Integrated Family Community Services (IFCS) is a nonprofit social services organization providing hunger alleviation services, basic human services and enrichment programs to low-income people in the Denver metro area. Established in 1964, IFCS is now embarking on their sixth decade providing these important services to the Denver community.

At Webolutions, one of our core values is We Care About People. Supporting an amazing organization such as IFCS and participating in this important community event is just one of the many ways we try to live this value each and every day.

About the Nibbles and Sips Event

Nibbles and Sips is a fine food and beverage tasting gala that brings the community together to raise money in support of IFCS’ One Can Feed Hunger Alleviation Campaign, which supports a variety of year-round programs and services administered by IFCS to improve family wellness and help individuals most in need overcome trauma and tragedy in their lives. The evening includes inspirational speakers, live music, interactive games, local celebrities and many “feel-good moments.” There will be both live and silent auctions to raise money for this important cause.

Last year’s Nibbles and Sips Event raised $225,000 through sponsorships, games of skill, auctions and a paddle raiser. This year, the organization has set a goal of raising $250,000. This money will provide an immediate impact on many children, families and seniors seeking vital resources.

Attendees will get to sample more than 300 wines, spirits and beers from around the world, coupled with foods from 20 of Denver’s best local restaurants and purveyors.

If you would like to contribute to this important cause but aren’t able to attend the event, you can donate live or silent auction items. Some auction items needed include:

• Hotel lodging and restaurant certificates
• Sporting event tickets and suites
• Airfare certificates, including donating miles
• Unique items or priceless events, such as shadowing an equine practitioner for a day, fire engine ride-a-longs, etc.

If you’re not sure what to donate, just ask. IFCS gets plenty of miscellaneous donations that they package into great-selling auction baskets. To learn more about how you can donate to the auction or become a sponsor of the event, contact Tood McPherson at (303) 725-9894 or email him at toddm@ifcs.org.

Fulfilling Our Commitment to Improve Our Community

At Webolutions, we’re driven by our purpose: To Empower Passionate People to Thrive. This purpose means a variety of things to us. In our daily professional lives, we work hard to empower our clients to follow their passions and elevate the success of their businesses to new heights. Internally, our leadership creates numerous pathways for every team member to grow in their role, expand their expertise, and achieve excellent results for our clients.

But our purpose also has a broader meaning to us. It fuels our drive to give back to our community. The individuals working at IFCS are truly passionate about their cause and do great work which helps many people in our community receive vital services. As a Gold Level sponsor for this event, we’re doing our part to empower this team of passionate individuals to thrive, and we’re honored to contribute to such an important cause that provides tremendous value to those in our community facing the greatest need.

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More than three years later, these concerns have largely been debunked. Data has found many employees have in fact become more productive, managers have identified ways to effectively supervise their teams, and technology such as Zoom and cloud-based file sharing platforms have rendered most logistical issues moot.

While it’s become clear that many businesses can not only function, but actually thrive in remote environments, we’ve also made another discovery over the last few years – most employees prefer working in these remote and hybrid environments. As a result, we’re seeing a large number of workers prioritizing remote and hybrid work opportunities during a job search. However, employees should be cautious when transitioning out of a role, as some separation agreements waive the right to file a lawsuit, which could impact their ability to address any potential issues that arise from their previous employment.

Regardless of your feelings about the effectiveness of remote and hybrid work models, it’s time to acknowledge that they’re no longer temporary responses to a crippling global pandemic. Remote and hybrid work models are here to stay, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that they represent the future of how businesses will operate. Companies that embrace these working models will be better positioned to attract and retain the top talent in their industry, and this will set them up for long term success.

If your business can accommodate remote and/or hybrid work models, it’s in your best interest to at least consider adopting one of these models. But as with any other critical decision you make, it’s always important to be armed with the knowledge necessary to make the right choice for your short- and long-term success. To help you accomplish this, we’re going to:

• Examine some of the data on remote and hybrid working
• Clarify the difference between these two models
• Highlight some of the benefits and challenges associated with these flexible working arrangements
• Provide some tips to help you set your team up for success if you choose to adopt a remote or hybrid model

Data Shows Many American Workers Prefer Remote and Hybrid Work

While it’s easy to make the claim that workers prefer these flexible models, it’s important to back up these assertions with hard data. Fortunately, there have been enough studies to support the fact that our country is moving towards a more flexible work environment that features remote and hybrid options.

McKinsey’s American Opportunity Survey evaluated responses from over 25,000 American workers. This survey included workers in all types of industries, in every part of the country and every sector of the economy. With data from traditional “blue collar” jobs that would be expected to require on-site employees as well as “white collar” professions that would be more ideally suited to remote and hybrid working models, the data becomes even more significant:

• 58% of workers surveyed had the ability to work at home at least once a week
• 35% were able to work remotely five days a week
• 87% of workers who have the chance to work remotely take advantage of the opportunity
• 65% of workers would be willing to work remotely all the time

The results of the McKinsey study reflect sweeping changes currently impacting the US workforce. The study estimates that roughly 92 million workers are offered remote or hybrid work options, 80 million employees actually have one of these working models as part of their job, and a significant number of workers have indicated a search for more flexible work options as a major motivator to change jobs.

A study from Owl Labs found that remote and hybrid workers:

• Were 22% happier than employees in onsite office environments
• Stayed at their jobs longer
• Had less stress, more focus and were more productive
• Experienced better work-life balance
• Experienced better physical and mental well-being

A study by Ergotron also yielded data that indicates many employees view remote and hybrid work environments as beneficial:

• 56% of workers experienced mental health improvements, more physical activity and better work-life balance in remote and hybrid settings
• 88% of workers felt the flexibility to work from home has increased their job satisfaction
• 75% of workers move more frequently and have a more active work style in remote settings

Data from Prodoscore found a 5% increase in productivity during the pandemic work from home period. Furthermore, their data revealed that an employee’s personal traits were a greater indicator of their productivity than their work environment – employees that were highly productive in the office were still productive at home, while individuals who slacked off in the office were more likely to do so at home as well.

According to data by Gusto:

• The number of fully remote employees has increased by 240% since 2021
• Every state has experienced at least a 10% year-over-year increase in the number of fully remote workers since 2021
• 60% of companies now have at least one remote worker, and many of these employees live out of state
• 35% of workers identified location flexibility as the primary deciding factor they used to accept their last job offer
• 48% of workers consider location flexibility to be their primary deciding factor when considering future job offers
• Fully remote workers are 13% less likely to quit within three months of hire, saving businesses thousands of dollars per worker in annual turnover costs

Remote vs. Hybrid Work: What’s the Difference?

There are two different types of flexible work models:

• Remote work
• Hybrid work

In remote work models, employees work at home full time. Generally, there is no central office for employees to come to, although many businesses maintain a smaller office setting where a select number of employees, such as executive team members, have the opportunity to work onsite. Often, these offices are in shared working spaces where each company has just a few offices and access to a conference room to meet with clients. In many fully remote work environments, employees have the ability to live anywhere, including out of state. This provides the benefit of a larger pool of applicants for each job, allowing businesses to hire the best talent regardless of where they live.

In hybrid work models, employees split their time between working in an office and working at home. The number of days in-office vs. remote varies based on the policies of that specific business. Depending on the size of the company and where the bulk of the employees are geographically located, there may be one or more onsite office locations. It’s common for very large national companies that adopt a hybrid model to have several hub offices around the country where their employees must work onsite several days a week. This model limits the ability for employees to live in locations that are too far to commute to the office, eliminating the benefits created by access to a larger talent pool associated with fully remote work.

Benefits of Remote and Hybrid Work Environments

Both employers and employees experience a variety of benefits associated with remote and hybrid work environments.

Many employees find remote and hybrid situations appealing due to:

• Flexible schedules that improve work-life balance
• Less time spent commuting
• Reduced burnout
• Improved productivity
• More efficient use of time
• Improved mental and physical well-being

These working models also present a variety of benefits for employers, including:

• Reduced costs – Businesses can save money on office space, utilities and other expenses
• Expanded talent pool – Businesses can attract the top talent in their industry from all over the country (or even the world) rather than be limited by the options in their local area
• Greater ease of filling open positions – A larger talent pool increases the likelihood of finding a candidate who will be the right fit for open positions sooner, and the attractiveness of remote and hybrid opportunities make your opportunity more appealing to candidates
• Improved productivity – This benefit applies to employers and employees alike, as everyone wins when your team is more productive
• Improved morale – Employees who experience better work-life balance and improved overall well-being will be happier and have higher morale
• Greater employee retention – As a growing number of workers prioritize remote and hybrid opportunities, offering one of these models will make it easier to retain your top talent

For any growing company, maintaining a professional address is crucial for credibility, but that doesn’t always mean leasing a physical space. Instead, a virtual address can provide the benefits of a real-world presence while allowing you to manage your business remotely. Services offering virtual office solutions can help you stay organised, keep your communications secure, and ensure that your business always looks professional to clients. This approach keeps overheads low, making it ideal for companies that are scaling or working with flexible teams.

Challenges Associated with Remote and Hybrid Work Environments

While the benefits of remote and hybrid work models make these options worth pursuing for most companies that can accommodate offsite employees, it’s still important to be aware of some of the challenges that may arise in these settings.

Maintaining Employee Engagement and Collaboration

When working remotely, it can sometimes be challenging to maintain the same levels of engagement and foster opportunities for collaboration compared with what can be accomplished in an in-office environment. Lack of face-to-face interaction can sometimes result in miscommunication, reduced teamwork and delays in decision making.

Employers can avoid this challenge by prioritizing ways to keep remote workers connected to their team members and including them in important decisions. This requires implementing tools and strategies that improve communication between remote workers. In hybrid formats, in-office days can be structured in a way that promotes collaboration, ensuring that your team has an opportunity to work together.

Blurred Work Boundaries

In a remote or hybrid work environment that allows for flexible working hours, many employees will keep more of a nontraditional schedule where they work outside of typical 9-5 hours. This can sometimes make it more challenging for team members who choose to work less traditional hours to create the boundaries necessary to separate their work and personal lives. Without these boundaries, employees may end up responding to emails late at night and working longer hours than would occur in an office.

To help employees maintain a healthy work-life balance, employers should establish policies that encourage their team to set and stick to established work schedules, even if these schedules aren’t specifically 9-5 working hours. Team members should be discouraged from checking and responding to emails outside of their typical work hours, making it easier for them to disconnect from the stresses of work and recharge before the next day.

Reduced Social Interaction

Many employees who express a preference for working in an office often cite social isolation as the primary reason. Certain individuals thrive on social interactions, and the lack of spontaneous exchanges or informal conversations with coworkers can make them feel disconnected or isolated. While this isn’t an issue for all remote and hybrid workers, it’s still a challenge that exists for some employees and must be addressed by employers to reduce the risk of burnout among individuals who are prone to experiencing social isolation when working at home.

There are many ways to get creative and foster social interaction in remote settings so that employees feel connected to one another. In hybrid settings, giving employees the opportunity to choose how often they come to the office can help those who prefer greater levels of in-person interaction to get what they need and avoid feeling socially isolated.

Greater Difficulty Coordinating Work Schedules

Allowing flexible schedules is a great benefit for your employees, but it also may mean that you won’t have all team members working the same hours each day. This is especially true in fully remote work environments where employees live in different time zones. This can create challenges scheduling meetings and other opportunities for collaboration.

This challenge can easily be overcome by establishing certain times of the day where all employees are expected to be available. Then, meetings and other collaborative projects can be scheduled during these common working hours. Ideally, these common working hours should occur during the middle of the day to avoid a situation where employees in certain time zones must get up extremely early or work extremely late to attend a meeting.

Best Practices to Set Remote and Hybrid Employees Up for Success

Remote and hybrid work models are here to stay, and it’s likely that they will become increasingly prominent over the next few years. For businesses that can accommodate this type of working environment, the benefits are significant, and it’s worthwhile to strongly consider adopting one of these models.

While the challenges discussed above must be taken into account, they’re hardly insurmountable. As long as you put a great deal of thought into how you set up your remote or hybrid work model, you can easily create an environment where your employees can thrive and your business is successful. The following best practices will help you set your team up for success.

Choosing Between Hybrid and Remote Models

The first decision you’ll need to make involves determining whether to adopt a remote or hybrid model. The lessons learned during the pandemic have dispelled many of the myths associated with the importance of employees working in an office. Therefore, if you’re going to require employees to come to the office one or more days a week, there should be a purpose for this decision.

If there is truly a benefit to having all of your employees in the same place one or more days a week, then by all means you should choose a hybrid model. Just keep in mind that you’ll lose some of the most important benefits associated with remote work when you choose a hybrid model:

• Employees will not be able to consider living in other locations since they will need to remain within commuting distance from your office.
• You won’t have access to a larger talent pool that is possible when you’re able to hire the best people, regardless of where they live.
• You’ll still need to incur all the expenses associated with keeping a large office even though it will be empty several days of the week. This will negatively impact your profitability.
• Shifting to remote-first workflows may become more challenging since your office will serve as a crutch to collaboration.
• Informal (unscheduled or unplanned) meetings and brief interactions between coworkers passing each other in the office can hinder productivity compared to what can be accomplished when all team members are working at home with fewer disruptions and distractions.
• If you stagger the days of the week in which employees are in the office, meetings will still need to be held on video conferencing tools such as Zoom. When some team members are in the same room for meetings and others are at home, it can create suboptimal conditions for meetings.

Engage Your Employees to Find Out What They Want and Need in a Work Environment

When deciding what type of work model to implement, it’s always best to engage your team in the process. Speak to your employees personally to find out what they think. Send out surveys to gather additional information and feedback. This will help you establish a work model that more effectively addresses the needs of your entire team.

Some items to seek feedback on include:

• Work preferences of each employee – Some employees may prefer to work at home all the time, others may prefer a hybrid environment, and some may want to be in the office every day. In addition, some employees may prefer flexible work hours while others may want to retain a traditional 9-5 schedule. Understanding the different work preferences of each employee will make it easier to establish a policy that allows everyone to thrive.
• Needs of specific teams – Do teams across your business have different needs or preferences? Some teams may be able to work successfully in a fully remote environment, while others may find it beneficial to collaborate in person several days a week.
• Technology needs – What technology does your team need to thrive in a remote environment? Will you need to provide employees with laptops, extra monitors and other items that allow them to do their job? Are there specific software tools and platforms that must be adopted to allow everyone to access the information they need in a remote environment?
• Best ways to spend time – If you opt for a hybrid model, it’s important to make sure that the in-office time is spent purposefully and productively. Ask your employees about the different types of tasks they feel are ideally suited to being completed at home vs. in the office. Perhaps your team will prefer in-office meetings, but focused work time at home. Perhaps there are certain projects or tasks that need to be worked on in the office, while others are easily completed at home. Making sure you understand how to best structure your work week is critical in hybrid environments.

Not only will engaging your team in the process help you understand what’s truly important to them and make it easier to set your employees up for success, but it will also show them that you value their opinions. When employees feel like their leadership team listens to them and values their ideas, they typically remain more engaged and derive greater satisfaction from their job. This can help you improve employee retention over time.

Provide Opportunities for Communication and Collaboration

The potential for social isolation is real when employees work in remote or hybrid environments. As a result, it’s critical to establish a process that facilitates employee communication and collaboration. Utilizing tools such as Slack or Google Chat can make it easy for team members to check in with each other and ask quick questions. Using video meeting tools such as Zoom or Microsoft Teams can make collaboration much easier as well.

While facilitating work-related communication is critical, it’s also important to provide remote employees with ways to socialize. “Water cooler chats” that occur in offices may detract from productivity, but they are important ways for employees to get to know one another and build camaraderie. A tight-knit team will help boost morale and provide a more positive work environment.

There are several things you can do to ensure your employees maintain social communications:

• Have new employees schedule brief 1:1 “get to know you” meetings with all other team members when they are hired. Keep the focus of these meetings light and personal, allowing new employees to learn about their coworkers’ interests, hobbies, families, etc. This can help establish a rapport more quickly in remote environments.
• Schedule periodic Zoom happy hour meetings where team members can spend a few minutes chatting and catching up with each other. This will help maintain personal connections and improve camaraderie.
• If all your employees live in the same geographic location, organize a monthly in-person happy hour where team members can chat and socialize.

Find the Right Balance of Flexibility and Consistency

The flexibility provided by remote and hybrid work environments can result in less structure than occurs in traditional in-office work environments. While this flexibility is typically an overall benefit, it must be balanced by providing your team with the consistency necessary for them to thrive. Therefore, finding the right balance between the two is critical to achieving a successful work model.

Establishing this balance may involve:

• Coordinating schedules to allow for set meeting times
• Clearly defining the purpose of in-office work and the tasks that must be completed in-office vs. at home (for hybrid work models)
• Establishing agendas for meetings in advance to maximize the value of the time your remote employees spend on these meetings
• Providing clear documentation of all expectations and policies, and ensuring remote employees know where to find these documents

Create Opportunities for Communication Between Leadership and Team Members

When adopting a remote or hybrid work environment, it’s critical that you provide your employees with opportunities to communicate with your leadership team. Employees should have regular check-ins with their managers to ensure everyone is aligned on goals and that employees receive the assistance they need when challenges arise.

In addition, you may want to consider scheduling regular 1:1 meetings between each employee and a member of your executive team. These can be brief 15-minute check-ins where your employees have the opportunity to remain connected with your leadership team, even when they don’t interact face-to-face. This will also make it easier for your leadership team to understand the needs of your employees.

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• w3 Award Silver Winner in the General Websites-Manufacturing category for the new Laser Tech website
• w3 Award Silver Winner in the General Websites-Website Redesign category for our recent redesign of the HC Companies website
• Davey Award Silver Winner in the General-Government category for our redesign of the Douglas County, Colorado website

We’re truly honored to have earned these prestigious awards, as they are a reflection of the quality work our web design company delivers. But most importantly, we’re happy for our three clients that have been able to elevate the success of their marketing efforts due to these award-winning websites.

About the w3 Awards

The w3 Awards celebrate digital excellence by honoring outstanding websites, marketing, video, mobile sites and apps, social and podcasts created by some of the best marketing professionals around the world. The w3 is the first major web competition that levels the playing field for smaller agencies, giving small firms an equal chance to win alongside large international agencies and Fortune 500 companies.

The w3 is sanctioned and judged by the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA), an invitation-only body consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, interactive, advertising and marketing firms. Winning a w3 Award represents a truly prestigious honor that distinguishes your work as some of the best of the Web.

Entries are judged based on a standard of excellence established by the AIVA based on the category entered. The judges evaluate each entry on a 10 point scale with three categories of winners:

• Best in Show – bestowed on the top 1% of all work entered
• Gold Winners – less than 10% of all entries receive this honor
• Silver Winners – bestowed on a select number of additional outstanding entries

About the Davey Awards

The annual International Davey Awards honor the achievements of the “Creative Davids” who derive their strength from big ideas rather than big budgets. This metaphor refers to the biblical story of David and Goliath, where the diminutive David defeated the giant Goliath with a big idea and a little rock.

The Davey Awards represent the largest and most prestigious awards competition exclusively for the smaller creative agencies. The goal of the Davey Awards is to allow the excellent work produced by smaller agencies to receive the recognition they deserve.

As with the w3 Awards, Davey Award winners are selected by the AIVA. Entries are scored on a 10 point scale with three categories of winners:

• Gold Winners – entries receiving a score of 9.0 or above
• Silver Winners – entries receiving a score of 7.0 to 8.9
• Best in Show – a select pool of 11 Gold Winners (one for each medium), determined based on their scoring and other elements of merit

Over the years, Webolutions has earned numerous awards for the websites we create. You can learn about our other award-winning websites here.

Webolutions Can Help Your Business Thrive

As Denver’s leading web design agency since 1994, Webolutions has developed a reputation for creating exceptional quality websites that elevate the success of our clients. We’re able to consistently achieve great results for our clients due to our exclusive Intrinsic Multiplier™ Approach to marketing. This unique methodology creates a true transformation in our clients by evolving their mindsets, allowing them to achieve competitive differentiation in their market that enables them to grow and thrive.

See our article: Webolutions is Recognized for Tony’s Meats & Market Website Design

There’s also a little bit of “secret sauce” behind our award winning websites – our exclusive Websites Right Methodology™ which creates a better client experience, improved website marketing performance and superior business results. This process has been refined over nearly 30 years based on the lessons we’ve learned from building thousands of websites.

Contact us today to schedule a free consultation. Webolutions provides comprehensive web design and development services from our offices in Denver, Colorado.

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We are proud to announce that according to Clutch’s 2022 report, Webolutions was highlighted as one of Colorado’s top web design companies. Clutch is a B2B ratings and reviews platform based in Washington, DC. They evaluate technology service and solutions companies based on the quality of work, thought leadership, and client reviews.

To be eligible for a Clutch Leader Award, companies must exhibit an unusually high ability to deliver top-tier work to their clients. Receiving this award is no small feat, and we appreciate this recognition.

“We are honored to be recognized by Clutch as a top website development and marketing agency.” – John Vachalek, Founder & CEO, Webolutions

In addition to this recognition, Webolutions is also featured on Clutch’s sister website, Visual Objects, as a leading digital agency. Visual Objects is a business marketplace showcasing work from top creative firms worldwide. This visual catalogue makes it easy to find the right design partner for your business needs.

Our ongoing success is attributable to our ever-growing base of satisfied clients who have come to rely on our professional marketing services to generate continually increasing sales for their businesses. Here’s what they have to say about working with us.

“Since partnering with Webolutions Web Design & SEO Company, the quality and quantity of our leads have improved significantly. Their digital marketing work is what influenced our largest client to connect with us. We are getting an excellent ROI on their services.” – Jim Weyrauch, Vice President, Prophet One

We appreciate the time you have taken to find out more about Webolutions, and we hope to have the opportunity to earn your business. Let’s talk!

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Recent achievements powering this recognition include:

• Generating an additional 1,300 leads and $60,000 of value, with no corresponding incremental program expense, through collaborative strategies including definitive conversion testing for a company in the auto lending industry.
• Working with more than 50 agencies to create and implement a content governance model and overall website experience for visitors and admins, and launch a new website for Colorado’s third-largest county.
• Improving Search Engine Optimization (SEO) visibility by 812% and improving organic traffic value by $92,000 per year over 4 years for a leader in the horticultural industry.

Leading and Innovating in Digital Marketing

Founded in Denver as a digital marketing agency in 1994, Webolutions was among the first in the world to successfully leverage Pay Per Click advertising and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Today, we are a full-spectrum business consulting and strategic implementation company. We empower businesses everywhere to scale faster, smarter, and easier.

We launched our first website within 90 days of the creation of the Internet. We have led innovations in digital marketing and website strategy since before website and email were common vernacular, and through the evolution of the Internet as it became the starting point for almost every information search.

When we started, the act of entering credit card information into a web form was considered strange and unsafe. In 2022, over 56% of Americans prefer to purchase online rather than in person. This represents a 10% increase over 2 years, and the trend continues in that direction.¹ Currently, 6 in 10 people start their buying decision process with a web search. Entire generations cannot fathom considering buying anything without consulting Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

Throughout this evolution, when people conduct these searches, Webolutions clients get found.

Communicating Your Relevancy in Today’s World

Today, as the world and everyone in it continues to change, we help our clients create relevant, emotional connections with internal and external audiences. Through our Intrinsic Multiplier™ Approach, we help you evolve your mindset to truly be a visionary organization and stand out from others who sell what you sell. We help you measure everything from Return on Ad Spend to employee engagement. We help you clarify and “culturalize” your unique Purpose, Values, and Mission, and pull specific strengths through in your message. We help you find your story and bring it to life.

Exclusive strategies designed to elevate your success include:

• We actively guide creation of your unique Market Positioning Action Plan™. This discovery journey evolves the mindsets of your leadership team, prompting you to see yourselves through a series of new lenses. This advances your message from focusing on what you sell to the real emotionally and tangibly rewarding transformations you create.
• Market Positioning is frequently coupled with the creation of your Brand Platform™. This exclusive set of defined standards drives your marketplace differentiation, more effective communications, and more connected buyer journeys throughout all communications channels.
• Our Websites Right Methodology™ ensures your Webolutions website outperforms your competitors through business and bottom-line focused keyword optimization planning, SEO optimized information architecture, and competitive analysis of your marketplace.
• Our exclusive, custom-configured Enhanced WordPress Platform™ and the enhancements we have made to WordPress maximize the functionality and effectiveness of the world’s most popular Content Management System.
• Our Real-Time Performance Intelligence™ Dashboards provide thoughtful and organized real-time graphical performance models giving you at-a-glance tangibility to critical information and trends.
• Our Results Driven Communications™ approach to the tactical creation of all content ensures all communications, across all media, are specifically crafted to appeal to a specific defined audience, in a specific medium, to create a specifically defined result.
• Our Collaborative ROI Projection Model maximizes utilization of your marketing resources. For greater focus and prioritization, this model allows for the calculated planning and evaluation of the real ROI a potential marketing strategy or tactic may yield prior to costly implementation. We work with you to create a business model for proof of concept while creating tracking funnels to identify critical areas of focus for greater success as the strategy is implemented. This illuminates exactly which levers to pull and when to pull them, while keeping you in control.

Driving Exceptional Digital Marketing Results

Throughout our growth to serving a global array of industries and clients, we have remained a Denver top digital marketing company. We have grown from a single chair in a basement in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, to more than 20 Webolutians. Your Webolutions team members each bring more than 10 years of expertise in their functional areas to you. Those areas include:

• Digital Advertising – We are a Google Partner, managing millions of dollars in ad spend each year on Google Ads, Facebook, LinkedIn, and many more platforms.
• SEO – We are an Internet Marketing Association SEO Leader, twice recognized as Top SEO Firm in the US.
• Content Marketing – Through our exclusive tactical content strategy and tactical content creation systems, we work with you to create forward-looking, results-driven content calendars and implementation strategies. Data driving your strategy may come from your highest traffic website pages, designated search engine champion pages, conversions against industry standards, SEO positions, on-page calls to action, overall website visitor journeys, etc. And of course, your strategy includes defined roles, responsibilities, deliverables, dates, and how the content you create is most effectively multi-purposed and leveraged across multiple channels.

Winning Together

We are pleased and proud to have been recognized for decades by the Denver Business Journal as a top digital marketing company. Denver and Colorado are home to some of the most sustained firms in the digital marketing industry. Our unique longevity and continued success in this extremely competitive environment are reflections of our commitment to continuously improve, our business-minded approach, our bottom-line results and mostly, our long-term relationships with you.

If you or anyone in your network, in Denver or elsewhere, seeks a business partner with digital marketing expertise and a sustained track record of transparency and success, let’s talk.

¹ Source: FitSmallBusiness

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The Communicator Awards is the leading awards program recognizing excellence across all areas of communication. It has been honoring the best in the industry for 28 years. With over 5,000 entries this year, the competition for top honors was steep. The Award of Excellence is the highest award given by the organization, and it is reserved for projects which exhibit mastery of craft and deliver lasting impact.

See our article: Webolutions Recognized as Top Tier Denver Web Designer

Entries are judged by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA). This invitation-only judging body consists of industry leading professionals across all areas of marketing and communications. The AIVA includes executives from a wide range of prominent companies, including:

• Amazon
• Disney
• GE Digital
• IMB
• Spotify
• Time
• Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones
• Wired

Entries are judged on a variety of criteria focused on quality of craft. There is a 100-point rating scale, and a score of 90 or better is required to earn an Award of Excellence. The Award of Distinction, given to projects which exceed industry standards in quality and achievement, requires a score of 70 to 89.

This isn’t the first time Webolutions has been honored for our award winning web design. We’ve received Communicator Awards several other times, including:

• 2021 Award of Excellence in the Visual Appeal – Aesthetics in Website category for a website we created for The Stone Collection, an importer and distributor of the finest natural and engineered premium stone products
• 2020 Award of Excellence in the Visual Appeal – Aesthetics in Website category for a website we created for Fossil Trace, a golf course located in Golden Colorado
• 2019 Award of Distinction in the Visual Appeal – Function for Website category for the HC Companies, a horticultural container manufacturer
• 2018 Award of Excellence in the Lifestyle Websites category for design, content and UI for Fun Treks, an off-roading trails guide
• 2016 Award of Distinction in the Integrated Marketing Effectiveness category for Mission Mode, a leading supplier of crisis and incident management and mass notification solutions
• 2016 Award of Distinction in the Integrated Marketing/Content Marketing category for Vision Care Specialists, the largest independent eye care provider in the Rocky Mountain region

Award Winning Websites that Help Your Business Thrive

Webolutions has been Denver’s leading web design company since 1994. Our team consistently creates exceptional quality websites, many of which have won prestigious awards, that elevate the success of our clients. Our exclusive Intrinsic Multiplier™ Approach to marketing has been developed to evolve the mindset of business owners, allowing them to achieve competitive differentiation in their market based on their core values, purpose, mission, specific set of strengths, and unique culture. This process creates a true transformation which allows our clients to more effectively convey their vision to their audience, enabling their business to grow and thrive.

With nearly three decades of experience building thousands of websites, we’ve continuously refined our process to ensure our websites outperform the marketplace. This has resulted in the development of our unique Websites Right Methodology™, which creates a better client experience, improved website marketing performance and superior business results. Some core elements to our Websites Right Methodology™ include:

• Keyword optimization and planning to ensure we target the most effective terms to achieve your desired results
• SEO optimized information architecture to ensure we create the proper pages necessary to rank well on search engines
• Competitive analysis to understand what others in your industry are doing well, and how we can improve on their efforts and craft a unique message to make your business stand out

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“It was exactly the right step to take our golf course to the next level,” said Katie Johnson PGA, Assistant Golf Professional. “[Webolutions] really nailed it. That award is very deserved!”

The feature-rich site Webolutions created – from the tiptoeing dinosaur footprints on the home page that harken to the course’s namesake feature to the interactive course description feature with in-depth information for each of the course’s holes – created a unique branded experience. Pairing the user experience-focused design with the tremendous photography and videography of the course itself resulted in a truly immersive and showstopping experience for every visitor.

All winners for The Communicator Awards are hand-selected by the AIVA (Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts), an invitation-only group consisting of top-tier professionals from acclaimed media, communications, advertising, creative and marketing firms. AIVA members include executives from organizations such as Airtype Studio, Big Spaceship, Conde Nast, Coach, Disney, Wired and Yahoo!

About The Communicator Awards:
The Communicator Awards is the leading international awards program honoring creative excellence for marketing and communications professionals. Founded by passionate communications professionals over two decades ago, The Communicator Awards is an annual competition honoring the best digital, mobile, audio, video, and social content the industry has to offer. The Communicator Awards is widely recognized as one of the largest awards of its kind in the world.

About Webolutions:
At Webolutions, we empower passionate people to thrive! We live our passion by making a positive impact through marketing and branding. Ready to grow your business with our award-winning marketing strategies and web designs? Give us a call at 303-300-2640 or schedule an appointment.

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It’s an interesting time to take all the changes happening and leading with everything going on. On Wednesday, April 15, 2020, Webolutions invited Denver leaders to a virtual roundtable discussion to weigh in on the challenges and opportunities their businesses are facing in today’s world, empowering them to continue taking their leadership and employee engagement to the next level.

Thriving in a Virtual Environment

The virtual environment has challenged executives to advance even faster as a business, catapulting their attention more on connection and innovation. Webolutions inspired executives to thrive in a virtual environment by presenting these five key engagement drivers and definitions:

1. Meaning: Your work has purpose beyond the job itself.
2. Autonomy: The power to shape your work and environment in ways that allow you to perform at your best. This driver is essential for employee success in today’s virtual workforce.
3. Growth: Being stretched and challenged in ways that result in personal and professional progress.
4. Impact: Seeing positive, effective and worthwhile outcomes and results from your work.
5. Connection: The sense of belonging to something beyond yourself.

A screen capture of the April 2020 virtual Executive Roundtable.

Nearly all attendees have said they are experiencing a business model from in-office environment into a fully remote. Most executives are pleased with their employee engagement and results. “Our staff is very mature and capable of working on products,” said an executive in the engineering industry. “We’ve been fascinated with how people have been able to adapt.”

Denver-area leaders are frequently communicating with employees and providing support and opportunities to better connect with fellow colleagues in a virtual environment. One attendee said he has presented his staff with trivia questions to keep their minds sharp and their employees connected.  “The biggest thing for me is that they meaningful and have connection,” he said. Other Denver-area leaders echoed how virtual happy hours and celebrating employees’ successes and wins contribute to better employee engagement, provide a sense of normalcy and lift employees’ spirits.

Driving Engagement Through Shared Values and Culture

The fundamental key to engagement, whether you’re live or virtual, is conveying a shared culture. Executives improve their employee engagement by creating a compelling vision that will be reinforced through the workforce.

It takes a different set of strategies in a virtual environment. One challenge executives face is acting as support (work-from-home operations, crisis management) vs. day-to-day problem solving. The shift in roles, however, provide opportunities for executives to adhere to the values and reinforce company culture. Also as important, in today’s times, is the willingness to have critical conversations with employees. Critical conversations, even in remote environments, allow executives to move an organization forward. “It’s vital for executives to be as positive as possible and embody the company’s values,” Vachalek said. “Having crucial conversation in extraordinary times also show a a sign of respect. Otherwise you’re not being true to yourself and the company.”

Creating a Culture of High Performance and Results

Company perks such as casual dress, food and learning opportunities are what people most commonly discuss when bringing up the topic of employee engagement. This is an opportune time for Denver executives to examine whether these perks matter in today’s workspace or if they’re superfluous to the organization’s growth. Today’s executives are weighing whether their organization needs an office to achieve results. “This has been a great experience to see how productive the staff is in a remote environment,” said one attendee. “So far, I have been pleased with the results.”

In today’s environment, Denver leaders are continuing evolving the way they do business is by identifying the processes that work and discarding the ones that don’t work. “As a firm, we come up with a lot of processes,” said an executive in the engineering industry. “The processes that are having an important impact and staying in place. The ones that aren’t are falling by the wayside. We also want our employees to challenge the processes to see if they work in their environment.”

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One of our favorite tools we’ve used to bring the Webolutions experience virtually is Zoom. A few days before we held the March 2020 Webolutions Executive Roundtable, Webolutions informed executives who RSVP’d that the even would be held virtually. To make the event as smooth as possible, we presented executives, in advance, with a detailed agenda and offered links and tips to download and test the latest version of Zoom. We also started the event 15 minutes beforehand to address any Q&A and concerns and provide a space for virtual networking. Webolutions then started the executive roundtable, providing a platform for open discussion, wisdom and virtual networking.

A Zoom screen capture of the March 2020 virtual executive roundtable.

We encouraged all attendees to share their video on Zoom to maintain as personal connection as possible. As virtual meetings become the new normal, allowing for free exchange of ideas and focusing on solutions during these discussions will inspire one another to keep moving things forward and win together in a remote environment.

Be sure to attend our upcoming virtual Executive Roundtable! Come learn and share how successful organizations are thriving with everything going on. Join us!

Based on feedback, lessons learned and the state of online work, we are continuing to improve the Webolutions experience in a virtual environment. What remote-working tips are working for you and your organization? What opportunities do current challenges present for you? We’d love to know! Email us at info@webolutions.com or give us a call at 303-300-2640.

We Are Here For You

In our 26th year, we are doing our best work and continuing to drive at full speed. You are on our minds and in our hearts. We still stand at your shoulder. We appreciate these opportunities to nurture our long-term relationship and win together.

Here are some timely resources we’ve found to help businesses continue moving forward.

• CARES Act Assistance
• Google Ads Credit Grant
• Facebook Small Business Grant
• US Small Business Administration Loans
• Main Street Emergency Grant Program
• Protecting Your Zoom Meetings from Hackers

Nonprofits are encouraged to contact us to get assistance in qualifying for up to $10,000 per month, forever, in free Google advertising.

Thank you for being part of our community!

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