Curtis Marketing Group (CMG) received a letter last week from Graphic Design USA. The first words in the letter were CONGRATULATIONS! Your organization has been selected as a winner in the 2013 American Graphic Design Awards.

St. Joseph, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/21/2013 -- Not only did they receive one award, they received 12 design awards. Last year they received eight design awards. Mark and Susan Curtis, co-owners of CMG remarked, "We were excited, but not shocked or surprised because our company has won awards many years in a row." They give credit to their talented design team that includes John Graham and Kelsey Meyer who keep producing award winning websites, logos, brochures and trademarks for their clients who are primarily dentists. You can see this year's awards as well as all of the previous years' awards that they have won here.

For five decades, Graphic Design USA has sponsored design competitions that spotlights areas of excellence and opportunity for creative professionals. GDUSA's American Graphic Design Awards is the biggest and broadest of these open to everyone in the community: advertising agencies, graphic design firms, corporations, associations, universities, government publishers and more. It honors outstanding work of all kinds and across all media. For the eighth straight year, more than 8,000 entries arrived from across the country. A highly selective 15 percent are recognized with a Certificate of Excellence. In the rare case of multiple awards, an embossed Certificate of Excellence for each winning piece is presented. Curtis Marketing Group is eligible for reproduction in the 50th Anniversary GDUSA Awards Annual in print, on the web, and on their iPad App ? seen by over 100,000 colleagues and clients each year.

Mark Curtis, President of Curtis Marketing Group, reflected, "It's an honor for us and for our clients that we can enter, and take home top awards in some very competitive categories, in a competition that includes many of the top agencies in the United States like Saatchi and Saatchi, BBD&O, and Ogilvy One, each of which represents billions of dollars in annual client billings." He continued, "It just demonstrates that top-quality marketing isn't only available to the Budweisers and Capital Ones of the world. Even small dental practices can get great marketing."

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Curtis Group Dental Marketing wins eight American Web Design Awards from Graphic Design USA.

St. Joseph, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 04/24/2013 -- Curtis Group Dental Marketing, an innovative company leading the way in dental practice marketing, received eight award certificates from Graphic Design USA honoring five of their dental clients' Internet entities (websites, social media pages, etc.). Three of the dental clients won two awards.

The competition celebrates the power of well-designed websites and other online communications to attract audiences, generate engagement and response, and promote products, services and ideas.

Curtis Group won American Web Design Awards for the following online dental marketing tools:

- www.SterlingDentalDDS.com ... Website Design
- www.SterlingDentalDDS.mobi ... Smart Phone Website Design
- www.SophisticatedSmilesNJ.com ... Website Design
- www.TribecaSmiles.com ... Website Design
- www.Facebook.com/TribecaSmiles ... Facebook Design
- www.Facebook.com/LeBlancDDS ... Facebook Design
- www.Facebook.com/BearBranchFamilyDentistry ... Facebook Design
- www.Facebook.com/JayParnesDDS ... Facebook Design

About Curtis Group
Curtis Group gives their clients a powerful and cost-effective way to market their dental practices by streamlining websites with social media, all while using innovative digital design. Every year Curtis Group has submitted nominations since 1997, they have had at least one dental client win a national award. Their best year honored eleven dental clients in all, many with multiple awards. To see a slideshow of all the awarded designs over the years, go to www.CurtisGroup.com/awards.

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Graphic Design USA, the leading graphic design journal in the US, just announced the winners of it's 47th annual competition to find the best examples of top-quality design across the United States. Curtis Group, a marketing company serving dental practices and dental support businesses in the US and Canada, received top honors for eleven submitted projects.

St. Joseph, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 12/05/2012 -- The editors of Graphic Design USA explain that the annual design competition is, "open to every one in the design community: advertising agencies, graphic design firms, corporate, institutional and publishing inhouse departments, and more. The program honors outstanding new work of all kinds: print, packaging, point-of-purchase, internet, interactive and motion graphics. Winners will receive a Certificate of Excellence for each piece selected and will be featured in the Graphic Design USA Awards Annual on GD-USA's website."

Although the total count varies, tens of thousands of entries in twenty-two categories are submitted to GD-USA each year. The total number of entries judged and named as winners also varies, but only 1% - 1.5% of all entries are awarded certificates.

It's to be noted that of the hundreds of clients' projects that Curtis Group has submitted through the years, over 11% of those entries have been awarded top honors. Curtis Group's winning entries can be viewed on their National Awards Gallery website page.

Curtis Group's 21012 winning clients include:

- Dr. Thomas Lambert of Bethlehem, PA... awarded for his desk top website
- The Christian Dental Society... awarded for their desk top website
- Dr. Frank Stone of Irvine, CA... awarded for two Coast Magazine print ads
- Dr. Karen Williamson of Rockwall, TX... awarded for her patient gift bag
- Dr. Theodore Baer and Dr. Randolph Nartea of Tacoma, WA... awarded for their desk top website
- Dr. Keith Ogawa and Dr. Rania Haddad of Eagle Point, OR... awarded for their smart phone website
- Dr. Joseph Sullivan of Sycamore, IL... awarded for his smart phone website
- Dr. Michael Appleton of Slidell, LA... awarded for his smart phone website
- Dr. Eddie Longman of Alexandria, VA... awarded for his desk top website
- Dental Consultant Jay White... awarded for his business development promotional piece

Mark Curtis, President, Curtis Marketing Group, reflected, "It's an honor for us and for our clients that we can enter, and take home top awards in some very competitive categories, in a competition that includes many of the top agencies in the United States like Saatchi and Saatchi, BBD&O, and Ogilvy One, each of which represents billions of dollars in annual client billings." He continued, "It just demonstrates that top-quality marketing isn't only available to the Budweisers and Capital Ones of the world. Even small dental practices can get great marketing."

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Dental Internet marketing is no longer about just getting the practice's web site on the first page of Google searches. Now, the First Page Domination program brings practice videos, press releases, Google plus pages, and supporting web sites to the first page of Google.

St. Joseph, MN -- (SBWIRE) -- 11/07/2012 -- The rules of the game have changed for dental practices that are marketing for new patients by using online marketing. Because of Google's relentless pursuit to index all of the information on the internet for its viewers, it is now necessary to create and optimize dental practice videos, press releases, curated dentist review web sites, special support web sites, dental blogs and even photos. Simply having your web site appear on the first page of search results may no longer be enough.

Using Google's new indexing parameters, each and every one of these online marketing tools for dental practices is eligible to appear on the first page of search engine results. In fact, the First Page Domination program is designed specifically to not only optimize each of these elements, but to have them appear on search engine results in multiples. Therefore, a search for "cosmetic dentist Irvine" would ideally bring up a dental practice's cosmetic video on YouTube, its website, its latest press release about a difficult cosmetic case, and its curated online reviews web site: all on the first page of Google's search results. In addition, the dental practice's Google+ page would appear in the top seven listings of Google Places (maps) for that search term.

"Given that online search has become the #1 source of new dental patients for many dental practices, it's logical to assume that having five listings on the first page of search results will produce more click-throughs for the dental practice. Even if the viewer clicks to a YouTube video posted by the practice, the odds are good that they will continue on to the web site if they like what they have seen," explains Mark Curtis, President, Curtis Group.

Curtis Group not only offers the optimization of dental online marketing tools, it also creates and produces them for the dental practice. A number of packages are available that encompass various levels of optimization for the dental practice's desktop web site, YouTube videos, press releases, niche support web sites, curated online reviews web site, Google+ listing, Yahoo Local listing, Bing Local listing and proprietary images.

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