliate company name Lastly, on January 15, 2009, SBE announced its ‘Affiliate of the Year 2008’ Award which went to I Pimp Shirts:www.ipimpshirts.com.   ###   SBE Multi-Media (www.sbemedia.com) is a Print-On-Demand (POD) and multi-media solutions provider with e-Commerce store owners across the world. ...read more

Just wanted to let everyone know that SlightlySick University,www.slightlysick-u.com, is offering free vector art graphics.  Its completely free to download and use the art for whatever you want, all we ask is that you send us pictures of the finished product.  You can also go to the SBE Media (www.sbemedia.com) Support Forum and find the downloadable graphics there. ...read more