Technology

Clickthrough Breakthroughs: Uplevel Your Email Marketing
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User-generated content—tapping into the contributions of your customer base or user community—can add energy and authenticity to your email marketing. But soliciting from this source also demands careful curation of those contributions to ensure they are appropriate and on-message for...
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Keeping An Eye on AI: Taking a Real Look at Artificial Intelligence in Marketing
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Artificial Intelligence is alternately feared and revered when it comes to its role in marketing and branding. Does it mean effortless, but also lifeless, automation? Or is it a means to providing communications professionals with even more creative power? Let’s...
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Email Marketing: Why Is Everybody So Hyper About Personalization?
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Email marketing continues to be a highly effective, scalable, and cost-conscious digital strategy—especially if you pay attention to personalizing the content and the experience. That’s always been true, but the latest technology advancements and decades of data collection have raised...
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What Do People Like Us Do All Day?
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Remember the children’s book that taught us all what people do all day in “Busytown?” Here’s a not-so-Scarry behind-the-scenes look at how we created our new Street Level Studio website to show everyone what keeps us busy!
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Go Mobile & Go Dark: Optimizing your Email Design
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As the art and science of email marketing continues to evolve, marketers are using a variety of techniques to attract and hold their readers’ engagement and interaction with the brand. But which trends are proving to be most effective in...
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Dr. Digital: Video Green Screen
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Video green screen is a timesaving, budget-friendly catalyst for creativity that has transformed what’s possible in video production. In the right hands, it is possible to create head-turning videos set just about anywhere in the world—even in places that exist...
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Off to the Braces! A Marketing Campaign for Gilbert Orthodontics
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Highland Park native Dr. Josh Gilbert was prepped and ready to open his brand new orthodontics office. He had a dedicated, skilled staff and the latest in 3D imaging and model printing technology. All he needed was to get the...
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The Home(Page) Edit: Give Your Website a Spring Cleaning
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First, there was Marie Kondo and keeping the items that bring you joy. Then there was the art of Swedish death cleaning, which is not as macabre as it sounds. The latest phenomenon in personal organization is The Home Edit,...
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Can You Believe It?
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April Fools’ Day got us thinking. Why do we believe the unbelievable, especially when it comes to technology? And how does our willingness to trust affect marketing strategy?
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The Next Level for Action Plastics
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When we met the father-and-son team that leads Action Plastics, Inc., it was clear the company’s visual presence was underselling its capabilities and success. Here’s how we redesigned its logo and website to match their changing vision.
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