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Dilly Dilly? Why Bud Light’s Pop Culture Catch Phrase Has Yet To Pay Off
Bud Light's Dilly Dilly campaign has been one of the most buzzworthy campaigns over the past few months, with the ads being mentioned nationwide as a creative and humorous success. "Dilly Dilly" has become synonymous with the approval of an action, specifically if...
The Email Savant Series: Creating Relevant Email Content
Year after year, email marketing continues to deliver a strong return on investment for marketers. According to eConsultancy in 2017, three-quarters of companies agree that email offers "excellent" to "good" ROI. Are you part of that one-quarter that does not agree...
Are You Making the Most Of Your Employee Handbook?
Quick question for you before I start: Where is your employee handbook? I am willing to bet that it’s in a dusty binder on the bottom of your bookshelf at home or in a desk drawer at work beneath a stack of folders and your gym bag. Maybe you’ve been working at your...
The Email Savant Series: Tips for Creating Sticky Email Content
If you feel you’re doing everything right in executing your email marketing strategy, but your audiences aren’t reading your messages and taking your calls-to-action, then it’s time to look at your content. The term “sticky” has been used over the years to...
Why Is Time Engaged More Important Than Ever?
We all know the stats about how distracted our audiences are. They now, supposedly, have an attention span of fewer than eight seconds. A reader will spend, on average, only 37 seconds on an online article. Top websites aim for two minutes of engagement per visit....
From Mashable to Time: Making Sense of the Chaos
Mashable was sold for one-fifth of its perceived 2016 value, Vice and Buzzfeed announced they are going to miss revenue targets by around 20% and Oath, which holds Yahoo, AOL and Huffpost, has laid off more than 500 employees. If that wasn’t enough, Time...
Driving Event Attendance Through Well Designed Curation
In August of this year, the Nxtbook Media design team volunteered its resources to develop two flyers and an enhanced Nxtbook to help raise awareness and promote Mike Sturla’s 6th Annual Back to School Give Away. Community service is one of our core values at Nxtbook...
Where Is the Digital Edition Market Heading?
The digital edition market continues to make turns, but is the product still a viable option for content creators? There was a time when page flipping digital editions were all the rage. I remember getting my first look at one of these content carriers while I was in...
An Ode to Adobe Flash
Most of you have probably seen the news from Adobe, but I still want to throw in my two cents. Adobe has finally put a date on the 'Death of Flash' that we've all heard so much about over the last couple of years. They will be supporting and providing updates for...
Being An Integral Part of Our Community’s Success
Our mission statement here at Nxtbook Media is “Exist to Inspire”. In more intricate terms, this means “We exist to inspire our community to realize its full creative potential. We embrace the fact that we are an integral part of our community’s success and will...
When Some of the Internet Breaks – A Note From Our CEO
One of the things that you learn pretty quickly in the software business is that software is built to run on top of other software and hardware. Not only does it run, it all has to be working really well and in concert with each other to be that effective harmony you...
Digital Magazines – Do Printers Really Care
When you consider digital publications, many publishers are continuing to try and figure out where these “digital step children” fit into their overall publishing strategy. As I have written previously, it is important for publishers to provide differences between...
Print and Digital Living In Harmony
When I think about digital publications and what it takes to create them, I often steer the conversation towards television advertising. Back in the day when television was becoming popular, the first paid TV ad ran on July 1st of 1941. It was given to Bulova watch as...
Three Email Metrics That Publishers Should Track
Want to be an email expert? There’s some analytics that you should be paying attention to. There are a lot of things competing for my attention on a daily basis. My family, profession, and friends are among the most important. Then comes menial household tasks,...
Three Benefits Digital Publications Have Over Websites
This is a question I have been hearing a lot lately from our clients. Faced with a plethora of publishing options, limited budgets, and crunched timelines, a web portal or microsite might seem like the best way to go to present your content. There can be benefits to...
A Breakdown of Google’s Recently Announced Flash Plans
Earlier this month, Google announced via the Chrome Blog that they will be continuing to de-emphasize the use of Flash in the Chrome browser. When you look past the scaremongering headlines and puff piece articles that abound on the Internet around the topic and look...
How To Explain “Uptime Preservationist” to Your Grandmother
Uptime Preservationist. That’s not a title you often hear. At Nxtbook we get to choose our own titles, so instead of the standard Systems Administrator or IT Manager, I chose Uptime Preservationist because it captures the goal of my position rather than just one...
Behind-the-Scenes of Meeting with Callie and Brittany
Welcome back to The Nxt! When Nxtbook first moved it’s headquarters to the Urban Place complex back in 2007, we were the happy new residents of Building Nine, which is 8574 square feet. We had exactly three conference rooms, all in a row, that I referred to as “The...