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What We’re Reading, Watching and Listening To Over Holiday Break
Winter break is coming. The Atomicdust office will close for a week at the end of the year to enjoy time with family and celebrate the holidays. But we’re staying…
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The Role of a Marketing Firm
If you’ve never worked with a marketing firm before, or if you’re looking for a new agency and wondering what outcome to expect from the relationship, we put this together…
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Heroes, Spotlights, SEO – How to Make Your Digital Marketing More Effective
If you’re in a marketing role for your organization, these last couple of years might have been more challenging than most. In just a short stretch of time, the channels…
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5 Ways to Make Your B2B Site More Accessible (and SEO-Friendly)
Accessibility is a big buzzword in design, marketing and tech. More and more giants like Google and Apple are prioritizing inclusivity, and the amount of accessibility lawsuits continues to climb.…
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Why You Should Rethink Your Brand’s Value Proposition
Your company’s value proposition (or “value prop” if you love shorthand) is the single most important piece in your marketing puzzle. Why? Your value proposition forms the foundation (or at…
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Five Ways Your Website’s UX is Annoying Visitors
Atomicdust has been designing and building websites for almost two decades, and even though a lot has changed, one thing hasn’t: a good user experience, or UX, is vital. We…
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The Downside of Marketing Analytics
A few weeks ago on a phone call with a client, I was asked an interesting question. We’d been working with this client for about six months, executing various digital…
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Seven Lessons from My First Atomicdust Workshop
The story of branding workshops begins long ago, in the year 2016. It was before I came to Atomicdust, but as the legend goes, the team noticed that some clients…
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Getting Used to It: Your Biggest Competitor Isn’t Another Business
About a decade ago, we had a client that was based in Kansas City. For those of you that might not be familiar with the Midwest, that’s about a 5-hour…
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The Growing Importance of Design, Big and Small
My neighbors think I’m adorable. Yes, this is probably a strange way to start off this article about design, but it’s the best way – and the truth. So –…
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Simplifying Complex Brands with Infographics
We’re in the information age. With a few keystrokes or a voice search, practically anyone can find mountains of information—more than they could ever use or benefit from. Meanwhile, companies…
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Brands Get Embarrassed, Too! Here’s How To Move On and Build Brand Confidence
One of my fondest teenage memories was grabbing the latest J-14 magazine and flipping straight to the “Most Embarrassing Moments” page. With tears in my eyes, I’d read tales of…