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  message[0]="Plonka Interactive was instrumental in Lifestyle Gourmet's rebranding effort. Once called Zone Direct, Lifestyle Gourmet adopted a new dietary philosophy and required a new brand and website to reflect it.\r\rPlonka Interactive was singularly responsible for the new identity, website, and customer / kitchen management system. Since the launch of Lifestyle Gourmet's site in January, its member count has increased over 200%!"
  message[1]="The City of Crowley wanted to provide more services online to it's citizens, beginning with online utility bill payments. The City also wanted to be able to quickly and easily provide it's citizens current information and news.\r\rPlonka Interactive developed an Integrated City Website for The City of Crowley, bringing together thevarious city services into one easy to find location on the Web. City employees easily manage the site's content 24/7 through a secure Content Management Section where all they have to do is point, click and type."
  message[2]="Content Management System keeps information current for community and events. City Agenda & Budget system (PICA) helps share information securely."
  message[3]="Register for pick-up and delivery of your dry cleaning online with an e-commerce system. Web design and corporate identity."
  message[4]="Dallas Pen is a teacher supply distributor needing to support the retail channel. Extensive database development to provide description and images of items, wholesale and retail pricing levels along with ecommerce sales allows the retailers to increase sales and helps Dallas Pen pull sales through the dealer channel.\r\rNightly automated updates of inventory items, on-hand levels and pricing ensure smart business decisions all along the channel. Retailers can order wholesale items while logged into their website management section, while fulfilling orders from their customers, saving significant time.\r\rA dynamic dealer website system was developed to allow web administrators to quickly setup dealers in the system, select a domain name, apply for ecommerce accounts and walk the users through the process of setting up their own online store."
  message[5]="PrimaCare engaged Plonka Interactive to develop a new web site using attractive design, eye catching images and sound marketing techniques. The easy-to-navigate web site leads visitors deeper into the site, engaging them more fully with PrimaCare's services.\r\rPrimaCare needed a web site that could be managed internally. Plonka Interactive developed an intuitive, user friendly Content Management System that allows authorized users to add, edit and modify content, while maintaining the design integrity of the site."
  message[6]="In business since 1919, Chemsearch manufactures and distributes commercial maintenance and cleaning products to over 50 different countries. \r\rChallenge\r\rAlthough they have customers all over the world, their customers often knew the independent sales reps better than they knew the company. They wanted to begin a regular newsletter that would build their brand to their end customers, while keeping the reps engaged. To make it even more challenging, many of their customers do not speak or read English. \r\rSolution\r\rPlonka Interactive developed an e-newsletter system that allows Chemsearch to add customers in user groups under each sales rep. When a newsletter goes out, it is automatically personalized with a message from the sales rep, along with that rep’s photo. This personalization helped to ensure a high open and click-through rate. \r\rIn order to solve the language barrier, we translated both the content and the functionality features of each newsletter into the major language categories of Chemsearch’s customers. When users are added, their language preference is selected, so each newsletter is automatically sent in the correct language for each recipient.\r\rAdmin users can easily change content, images, and interactive polls. When recipients read the e-newsletter, they can click-through to a landing page. A variety of reports are available to track how many people received the e-newsletter, how many opened it, how many were undeliverable, how many forwarded it to a friend, and how many people clicked through to a landing page."
  message[7]="Alibre - Alibre sells 3D mechanical design software to engineers, designers and manufacturers. \r\rChallenge\r\rWhen they came to us, Alibre’s site offered a free trial of their design software to people that registered. Although they were getting a lot of traffic, only a small percentage of the visitors were registering for the free trial. Registration was free, but people had to give their name and email address when they registered. Because of the amount of money Alibre was spending to get people to their site, they wanted a redesigned site that converted more visitors to registered users, giving them a higher return-on-investment (ROI).\r\rSolution\r\rTo increase the stickiness of the site, we not only changed the look and the feel, but we also added interactive tools. We realized most visitors thought that the benefit of getting a software test was not worth the risk of giving out their personal information. By adding a flash presentation to the home page and adding things like a “cost of ownership calculator,” visitors could better understand the benefits of the free trial. Then, once they understood how the software could help them, they would be more inclined to signup for a free trial. \r\rThe redesign worked. After launching the new site, their ROI increased, which meant a huge boost to the bottom line."
  message[8]="Leadership Plano (LP) wanted to develop an online directory to serve as a vehicle for alumni of the program to network. LP wanted the directory to be fun for members to look up classmates and get up to date on what they are doing now.\r\rPlonka Interactive created the alumni directory using Web 2.0 methodologies. Members build the content of the system by entering their profiles. Members can explore their social network by linking endlessly on groups and individuals. The animated member photos on the homepage are an example of dynamic Flash. As members upload their photos, they will be included in the presentation by SQL interfacing with Flash through XML. Plonka created the system with the right balance to protect valuable member information from misuse while remaining easily accessible for members."
  message[9]="Amputee Store, an online retailer of prosthetic products, wanted an attractive and engaging front end for their product ordering system to better reach their target audience.  Amputee Store envisioned a Symptom Checker similar to other popular medical sites where users could interact with a human figure to gain more information about the specific issues they are having.\r\r Plonka created an interactive web presentation using a 3-D human model. Designs of prosthetics were interlaced with the human model to clearly show the product type and link the prosthetics to the appropriate information. The models were brought into Flash so the model could rotate 360° front to back. \"Hot spots\" were mapped onto the models so that when a cursor moves over a specific area of the model it lights up and reveals text symptoms for the corresponding spot. Information relating to specific conditions is dynamically pulled into the presentation using Action Scripts. Amputee Store now has a trademarked, cutting edge front end to their store that sets them apart from the competition." 


  
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