You’re satisfied with the job your website has done in raising the profile of your business and now you’ve decided to take the next step and start taking orders online. That’s a natural next step, but to do it well, you’ll need to plan strategically and then track the right metrics after the launch. Here [...]
In the United States, federal, state and local government websites must comply with Section 508 regulations, meaning that website content must be accessible to people with disabilities. At this time there are no ADA legal standards for the websites of private sector organizations, but that does not mean that companies will not be sued for [...]
Homepage sliders and all their variations (carousels, rotating offers, parallax scrolling backgrounds and banners) are widely employed by website designers, loved by clients and pretty much universally hated by SEOs. Tons of hard data exists tying homepage sliders to negative performance and usability, but this design element is clearly not going away. So, what gives? [...]
The digital space is hyper-saturated with content. There are over 1.6 billion websites in the world and more than 500 million are blogs. Over two million blog posts get published every single day. That’s 60+ million a month and over 700 million per year. The Rising Content Tsunami Now think about this. The greater the [...]
“Hello. I’m listening” That was the way fictional 1990s TV radio psychiatry host Frasier Crane opened his talk show when someone called in to talk about a problem. And in our age of social media and consumer demand for increased responsiveness, it’s the mindset that companies need to cultivate if they’re going to reap the [...]
There are plenty of actionable points on most websites - buttons and banners entreating visitors to Download, Sign Up, Subscribe, Join, Get Started, Learn More or just plain Contact. Websites with a cohesive digital marketing plan will track and monitor conversions from these calls to action. But there’s one very important CTA that we quite [...]
