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Article Much Ado About Twitter published on November 5, 2013 If you’ve been near a business section this week, you know Twitter’s IPO is imminent, and that it will set a valuation for the micro-blogging company of approximately $12 billion. I don’t pretend to understand how the company can support that number, but I did learn that Pope Francis just celebrated reaching his 10 millionth follower, and how the pontiff is now more popular than the New York Times yet still less tweet-able than Kanye West... Read Now About
Article You Should Be Happy by Lisa Smith on November 5, 2013 "Do what you love and the money will follow" is a lovely sentiment, but until someone starts paying me to eat french fries and read books, I think the better choice is to choose to love what you are doing. Or at least be happy. It's a choice, like any other and you should be happy. Read Now About
Article Email Marketing Sample Automated Marketing Programs – part 2 by Chris Creech on November 4, 2013 Nurturing new email subscribers is a big task to do manually, but with marketing automation, we can follow-up with those subscribers and encourage them to take further action and hopefully turn into a good new business lead. Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Button Usability and the Bagel Shop Conundrum by Page Laubheimer on October 30, 2013 Your users look at a lot of websites, and are really familiar with most of the standard conventions out there already. Fight cognitive dissonance and usability problems in your designs by using all of the knowledge and experience your users already have. Present your calls-to-action in a way that doesn't confuse or send mixed messages. Read Now About
Article Email Marketing Sample Automated Marketing Programs – part 1 by Chris Creech on October 28, 2013 A great automated program for those just starting out with marketing automation is one that sends a series of emails to new clients/customers, helping answer common questions and giving them the opportunity to provide feedback via a survey or testimonial. Read Now About
Article “Months Would Be Nice” by Christopher Butler on October 28, 2013 “Months would be nice.” That’s what Andrew Slavitt replied when asked how much time would have been necessary to properly test the Affordable Care Act website before launching it earlier this month. As it turned out, they were only given two weeks... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design You, the Other Kind of Business Leader by Christopher Butler on October 20, 2013 This past Saturday I had the honor of closing out this year's Entrepreneur Mindshare at my alma mater, the Rhode Island School of Design. It was a true pleasure to be a part of this event, which included brilliant minds, lots of ideas, and some beautiful enthusiasm. To be honest, I was a bit apprehensive of my involvement, because I've never really thought of myself as an entrepreneur. But as I've explored the idea, I have come to realize that entrepreneurship isn't just about ownership — of ideas, of companies, or anything else, for that matter — but about enacting change. When it comes down to it, entrepreneurs want to enact change and have an impact, which is something that can be done by starting something completely new, or by revitalizing something that already exists. My experience has certainly been in the latter. Here are my thoughts on that... Read Now About
Event RISD Entrepreneur Mindshare published on October 19, 2013 Chris Butler presented on "You, the Other Kind of Business Leader"... Read Now About
Article Prospect Experience Design Clean Up on Aisle 7 by Page Laubheimer on October 15, 2013 With iOS 7, Apple introduced a lot of usability missteps in favor of visual design. They cleaned the interface up, rather than organized it carefully. Don't fall into that trap! Here's how to focus on the usability issues that get forgotten during the design process. Read Now About
Article A Philosophy of Failure by Justin Kerr on October 14, 2013 I volunteer for a non-profit organization that is attempting to turn a philosophy of work and learning into a catch phrase: "Do it. Try it. Fix it." This is the mantra heard frequently in conversations among leadership and staff, specifically when organizing and executing a new initiative. And it's starting to bother me. Read Now About
