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Design

Designed to Win (or Fail Spectacularly)

Bad design can sink a great product. Good design can turn casual buyers into lifelong fans. And when brands mess it up? People will let them know.

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Outgrowing Wordpress: Signals Fast-Growing Companies Should Pay Attention To

WordPress powers 43% of the web, and for good reason—it democratized content management and digital presence. But as companies accelerate toward enterprise-scale operations and increased digital maturity, this ubiquitous platform has become a critical liability. underscores a growing reality: as your digital footprint expands, your architecture needs to evolve with it.

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Brand

Invisible Loyalty: Redefining Personalization

Personalization has transformed significantly in recent years, moving from a simple, attention-grabbing tactic to a core strategy for brands committed to fostering deeper, more meaningful customer relationships. The shift from broad-based messaging to highly personalized interactions represents an exciting convergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI), User Experience (UX), and Customer Experience (CX). This trio is driving a new era of personalization that is not just effective but feels effortless and deeply intuitive.‍

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Brand

Approaching and Achieving Product-Market Fit in 2025

Staying relevant is the key to staying competitive in 2024. For both startups and established companies, this involves developing offerings that satisfy a strong market demand–otherwise known as product-market fit. While identifying opportunities for MVPs remains a unique challenge, several emerging trends and tech are changing the way we gather feedback and gauge interest in products.

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Strategy

That's So SEO

Earlier this year I decided to take some time away from a traditional gig in the world of advertising and spend some time helping friends brand and build their businesses. It was great. But, I was surprised by one thing that shouldn’t have been all that surprising…there’s not nearly enough focus on SEO to help drive business growth. On-page SEO, the practice of optimizing webpage content for search engines, AI platforms, and users, is a critical component often overlooked. Common on-page SEO practices include optimizing title tags, content, internal links, URLs, and other ranking factors. On-page optimization and page optimization are essential for improving individual web pages and blog posts, and optimizing meta descriptions and title tags can boost search rankings. Now that I’m back in the ad world, my SEO red-car-syndrome is in full effect. I see opportunity everywhere.

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Design

Enterprise Design Systems: The What, The Why, & The How

Today's business landscape is changing fast. Organizations of every size are making moves to deliver more secure, sustainable services and expand their product portfolios as customer expectations and behaviors evolve with accelerating advances in digital technologies, data resources and analytics, and the rising tide of generative AI and LLMs.

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Design

Atomic Design, Digital DNA & Living Brands

We explore how (or if) Atomic Design can incorporate content strategy and increase efficiency of the system even more.

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Design

Enterprise Design Systems: The People, Process, & Success

To solidify your brand's identity, experience, and success you need a design system.