Website Design

Like any customer-focused business, Broadbased puts its clients first. And doing so often means we have to find bits and pieces of time to work on our own projects – like updating our circa-2008-html website into a current-era responsive website. But the transition is finally complete, and already we are reaping the benefits of updated…

According to KISSmetrics, an average website has a bounce rate of about 40.5%. We recently heard a CEO ask the company tech guy: “What in the heck is a bounce rate?” This question brings a smile to our face and a tear to our eye, because it shows that the C-suite is looking at website…

BroadBased CEO Jan Hirabayashi wrote a recent article for the February issue of 904 Magazine, expanding on a previous BroadCast article about mobile website development. Read the expanded version of Is Your Website Mobile Friendly, Compatible or Optimized? (And why you should care) online at 904.

Many companies — perhaps yours is among them — have invested significant time and resources for a new website in the past five years. And many of those new websites, although up-to-date at the time, were built in HTML (count ours among them) and predated content management systems. So where are we headed with this?…

While technology can add serious complexity to marketing activities (see the news items above and below) it’s nice to know that some things have stayed relatively simple — like putting ink on paper. OK, it doesn’t have to be just ink on paper. Paper marketing materials can be sexy, too. Graham Riley, marketing director for…

Google recently changed its search algorithm to a version called Hummingbird (a name that’s intended to symbolize precision and speed). If you’re the type of person who monitors your SERPs (search engine results pages) closely, you may have seen some changes in your ranking. Websites that are heavy on content should have fared the best.…

The value of marketing automation technology is exploding. Once reserved for email marketing campaigns, the software is now being used to generate leads, track campaigns (social, Adwords, email, newsletter), and create intelligent email workflows based on user interest and behavior. A June survey of B2B marketers by www.emarketer.com showed how much the use of marketing…

Three companies. Three niches. One culture. One brand. That was the challenge facing The CSI Companies, a Jacksonville-based people solutions provider, when it set out to revamp its Web presence. We reported in May how BroadBased provided a solution for the corporate-level website — TheCSICompanies.com — and now CSI has added the final piece. The…

The LBA Group, North Florida’s largest locally owned CPA firm and a BroadBased client, recently brought home a BizTech Award from the Jacksonville Business Journal for “Best Use of Website to Generate Business Leads.” BroadBased designed the site, www.TheLBAGroup.com, which launched in 2012. “Since the redesigned site went live, more than $100,000 of new business…