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First Impressions Matter: Why Great Visual Design Is Essential

ConversionXL

Shows you how to create a visual design to improve first impressions. Users form design opinions in 17 ms. In fact, according to their study, some opinions develop within 17 ms, though the effect was less pronounced on some design factors. Diverting from those is a risk, no matter how imaginative or striking the design.

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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

To draw titular inspiration from a New York Magazine article entitled Ellen Pao and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove (we’ll talk more about Pao later on), I entered into this topic less with the desire to try to “prove” a specific point, but rather to explore an issue that continues to rise to the top of conversation in the entrepreneurial space.

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Marketing and Growth Lessons for Uncertain Times

ConversionXL

It can also keep your employees employed or help you retain your job—a modicum of security in uncertain times. At the same time, the company contained its operating costs and came out of the recession stronger, bigger, and more profitable than it had been in 1999. Survey design. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Going Global At Launch: Tips For Building A Micro-Multinational Startup

ReadWriteStart

Until recently, the designation “multinational” was reserved for giant corporations. In a 2007 report, the Council on Competitiveness quoted a USA Today survey revealing that, “ of venture-backed software startups created since 1999, nearly 40% have employees outside the United States.”. This is no longer the case. only operations.”

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Changes in creative & tech industries

Start Up Blog

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Often we create and curate the community conversation for the brands for which we work. Q3: With regards to security, how will recent attacks against Google, Sony, and Epsilon impact the industry? This is an interesting question.

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Creative & Media agency landscape

Start Up Blog

Who would have thought that Apple would be the world biggest music retailer today back in 1999? Often we create and curate the community conversation for the brands for which we work. Q3: With regards to security, how will recent attacks against Google, Sony, and Epsilon impact the industry? This is an interesting question.

Media 59
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Two Overlooked Aspects Of Your Site Design That May Be Hurting Conversions

ConversionXL

Normally, I dig into massive amounts of data, but today, I think we should talk about something that’s a little bit more subjective & open to interpretation – design. Do you purposefully try to communicate that through typography , images , and design as quickly as possible when a visitor lands on your website?