Any time a user’s experience is interrupted, the chance of them leaving increases. Changing from one page to another will often cause this interruption by showing a white flash of no content, by taking too long to load or by otherwise taking the user out of the context they were in before the new page…
There’s little doubt that we stand at the dawn of marketing’s Golden Age, a time when digital customer experiences and services routinely surprise and delight. Those mastering software-powered marketing are in the vanguard of this new age. Meet them at MarTech: The Marketing Technology Conference. You’ll hear firsthand how marketing technologists, creative technologists, growth hackers,…
One of the biggest risks of building a product is to build the wrong thing. You’ll pour months (even years) into building it, only to realize that you just can’t make it a success. At Hanno, we see this happening time and time again. That’s why we’ve put together a Lean Validation Playbook. “Lean” in…
When parents make it to Snapchat, so do marketers — or is it the other way around? The Wall Street Journal shares new data about the popularity of the social network, indicating that it’s starting to creep into the older generation. Teens are finding the move quite “bizarre.” Alas, that’s exactly what’s happening, as the…
Do you like challenges? Are you willing to take on a task that you’ve never come across before, and do it under a deadline? What if, in carrying out the task, you encounter a problem that appears unsolvable? I want to share my experience of using CSS 3D effects for the first time in a…
The traditional marketing campaign is a topic long debated by industry experts and novices alike. For every article declaring that the campaign is dead, there’s another celebrating its virtues. And while the future of marketing will likely be about continuously engaging customers with relevant content seamlessly across channels, that world can seem like a far-fetched…
Baking a cake is easy — when you use all the right ingredients from the beginning! But just imagine how it would be if you mixed the batter, poured it into a tray, sprinkled icing sugar all over it, and were just about to pop the creation into the oven… when you remember that you…
As always, SMX was chock full of new ideas and actionable content. One of the struggles that many media teams face is the disconnect between the digital strategies that one team owns versus the strategies being implemented by teams that are responsible for other digital media types. This particular session brought together leaders in paid…
For those of you unfamiliar with him, Dr. Pete Meyers is a marketing scientist over at Moz. He is responsible for building the MozCast and likely as a byproduct of that has spent a lot of time examining all the different changes to Google SERPs. Local and social have been huge parts of the constantly…
Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: SMX Advanced recap: Using Paid Search & Social Together to Deliver the Ultimate Knockout PunchJul 1, 2016 by Amy Bishop Columnist Amy Bishop shares details from a session at SMX Advanced…
