This week we feature Justin Little, Co-Founder and CTO at uHerrd. uHerrd is an engaging online poll search engine that aims to replace comment sections on websites with a more quick and natural suite of applets for Readers to share their opinions. In this interview, you can read more about his work at uHerrd, favorite marketing tools, productivity tips as well as his advice for budding marketers. Your location: Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland. Your favorite gadget: My MacBook Pro. It’s my main design and development tool. Also there is the portability factor if I need to attend an event ..read more

You are what you eat. And what we feed our bodies impacts our day-to-day life, including our productivity. If you’re feel constantly tired or unmotivated at work then it might have something to do with your eating habits. By changing what you’re eating in the office, you could improve your productivity, job performance and overall health. 1. Don’t Skip Breakfast In the rush to leave the house in the morning, a lot of working professionals end up missing the most important meal of the day. Skipping breakfast can hinder productivity and affect your ability to focus throughout the day. Havi ..read more

Image credit: https://dpdk.com This week we feature Paul Jitta, CFO at DPDK. DPDK is a creative digital agency based in Rotterdam which delivers creative strategy and digital production for a wide range of engaging projects and products. They are designers, technologist, producers and thinkers with a shared passion for innovation and creative ideas. In this interview, you can read more about his work at DPDK, favorite marketing tools, productivity tips as well as his advice for budding marketers. Your location: New York. Your favorite gadget: My remote lights. You start your da ..read more

If you are an agency or a brand, when it comes to web design, there’s really only two things that matter: form and function. And that’s precisely what you’ll end up asking of your web designers, as well. And unless you can define clearly what’s expected from their design — flow of information, the expectation from all artwork, interactions — things have a way of turning awry very quickly. Only a matter of time then that you’ll start to face more speed bumps than milestones. And in hopes of quick wins, you’ll end up making more compromises with the design than desirable. Speaking of, let’s say ..read more

This week we feature Chetan Saxena, COO at Digital Success. Digital Success is a digital marketing agency based in Dallas, TX, delivering top-notch SEO, PPC, Social Media, Content and Programmatic advertising services. In this interview, you can read more about his work at Digital Success, favorite marketing tools, productivity tips as well as his advice for budding marketers. Your location: Dallas. Your favorite gadget: My Synthesizer. You start your day with: Yoga. Your favorite time-saving trick: Check list. Your top 3 blogs you read daily: SEO roundtable, SearchengineJournal, M ..read more

Photo credit: https://unsplash.com/@bency In project management, scope creep — the unwarranted bloating of a project’s scope — is all too common. Here’s everything you need to know about it, how to manage it, and the resources that can help you prevent it. Image: Dilbert Picture this. You’ve signed up for a project and are excited to be working on it. But every once in a while, right in the middle of all the action, the scope of work seems to change. New tasks are randomly added, some are made redundant and others are changed beyond recognition before you’ve even had a chance to ask why a ..read more

Image credit:https://www.facebook.com/Trilyo/ This week we feature Neelam Agarwal, Head of Marketing at Trilyo. Trilyo enables you to engage your customers and reward them for brand advocacy, not just at every spend, but with every interaction. In this interview you can read more about her work at Trilyo, favorite marketing tools, productivity tips as well as her advice for budding marketers. Your location: San Francisco, California. Your favorite gadget: Amazon’s Alexa. It has exceptional voice recognition capability and its range of continuously growing skills amazes me. You start your ..read more

2018 has arrived and it’s perhaps tactful to get a little reflective, examine the happenings and the marketing trends of the year before and draw out some learnings for the year ahead. This year, in addition to asking ourselves how marketers can work better with each other, we are also asking how they can become better at work itself. The ways of marketing change all too quickly, especially in the digital space, and technical skills in marketers are seen as table stakes. Creativity is essential, still, but it’s unlikely to pivot your successes. Especially in the long run. Keeping pa ..read more

Image credit: https://www.facebook.com/yacknet/ This week we feature Alan mortis CEO at Yack.net. Yack.net is a simple and flexible collaboration instant messaging service enabling all types of business conversations with integrated speech to text transcription. In this interview, you can read more about his work at Yack.net, favorite marketing tools, productivity tips as well as his advice for budding marketers. Your location: Newbury, United Kingdom. Your favorite gadget: My favortie gadget is my Apple Watch because it tells me when ever anything happens and I never need to use cash in ..read more

In order to understand, empathize, and ultimately stay in touch with customers, I often feel very silly for having to remind myself of 3 simple keys. Whether I’m designing, developing, or supporting customers on a web or mobile application, as soon as I find myself confused and out of touch with my customer, I fall back on these 3 keys: KEY 1 — STEP AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER I get tunnel vision. I have a fantastic idea, or hear of one through a customer or teammate, and run with it full force. I research and design and build and write and come up with something completely useless. A hug ..read more