A Client-Centered Web Company
Based in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Lift Development works with clients in San Francisco, New York City, St. Louis, Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, and all over the country. Our clients are awesome and easily the best part of Lift Development is the group of amazing people with whom we get to work.
Our web development firm began as a side project for owner Dave Yankowiak in 2003 and eventually grew into a full-time venture in 2008.
Our mission
The purpose of Lift Development is to help brands create, shape, and transform their online presence into something that is influential, engaging, and has VALUE for your customer.
We believe in making it easy for your target audience to find you, know you, and interact with you. This is accomplished through clean website layouts, dynamic web applications, informative and entertaining videos, and we tie it all together through easy access to social media sharing and discussion tools.
We also want your experience with Lift Development to be fun.
How we came up with the name
The definition of lift is to move or bring something upward from the ground orother support to a higher position. That’s what we want to do for your brand online.
A simple, easy-to-navigate website is a great start, but is it really elevating your influence? What are you doing to make your audience more comfortable with your brand? Do people get excited enough about what you are doing to share their excitement with others? Are there conversations going on elsewhere on the web about your brand?
We want to help you answer questions like these.
More About Dave
Dave Yankowiak lives in Grand Rapids, Minnesota with his wife, Sarah, and daughters Annika and Sofie. This region of Minnesota is known for beautiful lakes and a national forest, and he enjoys just about anything involving these two features including fishing, canoeing, hiking, biking, and camping.
He’s obviously a bit of a tech geek and really enjoys photography and video production. He loves to blog/write and you can find a whole bunch of his thoughts about being able to work from wherever he wants at AnywhereMan.com.
Dave also has a deep love of numerous styles of music, and actually played in a blues/rock band during his college years. Nowadays the style of music they played would be referred to as “garage rock revival,” and they’d probably be world famous in that genre had they stayed together. Timing is everything.
He has his B.A. in business/marketing from Bethel University as well as some sort of one-year web development diploma from a tech school that no longer exists. What he really learned during that year was how to use the web to teach yourself pretty much anything. Google answers all questions.
Media mentions and interviews
- Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn can lead to jobs for unemployed (AllBusiness.com / St. Paul Pioneer Press)
- Your Business Will Grow If You Start Interviewing Leaders. I’ll Show You How. With Andrew Warner and Dave Yankowiak (Mixergy.com)
- How To Launch A Coworking Space In Your Community – Interview (CasJam Media)