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The team at Standard Beagle regularly shares deep insights and best practices you can use as your design and create your own products and services. Look to our blog for expertise in UX design, research, and other industry topics.
Social Media

5 Do’s and 5 Don'ts of using Instagram for business

Instagram has become one of the most popular forms of social media and one of the most popular ways for social media users to share photos and short videos with their followers since its launch in October of 2010. Instagram is about engaging followers. Instagram allows companies, individuals, non-profits, etc to share their stories in […]

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Social Media

7 Social Media tips from the PBS social media experts

While at SXSW, I attended the PBS Social Media session which featured the social media teams of Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow and American Experience.   The biggest shock to me was that these “teams” actually consisted of one single person for each show.  And it wasn’t even their full time gig! Some of their best practices that […]

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Snapchat app

5 ways to use Snapchat for your business

Businesses can use Snapchat for promotions, providing fast and simple video answers to customer questions, sharing behind the scenes photos and videos to engage consumers, and to stand out from competitors with their “Snapchat stories.”

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Social Media

Email marketing is 40 times more effective than social

We can all admit that email is not the coolest kid on the block. It’s not hip like Pinterest or Instagram. People aren’t going to have viral email newsletters and it won’t ever be a cleaver hashtag (unless it’s #emailstillworks). These days it seems more and more marketing agencies are pushing companies to use social […]

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Coding

Adding an additional layer of security

iThemes Security plug-in has added additional features to allow site admins to easily change their authentication keys and salts without having to actually make changes to their website code

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Coding

WordPress mistakes you can easily avoid

We have all made mistakes when it comes to using WordPress.  Here are a few tips to help keep you from making them too. Not backing up This is an easy mistake to make, and an even easier one to not make.  Believe me, have your site go down just once and you will realize […]

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