To prevent performance issues for content authors in the Content Editor, Sitecore recommends keeping no more than 10 versions of items. In this blog post of my mini-series, I will go over how to perform an automated cleanup of old, outdated item versions while retaining them in the Archive for historical record. Old versions found […]
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Fighting Truth and Mythology: Educating Black Patients About COVID-19
I grew up in the healthcare world watching my mother, a Black nurse for more than 50 years, as she worked in hospitals, nursing homes and other healthcare settings. Now, at 73, my mother works in an assisted living community close to patients at high risk for contracting COVID-19. Once a week, my mother undergoes […]
Implementing Workflow in Sitecore: A Mini-Series Part 5 – Versioning
A great benefit of implementing workflow in Sitecore is the ability to have multiple versions of your content automatically. Content authors will not have to manually configure new versions on their own. Workflow will do this for us behind the scenes. With versioning enabled, we will be able to… Revert a page and its content […]
Legacy Healthcare CRM: Understanding Why It Needs to be Different
Given the unique challenges of healthcare, deciding what you do or do not need in your CRM can have profound ramifications on future capabilities. My previous blog pointed out that the Legacy CRM systems that have been a mainstay in healthcare for decades are quite different from the Enterprise platforms that have become the norm. Today, healthcare marketing […]
YouTube Continues to Dominate the Video Results in Google
This is the second time we’ve done a study on video rankings in Google and YouTube (see the first study here). This post covers: How YouTube videos dominate the top videos in Google’s results. The difference between YouTube’s and Google’s algorithms for ranking videos. An analysis of how the two algorithms differ. A short and […]
Why During a Site Migration Is the Perfect Time to Do CRO Work – Here’s Why #254
Most of the time, when performing a site migration, one of the goals is to not lose any website traffic. One thing many don’t realize is that during a site migration is actually the best time do conversion rate optimization to increase traffic. In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Alex […]
An Introduction to the Power of Analytics
In today’s world, information is considered our greatest weapon, and analytics is the forge that creates it. Analytics refers to the process of finding, illuminating, and communicating meaningful patterns in data. Through analytics, you can turn raw data into insights that will help you make better decisions. By understanding the different aspects of your data, […]
Opening Search Pages for Indexation & SEO – A Data-Driven Approach
If you’re running an e-commerce website, you probably have your customers searching for your products on your site. In most instances, you’ve likely closed those search pages to search engine indexation, since they may be duplicative of some category pages. However, you may not realize that search pages often fill a gap in your category […]
Implementing Workflow in Sitecore: A Mini-Series Part 4 – User Permissions
So far in this mini-series, we have covered how to set up the Simple Workflow and how to automatically place newly created items into it. We now need to create a way to limit which Simple Workflow commands are available to users. In this blog post, we will go over the permissions that need to […]
Perficient Included in Gartner’s 2020 Marketing Technology Vendor Guide
Perficient was recently included as a marketing technology integrator in Gartner’s Marketing Technology Vendor Guide, 2020. This inclusion marks the second time Perficient has been listed as a sample martech integrator in the report. The Marketing Technology Vendor Guide helps marketing leaders traverse the current martech vendor landscape, identify the right marketing technology solutions to […]
How U.S. Demographic Trends Are Reshaping Healthcare Now and Forever – and Why That Matters
Among the many powerful lessons we’ve learned from the COVID-19 pandemic is the further unearthing of healthcare disparities, from the very old patient to the young and across ethnic, racial, and economic lines. No matter where you are in the United States, America’s citizenry is changing. Millennials are now the largest adult generation in the […]
More Than a Brand Steward: The Redefined Role of CMO
There is no doubt that the role of the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) has changed significantly in the past decade. Once held up as a maven of creativity and brand, today’s technologies, customers, and pace of business demand CMOs have a wider handle on a variety of skill sets and a much deeper business acumen […]