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Google Business (or Google My Business)
A business listing that appears in Google searches for your business. This listing can include several types of information, such as the business’s address, customer reviews, pictures, company description, phone number or other contact information, and ads or announcements about the company.
Having your Google Business page set up and regularly updating and maintaining it is an important step in making sure your company ranks for relevant searches.
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A/B Testing
A/B Testing refers to controlled marketing experiments done to test different approaches to marketing campaigns. You’ll see it used most often in areas such as email marketing, with things like different headlines, or different offers. Or web design, where the copy and layout of a page will be tested in two different ways.
Within the experiment, you’ll split the audience who sees each, then monitor the results.
Using this method, you’re able to collect data on what approaches work best to get a desired outcome, such as email clicks, online purchases or newsletter subscriptions.
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Hick’s Law
Hick’s Law is a psychological principle that, in a marketing and web design context, relates to the number of options presented to a user. The more options a user is given, the longer it will take them to make a decision. Therefore, best practices in web design, for instance, include minimizing clutter and non-essential options from major pages, in order to focus user attention on those items you consider most important.
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Style Guide
A comprehensive brand document that outlines the guidelines for presenting a company and its brand image in both digital and physical placements.
Elements of a style guide can include color scheme, acceptable logos and uses of those logos, the tone and character of marketing copy, and any taglines or rules that are specific to the brand that may supercede generic grammatical rules.
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