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The Content Marketing Train Has Taken Off, Are You Onboard?
The best way for brands to connect with people is to behave like them–reacting and responding to the world around them as things happen. This means they need to be as instinctive, natural and–most important–creative as everyone else. But, as the velocity of content increases, the timeframe for responding decreases. Brands need to jump in…
Upcoming Content: The State of Our Art–Future of SEO
It’s hard to tell where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been. I’m paraphrasing James Burke, science historian, but it’s a truism. Oneupweb has gone many places in its 20-year history. We started in 1996 as a web design shop. We quickly shifted focus into search engine optimization. As the industry evolved, we…
Does My Landing Page Suck? 7 Questions To Ask Yourself
Your media buys are targeted. Your ad creative – brilliant. The click-through-rates have never been better… but leads aren’t pouring in. My friend, your landing page just might suck. Ask yourself these 7 questions to start building more successful landing pages, and get the most out of your ever diminishing advertising budget. 1. Is My…
Oneupweb Webinar: Optimizing Site Navigation for Conversion
Site navigation is more than just a directional guide. Designed properly, it’s a critical marketing tool. Optimized site navigation reinforces personal value, communicating relevance, establishing brand authority and personalizing user experience. Navigation design based on market research and customer data means stronger site performance, improved lead qualification, increased conversion rates and more. On Friday, March…
B2B in a B2C World: We are all living in a B2C world
Amazon has perhaps influenced user expectation for site usability more than any other site to date. From a small online bookstore selling its first book in 1995 to its current iteration as the everything-online behemoth e-commerce site, Amazon has successfully studied its customers and learned from them. Their willingness to listen and design accordingly has…
Your Visitors Crave a Sleek, Intuitive Customer Experience—Do You Provide It?
Remember the last time you were blown away by a sleek, intuitive customer experience online? How many times after did you ask yourself: Why can’t my organization have a website like that? The truth: it can. It should, too. But the problem lies in tailoring the process to your customer and audience. Keep in mind:…
Reaching Your Target User: Step 1 Admitting the Truth
“I do not always realize that I am not my target user.” There I said it. But to cut myself some slack, I think this self-delusion also affects even the smartest and most strategically minded among us. Maybe you, too. So, what’s the issue here? Simply put, we like to fool ourselves into thinking that…
Psst— Your Site Visitors Are Human
Build your site around its user—consider their expectations, needs, feelings; build the site so that it’s useful, valuable and meaningful for the end user. Digital spiders crawl the world wide web, archiving and collecting data. Servers store and call up data; acting as air traffic controllers funneling information here and there, directing it to its…
Aesthetics and User-experience : Website Design and Development – Oneupweb Marketing
Ask someone to draw you a house and you’ll probably receive a rudimentary rectangle with a rectangle door, square windows and a triangle roof. Ask Frank Gehry to draw you a house, and you’ll probably receive something that belongs in a Salvador Dali painting. What makes Frank Gehry different from an ordinary architect? Any architect…
Oneupweb : Easing the Pain of Password Fatigue
Trying to remember and maintain all those passwords can lead to an affliction known as password fatigue. …
Oneupweb : Tips for Justifying a Web Design Investment and Gaining Buy-In from Management
For many marketers, the freshness of spring also prompts a brutally honest look at the face of their brand—the website….
Oneupweb : Things to Think About When Designing a Website
When designing a website there are many things to consider before the development process begins….