This is an article containing the monthly article digest of the month “May 2017” at RS Web Solutions (@rswebsols). You can easily find all our published articles of May 2017 in a ascending order by date. This is a monthly archive page to help our readers to give an easy-to-find list of monthly articles. Along with the article title, you can also able to read a short excerpt of each article. If you find an interesting article that catches your attention, you can, of course, click on the “continue reading” link to read the entire article. Happy reading!
1) 7 Unique and Long-Term Strategies to Improve Your Brand Identity
Published on: May 1, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
Consumers are more likely to buy products from a brand that they recognize. What does this imply if your business does not have sufficient brand recognition? Do you interrupt customers’ buying decision process to draw their attention? That seems like an unusually radical approach, doesn’t it? It’s better if you adopt a long-term approach. Brand building is a journey that you build upon and evolve along with your business. This is easier said than done, mainly due to the fact ...
2) Five Robust Microsoft Excel Functions That Help You Work Easier
Published on: May 1, 2017 | Listed under: Apps & Software
When you have just started using Microsoft Excel, a lot of questions, you may have a lot of questions. Although many users said this is a simple spreadsheet application, it can be a quite complicated program with new users. Creating tables, formatting and filling in data are very simple tasks, which can be done without taking a lot of time to learn. But managing and manipulating complex data require a lot of skills that you need to spend more time ...
3) Here’s Why You Need to Develop More Interactive Content
Published on: May 1, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
Do you feel like your content is getting stale? Tired of writing the same old bland blog posts that never get read or shared? You may need to give your content marketing a face-lift and interactive content could be the answer. Interactive Content: A Must-Have Content marketing has undergone a pretty clear progression. At first, there was pure text-based web content. Then, there was rich media content. Personalization followed as the third predominant trend. Now, we’re experiencing what Scott Brinker ...
4) Successful Marketing for Wealth Building Begins with Flexibility
Published on: May 1, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
Some people presume that a successful marketing campaign is something you can buy in a box or in a digital download for $97. And if you do that, and follow the instructions inside to the letter, you’ll get rich. But it doesn’t work that way. No matter what marketing strategy you buy, and no matter which promotional guru trains you. The level of success you achieve with your campaign can only be equal to who you’re being in the world. ...
5) Modern Day Gadgets to Gift Him on His Special Day
Published on: May 1, 2017 | Listed under: Technology
When it comes to gift giving, many of us find that it is easier to find that special something for a woman over a man. Perhaps, as ABC News reports this is due to the fact that women tend to love to shop and men do not. As a gift giver, we can see the preferences that a woman has when she is in the store. Yet, because men tend not to shop, finding that perfect gift can be a ...
6) Email Marketing: A Guide to Successful Email Deliverability
Published on: May 2, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
You might have mastered the art of email copywriting. And let’s say you write fantastic emails. But how can you ensure that your email reached the targeted recipients successfully? With so many competitors around, you definitely do not want to be blacklisted or unsubscribed. Moreover, modern email clients like Gmail or Yahoo or Outlook have deployed new ways to block spammers so that healthy conversations can happen. We have come up with a short guide for you to follow which ...
7) Risks and Advantages Associated With Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Published on: May 2, 2017 | Listed under: Technology
Right from offering or to offering simple payments with mobiles, the wheels of the technological world are really moving too fast. There was a time when you would look for simple automobile or radio parts from shop to shop and now, even mobile parts can be availed online that too from different vendors from all over the globe. Nevertheless, here we are talking about the latest revolution called AI or the Artificial Intelligence. Technically, it includes everything from autonomous cars ...
8) Five Reasons to Choose Magento 2.0 for your Virtual Store in Automotive Environment
Published on: May 2, 2017 | Listed under: Magento
The ever growing nature of automotive technology forces the automotive industry to have the dual attitude for their business growth, competitor-focused as well as customer-focused. Currently, having a virtual store or webshop is a rather a fundamental necessity for both of those attitudes. Of course, selection of right tools and technologies plays an excessively critical role for the same. Challenges In the automotive environment, comparatively, automobile part suppliers are more likely to get the advantage of eCommerce store due to ...
9) 3 Interesting Tips for Better Drone Performance
Published on: May 2, 2017 | Listed under: Technology
In case you haven’t noticed, aerial drones are one of the most popular new gadgets on the market today. Drone sales have soared in recent years. According to this Fortune Magazine article, sales of drones (also referred to as Unmanned Arial Vehicles, or UAVs) nearly tripled in 2016. Citing statistics from the retail research group NPD, there were almost one million drones sold in the US in 2016, making this one of the fastest growing technologies in the country. According ...
10) SEO Tips: Why Site Speed Actually Matters to Rank High in SERP
Published on: May 2, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
Ever visit a website that was painfully slow? It’s safe to say that the majority of us have. Interestingly, most of us didn’t really start to care about site speed up until a couple of years ago. So what changed? That’s simple: Our attention span. With practically every person and their dog owning a smartphone and/or tablet. The world of “instant” everything has rapidly expanded, causing most users to have high expectations, especially as more advancements are constantly being introduced ...
11) Smartphone Security: How to Avoid Smartphone Hackers
Published on: May 3, 2017 | Listed under: Technology
In 2016, it was estimated that roughly 2.1 Billion people around the world use smartphones. As you can imagine, those numbers are only set to increase with more and more countries developing and beginning to offer smartphones in their country. It is said that by 2020, there will be 2.87 billion people worldwide with smartphones (statista.com). As the increase in smartphone users rises so does the amount of theft and harassment from hackers. Hackers are finding innovative ways to tap ...
12) Top 6 Best Windows Smartphone On and Around or Under Dollar $200.00
Published on: May 4, 2017 | Listed under: Smartphone
Looking for the best Windows smartphone around the price $200.00? In the Smartphone market, there are lots of Windows smartphone available with lots of features like Good Camera Quality, Decent battery life, Smooth performance, and much more. Here we have listed the top best Windows-based Lumia smartphones that you can buy on and around $200.00. #1 Nokia Lumia 1520 16GB Unlocked GSM 4G LTE Windows 8 Smartphone The Nokia Lumia 1520 is the first Windows-Based Smartphone on our list of ...
13) 7 Brilliant Tips to Make Your Agile Projects Run Smoothly
Published on: May 5, 2017 | Listed under: Programming
Agile is a well-known project management practice that has moved well beyond software developers and their projects. Marketing, Sales, Finance and other industries are applying Scrum, Kanban and other Agile approaches in their processes and getting positive results. However, even with the best guidance and most extensive knowledge, making a transition from traditional project management into Agile is not easy. Trust me, having experienced multiple teams over going this change; there are always some things that just don’t seem to ...
14) Unturned Game Review – Available Free for Download and Stream
Published on: May 6, 2017 | Listed under: Apps, Games & Software
The Unturned game is a survival-based zombie apocalypse themed game available for free download on steam. The game is developed by Smartly Dressed Games, a Canadian based game developer. When playing the game, whether you are a single player or playing against someone your only goal is to survive, by all means necessary. The Unturned game graphics is simple and generally easy controls when playing; it is much deeper than it looks, giving a truly great experience to anybody that ...
15) Business is Slow? Follow this Guide to Promote Your Business
Published on: May 8, 2017 | Listed under: Miscellaneous
The promotion of business is as important to making your business successful as learning scales are necessary to play piano successfully. You might not like the promotional activities, but your business cannot succeed without them. Keep in mind that you have to take the word out because others will not do this for you. Despite the quality of your products and services, never trust others to promote your business. As you are the only one who understands its value and ...
16) Divi WordPress Theme Review – A Multipurpose Theme with Visual Page Builder
Published on: May 8, 2017 | Listed under: WordPress
What would be the dream of any web designer? Yes! The Divi WordPress theme, developed by the team of Elegant Themes, powered by the Divi Builder. It is insanely firm and has incredibly amazing front end editor which can work like nothing that you have ever seen. Your website will indeed change its original look and will build your website with innovative design. This Divi theme is powered by the Divi Page Builder drag and drop interface. This Elegant and ...
17) Wish to Build a New Website? Check Our Recommendation First.
Published on: May 8, 2017 | Listed under: Design
We know that website is the very necessity for small business, entrepreneurs, and other home-based businesses. If you’re selling some online products, you do require the website. It should have the detailed background of your products and should able to hold credibility. Nowadays, a vast number of shoppers are shopping and researching online. So there are a lot of chances to build your website now and start your business. Here we have the guide for your new website and how ...
18) An Effective Plan That Will Boost the CTR of Your Tweets
Published on: May 10, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
Persuading someone to click on a tweet on Twitter is an arduous task that keeps online marketers up at night. Because it is one of the most impact-making aspects. To measure the effectiveness of the tweets, marketers and other experts use click-through rate (CTR), which is defined as a number of clicks that a tweet received divided by the number of times the Internet users viewed it. It is a powerful indicator in internet marketing because it shows how to ...
19) 3 Ways to Improve Your App UX and Optimize for the Mobile First Index
Published on: May 10, 2017 | Listed under: Apps & Software
Searches from Mobile have overtaken those done by desktop, and Google, the world’s biggest search engine, acknowledged this fact and introduced the highly plausible Mobile first Indexing system. Google catalogs vast amounts of information on the World Wide Web and then prepares a ranking formulation for different search queries and keywords. This is called indexing. Previously, this was done with Google viewing each web page or information as a desktop user. But now it sees them through the lens of ...
20) Push Notification That Users Cannot Say “No” To
Published on: May 16, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
There’s little doubt that the smartphone is the most significant consumer invention of the 21st century. After all, people spend more time on smartphones than other gadgets or humans for that matter – you must have noticed that. No? Well, brands certainly have, and they have adopted new measures to increase their accessibility for smartphone users. Among these measures, push notification (wiki) are one of the more effective ones that help business communicate with their audience. Businesses encourage consumers to enable “alerts” on ...
21) SEO is the Key to Business Success. But How?
Published on: May 17, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
Before starting off with the importance SEO holds for any business, let’s have a look at what SEO is and why it has created such a buzz in the market nowadays. What is SEO? SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. It is a set of certain rules which are implemented over website or blogs in order to improve the ranking of that particular blog or website on search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. SEO helps in increasing the quality ...
22) How to Kick-Start Your First Social Media Campaign on the Right Foot
Published on: May 18, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
Social media offers businesses a platform to market their products and services at a low cost. Millions of people spend hours on social media every day. Successful business owners in the current digital world realize the importance of building their presence on social media. After reading many success stories, you start thinking of launching a social media campaign almost immediately. Entrepreneurs and consultants make advertising on social platforms look so simple and straightforward. The truth is that many social media ...
23) How to Spot Fake Reviews Online – Some Useful Tips & Tricks
Published on: May 20, 2017 | Listed under: Internet
Reviews are incredibly powerful, stronger than you might think. Many people take to the Internet to see if something is good before buying it, and they land on these pages that are full of reviews. They are putting their trust in the reviewer’s honesty, but the truth is that most online reviews are fake. Here are a few tips to spot and avoid these fake reviews. 1. Affiliate Marketing You first have to understand why people write fake reviews. The ...
24) Tips for Creating Employee Work Schedules that Work for Everyone
Published on: May 22, 2017 | Listed under: Miscellaneous
As a business owner, it is vital to remember that your employees look up to you for guidance and leadership. It is your responsibility to make the difficult choices when the time arrives. In some cases, your employees may not agree with your decisions, but they’ll respect them nevertheless. One thing that can really sever the relationship between employee and employer is the working schedule. If you fail to create work schedules that work ideal for everyone, you’re going to ...
25) How to Start Creating the Perfect Website for Your Brand
Published on: May 23, 2017 | Listed under: Design
Congratulations; you’ve put a lot of thought into it, and you’re finally ready to put your company online. You’re not alone; plenty of small businesses in the United States and elsewhere realize the lucrative potential of e-commerce. However, a lot of companies still haven’t committed to representing their brand with a website. In fact, in 2015 only 28% of small businesses in the US were selling their products over the internet. The takeaway here should be obvious: put your business ...
26) Instagram Influencer Marketing – Some Tips for Getting Success
Published on: May 23, 2017 | Listed under: SEO & Marketing
There’s much to be said about Instagram influencer marketing. It has enormous power over the reputation of your brand. If done right, entrepreneurs can leverage the marketing capabilities of everyday consumers to increase sales. It can also help you hone in on what your target audience really gravitates towards most. You can use that valuable information in your future campaigns. Influencer marketing is very prevalent in today’s social economy, and it comprises a vast space in the brand building. The ...
27) Technology Stacks – How to Mix the Right Cocktail for Web Development
Published on: May 23, 2017 | Listed under: Design
I can’t count how many times I’ve been asked about what technology stack is better or which one to choose for the next web project. The truth is that there is no such thing as technology stacks. Each one can be altered, tweaked, and upgraded over time. The Technology Stack is just a general term for describing a combination of programming languages, software units, and low-level application that works together. It’s a sum of technologies that allows your product to ...
28) Web Designers: 5 Hacks to Follow to Enhance Productivity
Published on: May 23, 2017 | Listed under: Design
Regardless of possessing an innate love to work as a web designer, it’s all natural for a person to lose up to the mark performance and to find it difficult to complete a project anytime. This doesn’t mean he doesn’t have skills and stamina to finish that project; rather it indicates the need to review the task management strategy and tools he might be using while working on different projects. Website designing is a creative job. It not only requires ...
29) How to Create a Successful Enterprise App Using HTML5 Apps
Published on: May 23, 2017 | Listed under: HTML
In the field of mobile app development, one of the hardest apps to make are enterprise app, as many developers would agree. It requires plenty of planning and organization, after all. Steps would always have to be taken in order for the business to properly function using its enterprise app solely. Otherwise, it simply wouldn’t be effective and wouldn’t gain the acceptance at an enterprise-wide level. Often, you would have to take into consideration primary factors such as the team ...
30) 7 Hacks for Web Designers to Make Clients Happy
Published on: May 23, 2017 | Listed under: Design
Web design is a pretty awesome field for a lucrative career. But it is also a very competitive field that comes with a lot of challenges. Even the best web designers face a lot of obstacles on the way. So they need to be able to work hard and never underestimate the power of learning new hacks in web design. Because of the ever-rising competition, every web designer needs to be able to stay ahead of the curve and always ...
31) 20 Best Selling Joomla Templates Spring 2017 from TemplateMonster
Published on: May 24, 2017 | Listed under: Joomla
If you are still puzzled over mysterious skills needed to build up a website, you’ll be amazed how easy it is in fact. Just keep on reading and learn how to be up and racing on the information superhighway these days. Most people think a website should be a miracle of a modern science. In truth, a great website design means simple yet effective layout, available product information and your contact details. It is a part of modern day life. ...
32) 7 Easy and Excellent Ways to Make Your Digital Brochure Faster
Published on: May 24, 2017 | Listed under: Internet
What is the most popular and traditional way to present your company or service? Yeah, you guessed it right – A Brochure! Here’s the definition from Wikipedia, The brochures are a great way to present your services and products in a more attentive manner. If you think that brochures are no longer relevant, take a look at these numbers:Here are some more brochure statistics from Bentley University: According to Forrester Research, “We live in the age of Customers.” And today’s customers are digital savvy, ...
33) 2017 Checklist to Ensure You Choose the Right WordPress Theme
Published on: May 25, 2017 | Listed under: WordPress
Each and every day a number of innovative WordPress themes are launched. These themes provide a makeover for your website. As the number of WordPress themes increase, website owners tend to choose different themes for their site. Availability of too many themes can lead to a complex selection process, and this is ending up with the selection of the wrong choice for your site. While choosing the themes for a website, one should consider many things in mind. A special ...
34) Internet Marketing Tools That Will Double Your Revenue
Published on: May 26, 2017 | Listed under: Internet, SEO & Marketing
Ever since the internet has evolved into time, it seems there are always entrepreneurs out there trying so many different marketing skills with intentions of trying to double their revenue. Can you blame them, really? Today, we are going to go over five specific internet marketing techniques which will double one’s revenue. Understanding the Key Notes to Develop a Mobile Strategy With everyone, including your grandmother having and religiously using cellular phones in the present day, it would be in ...
35) How is Technology Helping Banking Institutions?
Published on: May 29, 2017 | Listed under: Technology
Banking and finance are two important parts of commerce and are constantly developing. The scope of banking traditionally meant the accepting of money from their customers and lending any surplus to other people who had the need for funds. This has since evolved to providing a whole range of services to serve both financial and non-financial needs. Technology has significantly helped these changes. How is technology helping banking institutions? Initially, technology was used by banks for back office operations. This ...
36) 7 Excellent Ways to Outsmart Your Competition in 2017
Published on: May 29, 2017 | Listed under: Internet
As technology continues to evolve, it has become even more imperative for businesses to stay afloat in their various industries. Suddenly, you are now forced to adopt new marketing tactics, add new social media channels and revamp your sales funnels in order to stay ahead of the demand that your business may be producing. Because of this if your company wants to survive the 2017 technology shift you must be willing to not only evolve with the times, but you ...
37) 6 Quick Tips to Improve Your Business Operations
Published on: May 30, 2017 | Listed under: Miscellaneous
Operational proficiency is one of the most significant components that helps businesses to stay competitive and leads them straight to success. You can easily make consistent enhancements to create the biggest impact on your business. Here are 6 operational moves to extend profits and scale back expenses: 1. Review Your Business Plan A business plan is basically designed to magnetize investors and to provide a blueprint of your business. It must illustrate the goals, objectives, strategies, and suggests modes of operations for ...
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