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Article Email Marketing How Gmail Image Caching Is Affecting Your Email Data published on January 7, 2014 Gmail is now loading all images by default. Good news, right? Here, we're taking a look at both the good and the bad when we observe this change through the eyes of an email marketer. Read Now About
Article Search Engine Optimization Outlook: Trends for 2014 by Tema Flanagan on January 6, 2014 I have a confession to make: I almost always skip over articles that claim to offer the latest advice on improving SEO. It’s not that I don’t believe in the importance of SEO best practices, it’s just that advice around this topic so often feels — forgive me, all you noble SEO professionals — borderline gimmicky. And, given the secrecy around Google’s (and other search engines’) algorithms, even the most reliable SEO guidelines can tend to be a bit fuzzy. But there is still plenty to think about when it comes to search and the shifting platforms in which folks find and access content. With that in mind, I thought now would be a good time to review some best practices in the context of projected SEO-related developments for 2014. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design 2013 Year-End Design Resource Review by Justin Kerr on December 20, 2013 A quick review of my browser bookmarks reveals a crowded menagerie that rivals anything you'll see on the show Hoarders. I can't help it. Any time I come across a new tool or resource that I think will (however remotely) help me be more efficient or creative, I add it to my ever-growing stash. In the spirit of the season, I am sharing some of my favorites that I've discovered this past year. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design 2013: The Year in Review by Christopher Butler on December 17, 2013 Wow, 2013 is just days away from done. Hard to believe. For us, it's been as exciting and action-packed a year as you could imagine. We welcomed new friends to our team, launched some really great new sites, moved into new offices, and are getting ready to welcome a little one into the world (any day now)! Of course, we also shared some good content with you. Below are some of our favorite things that hit the web in 2013... Read Now About
Article CRM Why We’ve Started Offering Salesforce Consulting by Mark O’Brien on December 16, 2013 CRM is one of the 3 components of the Lead Development Ecosystem, and Salesforce is the most widely adopted CRM by a longshot. The trouble is, most of the agencies and agency clients we work with haven't used Salesforce before, and those who have used it have typically underutilized it. We've come up with a solution in the form of a new consulting service. Read Now About
Article There Are Only Three Good Reasons for Content by Christopher Butler on December 12, 2013 There are really only three good reasons to put content on your site. They are: SEO, Lead Development, and Sale. That's it. Content can be for any or all of these purposes, but if it isn't intentionally created and managed for any of them, it's wasted... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Parallax Websites, the Right(ish) Way by Dave Mello on December 10, 2013 Building a parallax-based website to be SEO-friendly and reasonably fast requires some unique work-arounds. We'll take a look at some of them, and look at why, in most cases, they're probably not worth it. Read Now About
Article Email Marketing Marketing Automation Takeaways from Dreamforce published on December 9, 2013 There was a lot to take in at the 2013 Dreamforce conference. I took note of a few key themes that emerged regarding the use of marketing automation and email marketing. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design How to See What a User Sees by Christopher Butler on December 5, 2013 A few weeks ago, I spoke at the HOW Interactive Design Conference in Chicago. As a member of the Advisory Board, I’ve helped to shape the programming of this conference for the last three years. We’ve learned a ton, and I saw many of those learnings applied in this year’s event. It was definitely the strongest one yet — a great location, a great crowd, and fantastic content. One of the talks I gave was on usability testing, which I’d like to share with you below. As you’ll see in the agenda, a big portion of it involved doing live usability testing from stage. At some point, I think HOW will release video of this. In the meantime, I’ll provide a few big takeaways from a couple of the tests we ran... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Parallax is the New Flash published on December 2, 2013 Parallax design is the hot new trend, but it's not always a good idea to base your site around it. Parallax can have major implications for SEO, usability, and the conversion rate of your site. Worst of all, Parallax is the single easiest way to make your site look dated in the next 18 months. Read Now About