Article Five Email Design Tips to Increase Engagement published on November 2, 2016 A lot of the content in the Newfangled blog is centered on lead development best practices when it comes to... Read Now About
Article Content Strategy It’s Time to Stop Considering Your Marketing Spam by Lauren O’Brien on September 6, 2016 Many agencies we meet are eager to invest in a strategic content strategy but are squeamish about promoting their content to their marketing list. Learn the difference between "spam" and thought leadership, and how often you should be emailing your prospects. (It's probably more than you think!) Read Now About
Article Content Strategy Rethinking the Case Study, Again by Christopher Butler on August 26, 2016 Three years ago, I wrote an article called Rethinking the Case Study that has, by far and away, outperformed the majority of the articles I've ever published here at Newfangled. Every week, hundreds of readers discover our site through that one article, presumably because they've asked Google how to write a better case study. In fact... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design The Four Essential Elements of an Agency’s Service Landing Page by Christopher Butler on August 25, 2016 This is the fourth post in a series on designing a purposeful user flow, which is an intentional, directed flow of information and choices designed into your website's most important positioning content that does not rely upon a visitor exploring and using a navigation menu. If you're new to this concept... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design The Five Essential Elements of an Agency’s Capabilities Landing Page by Christopher Butler on August 24, 2016 This is the third post in a series on designing a purposeful user flow, which is an intentional, directed flow of information and choices designed into your website's most important positioning content that does not rely upon a visitor exploring and using a navigation menu. If you're new to this concept, you might want to catch up with the previous two articles first... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design The Four Things the Best Agency Home Pages Do by Christopher Butler on August 23, 2016 For some users, their experience getting to know your firm and understand what you do will begin on your home page. For most, it will begin on a lower-level page that they discover through a search engine or were referred to by a friend on social media. But if the content they discover on your site matches their search intent, the data show that they will either follow links to related content or follow what I refer to as a common orientation pattern, which is to return to the home page to better understand the source of the content they've just read... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design How the Right Design Will Turn Researchers Into Buyers by Christopher Butler on August 22, 2016 If you are reading this, then you are likely already convinced that sharing your expertise in the form of unique, indexable content should be a core component of your digital marketing strategy. You probably have a robust content profile — or a plan to build one — that includes blogs, white papers, and webinars, and maybe even podcasts and books. But, your "content profile" actually includes more than that. It also includes all the other content your website contains, especially the material I tend to refer to as "positioning content..." Read Now About
Article Content Strategy We have a podcast! by Christopher Butler on August 18, 2016 This month, we debuted our brand-new podcast, Agency Marketing Matters! We’ve been recording episodes for a while now, and will... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Partnering with Justin Kerr Design by Christopher Butler on August 16, 2016 Last spring, we said goodbye to our longtime Creative Director, Justin Kerr, and wished him all the very best as... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Four Tips for Designing Functional Forms published on August 10, 2016 Good form design is as much about function as it is design. While forms are not often the prettiest part of your site, they are critical to its success. Thus, following these four best practices when designing your forms will help you capture more leads through your website. Read Now About