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Alex Ramadan

Optimizing Deliverables for Maximum Usefulness

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With every deliverable UpBuild sends to a client, our primary goal is to ensure the end user can understand the document as thoroughly as possible without needing to ask us additional questions. We don’t mind questions, of course (we love them actually!), but we realize our client’s time is limited. Our time is limited. We don’t want to waste the time we do have discussing something that could have been avoided had we taken the extra step to answer it in the deliverable already.

To achieve this goal, we spend time making sure everything we send out looks a certain way, follows specific guidelines, and ultimately successfully educates the reader on the issue, what the next step should be, and who is responsible for it. 

Before sending anything to a client we always ask ourselves, “will this make someone’s day better?”

In this post, I’ll go over some ways UpBuild builds its deliverables so that they provide the maximum value to the client.

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The Mixed Content Apocalypse and How to Stay Ahead of It

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Google will begin to protect users more aggressively from otherwise-secure websites that load insecure resources in the coming releases of Google Chrome. This type of content is known as “mixed content,” or serving content using different security protocols (HTTPS or HTTP). Google will begin to block resources from loading on an HTTPS website if the resources are not secure or using HTTPS.

What this means for your website is if you have image files, CSS, JavaScript, or third-party resources that your site relies on for display or functionality purposes, they might not work in Chrome if they are not secure. The results could end up being as small as one image not showing up, or as catastrophic as your site no longer working properly in Chrome to a non-secure JavaScript file.

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Common Google Analytics Setup Errors and Omissions

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We’ve seen our fair share of Google Analytics configurations here at UpBuild. The types of analytics accounts we get to work on run the gauntlet from completely broken configurations to some seriously inspired advanced tracking setups that even have us impressed. 

Even though every analytics setup is slightly different, most accounts we deal with share some pretty common errors or missed opportunities. I’ll go over those here, so hopefully, you don’t miss these while setting up your own analytics.

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What Is Lead Scoring and How You Can Do It In GTM

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Lead scoring is an imperfect science, and one that will depend on where and who you work with. To “score” a lead means to assign it some value that can be used for evaluation of the lead’s quality later. For example, you could qualify or score a lead based on the lead’s budget. If you are a design agency whose projects typically cost $5K-$10K and the client has a budget of over $10k, then that would be a great lead, while if they had less than $1k, they wouldn’t be able to afford to work with you, and it would be a bad lead. You could also evaluate the lead based on the lead’s title. For example, if you’ve determined that leads close at a higher rate if you’re dealing with a VP or C-Level executive, you could score the lead based on who submitted it. If it’s a VP of Sales, then it’s a Hot lead, while a Junior Analyst might be a Cold lead.

Lead scoring is hard because every business is different and there are no industry standards to score your leads against; you have to use your own in-house data and experience to determine what is a Cold, Warm, or Hot (or Bad, Medium, or Good, or whatever other scoring rubric you’d like to use) lead. Before you start scoring leads, talk to as many people on your sales team as you can to determine what makes a lead Hot or Cold, and what information they use to qualify leads. This type of intel is what will help you decide which metrics to use to score a lead.

With that in mind, if you have the data and can qualify your past leads by a particular characteristic of that lead, then you can significantly improve your analysis of your leads using Google Tag Manager (GTM)  and Google Analytics.

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Tools We Love: Regex101.com

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The tool that we love that we’ll be highlighting today is Regex101.com, which can help you build and test regular expressions.

Regular expressions were one of the hardest things to get my head around when I first encountered them.  They appeared alien (still do sometimes), and applying them to a real-world situation at the time was difficult. I tried to “get” regular expressions for a long time with many failed attempts.

While I still don’t have the language anywhere near mastered, and wouldn’t even joke about being an expert in it, using the Regex101.com really helped me get over a lot of hurdles using the language for my day-to-day work.

While this post won’t teach you regular expressions, it will give you some tips on using Regex101.com to learn and build functioning expressions.

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