Understanding The User Experience + MORE

Due to the popularity of last month’s post discussing the pros and cons of buying Twitter followers, we’re tackling another contender – Pinterest.Pinterest has become the internet’s photo-sharing darling since its explosion onto the social scene in 2011. Pinterest has become a haven for recipe swappers, DIY enthusiasts, designers, and more…

Twitter’s full-court press to get more small business advertisers continues today with the announcement that it is partnering with Chase to hand out $1 million in free advertising. The deal combines advertising and education. Chase will give its four million small business customers access to….

I’ll start this post off with my point: Dismissing search is ignoring demand from buyers & the media.
A digital marketing exec I follow on Twitter shared a CMI article that posted this weekend: “Why SEO May Be Irrelevant When It Comes to B2B Thought Leadership”. As a long time realist about the role of search in online marketing, I wasn’t sure if this was simply linkbait or a well reasoned, data-informed argument…

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Twitter and Chase are looking to help small businesses do two things.
First is to get some free advertising on Twitter. The next is to have success and start paying for that advertising moving forward while using a Chase account in the process.
The Twitter blog reports
We talk to a lot of leaders of small- and medium-sized businesses…

Society places huge value in people, who deliver the goods. It’s easy to see why, when you consider that we have all been let down at some point by people, products or services.
Keeping a promise
In their eagerness to craft a massively powerful marketing message, some brands seem to forget that their marketing message is a promise…

User experience. Not a new concept. Yet, it seems that all of us have our own ideas about it.
Based on definitions I compile from a Google search, UX describes the individual perception, thoughts, and responses with respect to a product, system, or service. It’s how we feel and think about, and how we perceive and react to a certain product…

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Testing can be frustrating at times.
You have set objectives and reasonable expectations that your new treatment design will outperform the current champion.
And then it happens …
Your treatments are crushed by the control. Nothing seems to work. After a few test cycles of consistent underperformance, it starts to feel easier to just throw in the towel and call it quits than to weather another decrease in conversion…

Two friends of mine are expecting a baby any day now. They know it’s a girl and, as their last name is Barr, I’ve begged them to name her Tiki. Regardless, I’ll probably call the baby Tiki. Because I can. 
In all seriousness, though, picking the right name is an important task for a parent…

Building relationships in social media isn’t easy. It isn’t second nature, and it takes a ton of time. But if done right, solid social media relationships can be very helpful in developing and maintaining strong “real-life” relationships.
There’s even data to prove it. A study conducted by The Pew Internet & American Life Project revealed that 91% of people use social media to stay in touch with close friends, 86% of people use it to connect with an old friend they have lost touch with, and 49% of people use it to connect with people who have similar hobbies or interests…

  

Today we’ll discuss how to improve the paint performance of your websites and Web apps. This is an area that we Web developers have only recently started looking at more closely, and it’s important because it could have an impact on your user engagement and user experience.
Frame Rate Applies To The Web, Too
Frame rate is the rate at which a device produces consecutive images to the screen…