International SEO — Whiteboard Friday

As a marketer, I’ve created a lot of digital graphics throughout my career. However, it wasn’t until recently that I started looking into creating GIFs. For some reason, I’d always assumed creating custom animated graphics would be a time-consuming process that required a skill set I simply didn’t have. Turns out, I was wrong. In…

Imagine a weighted balance scale: on one side is brand visibility; the other, lead generation. Your job as a content marketer is to use gated and ungated content to successfully balance both goals. With gated content, users arrive at your website and see a CTA or pop-up that offers them access to content in exchange…

There are very few activities that are fully reversible. Ice sculpture might be one of them. Once the ice melts, all the effort and information is lost, and refreezing lets you begin again with a new, fresh block of ice. Of course, it’s not completely gone. The thing you made remains in your memory, and…

What’s it for? Making something fun is a good place to start if you’re building a casual word game like Bongo. But it’s not enough. Lots of things are fun, for a while, but that doesn’t meant that they’re worth the investment of time and money it takes to build them. From the user’s perspective,…

Our culture is filled with man-made traps, situations worth avoiding. They have three elements: They’re seductive. Traps offer a benefit and they make it easy to walk in. They are hard to get of. Changing your mind isn’t enough. Someone else benefits more than you do. Because of the third element, the organizer or beneficiaries…

When Miles Davis recorded Kind of Blue with his quartet, they spent a total of four days in the recording studio. They created one of the bestselling and most important jazz albums of all time in less than a week. Of course, they’d been exploring for months. In clubs, in front of an audience, trading…