The world of Big Data seems intimidating and elusive—uninhabitable unless you’re a Fortune 500 company with a fortune to spend. In actuality, small-and- medium sized companies can live in the same space as large corporations because of Big Data’s accessibility and...
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Search and Social – No Easy Button
I recently had the opportunity to attend Social Brand Forum 2014, a digital marketing and social media conference where thought leaders from across the country shared their ideas on search, social, YouTube and overall content marketing. What I learned is that there is no easy button for digital marketing and social. But there are a […]
Cinematography is Catching Attention
I stared, mesmerized by the slight movement of an otherwise static photograph. A woman sitting on a dresser, wearing a long dress, slowly swinging her crossed-leg back and forth. It looked so realistic that it was almost eerie.The term “ cinemagraphy ” was coined in 2011 by two New York photographers. Four years later, it has advertisers buzzing because of […]
Staying On the Right Track With Social
E-mail. Digital. Search Engines. Mobile. New media. Social media marketing. The list of marketing avenues goes on and on. It’s a fun and exciting time to be in the industry with so many shiny tools available, but it can be overwhelming for the same reason. With new platforms constantly being created, others shutting down, and […]
How to Blend Print and Digital Media
“You got your digital media in my print media!” “You got your print media in my digital media!” A quick parody on a commercial that features a chocolate bar and jar of peanut butter who combine their deliciousness to form the ultimate confectionery experience, the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. Print and digital media, in their broadest definitions, can and […]
Data Stories
The work of data scientists and analysts isn’t much different than that of historians. Such a scholar collects information on a topic of interest — including people, places and events — and synthesizes those points into a unified narrative. The story then lends insight to cause and effect, change over time, and, ultimately, what the past can […]
RX For a Design Headache: How To Keep your Readers Out of the Doctor’s Office
It’s that time of year again—blustering cold temperatures, busy holiday schedules, infinitely long To Do lists, and the resurgence of the common cold. With so much going on, design can take care by avoiding advertisements over saturated with information, and in turn, keep clutter-inducing headaches at bay. The Ailment: Clutter-itis Showcasing too many products, the […]
Mail More, Pay Less!
The cost of a single postage stamp has risen to 50 cents, but commercial mailers can continue to benefit from a USPS program that was launched in January 2017. One Price is a postal revision with which mailers will pay the same price for First-Class Mail® Presort and...
IT Security: An Investment
What does your company do to protect you? After all, they hold the key to your life: Social Security Numbers, Addresses, Benefit Information, Bank Account and Routing numbers, etc.… Yet, the pushback from employees about implementing simple security features such as...
Recipe For A Happy Customer – WP Bakery Visual Composer
One of the cool things about MITTERA is that we work with organizations of all sizes: family-owned small businesses, local nonprofits, large state universities and even presidential campaigns. We’ve arrived at this point, in part, because we’re WordPress people at...
The Data Munging Blues
The most successful joke among statisticians (a low bar, I know) is that we spend 80 percent of our time cleaning data, and the other 20 percent complaining about cleaning data.The joke resonates with analysts because it rings true. We do spend a nontrivial amount of...
Staying Connected by Disconnecting
We are more globally connected than ever before. The prevalence — and pervasiveness — of constant technological acceleration and innovation is undeniable. As tech advancements and opportunities for connectedness or opportunities to disconnect continue to emerge, so...
Social Media for Live Events
As a spectator in the audience, it’s hard to appreciate the amount of planning and detail that goes into putting on a successful live event. Whether it’s a sporting event, conference, or music festival, there can be hundreds of people working behind the scenes to make...
Helping Make D&A Part of Your DNA
Mittera Data and Analytics has been a part of Mittera's core services for roughly two years now. As I look back over our experiences and try to characterize what it means to work in marketing analytics, only one thing sticks out as universally true; "custom solution"...
Specialization VS. Generalization : The “IT Question” of Business
The question of specialization vs generalization has been around longer than our country has been unified. The industrial and democratic revolutions were largely influenced by the ability to break ideas into compartments and bring in skilled associates to take care of...