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Gamification: Turning Boring Tasks Into Adventures

Now that technology has made it easier to introduce game mechanics into our digital experiences, people have coined the term gamification to describe this common strategy. The key to successfully gamifying your brand is focusing on creating incentives and rewards for meaningful actions, or the user will feel unfulfilled and there will be no opportunity for long term brand loyalty. More…

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How Many Design Options Will You Show Me?

There is always one “correct answer” to any design problem. Instead of asking your designer for multiple design options, help your designer give you what you want through upfront discovery and iteration of a single design. More…

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The Future of Purchasing – It’s All About Social Status

The future of purchasing just might come down to your social status and how you interact with your friends and followers on the social web. This post proposes a not too distant future where your clout (or Klout) effects what you have access to, how and when you receive benefits and what you’re required to pay. More…

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Web Typography That People Will Read

If you’re not a graphic designer, you may not realize that graphic designers pay attention to every detail of every word- right down to the space between each letter and the space between each word- striving to make content as easily digestible as possible. On the web, however, where it’s especially important to display your content well, designers tend to fall short. More…

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Learn To Love What You’re Good At

You know the phrase, “do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life?” I’d like to propose a variation… “do what you love, focus on it, get really good at it, and you’ll never work a day in your life.” More…

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Agency Recruitment and Selection: Go With Your Gut

Hiring should be natural. The right person comes around and seems like the perfect fit. It just so happens you have a position open for them and the prospect is poised for long term growth within the company. Let’s face it, it’s never that easy. More…

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Mobile Site vs. Mobile App: What You Need to Know About Going Mobile

As an agency executive, marketer or business decision maker, you’re constantly considering your mobile marketing strategy and how much time and attention you’re devoting to mobile products and initiatives. The debate is no longer “should we” create a mobile site or optimize for mobile users, it’s now “how should we?” More…

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Putting it to Practice: Tips on Business Relationship Management

Has a business relationship ever become tense or soured due to unforeseeable snags in the plan? This tension can be due to miscommunication, falling behind schedule, not having a clearly defined scope of work, and more. If this isn’t familiar,More…

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Marketing Is Key To Indie Film Success

You need to think like a blockbuster and grind like an indie. Assume you’re going to have to do it yourself but utilize as many partners as you can in the process. It’s going to take some smarts, some serious nichebusting and probably a crazy stunt or two to get your indie film noticed. More…

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iPad Improving Corporate Sales, Video Market

The iPad is not just a reader or a consumer product. It just might be the perfect tool for corporate sales. More…

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