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Skynet Solutions Supporting Local Business With the Bixby Chamber

Skynet Solutions believes that supporting our locally owned businesses is vital to growing a strong community with a thriving economy. We strongly encourage the nurturing of locally owned and operated businesses for a number of reasons: they sustainably use local resources, employ local people at decent wages, and primarily serve local consumers. All of which goes back into our community where it belongs.

That’s why we’re proud to work with the Bixby Metro Chamber of Commerce. They provide a pathway to the Bixby community for business owners by growing relationships and togetherness to promote civic and commercial progress. They have also been very helpful with networking, promoting, branding, and education to help the businesses in the area thrive. Recently, Skynet Solutions and the Bixby Metro Chamber of Commerce, along with other members of the community, came together to promote the opening of a new business, Pool Escapes, located at 11031 South Memorial Drive, with an official ribbon cutting.

Pool Escapes
11031 South Memorial
Tulsa, OK 74133
(918) 369-7946

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Skynet Solutions Observing Memorial Day 2015

Memorial Day 2015 is this Monday the 25th, and most of us have plans for the holiday weekend. It’s that time of year again to bear in mind that we live in one of the greatest nations on the planet only because time and time again brave men and women have been willing to fight and die for our freedoms that we sometimes take for granted.

There are many different ways to show respect for those who have died serving our country. Whether you’re visiting a national cemetery or gathering with friends and family, take the time to remember and honor the fallen veterans who died during military service. Here are a few other things you can do to observe Memorial Day: fly a US flag at half staff until noon and then raise it to the top until sunset, fly a POW MIA flag, provide public decorations like yellow ribbons, and take part in the National Moment of Remembrance at 3:00pm.

This Memorial Day we should all remember what this holiday actually means even if we don’t all agree on how to go about honoring it. Obviously, you don’t have to listen to Taps, the 24-note bugle call, on repeat all day. Hopefully we will remember that on Monday, in between hanging out with family and friends, heading out to the lake, and firing up the grill, if even for a fleeting moment, we will all hit the pause button and realize that this is not just a day off from work or school. For that passing moment, keep in mind that our fallen heroes chose to put their lives on the line for our future and honor them by remembering their sacrifice.

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Our new Look: Skynet is Rebranding

Say hello to Skynet’s shiny new look! There comes a time every once in a while when you need to shake things up and get with the times. That time has come for Skynet Solutions! We are officially rebranding ourselves as a digital marketing and web development firm. With this change comes a new, neat little logo. The change:

Insight on the reasons for the change: A problem we kept running into while marketing ourselves is trying to convey exactly what we do while using the old logo. We offer so many services that it became difficult to succinctly express our purpose. So we decided to create a logo with variations for our different departments.

We also took the opportunity to switch to a more modern color scheme, getting rid of the cheesy combination of orange and blue. Orange still exists in our branding, but it’s more of an accent color that comes up on occasion, and it isn’t tied to our logo. As for the iconography, the divider between Skynet and Solutions looks sort of like a scroll wheel. This communicates the numerous choices of departments (Design, development, marketing, retail, support) as demonstrated in the animated GIF at the top of this post. Need something pretty? We’ll rotate over to design. Need a functioning website? We’ll switch to development. Get the idea? Pretty cool, huh?

Multi-faceted. That’s how we look at ourselves as a company. Our new look emphasizes this and brings us into the sleek world of modern design. We’re excited to see where this new initiative takes us. We’ve also created a whole new website to match our branding change, and that will be live very soon, so keep an eye out for it at www.skynet-solutions.net! As a PS, we’ll leave this link to our new youtube channel here. We’ll be posting videos on occasion on the subjects of design, marketing, and web development. We hope you’ll subscribe and check us out!

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In Case You Havent Heard, Tulsa is a Great Place to Start a Business!

A bunch of high-fives are coming your way, Tulsa! That’s because Tulsa is one of the best cities to start a business in! It has been ranked by WalletHub as the number 2 city (out of a total of 150 in the US) in which to start a business. It is important for entrepreneurs to find a city that has the support for their individual concepts and industry; whether those are people, financial resources, technology, or infrastructure. Tulsa has all of this and more! In order to help aspiring entrepreneurs maximize their chances for long-term prosperity, WalletHub analyzed the relative start-up opportunities that exist in the 150 most populated U.S. cities. Using 2 dimensions and 13 unique metrics, ranging from 5-year survival rate and the affordability of office space to the educational attainment of the local labor force. Tulsa topped all comers nationally in the business environment ranking. The factors given the most weight in that category included corporate taxes, cost of living, length of the average workday and workforce education, according to WalletHub. There is something to be said about being in a city like Tulsa where there is an active entrepreneurial vibe. Skynet Solutions loves to fan the entrepreneurial fire! Have you ever heard of SCORE? It’s a nationwide group of volunteers dedicated to helping people who are starting small businesses. Skynet Solutions is a member of the Tulsa SCORE chapter where we mentor business owners, offer advice from our experiences, assist with workshops, and volunteer at events. We believe that SCORE is a valuable resource with access to a variety of documents, templates, and tools designed to assist in starting and growing a business.

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Put your Business on the Map!

To Honor Small Business Week: Skynet Solutions Helps Add You to the Map Sometimes it feels like you are on your own when running a small business, building brick by brick, keeping the ball rolling, and pushing those gears forward. Well now is the time for your day in the light! It’s National Small Business Week and Skynet Solutions recognizes how critical the contributions of entrepreneurs and small business owners are as the pillars of our community. Now through May 8th, we have a special offer just for you: In honor of Small Business Week, Skynet Solutions wants to put you on the Google/Bing Map for FREE (a $199.99 value)! Let us enhance your business’s online presence with either a free Google My Business page or a free Bing Places for Business page. To add to this offer even further, you can get both business pages together for only $99.99 (the first one is free and the second is half off)! This is the 52nd year in a row that the President of the United States has declared National Small Business Week as the celebration of the Main Street entrepreneur. The official proclamation states that, “America’s small businesses are the backbone of our economy, employing half of our country’s private sector workforce and creating nearly two out of every three new jobs in our country.” To support small businesses in our region, Skynet Solutions is offering this free business page as an opportunity for you to step back from the daily grind, to connect with one another, and to be inspired. What can a Google My Business page do for you? Connect directly with your customers, whether they’re looking for you on Search, Maps or Google+ with a Google My Business page. It is extremely important for customers to be able to find your business when they’re looking for you no matter what type of device they’re using. A Google My Business page will: get your information out there and give it correctly, get you on the map and help you stand out, and it can even help you build lasting relationships with your customers. What can a Bing Places for Business page do for you? This product is your chance to take advantage of an easy-to-use tool to quickly optimize your local listings. Bing Places for Business ensures that your business is in front of customers searching online for the products and services you offer. It is committed to helping you connect with customers online and, with more updates in the upcoming months, it will make it even easier to put your business online, promote it actively, and make meaningful connections with your customers and other businesses. Skynet Solutions knows that every day, you are working hard to grow small businesses, create 21st century jobs, drive innovation, and increase America’s global competitiveness. So, make the most of our special Small Business Week offer now because it will end on Friday, May 8th. Contact our experienced and professional team today at (918) 895-1982 to get started. To learn more about all of the other things that Skynet Solutions can do for your small business, visit www.skynet-solutions.net.