Mashable.com, the gold standard in media coverage of social media, thinks that QR and barcodes are ready about to go mainstream. In author Jennifer Van Grove‘s estimation, the primary roadblock keeping scanable codes (i.e. barcodes and QR codes) back from being used by the masses is an application that can “take the nerd-factor out of the QR code scan, and drive home the potential rewards of seeing a code, scanning it, and then engaging with the served-up content.” Enter Stickybits. “Stickybits…integrates the barcode scan in intelligent and fun ways.”

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Five American Web Designs Awards are just the latest accolades for Blue Fountain Media

Blue Fountain Media has been earning a host of honors in recent months, including this week’s announcement that the company had won five American Web Design Awards.

Since March, Blue Fountain Media has also been honored by the Interactive Media Awards and the Small Business Commerce Association’s Best of Business Awards.

The awards cover a wide range of categories, including overall excellence, consumer goods, financial websites, website and graphic design and newsletters and promotions.

“I am humbled by the recognition our company has received for the work we’ve done for our clients,” said Blue Fountain Media CEO Gabriel Shaoolian. “These are some of the most prestigious organizations in our industry and it means a great deal to me and my team at Blue Fountain Media that we are getting national and international attention.”

While he is thrilled with the awards, Shaoolian does not want the recognition to take away from the essence of what Blue Fountain Media is all about.

“Don’t get me wrong, awards are great,” he said. “But awards don’t mean anything if the award-winning websites aren’t sites that our clients’ businesses grow and prosper.

“Blue Fountain Media provides results-driven solutions. Beautifully designed websites are great, but  it’s more important that the websites produce the desired economic and branding results for our clients. We are far prouder of producing sites that deliver a great ROI to our clients than sites that deliver awards.”

Just this week, Blue Fountain Media was announced as the winner of five American Web Design Awards.

The American Web Design Awards went to sites created for Smarties candies (general excellence), La Grenouille restaurant (general excellence), Broadway Nails (general excellence), Liquid Trading (financial) and for Blue Fountain Media’s monthly newsletter (a winner in the newsletter and promotions category).

The awards are presented by Graphic Design USA, “The news magazine for creative professionals.” According to Graphic Design USA, “The American Web Design Awards —celebrates the power of a well-designed site to attract audiences, communicate information, generate engagement and response, and market products and services. The emphasis, in light of our expertise, is on visual design and aesthetics.”

“Obviously, I am extremely proud of the work performed by our design team on all of these projects,” Shaoolian said. “It is a great honor to have been recognized by a publication as prestigious as Graphic Design USA.”

Just one month earlier, Blue Fountain Media won the “Outstanding Website (Consumer Goods)” from the Interactive Media Awards for the Smarties website.  In March, Blue Fountain Media won the Small Business Commerce Association’s “Best of Business Award in Website and Graphic Design.”

Below, see our other four award winners:

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As Blue Fountain Media continues to win awards for making results-driven website designs, our CEO Gabriel Shaoolian has become in high demand as a public speaker. He’s offered his insight as a featured speaker at the Business Design Institute, lecturing at Paper NYC’s classes, and with the NY Entrepreneurs Business Network.  Most recently Gabe was invited to Madison Square Garden as a featured panelist during the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce’s annual Business Expo, where he spoke how social media can make an impact for both established brands and small businesses.

“If you’re not active in social media, and someone will Google your name, chances are whoever wrote something bad about you will come up (instead of you)”, Gabriel Shaoolian told attendees of the New York Business Expo. Their panel discussed variety of issues, especially online business strategy, goal setting and measuring the results of online marketing campaigns.

Participants in the event focused on the strategic opportunities and practical tactics created through social media, especially as they apply to businesses of across every market. In comparison to traditional advertising, Gabriel Shaoolian pointed out the contrast between entrepreneurs and established brands. “If you want to generate brand loyalty online, you’ve got to put content out there that’s useful to your visitors,” he pointed out, answering the audience’s questions about how to best use these new tools to grow their business.

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A great website called Single Startups, features successful, passionate, single, and most of all cool CEOS and entrepreneurs across the country. When Single Startups asked Blue Fountain Media’s CEO, Gabriel Shaoolian to discuss his personal and professional philosophies- he was happy to oblige.

The Single Startups interview with Gabriel gives terrific insights into why he has been able to make Blue Fountain Media one of the fastest growing web design and online marketing companies in the country.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

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Blue Fountain Media’s Gabriel Shaoolian recently gave a seminar on Online Reputation Management . Today Blue Fountain Media has released the full Powerpoint presentation, which can be viewed below:

TakeYourOwnPath.com

Blue Fountain Media CEO Gabriel Shaoolian has been identified by Dell as a Business Trailblazer on Dell’s TakeYourOwnPath.com website. Dell’s Business Trailblazers features “the stories of those rugged individuals that have made their way through the labyrinth of business and found their own path to success.”

Read Dells’ profile of Gabriel Shaoolian at TakeYourOwnPath.com

Blue Fountain Media is seeking professionals for their account management team. Account Managers work closely with a Senior Account Manager on projects that put them in direct contact with decision makers in the highest echelons of some of the biggest companies. You will be working directly under one of our strongest commandos, Brice Lucas, and will be a member of one of the fastest growing web development and online marketing firms in the country.

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On March 25, Blue Fountain Media CEO Gabriel Shaoolian was a featured speaker at the Business Development Institute’s Seminar: Social Reputation Management, Protecting & Strengthening Your Brand Across The Social Web.

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While we know what a terrific job our web designers do for our clients, it’s great when our design team receives national recognition for its efforts! We are honored and proud to announce that the Small Business Commerce Association has given Blue Fountain Media the 2009 Best of Business Award in Website and Graphic Design. The Small Business Commerce Association made the decision based on an evaluation of Blue Fountain Media’s full body of work. (more…)