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  • Basic Places Practices Update: How do you claim an owner-verified listing? May 17, 2012
    A common issue that arises in the forums is the business owner that is unable to change or enhance their listing because they no longer have access to the account that it is in, perhaps because they lost the password , the employee that had claimed the listing is no longer employed or they had [...] No related posts. […]
    Mike Blumenthal

RSS Direct Creative

  • The Importance of Being Trivial May 2, 2012
    Do you like the title of this article? I stole it from chapter 3 of The Art of Readable Writing by Rudolf Flesch. Back in the 40s and 50s, Flesch was hailed as the guru of clear, direct writing. His advice remains powerful and relevant today. When Flesch recommended being “trivial,” he meant you should […]
    Dean Rieck

Business Metrics

How Much Do Wraps Cost?

April 27, 2011
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Price vs cost

How much do wraps cost? Good question. The cost of something is always important from an out-of-pocket, cash-flow, point-of-view.  The cash-out-of pocket answer is simply, about $10-$12 per square foot for car wraps. Box trucks run $8-$10 per square foot. That includes graphic design, vinyl printing/lamination, and installation. If you can afford that, then...
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Wraps Are Marketing Tools

April 25, 2011
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Vehicle wraps are marketing tools.

Did you know that wrapped vehicles can be tracked? Not like your driver took the afternoon and headed to Windstar tracked, but tracking the responses generated from the auto graphics you paid good money for. If you’re wrapping your vehicle in hopes of gaining new business but have no tracking mechanism in place you’re...
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Left-Brain Landing Page Design

March 9, 2011
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Landing page development

Okay, I admit it. I can’t stand it when a right-brainer tries to design something that’s obviously crying out for a structured, analytic approach to making something work. God bless ‘em all but putting lipstick on a pig won’t make it fly. Designing landing pages is a good example of that. “Pretty” won’t engage...
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What is A/B Testing?

March 8, 2011
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A/B testing is the simple concept of testing two versions of the same thing to see which one performs better. That could be a web page, an email, an SMS message, or almost anything you can think of to test head-to-head. Here’s how it works for a web page. Suppose you’re running a campaign...
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