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Your website definitely needs to be ADA accessible
In our Plain Talk article earlier this year, Can your website land you in court? Making your website ADA accessible, we discussed a few reasons why businesses should consider upgrading their website accessibility for people with disabilities. At that time, a flood of discrimination lawsuits were hitting the courts that related to Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), and we recommended that if your business had a physical location and a website, you should “probably” make it WCAG 2.1 compliant to meet contemporary recommended standards for accessibility. In this edition of our Plain Talk series, we’ll be upgrading that “probably” to a “definitely” and explaining what’s changed and how it may impact you and your business.

Dynamic Search Ads vs Responsive Search Ads: Digital Ad Tech That Drives Business
If you’ve been advertising online for any amount of time, you’re probably already pretty familiar with a couple of the most common ways to run ads on the web. In this installment of Plain Talk, we’ll break down dynamic search ads vs responsive search ads and what they can do for you.

Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives: 3 Steps to Get Started
In today’s Plain Talk newsletter, we’re talking about corporate social responsibility initiatives. According to a recent Gallup poll, Americans’ trust in the federal government to handle both international and domestic matters is at the lowest point it has been in more than twenty years. Only 35 percent of Americans have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of trust in the U.S. government’s ability to handle domestic issues. Meanwhile, trust in the government to handle international issues ranks only six points higher at a mere 41 percent.

B2B Trade Show Trends
In this edition of Plain Talk, we’ll discuss B2B trade show trends. We hope you’ll gain valuable insights that you can apply to your B2B marketing regimen.

Best Practices in Healthcare Recruitment Marketing: Filling Those Open Healthcare Positions
In this first installment of our Plain Talk Healthcare Marketing series, we’ll prescribe some practical advice about some of the most difficult marketing that healthcare groups have to do—recruitment marketing—and how to smooth the path to filling open healthcare positions using best practices in healthcare recruitment marketing.

CCPA Compliance Questions: FAQs About the California Consumer Privacy Act Answered
Welcome to summer! Remember when summer meant vacations with the family, sunny days lounging by the pool or even just sleeping in? Yeah, we remember that too. However, in today’s fast-moving world of digital marketing, summer also means planning time.

Open Source vs Proprietary CMS: Why It’s Time to Switch
For years, you’ve had your website on a partner’s proprietary content management system. Why is now the time for a change? In this installment of our Plain Talk digital series, we’ll explain open source vs proprietary CMS (and why it’s time to switch to open source).

4 Mobile Web Design Trends That Drive Business
If you haven’t been following the latest trends and best practices for mobile web design, you may be leaving money on the table. So, how do you design a better, more effective mobile website experience for your customers? In this installment of our Plain Talk digital marketing series, we’ll discuss five trends driving best practices in mobile web design trends.

ADA Accessibility for Websites: Can Your Website Land You in Court?
So deeply has the web penetrated how we navigate the world, that today your website could land you in court for a pretty unexpected reason. Let’s take a look at understanding ADA accessibility for websites.

Age Stereotypes in Advertising and Popular Culture
Last month, this meme juxtaposing Tom Cruise and Wilford Brimley’s ages made the internet rounds, leaving innumerable blown minds in its wake. For those who followed up with Wikipedia, it proved true: When he filmed Cocoon in 1984, Brimley was 50 years old; Tom Cruise filmed Mission: Impossible-Fallout at 55. The age comparison between the two men has been circulating for the past few years, updating essentially with every new Mission: Impossible release, but this time it rocketed around social media faster, perhaps because Cruise is now in his mid-50s yet still pulling off his own stunts.