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Open Source Project Management Tool

This is the Open Source version of ActiveCollab, a web based project management tool built in PHP & MySQL. ActiveCollab is now a commercialized project management product, but before it was ever commercialized it was open source and licensed under the GPL. We have here provided for you the last open source version of ActiveCollab, version 0.7.1. Here's a screenshot of the program.

Features Include:

  • Milestones
  • Discussions
  • Task Management/Checklists
  • File Attachments
  • Manage multiple projects
  • Multi Users

Win a Free Custom Blog - a drawing from Evolve Web Development!

We are having a drawing for a free custom blog that starts today May 3rd, 2008 and will go on until May 13th, 2008. If you are a business or individual residing in the state of Utah you are eligible to win a free custom blog of your liking! Just send an email to me at chase@evolveapproach.com to enter the drawing. Make the title of your email "Free Custom Blog" to notify of your request.

You can see some of the examples of custom blogs Evolve Web Development has created by viewing some of the following links:

All Utah Businesses Should Blog!

Take a look around the blogging community through Google or blog specific search engines like Technorati. Take a look around through social media content sites such as Digg.com or Reddit.com and you will be pressed to find Utah Businesses who blog consistently. There are of course the occasional blogs which have a few written articles from a year or so ago and have not even been touched since. THIS IS A PROBLEM!

Your Choices For E-Commerce

If you know us or have ever read through our website content in the past you will know that we are big followers of open source applications. It's no different when it comes to E-commerce shopping cart systems. We believe the open source shopping carts are the best for Utah businesses due to their low cost and customizable framework. Right now there are 4 major players in the open source shopping cart world. They are as follows:

CRM For Your Utah Business

CRM stands for 'Customer Relationship Management' and is typically a database application that does just that, helps you manage your customers. The new trend is for these CRM applications to be web based. A CRM generally speaking helps you do the following things for your business:

  • Track Your Leads
  • Track Your Accounts
  • Manage Marketing Campaigns
  • Reporting & Sales Pipelines

Open Source CRM

Tracking SEO Using A Clicks Heatmap

A big part of our Evolve SEO services is our heavy use of analytics to show us where we need to improve in our search engine marketing efforts for our clients. We believe strongly in web analytics. In fact that is the one thing that makes marketing online more appealing than any other form of marketing. The fact that you can track your efforts down to very specific details. When you put an ad in the paper or the yellow pages for example, it's very hard to track specific details like how many people viewed your ad, or how long they actually viewed it.

How Evolve Utilizes Social Media

Social media sites are a great resource for businesses who are trying to gain more traffic to their website, and they are very underutilized. Social media sites (such as digg.com and reddit.com ) help to create awareness for your site, in turn quickly helping you gain more popularity. All SEO's know that link building is an important part of Search Engine Optimization efforts, and social media sites are one of the easiest and quickest ways to do that.

Evolve's Marketable SEO Skills

There are 5 important and vital skills that an SEO individual or company must have to make itself marketable and beneficial to businesses. This list has been put together thanks to SEO Optimise, an seo blog that we read often and suggest it to you. It's a very helpful resource for Search Engine Optimization and Internet marketing in general. Here are the 5 skills:

Utah SEO By Performance

One of our more obscure programs is called our SEO By Performance program. You won't hear much about it through our normal marketing channels because we do not offer it to everyone. We are very selective on which company or individual we offer it too, and even more strict on who we actually give it to. Here is the basic rundown of the Evolve SEO By Performance program.

New SEO Services For Utah

This is an announcement of our new SEO services plans. Evolve Web Development is now taking it's skills and talents into the search engine marketing world by promoting two different SEO services plans for businesses in Utah. There is a basic plan called The Evolve Fundamental SEO Program and a more in depth plan called The Evolve Advanced SEO Program. The first is a $1,000 package and the second being $2,000.