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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.

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ADA Accessibility for Websites: Why Your Site Needs to Be Accessible Now

ADA website accessibility is no longer optional, and lawsuits are climbing fast. Federal courts consistently rule that websites fall under Title III, and the DOJ now requires WCAG 2.1 Level AA compliance by April 2026. Most websites still fail basic accessibility checks. Learn why a code-level audit is the most effective first step to protecting your business.

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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.

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9 min read
Sep 07, 2018
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3 Website Content Management Tips (Using Smart Parenting Skills) to Keep Your Website From Going Astray

Guiding children requires nurturing, attention, and clear boundaries. So does managing the content of your website! It demands care and structure to prevent it from veering off course. Let’s explore three essential website content management tips using the principles of smart parenting to help you steer your website toward success and keep it on the right path.

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6 min read
Jun 26, 2017
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Trends in the Craft Beer Industry: Is Big Beer the Future of Craft?

When we initially fielded research on people’s tastes, attitudes and preferences in the craft beer category, we expected to learn or validate much of what’s already been discovered. Yes, people are suffering a bit from hop overdose. Fruit sours are growing in popularity. People increasingly treat craft beers like wine, pairing them with food. Consumers often discover new craft beers upon recommendation of bartenders and friends, so you need bar staff relations and social media programs to spread the word. Our research backs these trends up, but the question was—were there any surprises?

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4 min read
May 04, 2017
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Long-Term Crisis Communication Planning: How to Think Beyond the Incident

If 2016 set out to be the year of controversy, it certainly hasn’t disappointed. Daily local, regional, national and international headlines have not failed to give passionate social media users a plethora of causes to fuel the expression of their opinions. And much like the Energizer Bunny, they just keep going and going and going. One of the most embroiled controversies of the year came from a most unexpected place: a peaceful 143-year-old zoo in Cincinnati.

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13 min read
Sep 15, 2016
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5 Basic Elements of a Website: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel When Overhauling Your Website

You look at competitive websites and see that they are informational and transactional, facilitate two-way conversations with the user base, and work in concert with social media to provide a rich environment—everything you want in your next website. But you’re cringing thinking about how much a total reboot is going to cost in terms of time, personnel, infrastructure, and transitioning, not to mention costs and having the ROI to justify this hairy mammoth of an activity. How do you get there without busting your budget? At PriceWeber, the first advice we give our clients is this: don’t reinvent the wheel! Other people have already paid for the development of solid, highly dependable, and functional solutions to the basic elements of a website. Here are the most common applications your website needs.

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Reality Check: Virtual Reality and Marketing

Unless you’ve been in hiding, without a smartphone, you’ve heard a lot about virtual reality. For some, VR is touted as the “it” technology that will save marketing (or make it cool again). From the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to gamer and entertainment blogs, it’s been hot water-cooler talk for some time. If you’ve experienced virtual reality yourself, you have to admit, it’s pretty cool tech. But is it really the next big thing, or will it just be another arrow in the marketing quiver?

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7 min read
May 10, 2016