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As a marketer, you have so many routes to pursuing your goals of generating brand awareness and getting more and more customers in the pipeline. There are so many different strategies and platforms to test for your brand, and multichannel marketing is just one of the ways you can manage your presence across them. Multichannel…
In this post, we’ll go over a number of contact page examples, so you’ll be able to review your own contact page and improve it. For a lot of companies, that contact page is the main reason they have a website in the first place. For others, the contact page filters or manages all incoming…
For years now we’ve heard about the impending digital transformation—the slow-rolling wave of businesses removing non-digital, manual processes in favor of technology that improves efficiency, data collection and analysis, team collaboration and, ultimately, return on investments. Digital transformation was always coming. But due to COVID-19, what would have been a gradual transformation happened virtually overnight….
For local businesses, doing well in the local search results is essential. Luckily, the Local SEO add-on for Yoast SEO is a great help for your business. The plugin makes it much easier to get your site to perform better in Google. For instance, it helps you improve your local business’s contact page so customers…
We’ve written a lot of Social Spotlights over the past year. And while our writers typically rely on outside observations and research to inform our content, we thought it only fitting to make this spotlight a bit more…personal. After all, personal is what revenue acceleration platform, Drift, does best. That’s why we were thrilled when…
Reality check: B2B social media is here to stay. In fact, recent statistics note that social advertising is practiced by a staggering 83% of B2B marketers and is second only to search engines in terms of success. From nurturing customers to flexing your industry influence, the social space has a ton to offer B2B brands….
Video is great for explaining a topic in just a couple of minutes. Or, to give people an idea of that product they’re thinking of buying. You can also use video to share your vision or insights with a very large audience. But what do you need to do to make your videos stand out…
You may already know that WordPress mobile apps are the easiest way to manage your WordPress site any time, anywhere. Helpful features in the apps include our Stats widgets, which make it simple to keep an eye on your site’s activity without even opening the app. We recently rebuilt our widgets for iOS 14, and…
If you’re interested in ramping up your video marketing strategy in 2021, you’re probably doing some research into the best platforms to use. If you’re trying to figure out how YouTube fits into your approach, we have a list of 27 must-know YouTube statistics to help you understand how the platform is being used right…
Trying to figure out how to use Slack? Good. It’s totally worth it. Boasting 10+ million daily active users, the popularity of Slack speaks for itself. In fact, the platform is now a staple of remote work as more and more teams rely on Slack as their all-in-one communications hub. Read moreInstalling and Configuring your…
In recent years, it feels as if organic social reach is on the decline. While there’s some debate as to what’s directly causing this phenomenon (Algorithms! Too many networks! More paid social!), social marketers can all agree it’s one challenge that calls for some creative problem solving. Some brands are choosing to take a direct…
Ten years in Chicago has taught me that, even though the temperature reads 60 degrees outside, there’s likely one more cold spell we have to endure before we finally get to spring. me: oh wow it’s gonna be 60 today chicago twitter: Winter Fool’s SpringSecond Winter Spring of Deception <—? ??? ??? ????Third WinterThe PolleningActual…
Blogging on WordPress.com is all about sharing your unique voice, and starting today, you can extend that to another platform: Anchor. We previously shared some tips and tricks for getting started with a podcast on WordPress.com and are thrilled to share this new option. Anchor, part of the Spotify family, powers 80% of all new…
Figma — one of the most popular and fastest growing digital design tools today — was recently voted “the most exciting design tool of 2021.” In many organizations, a smaller group — often the design team — uses Figma on a daily basis. But designers need a seamless way to share their work and gather…
WordPress.com supports a wide range of features for building your online presence: blogs, online stores, newsletter signup forms, and more. These tools are invaluable for many customers, but they can seem excessive for folks who are just looking to create a straightforward single-page website. If that’s you, read on for examples of how you can…
Twenty Twenty One is the latest WordPress default theme, which is now available to all WordPress.com sites. Designed by Mel Choyce-Dwan, the muted tones and timeless design will let your work shine. Twenty Twenty One takes advantage of all the latest features of the Block Editor — the new block patterns allow you to create…
If one of your 2021 resolutions is to launch a business or move an existing one fully online, our WordPress.com experts can help you make it happen. Launched in beta in the fall of 2020, our premium website building service was developed with your needs in mind. Whether you need a fast and performant eCommerce…
I’m celebrating nine years at Canonical, and coming up on 15 years since I started contributing to Ubuntu in the community. It’s been quite the ride, helping build, support and advocate for the most popular Linux desktop, and most used Linux distribution in the cloud. Over those years, we’ve strived to make it easy for…
Do you want to edit the header of your WordPress website? If you want to change your WordPress header style and create a custom header, then hop in! The header is one of the most important parts of your website. You can add a menu, social icons, user registration, or login link, you name it….
Goodbye Thanksgiving (well, for some of us), hello Christmas! The holiday season really is the best, and it always brings interesting robotics news, which we will now distill into a quick dose of delightful and easily-digestible tidbits. As always, if you’d like to see your work showcased here, please send an email to robotics.community@canonical.com, and…