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2013

Highlights from AspDotNetStorefront’s Developer Conference

A little over a month ago, Nirav (one of our senior developers) and I attended AspDotNetStorefront’s 2013 Developer Conference in Ashland, Oregon. It was a great opportunity for us to meet and speak with the AspDotNetStorefront team, and it gave us good insight into what might be ‘in store’ for 2014 and beyond.

In this post I would like to share the highlights of the AspDotNetStorefront (ASPDNSF) developers conference.

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Map, Pins, Pinterest? Check. Ready to travel

Toward the end of November, Pinterest launched a new feature – ‘Place Pins’. These pins, in conjunction with an online map, present another opportunity for businesses, and not just for companies in the travel industry. In this post we provide a brief update on how to use ‘Place Pins’ and how to create ‘Place Boards’ to market places, products, services or company stories. Use these boards for events, branding, travel and much more.

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A B2B Social Media Approach

These five steps will help you understand what you need to do in order to create and manage your social media presence. Our goal is to help you achieve your goals, whether that’s more leads or sales, positive corporate exposure, or customer loyalty. This post will help you break the whole social media process into easy-to-manage steps. We’ve even included a visual that you can print off and look to when you need a reminder.

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14 Websites,19 Creative and Highly Functional Web Design Elements

Every webmaster or digital marketer should know which aspect of their website is a strength or a weakness. We’ve compiled a list of 14 websites that incorporate elements worth taking note of. When you’re browsing, keep an eye open for things that just might make your website that much better. From footers that incorporate really useful information to buy buttons that stand out, we should have one of everything!

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Google Plus for Beginners – Video Guide and Written Guide

This ‘crash course’ provides the perfect information for any Google Plus newbie. It will guide you through using your Google+ page as a business and as an individual. This guide is complete with a video walkthrough. If you’re looking for additional information, don’t hesitate to leave a comment and let us know what you’d like to learn more about. Otherwise, go ahead and give us the +1 thumbs up!

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Google Circles – The New SEO

Thanks to Google and recent updates, understanding Google+ is becoming increasingly important. Why? Because if you’ve got a Google+ account (and you DO if you have a Google account), your Google+ social signals are affecting HOW you view the search results. Turns out, that if the people you’re following have +1’d a link, it’s going to be a LOT more likely to show up in your results, even if the correlation between your query and the +1’d article isn’t that great (even if the keywords aren’t exact matches).

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Xanthos is going to AspDotNetStorefront\’s Conference in Oregon, USA!

From November 5th through November 7th, Xanthos will be attending the 2013 Developer Conference in Ashland, Oregon. It’s the first time we’re heading overseas for a conference and, according to AspDotNetStorefront, the first time that ANY UK Digital Agency will be represented. We will be tweeting live from the event as well as answering any questions.

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Xanthos is going to AspDotNetStorefront’s Conference in Oregon, USA!

From November 5th through November 7th, Xanthos will be attending the 2013 Developer Conference in Ashland, Oregon. It’s the first time we’re heading overseas for a conference and, according to AspDotNetStorefront, the first time that ANY UK Digital Agency will be represented. We will be tweeting live from the event as well as answering any questions.

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The B2B Ecommerce Web Design ‘Template’ for 2013

A simple Google search for ‘2013 ecommerce web design trends’ reveals only the standard stuff we all probably already know – responsive web design, focus on search, minimalist web design, infinite/long scroll pages, etc. Of those few posts that do review and provide links to specific websites in order to corroborate their findings, most of them are heavily B2C focused. Here’s our B2B-focused take.

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