Newsletter Articles
Managing Customer Service Interactions in Social Media
Social media has radically transformed how we interact with the world around us, empowering both companies and consumers alike. Businesses left, right and center have social media as a crucial component of their marketing plans, sales strategies and of course their customer relationship management. With social media, a consumer can do research on a company,…
Read MoreCustomer Spotlight: In Touch Ministries
For over 35 years, In Touch Ministries has employed a multimedia approach to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world via radio, television, satellite, cable TV, short wave, books, a monthly magazine and the Internet. Its newest website went live with Applied Innovations in July 2012 after moving from a previous hosting provider. …
Read MoreUser Experience Phase 3: Competitive Analysis
Our first article described the process of auditing and evaluating the User Experience of your website. Our second article talked about implementing some of the changes you identified in the first phase. Now we’ll take a look at your competitors and see what you can glean about how you measure up and how to capture…
Read MoreFor Ecommerce, Time is Money
Can you afford to have a slow site? Slow page loads and other factors that negatively impact conversion. Let’s do the Numbers We looked at every kind of data from every reliable source – from Forbes to Comscore. The numbers may vary slightly, but they pretty much tell the same story. And while speed is…
Read MoreDotNetNuke World 2012 Event Recap
In early October, some of our team got the wonderful opportunity to attend DotNetNuke World which is the annual user conference specifically designed for developers, web designers, administrators, business decision makers, and end users on the DotNetNuke Platform. We headed up to the event on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 10th and got to discuss…
Read MoreIntroducing GiveCamps–Developers (and AppliedI) helping Charities
As I type this message, there’s a group of volunteers gearing up to spend the next 48 hours hyped up on Caffeinated drinks, gorged on Pizza and sandwiches and busily typing away on keyboards, strategizing on whiteboards and tackling problems for the greater good. No, I’m not talking about a World of Warcraft marathon gamer…
Read MoreAppliedI Partner Spotlight: Arrow Consulting & Design
Applied Innovations is committed to cultivating and nurturing mutually advantageous relationships through our Partner Program. One of our most successful partnerships has been with Arrow Consulting and Design, a Palm-Beach-based firm specializing in custom development resources for ASP.NET, Windows/WPF, SharePoint and Silverlight, as well as web development, internet marketing, and graphic design. The Applied Innovations…
Read MoreThe Internet Infrastructure Coalition
Last year the Internet on a whole was concerned by the SOPA and PIPA legislation, myself included and the hosting industry came together with the rest of the Internet community and helped speak out against the looming threat of SOPA and fortunately SOPA was stopped. Unfortunately, there still plenty of work to be done as…
Read MoreCloud Services and Small Businesses
In 2011 Parallels conducted a market research study to help service providers better understand the current state of cloud hosting and the small to medium sized business. What they found was that today’s small and medium sized businesses are responsible for 15 billion dollars of the cloud market today and are the businesses that are…
Read MoreVote for Hilton as DNN Site of The Year & Visit Us at DNNWorld 2012
We are proud to announce that one of our hosting clients, Hilton Grand Vacations, is up for DNN Site of the Year. Please help them win by voting on Facebook. DotNetNuke World is the annual user conference specifically designed for developers, web designers, administrators, business decision makers, and end users on the DotNetNuke Platform. This…
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