Leveraging Behavioral Economics to improve performance and user experience. This is first in our series co-authored by myself and Zach Gay exploring how understanding Behavioral Economics can- and should- inform your marketing strategies. With each blog post we’ll dig into an individual theory and show how an understanding of these principals can help you develop […]
Content Marketing
Using IBM Filenet P8 Content Engine Bulk Import Tool
Do you need to use IBM Filenet P8 Content Engine Bulk Import Tool? Me too. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any videos on how to get it setup, so I spent some time going through the documentation to learn how to use it, and put one together myself. I hope you find it useful. The […]
Modular Omni-channel Marketing Content: A Game Changer for Personalization Campaigns
Technical Marketers running personalization campaigns need content. Images, pull quotes, slugs, call-to-actions, short and long form videos, infographics, and polls all may be needed when building relevant and engaging experiences. However, tracking down content that is useful, relevant, and the right size and shape is difficult. More difficult is finding the right content for the […]
VIDEO: Sitecore Content Hub DAM Admin Training
Since Sitecore Content Hub emerged, a lot of content marketers, including myself, wanted to learn more about the new addition to the Sitecore family. The combination of Digital Asset Management (DAM), Product Content Management (PCM), Content Marketing Platform (CMP) and Marketing Resource Management (MRM) tools certainly sounds like a great source of truth. One that […]
How Incorporating Motion Design on Websites Improves Overall Business
When consumers visit a website, they expect to find the website designed to tell them who the company is and how its products and services can be beneficial to them, and businesses have a greater chance of accomplishing this when incorporating motion into its website design. Motion design can tell a business’ story at a […]
4 Ways to Reach Aging Consumers About COVID-19 and Vaccines
After months of waiting, we are finally at a point in the pandemic where we can start communicating the availability of effective vaccinations. While this is great news, the complexity of who can get vaccinated first and where is causing a great deal of confusion, particularly for seniors and their caregivers. While the Centers for […]
The Importance of PIM for Your B2B Marketplace Strategy
PIM, as most of you readers might know, stands for product information management system. It is not just an application, but also an enabler of a perfect opportunity to connect the dots between people, process, and technology within a commerce business. Years ago, we published a piece that highlighted how PIM is a backbone for […]
How to Create a Custom Dropdown Field in Sitecore
Sometimes the out of the box dropdown field types in Sitecore do not provide the functionality you need. Maybe you want to pull options from an external data source. Perhaps you want to alter how options appear to the Content Author but store a different value as the raw value. You may even want to […]
Why GPT-3 Is an Important Development in AI – Here’s Why #258
Many topics around Artificial Intelligence have been discussed for quite some time. What if there was an AI machine that could help us write content, summarize content, or draft emails? Wouldn’t you want to use it? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Eric Enge talks about GPT-3, one of the […]
Iterative Design for Quick Turn-Around Projects
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and consumers are reminded that anything can happen. Consumers are looking to the companies and resources they trust to understand relevant, rapidly evolving information and guidance. Brands have an opportunity to grow that trust by creating website experiences with up-to-date visuals, content, features, and functionalities consumers need […]
A Strategic Perspective: Emphasizing Inclusivity on a Global Level for Web Design
It’s our job as marketers, designers, and strategists to develop and design inclusive web experiences and user interfaces. These experiences must aim to accommodate and benefit different audience needs based on their geographical location, culture, ethnicity, race, gender, age, language, sexual orientation, and so on, without seeing these factors as an obstacle to overcome in […]
3 Easy-To-Fix Reasons Why Your Sitecore Content Is Not Showing Up
You’ve worked hard on curating content for your Sitecore site. You’ve spent hours collecting the necessary information from various departments to create this new page. After all this work, it can be frustrating to not see it appear on the live site. Where did your work go? Why isn’t it showing up? This blog post […]