by Friends of Firebrand | Apr 29, 2025 | Blog, Business, Friends of Firebrand, Marketing
Way back when the ‘web’ was still a novelty, I had a go-to principle for usability debates when developers, clients, or bosses wanted to do the wrong thing: “Don’t make me think” Coined by usability consultant Steve Krug in his bestselling book of...
by Alastair Nee | Apr 14, 2025 | Blog, Business, Digital Marketing, Marketing
Ahoy, matey! We’re entering uncharted waters — new lands where old maps are no longer accurate. Just as Magellan once sailed beyond the horizon, naming newly discovered routes as he went, today’s marketers are navigating the unknown frontier of AI-driven...
by Nicole Pytel | Apr 2, 2025 | Blog, Marketing, PR
Nothing. That’s what I find in many early-stage startups’ content libraries when we first start working with them. It’s not their fault — many don’t have a full-time marketer, while others have a one-person band who’s frantically juggling content creation, social...
by Arman Khayyat | Mar 26, 2025 | Blog, Digital Marketing, Marketing, SEO
HTTP status codes (or HTTP response codes) are the “internet equivalent” of a conversation between your browser and the server. They communicate whether things between the two are functioning properly. In the realm of SEO, status codes are one of the most important...
by Morgan McLintic | Mar 19, 2025 | AI Tools, Blog, Marketing, PR
Organic traffic is going down for many startup sites. For those without large paid media programs, this is a problem since organic is the primary source of traffic. Why is it going down? Buyers might be searching less as they are distracted by events in Washington and...
by Lucy Allen | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog, Business, Marketing, PR
In Part One of this series, we asked: what does it take to be a thought leader? We showed why thought leadership is important for so many tech companies, especially those that need to educate their market or earn the trust of buyers, and we laid out the essential...
