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About Design X Marketing

Design X Marketing was launched live on Jan 1, 2012 and what a website it was! We had around 100 pages to design and we managed to muscle through all of them in a short amount of time. That time included all the coding, graphic design, SEO, marketing, inbound linking, videos, blog, written content and social media sites. We completed it before our launch date in about 3 months. We worked day and night trying to get it all done. There was no other income, we had to, the pressure was on. And we succeeded! 

We started partnering with local businesses, investing time into meetings, cross marketing strategies, talking face to face with our local community businesses and even hiring a part time graphic designer. It was a one man show for the most part. From the beginning Phil Benson did everything from web design, coding websites, video editing, video design, online marketing, SEO, social media marketing, graphic design, decal design, inbound marketing, writing content, book keeping, contract writing, legal documents, sales, meeting with clients, training and the list goes on. So with that kind of work load you could only imagine that we needed some help! Inbound marketing was the talk of the online marketing community back then. It was new, fresh and exciting and the more research that was done, the more we were interested. We were on the phone with people that wanted to work for us, people who wanted to work with us, college students looking to apprentice with us and people that wanted us to invest in their big dreams! We had toll free numbers, we had the skills, we had the ambition, we had the goals and we had the dreams… 

We operated for a couple years under that name and wow did we ever work hard at it! We built our client base to about 50 clients with a number of retainer clients and it looked like we were on the verge of making it. Our dreams were to have a down town office location in Lethbridge. But unfortunately the economy wouldn’t have it and we had to close our virtual doors and take on new, exciting but different endeavors. Inches away from making a local name for ourselves, inches. A very tough welcome to the recession especially with a brand new truck advertising our business. 

After a couple years off working hard for the man we decided to try again under the name Siteson Marketing & Design Shop.

Learn more about our business, how we started and who we are today by visiting our About Us page. Or if you have any information that you’d like to share with us or want to learn more, please don’t hesitate to contact us. 

What happened to Design X Marketing after we closed our virtual doors? 

*Edit – January 2022 – We repurchased designxmarketing.ca back in our ownership. Whoever bought it after us must have seen what we had posted about it and decided to let it go. Finally, we’ve got it back after almost 10 years! 

Our website’s written content had been copied word for word and was still on-going in March 2021. They bought our website address designxmarketing.ca back in about 2014. What’s great about the internet is that you can actually go back and see your website and it’s pages 10 years ago or so. You can do this through a website’s Way Back Machine found at web.archive.org. 

All of their pages were copied straight from our website except one of their blog posts. The strange thing is they have no contact number and no email address. Through our research we have contacted the creators several times and with no avail, nothing has been done to remove our written work that we worked so hard at. Not even a cease and desist letter would get them to take it down. We are hoping this will help them see that we mean business. We are the business and we founded it. That is our content and we have the right to it’s ownership.