“I am extremely proud of our User Experience team as they continue to receive recognition for the hard work they are doing day in day out. They continue to educate themselves on the latest in SEO and Google search trends and implement new strategies that are paying...
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SEO vs. PPC – Which marketing strategy is best for your business?
In the user experience world it is vital to understand which marketing strategy will produce the best results for your business.Two options are Search engine optimization (SEO) or pay-per-click advertising (PPC).There are several marketing strategies to choose from...
5 Reasons why we write better content than a CEO
Bill Gates once said “Content is King” and at Capitol Tech Solutions we wholeheartedly agree with this statement.A website with a variety of content will see improved Search Engine Optimization(SEO) and the foundation of that variety is content writing. Everything you...
Join our CTS team at Sacramento Century Challenge
Join us on October 5 2019 for the 6th Annual Sacramento Century Challenge sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sacramento. Proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit the Sacramento Children’s Home Crisis Nursery Program.Our CEO Bobby Reed signed up as a Challenge Champion...
Why do we prefer Xamarin for Mobile Application Development?
We are in the era of mobile applications. Mobile applications are a popular alternative to mobile websites because of their efficiency and performance capabilities. If you are thinking about building an application for Android iOS or even Window phone platforms...

Alex Wright achieves Google Analytics Certification
Our front-end web developer Alex Wright has recently achieved certification for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is one of the most popular analytics software on the market because of its ability to collect a massive amount of data related to how users are finding...
What is a Cloud Architect?
As cloud technologies grow Cloud Architects are becoming more and more prevalent. A cloud architect is an IT professional who is responsible for overseeing a company's cloud computing strategy.Similar to a building architect Cloud Architects plan and develop...
Why is 4G LTE Cat M1 a game changer for IOT?
At Capitol Tech Solutions we work with our clients to design build and optimize Internet of Things(IoT) applications. When discussing IoT devices that use cellular networks our clients usually have one of two comments.The first is “I’ve heard of 5G I’ll be able to...
Capitol Tech Solutions welcomes our new hires to the User Experience team
“We are thrilled to have recently added four new employees to our CTS team” said Bobby Reed CEO and founder of Capitol Tech Solutions. “These additions are all on the user experience side of our business and will help meet the rapid growth we have seen in that area...
Capitol Tech Solutions is proud to be recognized on “Largest Software Development Companies” in 2019
“We are thrilled to be included in the Business Journal’s list of largest software development companies in 2019” said Bobby Reed CEO and founder of Capitol Tech Solutions. “We are proud to contribute our small part to making Sacramento a hub of innovation and look...
Capitol Tech Solutions Becomes a Certified Google Partner for User Experience
“We are very excited to officially be a Google Partner. We now have exclusive access to many Google training programs as we continue to offer our clients the best ad spend opportunities” said Bobby Reed CEO and founder of CTS. “We are proud to offer our expertise in...
5 Tips to up your Social Media Game in 2019
The user experience team at CTS has gathered a few of our favorite ingredients to create a “recipe” for a successful social media program. See what tips you can incorporate into your Social Media Marketing efforts below.Have questions? Our marketing team is here to...
Capitol Tech Solutions employees support Big Brothers Big Sisters
Big Brothers Big Sisters: Community Impact and InvolvementBig Brothers Big Sisters is an organization founded on providing children facing adversity with professionally-supported one-to-one mentoring relationships to make a positive impact in their lives. The...

People love us on Yelp award 2018
Capitol Tech Solutions was recently honored with the 2018 "People Love Us on Yelp" Award. This is our third award this year alone for our user experience services. We were also honored with the 2018 Silver Davey Award and a Best of Sacramento Award for our...
Is Your Website Ready to Win in 2019? | Free Website & SEO Analysis
Are your customers finding you online? Simply having a website for your business just isn’t enough. There are multiple factors that can help or hurt how Google and other search engines rank your website. Capitol Tech Solutions can provide you with a free website and...
CTS Continues to Expand their Website Design Development and Software Applications Staff
Name: Marik Knapp Title: Customer Success Specialist Length of Time with the Company: Hired September of 2018 Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Marketing and a Sales Certification from The University of Alabama Job Description: Marik is the forward-facing...
CTS Supports Ride for a Cause Sponsored by The Rotary Club of Sacramento
Cycling Fundraising Event Benefits the Sacramento Children’s Home Crisis NurseryOn the morning of October 6th members of CTS participated in the Sacramento Century Challenge - Ride for a Cause. The Sacramento Rotary Club hosted the 5th annual event to benefit The...
CTS Excited to Join the West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce
We are excited to announce that CTS has joined the West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce. We believe that the Chamber provides Small Businesses in West Sacramento and surrounding areas many benefits. Our primary reason for joining the Chamber is the opportunity to...
Best Free Website SEO Auditing Tools of 2018
Website development has become more and more complex over time despite efforts to simplify it. The rules continue to change and the range of languages that are accessibility increase and evolve. This creates a scenario where it becomes more and more dangerous to make...
2017 People Love Us on Yelp Award Winners | Capitol Tech Solutions
Capitol Tech Solutions is honored to receive the 2017 “People Love Us on Yelp” Award. This is the latest award that we have received for our dedicated User Experience work over the last year. Our team previously received a 2017 WebAward from the Web Marketing...
How a User Experience Agency Can Help Grow Your Business 2018
With all the demands of running a business time is a vital commodity. You have a wealth of knowledge about your industry customers and how your business runs. If this is all that was required to succeed you would be a millionaire in no time. But the reality is there...
2017 Capitol Tech Solutions Year End Review: An Evolving Digital Agency
2017 was a banner year for Capitol Tech Solutions as we grew our team became more focused and put together a strategic plan for future growth in 2018 and beyond.Agency Growth with Focus on Customer ServiceWhat a wonderful year 2017 was for Capitol Tech Solutions. Like...
Capitol Tech Solutions Awarded 2017 Davey Award for Web Design
Capitol Tech Solutions has been selected by a panel of Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts members to receive a 2017 Silver Davey Award in the category of Health Websites for their outstanding work on the Midtown Dental website. This is the second time that CTS has...

Shopify and Instagram Shopping Make Selling Products on Social Media Easier
"In fact more than 84% of smartphone users in the US browse research or compare products via a web browser or mobile app."InstagramShopify and Instagram will soon give Shopify Online Stores another sales channel for their products with Instagram Shopping....

facebook live giveaway
To celebrate Sacramento's Run to Feed the Hungry 2017 we're giving away a Fitbit Charge 2! We'll be Live Streaming the event on Facebook as participants of the 10K pass the Capitol Tech Solutions' Midtown office at 2831 G Street (we're located near...

Shopify: Review of Benefits for Your eCommerce Store
Online shopping is growing at a rapid pace. Global online retail sales are estimated to reach 8.8% of total retail spending in 2018. In the US alone about a third of Millennials are making many of their purchases online. Their spending tops $600 billion annually...
Creating Content: How it Helps Your Business Succeed Online
One of the most frequent questions that our clients ask us is “What can I do to help generate traffic to my website?” We've found that clients get the most value by creating relevant content that answers the questions and provides information about their business....
CTS CEO Offers Knowledge to CSUS MBA Marketing Students
As the CEO of Capitol Tech Solutions I am constantly on the lookout for the best future Marketing Professionals in the Sacramento Region. By consistently communicating with the great professors at Sacramento State and UC Davis I have had the opportunity to be...
Mobile Application Development: What it Takes to Build a Successful Mobile App
When a client wants to build the next great mobile app the first question is generally some variation of: How long does it take to build a Mobile App? How much does it cost to make a Mobile App? Can you build me an App like Uber? What kind of resources does it take to...

Capitol Tech Solutions Wins Web Marketing Association’s 2017 WebAward
Capitol Tech Solutions was acknowledged by the Web Marketing Association and awarded the 2017 WebAward in the Medical Standard of Excellence Award Category for Exceptional Website Design and Development Services. Web Marketing Association WebAward Expert Evaluation...
SEO Benefits Proven Through Data Driven Results
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a hot buzz term in User Experience. But what is Search Engine Optimization and why is it important? The quick answer is that building a new website no matter how amazing it is does not guarantee that it’ll effectively drive traffic...

Capitol Tech Solutions is Shopify’s Only Expert Partner Service Provider in Sacramento CA
Shopify has officially named Capitol Tech Solutions as their only Shopify eCommerce Partner in the Sacramento region After four years of designing successful eCommerce website for clients utilizing the Shopify platform we are excited to announce that Shopify has...
New Additions to Our User Experience Agency Team in Sacramento
Capitol Tech Solutions (CTS) is an expanding online marketing agency in Sacramento CA focusing on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Curated Content Development and Website Design for eCommerce. We’re excited to announce the expansion of our award-winning User...
User Experience Results for our Small Business Clients in May
The Account Managers Development Team and Account Managers for Capitol Tech Solutions work in synergy every day in our Sacramento Office help our Clients improve their Online Business.Although each Client has different requirements to gage their success in addition to...
Join us this 2nd Saturday – May 13 2017
How to stage a photoshoot for the web
Recently we took a trip to the Effie Yeaw Nature Preserve in Carmichael to do a photo shoot for their new website we created. We had a great experience and wanted to share some photography tips that not only help create a great website but that can be beneficial for...

NationBuilder: A comprehensive online tool for political and fundraising campaigns.
Traditionally a combination of separate online tools would be used and managed with their own logins interfaces and support. An example might be using WordPress for a blog MailChimp for newsletters and email audience engagement Salesforce for Customer Relationship...

Migrating your online store to Shopify
Earlier this year migration from Magento to Shopify received a major overhaul so that the process was simpler and more compatible. Already we've began the process of helping a client with that very process. Shopify is continuing to make efforts to help that...
Why Hiring a Web Design Agency is beneficial to Your Online Business Strategy
With so many cheap services and tools out there that allow you build your own website how do you determine if you should hire a professional web design agency or just do it yourself?We can tell you from years of experience and customer feedback that the do-it-yourself...
2016 Q3 Website Designs
The fall has technically began despite the high temperatures and the CTS team has rolled out some new fully responsive websites. The site designs include some nice animation effects with both light and dark design themes. Quarter 4 of this year is loaded with some...

Help I broke my WordPress site!
"Help I broke my WordPress site!" That is a call our web design team often receives from small businesses who have a site developed on the WordPress platform. While there can be many reasons for the issue the underlying cause is generally the same; the...
Midtown businesses buy building for $1.925 million
After years of looking two midtown Sacramento businesses have found and bought permanent homes.Escrow closed last week on the purchase of 2831 G St. by Capitol Tech Solutions and Midtown Dental Group. The property on two parcels includes a two-story 10000-square-foot...

Typography in Web Design
Typography has been important for printed materials though has not always been as important for the web. Modern web design techniques have been changing this quite significantly and researchers are finding that typography can play a huge role in design and has a...

How Featured Snippets can drive traffic to your website
What are Featured Snippets?You may have noticed how in many question based searches Google now offers answers before requiring you to actually go to a website. This is what has been coined a "Featured Snippet" and really has nothing to do with any code you...
Boost your walk-in customers using Pokemon Go
No doubt you've already heard about Pokemon Go and you've likely seen people of all ages walking around stairing into their phones playing it. Not only is Pokemon Go a huge gaming fad right now but it's also a great opportunity to bring in business....

Capitol Tech Solutions Honored with 2016 Top 10 Best Web Design Firms Award
SACRAMENTO CA - Capitol Tech Solutions a Sacramento web design firm was named a winner of the 2016 "Top 10 Best Web Design Firms” award by Top Design Firms a nationally recognized authority in internet site design. Capitol Tech Solutions beat out thousands of...
Effective Facebook Advertising
Facebook advertising performs significantly better than many other forms of user experience that I've tried. For email marketing I've found anywhere around 1-2% is pretty average and that's very similar for Google AdWords.For Facebook advertising I've...
Ready for a Website Overhaul? Learn from Our Expert Panel! July 27 at Cafe Bernardo
Website Refresh: How to Plan Implement & Launch a Website Redesign Presented by Robert Reed Capitol Tech Solutions Eric Weidner Workbox.com Bob Schewe Vision Service Plan (VSP) REGISTER WEDNESDAY July 27 11:30 am- 1:15 pm Cafe Bernardo Midtown 2726 Capitol Ave....
2016 Q2 Website Designs
The summer has officially begun. This latest quarter we've produced more outstanding and fully responsive website designs many featuring some subtle and impressive animation effects. If you ever see any animation effects on sites that we've designed and would...

Removing Google Analytic Spam to increase web traffic accuracy
As a web design and user experience company it is important to us to present out clients with accurate web traffic data. Unfortunately there are a both spam bots and monitoring services that access your site and skew your analytic results. We will focus on setting up...