Website Review
Friday Client Sugar
Fri, Jan 1, 2022
by Drew McManus
It’s always invigorating when working with great clients and a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of launching the redesigned Kansas City Repertory Theatre website: kcrep.org. Everyone inside the organization was just wonderful to work with from the initial inquiry call to checking off the final punch list item. And because we operate on
The First Step In Preparing For Post Net Neutrality Slowdowns Is Creating Speed And Performance Benchmarks
Fri, Dec 12, 2017
by Drew McManus
Here it is: the first of several installments on what you can do to push back again impending slowdowns once #netneutrality is gone. I published this at ArtsHacker.com yesterday and it provides step by step instructions on how to use three of the most popular page speed test tools: WebPageTest.org, GTmetrix, and Pingdom. With loads of screencaps, it provides everything
There’s Something Called Ghost Referral Spam?
Mon, Feb 2, 2016
by Drew McManus
Do you know if your Google Analytics data is corrupted by ghost referral spam? Wait, I didn’t know Google Analytics data could get spammed. What’s ghost referral spam or for that matter, regular referral spam? Unlike most types of spam you’re probably familiar with already, referral spam doesn’t actually interact with your website directly (which is good)
Stepping Up The Nonprofit CRM Challenge
Wed, Aug 8, 2015
by Drew McManus
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems seem to be a popular topic this season; in July, 2015, Nonprofit Quarterly ran an article that discussed the rabbit hole that is evaluating and identifying CRM proposals (which we examined here) and the 8/12/2015 edition of DestinationCRM.com published an opinion piece by a CRM CEO lamenting the lack of
There’s a Downside To Success
Tue, Apr 4, 2014
by Drew McManus
Simply put, business is booming. Back in January I published an article about the growth going on within The Venture Platform segment of my business and since then, the rate of increase has only picked up; moreover, a similar uptick in non-tech related consulting work kicked in shortly after the New Year. The only downside
