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Ensuring proper delivery of web content can always be a challenge. While content isn't always "in the right place at the right time," structured content methodology can aid content-related issues on the front and back ends.
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Developing a content strategy for your business may seem like an impossible task – especially if you're one of only a few content creators on your team. These steps make content strategy accessible and manageable for even the smallest of teams.
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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Poor site performance and slow individual page load times can cause significant issues for your users and negatively affect your SEO strategy.

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Staff augmentation is a business strategy where the skills of your existing staff are evaluated to determine which additional skills are required. The benefits of staff augmentation include flexibility, control, and cost.
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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Strategic partnerships are mutually beneficial and allow businesses to bridge the gap between opportunity and expertise. The benefits of strategic partnerships include the chance to meet new clients, expand geographically, access new resources, and increase revenue.
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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Sometimes your content strategy can fall flat. This quick guide offers tips and tools to shake up your content strategy.
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A clearly defined brand voice gives your organization a specific personality and helps to reinforce the organization’s overall mission. A brand's tone, however, should vary depending on a number of factors.
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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A well-written meta description is a mainstay in SEO and has the ability to prompt a user to click through to your site, increasing the CTR and positively affecting your search rankings. 
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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Writing B2B and B2C content can be very different. Each type of content requires a different tone and channel of distribution.
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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Use the following tips to build a more trustworthy digital presence and encourage customer retention and loyalty. 
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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At this year's BADCamp, our Senior Web Architect Nick Lewis led a session on Gatsby and the JAMstack. You can watch the session here.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Even though SEO tactics have changed, there are still certain boxes you should make sure you’re checking when you publish content on your website. So how do you make sure your content is creative and appealing to readers, but still optimized for search engines?
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Consider repurposing your content to reach new audiences, increase brand credibility, and improve SEO.
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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A call to action is arguably the most important part of a piece of content for your website.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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If your landing page is poorly written or designed, it could cost you conversions. 
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Keyword research can go a long way in boosting your organic search performance. It also helps inspire new ideas for fresh content on your website.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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If you’re on a software development team, user stories are a useful tool in understanding how a feature works from the perspective of your users.
Alana Battalino
Alana Battalino
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If you hear “SEO” and immediately get overwhelmed, I have good news for you.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Editing can turn good content into great content, which can make all the difference when it comes to your website.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Here are some of the tools we use at Zivtech to help us stay on track with projects.
Emily
Emily Howards
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Writing can be daunting, but these tools can help you overcome challenges during the process.
Emily
Emily Howards
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You’ve perfected what’s already on your site, but now it’s time to take a deeper look through a gap analysis.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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If you’re familiar with software development, you’ve likely heard of agile methodology.

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During the redesign process of a website, there are many small changes that can ultimately affect the traffic of the new site.

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At Zivtech, we use a variety of methods to conduct thorough user research.
Emily
Emily Howards
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If you haven’t put significant time and effort into your site content in the past, it’s time to start.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Establishing a brand voice takes time and careful consideration, but it will help drive your strategy and build stronger relationships with your audience.
Emily
Emily Howards
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It’s that time of year again! Our team put their thinking caps on to consider what’s to come in web development, design, and tech in 2018.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Measuring the success of your site is a key step in the process, but it can be difficult to determine exactly what you should analyze in order to get a sense of what’s working and what’s not.
Emily
Emily Howards
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In a nutshell, a component is a design element used on more than one page.
James Cole
James Cole
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Games are simply another type of experience, so why wouldn’t the same principles of enjoyment translate to how someone uses a website? 
Jen
Jen Rovner
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Part of the art of PM-ing is trial and error, but try to start out with a structure that works well for you and your team right off the bat.
Maddie Presland
Maddie Presland
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It’s easy to get caught up in the details of design and feature development during a website build.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Choosing a vendor is one of the first decisions you need to make when you embark on a site redesign or upgrade.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Your website helps drive your business’s success, so it’s important to devote time to it through regular updates.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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If your startup isn’t already doing content marketing, this is why you should jump on the bandwagon.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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You can get valuable insight from visualizing each feature request's path to deployment as an assembly line that can be optimized.
Analytics
Here are a few tips and tricks to start improving your SEO over time.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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Without a well thought out and detailed strategy, achieving your goals might feel impossible. Here are 7 signs that your project needs a proper discovery phase before investing in any type of design and development project.
Marco De Paulis
Marco De Paulis
Experiment
A/B testing is a surefire way to continuously make improvements to your website.
Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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It seems obvious that user research is a critical part of improving the

Maddie Presland
Maddie Presland
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Every design and development shop knows that client communication plays a significant role in a project’s success.

Olivia Coplan
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If you’re unsure about what content your site has and what information it’s missing, you might need to do a

Maddie Presland
Maddie Presland
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A full architecture review is paramount before you start to develop a new site.
Maddie Presland
Maddie Presland
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Teach your employees how to effectively sing your company’s praises and be the best brand advocates they possibly can be.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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You've gone through all the checklist compliance work, but haven't seen any change in your site's speed. What's going on here?
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This week, Forrester released their report on the best web content management systems. See which products came out on top. 

Marco De Paulis
Marco De Paulis
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You shouldn’t have to rely on your original vendor to update and renovate your site. Train your employees and teach them the development skills that will suit your particular needs.

Christine Germeroth
Christine Germeroth
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There are a lot of different reasons why people need a site audit.

Quality

The quality assurance (QA) phase of a web development project is the last phase before launch.