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Twisted Puppy Blog: Integrating Google Analytics Event Tracking in a HubSpot Form
Integrating Google Analytics Event Tracking in a HubSpot Form
17 February

The Problem We had a recent project where the client wanted to embed HubSpot forms into their regular website. Why?

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Twisted Puppy: V Is for Value Proposition
V Is for Value Proposition
30 January

How to Create an Effective Value Proposition (and Keep Trying When You Fail) A powerful sales value proposition is essential

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Twisted Puppy Blog: Four Building Blocks of Website Success
Four Building Blocks of Website Success
19 December

You may have read about AIDA, an acronym for Attention – Interest – Decision – Action. We’ve been explaining how to manage funnels in Octagon of BOOM, with reference to AIDA in some of our live presentations. AIDA represents the four building blocks of website success, and here’s our philosophy behind how you can use it to grow your revenue.

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Twisted Puppy: Social Proof - Convincing Customers You Rock
Building Social Proof: Convincing Customers You Rock (Part 2 of 2)
2 May

Social proof can have a huge impact on your online marketing. In our earlier post, we discussed how combinations of

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Twisted Puppy: Social Proof - Convincing Customers You Rock
Social Proof: Convincing Customers You Rock (Part 1 of 2)
28 April

The science of social proof is growing harder to refute. As humans, part of our DNA is looking to our

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Twisted Puppy: Always. Be. Converting. The State of Conversion in 2016.
Always Be Converting: The State of Conversion in 2016
13 April

Repeat this conversion mantra after me. Always. Be. Converting. It seems that many small and midsize businesses assume that having

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Twisted Puppy: 10 Questions to Ask Website Designers & Developers
10 Questions to Ask Website Designers & Developers
19 March

Want to make sure you find the right web designer or website developer for your new project? Here are 10 Questions to Ask Website Designers & Developers.

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Twisted Puppy: Maximizing Effectiveness of Your Website
Maximizing Effectiveness of Your Website
9 March

Sometimes you stumble across something you wish you had said or created yourself. Here’s a fast & loose explanation from

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Twisted Puppy: How to Hire a Great Web Development Agency
How to Hire a Great Web Development Agency
25 February

Too often, we hear stories of companies who retained firms to design and develop their website, but the results fell

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Anatomy of a High Converting Landing Page
Anatomy of a High Converting Landing Page
20 February

Definition of a Landing Page First things first (a pet peeve is folks who get this part wrong…). A landing

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Creating Effective Landing Pages: 9 Critical Steps
9 Critical Steps for Creating Effective Landing Pages
20 January

The best (and worst) thing about online marketing today is that there’s no shortage of advice. Blog, Tweet, Like, Share.

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Online Marketing 101: SEO Hack - Using Google Keyword Planner Landing Pages
Online Marketing 101: SEO Hack – Using Google Keyword Planner
12 January

If you’re looking for ways to build more traffic to your website (who isn’t!?!?), you should experiment with a variety

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Online Marketing: Start The Year On a Good Path
Online Marketing: Start The Year On a Good Path
30 December

Online marketing is a fickle beast – and you have to do it all the time. Like many of you,

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Landing Page Conversions: 7 Killer Flaws [Infographic]
20 December

Landing Page Conversions: 7 Killer Flaws An infographic from Convert.com that tackles the critical landing page conversions, outlining seven flaws

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Twisted Puppy: WordPress Must-Have Plugins
Twisted Puppy’s WordPress Must-Have Plugins
15 December

We regularly build WordPress websites for small to medium-sized businesses. Something that always comes into play is choosing the right

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Offshore Development: Trade-Offs vs. Working Onshore
Offshore Development: Trade-Offs vs. Working Onshore
14 December

I have hesitated on posting this for quite some time because I know it’s going to invite some vitriol from

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Software Development Projects (including Websites) Are Never Done
15 January

Chances are good that your software development project will never be done (unless it’s deprecated and unplugged!). Here’s our six

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Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) Meets Maslow’s Hierarchy
17 December

You’ve probably heard of Maslow’s hierarchy, part of a classical 1940’s publication about psychology and behavior. We often see diagrams

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SEO and The Tortoise of Website Performance
11 December

We were recently working on a website that took F O R E V E R to load, and that

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Holiday Prediction: Promotions Are Headed for Fatigue
16 November

In October, the National Retail Federation predicted a 4.1% growth in sales in November and December, compared to one year

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The Most Effective Press Release
29 October

<rant> Over my career, I’ve been involved with a number of software projects. Some of these projects were vaporware, while

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Shokunin
7 September

“The Japanese word shokunin is defined by both Japanese and Japanese-English dictionaries as ‘craftsman’ or ‘artisan,’ but such a literal

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Having Fun in Software Development
28 April

Software development, by its nature, is tedious. Attention to detail ensures quality, reliability and usability. But all work and no

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Perpetual Learning in Software Development
13 April

You’re like a shark – you have to keep swimming or you die. If you’re in software development, the learning

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Uni Direct LA: Ocean Fresh Sea Urchin, Anyone?
4 March

Uni may be an acquired taste, but for those who love it, it’s nectar. Feeling adventurous? Crack open a live

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Let’s Launch This Puppy… Hello, Twisted Puppy
1 August

Origins of Twisted Puppy When I registered the domain TwistedPuppy.com in the 90s, I had no idea that the path

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