Data-driven decisions It’s 2020. Organizations are flooded with information from a myriad of sources. Coronavirus is raging across the US and has created significant uncertainty. How does the savvy executive know where to devote time, energy, and budget? Answer: Manage with data The best organizations lead with data-driven decisions. Across industry sector and specialization, data-driven […]
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Why Content, Links, and URLs Are Key to JavaScript for SEO – Here’s Why #237
Google has made Googlebot evergreen as of May 2019, which improves rendering capacity significantly, including JavaScript rendering, JavaScript processing, and processing speed. But does it mean Google will also understand JavaScript on your page? In this episode of the award-winning Here’s Why digital marketing video series, Mats Tolander joins Eric Enge to explain why content, links, and […]
COVID Checklist: Five Things Hospital Marketers Should Do This Week (March 26, 2020)
COVID-19 is dominating the news cycles, many hospitals have stopped all electives procedures to focus on the first wave response to the coronavirus pandemic. (See the previous post on first wave responses.) While not all patients are impacted by the disease itself, all patients are impacted in some way and the disruption to care is […]
A Good Taxonomy Can Make the Difference
In a world of sophisticated search engines and machine learning (ML), it might seem like investing in a taxonomy is overkill. After all, can’t those ML-enabled search engines find everything? Sometimes even technology needs an assist. Let’s look at why you might want a taxonomy. What Taxonomies Are Good For Taxonomies enable three main digital […]
Some Businesses will Prosper during COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced business across the world to adjust and adapt. Communities are coming together, at a safe distance, to offer support and aid in any way they can. So, what can we as individuals and digital marketers do to help others during this unprecedented time? Eric Enge, Digital Marketing Principal at Perficient, […]
Combining Online & Offline Data in Automotive – Part Two
In a previous blog post, I discussed the need and importance of combining online and offline data in the automotive industry. Now, in part two of this blog series, I will discuss some of the basic tools needed for combining online and offline data, as well as give some high-level examples of the types of […]
Implementation of Twitter Connector in Informatica Cloud
Introduction There was a time in a not so distant past, shopping means, it was all about planning which weekend to go, and in the name of shopping, people spend at least 3 to 4 hours minimum which includes going to restaurants as well. But now, Amazon and Flipkart are what we think about shopping, […]
Digital Lifelines, the Weakest Link and True Personalization—Debrief of Digital and COVID-19 (Wk 1)
Tremendous change continues to happen daily as COVID-19 forces all of us into a new reality. As people practice social distancing and are forced to work from home and stores along with other gathering places close, digital channels become a critical connection to the outside world for us as social creatures. Trends are already emerging […]
Broadening Our Sitecore Capabilities with Brainjocks
We are excited to share the news that Perficient has acquired Brainjocks, a leading digital consultancy with a strong Sitecore platform focus. Brainjocks is well-known in the Sitecore ecosystem for their outstanding skills and expertise. The team is a trusted advisor to leading Fortune 1000 customers, enabling them to maximize ROI through digital strategy, technical, […]
Can Digital Solutions Help Us Understand and Battle COVID-19?
How can we use digital technologies to combat the spread of COVID-19? To use a recent industry analogy, the virus moves along its own supply chain, from source to recipient (person to person), often with many individual cases occurring in clusters. These patterns can provide us clues as to how the virus will further propagate. […]
Combining Online and Offline Data in Automotive – Part One
As technology advances, new ways to gather customer data and new ways to use that data in marketing and customer outreach have emerged. This has created a new need for many companies in various industries. The need to combine offline data with online data in accurate and intelligent ways, allowing the organization to gather more […]
Help! I Need a New Web Content Management System
So, it’s probably been at least five years since you last implemented a web content management system (WCMS). More than likely, it’s been more than eight years. The old system is increasingly out-dated, slow, hard to use, and the people who picked it are long gone. Does this sound familiar? This is a common situation with anyone […]