Recent journal entries

Our blog will cover a wide range of topics such as the latest SEO or PPC updates and strategies, email marketing automation, web design trends, new web development technology and various other tips and tricks to help you broaden your knowledge in this ever-changing digital world.

Zach Mettra

Bright Oak is now Embrk: A new marketing, branding, and software development agency.

To our dear clients and friends, We’ve got some exciting news to share with you!  While the world came to a crashing halt a couple months ago, and like many of you, we had the opportunity to pause for a brief moment, take a deep breath, and then analyze every part of our existing business … Continued

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Zach Mettra

Pagely vs. Kinsta: 3 Reasons Why We Switched To Kinsta For Managed WordPress Hosting

Choosing a managed WordPress host is hard. We review how Kinsta beat Pagely & others on support, speed, and costs & why we migrated all of our WordPress sites to Kinsta.

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Paul Kazyak

The Psychology Behind Successful Client Retention

Whether it is a self-preservation of emotions, moral identity, physical harm, etc. at its' root we tend to use loyalty as a way to protect ourselves.

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Zach Mettra

Bright Oak: The Story Behind The Name

Behind every brand is a story. This article is a window into how Bright Oak got started, how we came up with our name, and what has made us successful.

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