Digital Strategy
Shopify eCommerce Marketing and Web Development Tip: Lowest Hanging Fruit For Shopify Store Owners
READ Do you have a Shopify Store? If so, I’ve got some good news that you might not know about. It’s super easy, AND FREE, to drive a few extra conversions this month. The data shows that when you re-market to people who have abandoned their shopping cart, but haven’t purchased, they’re 65% or more…
Read MoreNashville Design Week Partnership: Designing With Data
READ We are thrilled to announce a partnership with Nashville Design Week. Data Driven Design is the official Web Design and Development partner of the week-long, city-wide series of interdisciplinary programs and events to unite the design community, promote collaboration and idea sharing, engage the public, and elevate the impact of Nashville’s design economy. In addition…
Read MoreMore Great Use Cases For Business-Based Alexa Skills
WATCH READ I’ve written quite a bit about why your business needs to have a presence on Alexa-enabled devices. Whether it’s from a content marketing, storytelling and communications channel like an easy-to-build Alexa Flash Briefing Skill, or via extending your application’s functionality into the Voice Realm through a real Alexa Skill, you need to evaluate…
Read MoreWTF Facebook? What Does This First Party Cookie Email Mean?
READ So I know that if you’re a marketer or small business owner running any kind of Facebook Ads, using the Facebook Pixel, you’re confused AF by this email you just received sometime around October 5, 2018. The email references the fact that starting October 24, 2018, Facebook will be offering businesses the ability to…
Read MoreHaving Trouble Receiving Email Submissions From Your WordPress Gravity Forms?
READ Part of being a really good web developer, is developing enough websites to be able to learn and troubleshoot just about every possible scenario. One thing that happens from time to time when web form submissions actually never end up in the intended recipient’s inbox. For example, whether it’s a standard “Contact Us” form,…
Read MoreMy Mindset Was Totally Different Three Years Ago When I Started My Company
READ Heading into Year Three of Data Driven Design, I’m thinking back to when I started the company, and how different my mindset was then than it is now. If 2018 (almost 2019) Paul told 2016 Paul that he’d have a team of 8-10 solid full time employees spanning the skill sets of custom software…
Read MoreTo Valencia, Spain From Nashville: When You Don't Need Much, There's Always Room For More
READ About a year ago I started realizing I didn’t need “that much.” My family, my laptop. My phone. A pair of socks and running shoes. That’s pretty much it. The family for the people I love. The phone to keep in touch with the rest of the people I love, and the laptop to…
Read MoreWhy Businesses Should Use The Instagram Nametag Feature: Data Driven Daily Tip #201
WATCH LISTEN READ Finally! I have an answer for all businesses who need to use digital data to justify / quantify the success of their event related marketing and sales / business development efforts in terms of pounding the pavement with meetings. Like, real data, not anecdotal stuff. For example, if you have a booth…
Read MoreSmall Business Marketing Tip: How To Make An Offer Post On Google My Business: Data Driven Daily Tip #200
WATCH LISTEN READ I’ve written a lot about the importance of Google My Business, how it’s the number one most important Small Business SEO strategy and even something all marketing directors and VPs of Marketing should pay attention to regardless of the size of their company. I’ve even gone in depth about why it’s important…
Read MoreDoes Your Digital Agency Know How To Get Your Business To The Top Of Google? Data Driven Daily Tip #199
WATCH LISTEN READ Make any Google Search now for a local company and you’ll see map results first. If you don’t, it’s likely because there’s some paid ads on top of them. Point being, Google has clearly decided that maps results will outweigh web page results for local business searches that don’t include the company’s…
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