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3 Ways to Improve Your Direct-to-Patient Marketing Campaigns
Healthcare providers are always looking for new and creative ways to provide patients with the tools and resources to make smarter health-related decisions. Many view patient engagement marketing as a subset of their broader marketing initiatives; in many cases, this “afterthought” approach negatively impacts the results of their marketing campaigns. To succeed, healthcare providers need…
What Does Having an ADA Compliant Website Mean?
Can you imagine preventing certain customers from entering your store? Or painting over handicapped parking spaces? Websites, like physical spaces, require accessibility measures to reach all your potential customers. ADA-compliant websites ensure digital content is available for everyone, including users with screen readers. Providing navigable websites for people with disabilities is as much a societal…
3 Tips for Improved Readability: Are People Actually Reading Your Content?
As a content creator, there’s nothing more frustrating than pouring your time, blood, sweat and tears into a blog that no one reads. It’s well established that people rarely read online. Instead, they scan copy quickly to parse out just what they need. So how can we help users find the information they’re looking…
How to Improve Conversion Rate
Tips for Conversion Rate Optimization Testing A simple change to a web page’s design and interface can be extremely powerful. A minor tweak can produce more leads and sales even when traffic stays about the same. Other times, you spend loads of resources on a cool, interactive page and get limited results. Is trying to…
Improve Website Navigation – It’s Worth It
Don’t you hate it when you are on a website and you can’t find what you are looking for? It’s like a bad game of detective, looking under floorboards and ending up with nothing but a headache. For most people, this usually results in returning to a search engine (hooray for “site:” searches) or giving…
Is Infinite Scroll or Pagination Better for Your Website Archive?
You make thousands of decisions when you create a new website. From web hosting to CMS to color scheme, you want to make choices that will make your website user-friendly and optimized to rank in organic search results. When considering how your content will load on archive pages – such as your blog home –…
7 Web Design Tips for Education Sites
Your website is your most important digital asset. For many of your potential students, it’s their first interaction with your school. It not only “sells” your school, for many institutions, it’s also the platform prospects use to apply for enrollment. The website is also an important resource for your current students, alumni, professors, community leaders…
Wireframes: For Websites That Serve the Human OS
First impressions are tough. Your website has 1/20th of a second for users to make a judgment, and if it passes that test, you have less than eight seconds to get them what they want. The challenge is striking that delicate balance of giving them all the information they want, but not overwhelming the user…
Do You Really Need a Home Button on Your Website?
The answer may be unsatisfying: it depends entirely on your audience. But, chances are you probably don’t. First, let it be addressed; for a majority of websites, there must be a path ‘home’ but, where the debate rages regards exactly what that path should be. In the year 2000, Steve Krug published Don’t Make Me…
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…
