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- Marketing & Sales Videos
Equipping Your Business for Professional Videos
We’ve been working the last few months on getting some video equipment for DK New Media. While we have incredible video companies that we have do the hefty lifting, from time to time, we’re finding that we want to record and mix video as well – and we want it to look professional. Our graphic designer is also well-versed at…
- Content Marketing
Why Website RFPs Don’t Work
As a digital agency in business since 1996, we’ve had the opportunity to create hundreds of corporate and non-profit websites. We’ve learned plenty along the way and have gotten our process down to a well-oiled machine. Our process starts with a website blueprint, which allows us to do some initial prep work and hammer out details with the client before…
- Marketing Infographics
Why Your Business Needs an App
Colleague Ryan Cox shared this mobile consumer infographic, Optimize Your Business for the Connected Consumer. There are some supporting stats that I’d love more info on… like that 80% of a mobile user’s time is spent on an app. Does that include their email? I’m thinking yes. Either way, it’s a pretty impressive infographic that paints a clear picture. There…
- Content Marketing
Don’t Blame WordPress
90,000 hackers are trying to get into your WordPress installation right now. That’s a ridiculous statistic but also points to the popularity of the world’s most popular content management system. While we’re fairly agnostic about content management systems, we have a deep respect for WordPress and support most of our clients’ installations on it. I don’t necessarily agree with the…
- Mobile Marketing, Messaging, and Apps
The Best Marketing Mobile Application! Version 3
The incredible team at Postano has done it again, surpassing all of my expectations of a great mobile application with Version 3 of Martech. I believe it’s the best Marketing iPhone App out there (Android coming)! First up is the very slick redesign that incorporates a Facebook-like left navigation. It makes it simple to scroll and select the category or…
- Marketing Infographics
CISPA Is Not Dead
Whenever you see a bill working its way through the Senate and Congress that has over half a billion dollars from corporate lobbyists behind it, you should probably take a closer look at it as a citizen. As it’s written, CISPA won’t protect us from cyber threats, but it will violate our 4th Amendment right to privacy. It lets the…