The Triangle Heart Ball brings together our community’s most prominent physicians, executives, philanthropists and leaders every February for an inspirational celebration of life. This elegant, black-tie affair includes dinner, dancing, live entertainment and both silent and live auctions. It is a premier social event to celebrate and support the American Heart Association’s mission to build […]
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User testing is part of any sound UX (or user experience) strategy, designed to increase the quality of a person’s interaction with your website, system, product or service. Getting a fresh perspective through user testing helps you identify issues as early as possible – ultimately helping you increase your ROI. As UX experts like to say, test
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The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in employment, transportation, public accommodation, communications and governmental activities. What you may not know is that the ADA and other standards require that governmental websites be accessible to those with disabilities. Below, we answer the most pressing questions. What are the requirements? The
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Many inbound marketers use gated content to generate leads. The idea, of course, is that you offer to give something (a tasty piece of content) and get something in return (valuable information to help you qualify and reach out to leads). Recently, the Signal team enjoyed a vigorous discussion on the old but important question:
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The value of communications across the employee lifecycle The competition for talent is intense – especially in thriving industries such as life sciences and biopharma – yet there are many smart and skilled people available for those who know how to attract them. Once these awesome people are onboard, you need to retain them to
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Grab a life jacket! Your customers are swimming in data and information. Every minute, email users send more than 200 million messages while Facebook users share nearly 2.5 million pieces of content – and that’s just two channels. You can help your message break through by appealing to our natural “visual wiring” with interactive storytelling.
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Maintaining and growing your mailing list is an essential part of your business – at least it should be. Unfortunately, email lists frequently fall into an auto-pilot mode. Here are some proactive ways to keep the efforts moving in the right direction. 1. Use pop-up newsletter prompts. Despite what your gut and common sense may tell
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“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo da Vinci At Signal, we’ve always focused on a highly collaborative, iterative design approach – from apps and websites to marketing communications. So when Fast Company asked thought leaders for their predictions on the future of web design, we were pleased to see that “The design
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Your Blueprint for Marketing Success If you have spent some time in Google Analytics, Piwik or Adobe Analytics, you’ll find the power of website analytics can be jaw-dropping. You will quickly realize how your company uses analytics to report on and inform your strategies and marketing efforts can be arrived at from an infinite number
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A recent report from Deloitte highlights that Millennials (age 14-25) spend more time watching online video content than watching live television. Video is just getting hotter – and not only for the Millennial crowd. Nearly half of Americans subscribe to a streaming video service and binge watching has become routine across generations. If video is
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