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New tunes up tomorrow morning at 7:00am (EST)

Anthony — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 22:48:33 +0000

Hey everyone! Thanks for hanging in there while there wasn’t any new tunes being posted. I’ve been battling being sick for the past week or so and I haven’t been able to get any new material posted. I always want to post up the best music that I find, so I didn’t want to just slap something up just to say something was posted.

With that said, Wednesday – Thursday and Friday are slam packed with awesomeness! I can’t wait ’til you all hear the tunes i’ve got ready to post….they’ve been some of my faves for awhile.

The Ministry Theme by Awaken Design Company

Anthony — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:00:59 +0000

Awaken Design Company just released a brand new WordPress Template that we’re super excited about. We feel this template design will serve ministries of all kinds extremely well! Please head over to Awaken Design Company today to check it out. You can purchase it directly from our site as well.

Essentials: A killer website and great graphic/promotional design!

Anthony — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:02:13 +0000

Hello everyone! I hope you all are having a great weekend so far and enjoying the things that mean most to you!

I wanted to go ahead and piggy-back off of our last post about Atmosphere and Experience with some things that are just as important for bands, ministries, churches, non-profits and companies. These essentials are a great website, and graphic/promotional design!

As some of you already know, Awaken Ambience is a branch from our parent company where we operate as a Faith Based Web & Design Studio. We build the best online website experiences ever for a vast genre of clients including: Companies, non-profits, faith based endeavors, bands, churches and a lot more. Not only do we craft the best websites, but we also design enticing promotional products and graphic designs!

NOW, WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT FOR YOU? LET US TELL YOU….

Your website and design are the face of who you are! Almost 100% of the time someone is going to see your website, logo, event promotion or something along these lines before they hear anything from you directly.

EXAMPLE: CHURCHES

So, let’s use a church as an example for how you could benefit: A potential church visitor googles “awesome church in Charlotte, NC” and finds your site….this is your opportunity to draw them in, better make it good! In all reality, you will NOT draw someone in with an outdated/hard to navigate/over-complicated website – it’s just not gonna happen, sorry. You need a custom tailored solution that operates just as fluid as your church does….let’s break it down a bit more in terms of a website:

You need a homepage that is just as inviting as your churches physical greeters – a “Welcome Center” of sorts for the web that directs the person around to exactly where they need to go. You wouldn’t want a greeter in your church to point a visitor to the bathroom when they want to go to the sanctuary would you, and you wouldn’t want them to be directed to slopped together or half finished sanctuary – right? So often church websites function like this, and it’s pretty embarrassing for the website owner in my opinion. On the flipside when the “online visitor” gets to the portion they need/want to be in your “Online Church” they need to find exactly what they need and it should be concise and to the point, while laid out in a beautiful way. Don’t slack in your online church, just as you shouldn’t in your physical location – because the more time goes on the more important a great website becomes.

EXAMPLE: BANDS

As I know well, a bands lifeblood is merch sales while on tour. You NEED great designs, there’s no way around it! It’s elementary, great designs sell better than poor designs. What about a bands website? Why not take your concert experience and put it online?! Sell merch online, have videos of recent things your bands doing, music to listen to, a vision statement/about us section. The options are endless, you just have to tap in there to reach the full success of what you’re doing.

The list could drag on for days of how important and vital websites and designs are. But we want you to enjoy your weekend and not be a hermit on our blog all day
However, We do strongly urge everyone who takes their endeavors seriously to get in touch with us to maximize your websites and designs potential! We’d loved to discuss an option option that fits you best! We have created thousands of perfect solutions since our founding in 2007 and we’d love to add you to our happy list of ~~clients~~ FRIENDS!

View us online: www.awakendesigncompany.com

Atmosphere and Experience are everything!

Anthony — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:24:37 +0000

As a full time designer and creative director, a member of our churches creative team and an all around lover of good set/stage design I have realized that Atmosphere and Experience are EVERYTHING when it comes to engaging audience/congregation members to the fullest!

* Images took from our friends at Church Stage Design Ideas

During our creative team meetings these 2 points are typically brought up and I fully agree: “We have 5 senses for a reason, we should try to engage all of them.” & “You can either take your wife to McDonalds or a nice candle lit restaurant, both are food – but the setting makes the experience.”….this is so true. I believe we respond differently and on a deeper level when the set design, lights and atmosphere are catered to include more of our senses.

I would highly recommend churches, worship bands and anyone who creates a live experience to look into engaging your audience/congregation on this level.

CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING RESOURCES FOR INSPIRATION & HELP:

Church Stage Design Ideas (dot) com: Don’t know where to start in designing the look of your live setting? No worries, our friends at CSDI are where it’s at for all things set design inspiration and they keep their site chocked full of awesomeness!
Awaken Design Company: I’m excited to announce that we are going to start offering creative consulting and visual direction for set design in the near future! In addition we have always offered any kind of design that could be integrated into a church setting. Get in touch with us and we’d be excited to discuss the options!

Wanna stay in the loop? Help build our following!

Anthony — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 15:16:21 +0000

Hey everyone! The response to Awaken Ambience thus far has been phenomenal! We’ve had so many site hits, frequent visitors and so on….to make Awaken Ambience even better we wanted to let you all know about our brand new Facebook Page as well as other options for getting involved with us and staying up to date.

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