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Tips to Make Your Website Accessible

Accessibility is about improving the web experience for everyone. Accessibility barriers make it difficult or impossible for visitors who are blind, deaf, hard of hearing, or disabled to use your site.

WebAIM analyzed one million homepages for accessibility issues and found that 98% of websites had at least one Web Content Accessibility Guidelines failure on their homepage.

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Increase Your Online Reach with Links

Often we focus our online marketing efforts on things we publish online. That’s great, but we also need to expand our audience to optimize on the impact of our content. Links increase our audience and help with search engine optimization (SEO).Here are the steps to follow for a successful link building strategy.

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Marketing, Social Media Marketing Mike Paffmann Marketing, Social Media Marketing Mike Paffmann

Advantages and Challenges With Social Media Marketing Efforts

There are many companies that have decided to invest in marketing and public relations  campaigns on social media platforms these days. In fact, according to a recent survey, around 90% of all US companies tend to use social media platforms as part of their overall marketing efforts. That means, for a company to be successful with its own social media marketing efforts, it needs to invest a lot of time and effort. This is an important aspect of social media marketing that companies need to keep in mind, and one of the best ways to circumvent all that competitors is by working with social media influencers or experts. Aside from that, companies have a few other challenges, as well as advantages when it comes to social media marketing.

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How To Reduce Screen Time for Employees

Technological advancement has connected us with multiple digital devices that make our work efficient but increase our screen time simultaneously. Whether you work remotely, or in the office, you have to sit in front of your computer for 7 to 8 hours straight. Spending most of your time on mobile phones or computer screens causes mental and physical fatigue. In 2017, a study reported that 31.7 million people were using their mobile phones actively in Canada. Similarly, 33 million active mobile phone users were recorded in 2019. 

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#TheSocialFrontier: The Digital Donation Era of Nonprofits

Over the last two decades, we have seen the rise of the nonprofit industry. Like its counterpart in the for-profit arena, nonprofits are becoming more specialized in their offerings and positioning. Today, there are nonprofits who have programs that are similar to one another and therefore considered to be direct competition. Look around – environment, healthcare, racial justice, children, education, animals, and many more initiatives for people to invest their time. 

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