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2017 Web Design Trends
Each year New Media Campaigns likes to take some time to figure out the upcoming trends in web design
It's essential to stay ahead of the curve and ensure the most modern and effective tactics are used when designing a website.
Here’s a glimpse of what's anticipated to take place in 2017:
- Forget the grid
- Multi-faceted Feature Areas
- Vertical Split Layouts
Read the full article here. Source: Ashley Bennett
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9 Rules For Emailing From Google Exec Eric Schmidt
Communication in the Internet Century usually means using email, and email, despite being remarkably useful and powerful, often inspires momentous dread in otherwise optimistic, happy humans
The following are three of Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg's personal rules for mitigating that sense of foreboding:
- Respond quickly
- Be crisp in your delivery
- Clean out your inbox constantly
See the full list here. Source: Time
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Cafes, Restaurants Can Use Social Media To Improve Business
With more and more people looking to the internet to find a restaurant, bar, club or winery to visit, it’s crucial for hospitality businesses to jump on the social media wagon
Social media is particularly important for hospitality, as people generally look to their peers when they’re seeking new experiences.
Ben Fuller, chief operations officer of hospitality software and consultants ImPOS, said 45% of small hospitality businesses were active on social media last year, it was time for the rest to get on board before they got left behind.
“People want to know that the place they’re going to try is going to meet their expectations or give them the experience they want. That’s the primary reason they turn to social media. On the other side of things, businesses should use social media because it improves their Google search ranking," Fuller said.
Read the full article here. Source: Andrea Beattie
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TV Gloom: Where To Next For Seven, Nine And Ten?
It wasn’t a great 2016 for the free-to-air (FTA) players and now 2017’s looking even more calamitous than the year previous for Seven, Nine and Ten
When Seven unveiled its half year results – including a 91% dip in profits – it set the tone for the FTA networks besieged by tired programming, falling audience eyeballs and plummeting ad revenues (SMI Data out yesterday found TV ad revenues down 4.7% YOY to January).
Adding to the gloom, yesterday Ten’s CEO Paul Anderson warned shareholders of a bumpy year ahead. Anderson said the broadcaster was being buffeted by falling ad revenues, rising costs, ongoing threats from digital players and hefty license fees.
Read the full article here. Source: B&T Magazine
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SEO Tips for Developers During a Redesign Project
While SEOs and web developers are both responsible for the success of a company’s website, their jobs are very different from one another
Web developers get to use their design skills to make the website look “cool” but they usually don’t know what they should about SEO.
The SEO’s work isn’t as flashy but it’s equally important.
When it comes time for a website redesign, web developers and SEOs must work together to maintain organic search traffic.
Nick Stamoulis from Brick Marketing has listed 4 important SEO tips to follow:
- Keep URLS the same
- Use 301 redirects
- Transfer all the meta information
- Transfer all the H tags
Read the full article here. Source: Nick Stamoulis
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A Beginner’s Guide to Content Marketing for Startups: 25 Tips for Success
Content marketing has become the lifeblood of online marketing
For the third year in a row, it has been voted the most commercially important digital marketing trend over at Smart Insights, with twice as many votes as big data or marketing automation.
To help the curious minded, Marko Maras from Start Up Buffer has summarised 25 tips on what to keep in mind when you launch into content marketing.
His suggestions include:
- Be genuine
- Share the news
- Be persistent
- Find time
- Build trust
Read the full 25 tips here. Source: Marko Maras
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How to Use Google to Plan Your Trip
Google Maps revolutionized how you get from point A to point B - Google Trips aims to to do the same for how you vacation
The smartphone app, released on Monday, uses what it already knows about you, based on data it has collected from your Gmail account, and combines it with established features from its other offerings, like Destinations, and its large database of crowd-sourced reviews.
The goal, as Google puts it, is to create a “personalized tour guide in your pocket.”
Read the full article here. Source: Justin Sablich
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