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Feel free to write or call us at the phone numbers above, during regular business hours (9-6 Pacific Standard Time, Monday through Saturday).

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We offer professional consulting services, professional website design, search engine optimization services to our clients. If you're interested in getting a proposal, let us know. Our waiting list gets pretty long, so please contact us even if you won't need the service for a few more months.

Why "Words in a Row"?

Words in a Row takes its name from a passage in a book by Robert A. Heinlein, "the Dean of Science Fiction." In his book, Glory Road the hero, Oscar, has trouble falling asleep one night. It seems he had an affliction many of us share: he must read something, anything, before he can fall asleep. He asks his companion if he has anything to read; absolutely anything will do: "You know, words in a row."

So, Who Are You Guys?

Words in a Row is primarily the brainchild of Jere Matlock, a 50-ish writer and website designer/marketer. He, in turn, farms some of the work out to those who are qualified to do it, mostly to youngsters in their 20's who don't mind staying up into the wee hours to get something done. (They know who they are!) Much of the writing and HTML coding he does himself, and he closely supervises and quality-checks everything produced under the name of "Words in a Row". In short, Words in a Row is a loose international network (we have people working for us in Australia, Croatia, Italy and the UK as well as Oregon, California and New York) headed by a mostly benevolent monarch. We get things done!

So, What Have You Designed?

Words in a Row has been involved in the design, re-design for search engine optimization, and marketing of the following websites, among many others:

• Birds Eye Maple - we built this site for the world's largest distributor of specialty birds eye maple products, with graphic design assistance from Endless Graphics.
• Lily Gulch Soaps - Website design and styling to order, Search Engine Optimization, XCart implementation and styling.
  
  
• Dr Maddahi Beverly Hills Dentist - Website design and search engine optimization (SEO) with all-CSS styles and XHTML.
  
  
• Miami Condo Lifestyle - Built to order in a very competitive real estate market, this database-driven site achieved top placement almost as soon as it went on line and has kept it, with hundreds of pages indexed. Recently we added a Spanish translation of the entire site.
  
  
• Free Spirit Art - This database-driven site, which we designed from scratch, sells wildlife art prints. It does very well in the search engines using a few SEO tricks to get hundreds of its pages indexed.
  
  
• Epoch Consultants – a management consulting site selling books and materials from the internationally renowned management consultant Klaus Hilgers. We designed this site from scratch using CSS only.
  
  
• ChristmasGifts.com - Entirely our design. This database-driven site, built in PHP and MySQL, is almost always #1 at Google and elsewhere for the phrases "Christmas Gifts" and "Christmas gift".
  
  
• Chandler's Soaps - We optimized this great site on natural soaps, handmade soaps, and other handmade body care products. Usually on the first page of results at Google for the phrase "natural soap".
  
  
• DarkHorse Ranch - Entirely our design, this site sells equine art prints.
  
  
• Gloves in a Bottle - SEO & marketing. This site selling products to help handle dry skin is a real money-maker since we consulted on marketing. This site does well for its skin care product, especially for the phrase "dry skin", usually on the first page at Google for that very competitive phrase.
  
  
• Kilnworks Pottery VI - Site re-design for search engine optimization (SEO).
  
  
• BD Software - Full site design from scratch, and search engine optimization (SEO). Now findable in the search engines in a search for "on-site seminar training".
  
  
• Boost Consulting - Full site design from scratch, and search engine optimization (SEO). All CSS design exactly to customer specs.
  
  
• Harmony Cedar - We created and optimized this site selling hand-made Amish folding gift baskets, cedar chests and dining room furniture. The site is an x-cart shopping cart site, with optimized page names.
  
  
• Candy Favorites - we have optimized this wholesale candy site and achieved excellent placement in all the search engines for it. This site went through a major re-design in early 2007 to take it from hosting on Windows IIS to hosting on Linux/Apache/mySQL/PHP (LAMP), and we had overall responsibility for making sure that its search engine rankings did not drop during this major re-design.
  
  
• Pacific Management Consultants - we performed search engine optimization (SEO) for this site and have helped with marketing it. This site is doing extremely well for its owners.
  
  
• Mediations Handled - site re-design from amateur/home-made design to professional design - with SEO for search terms "business mediations" and "divorce mediations".
  
  
• Hollander Consultants - we optimized this site for the search engines.
  
  
• Dental Practice Management - we optimized the Pacific Management Consultants website for the term "dental practice management" -- it is usually #1 for that term at Google.
  
  
• Virginia Mountain Cabins - we built this site to display the beautiful, hand-crafted cabins being built in the mountains of Virginia as vacation homes or second homes.
  
  
• Business Brokers in Raleigh North Carolina. We took a website that had been created using a template like many other similar sites (it had the same photos and text as dozens of other sites) and created a unique website for this client, very clean and conservative.
  
  
• Marketing Research from On Target Research. Get customer satisfaction surveys, branding surveys and other marketing surveys done to find out what you need to say to your customers to get them to buy. We optimized and have completely updated the look of this long-established website.
  
  

Feel free to contact any of our customers for a referral. (Do keep it brief-they are busy people!) To make it easy for you, we've set up a References Page.

So, What Have You Written?

Jere Matlock began writing in the '60's and has written hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles, but does not consider himself a reporter. Heaven forbid! As any of you working reporters out there know, you are given your story (and its 'slant') by the editor of the paper/magazine. Any 'reporting' you do after that is simply finding out details that fit the editorial slant you are given, based on the affiliations of your newspaper or magazine, as determined by its owners and advertisers.

Although the facts as presented may all be accurate, the truth itself often suffers greatly from this system. Controversy may sell papers, but in its presentation often creates tremendous bias against the righteous with truth on their side, while gaining sympathy for the truly evil. Mr. Matlock refuses to participate in this omnipresent scam. If you have led an insular existence and need examples of this, he will be happy to enlighten you.

Jere has also written several books, some of which you can sample and/or buy on our books page.

For the past several years, after a very busy stint working for Warner Brothers, Jere has sought to simplify his life. He is now a self-described "gentleman rancher" who lives on a timber ranch in Southwestern Oregon, near the Pacific. Being a timber rancher is fairly easy--it mostly involves standing around watching the trees grow. Even though they grow about four feet a year, that gets boring very fast, especially during the long rainy winters. Which leaves ample time for him to write amusing third-person descriptions of the long, rainy winters--such as this one.

He is also a published poet, but does not thrust his poems upon his friends or the world against its will. For the curious, several of his poems are on this otherwise hidden page: Poetry. Warning: You may actually understand them.

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