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What to Expect In a Business Requirements Workshop, 729 Solutions will walk you through a series of questions, exercises, interviews, and worksheets to create a powerful and thorough Business Requirements document that clearly outlines your current digital needs and the methodology by which 729 Solutions can help you achieve these goals. This process can be… Continue reading Business Requirements Workshop

What to Expect When we’re building a new website, product, or service for our clients, our 729 Studios team uses all of the design tools, techniques, and philosophies that are at our disposal. For most projects, this includes creating wireframes and mockups to demonstrate what the finished product will look like. But sometimes our clients… Continue reading Prototype Workshop

What to Expect In a Project Kickoff Workshop, 729 Solutions will make sure your project is starting off strong with our time-tested project management processes. We’ll walk through each of the steps that we’ll be taking to get your project across the finish line and make sure you know what information, access, the documentation you’ll… Continue reading Project Kickoff

Zendesk is rolling out the red carpet in its first-ever “CX Academy Live,” an online event that will see startups from around the world compete in several award categories. Among the panel of esteemed judges will be our very own Zendesk “Guru”, Brandon Tidd. Brandon has been working with startups and small businesses for nearly… Continue reading 729 Solutions Software Architect To Judge Zendesk CX Awards

Our planet has approximately 7.5 billion inhabitants, with over 6,500 different languages! Given this widespread of languages spoken, there is a clear advantage given to companies that can make their products and services available in multiple markets using that area’s native language and culture. WordPress is the number one Content Management System (CMS) and powers… Continue reading Localization in WordPress

How Website Design Can Affect Traffic & Conversions As humans, we rely on our senses to make first impressions of people we meet. This study found that more than 69% of people form a first impression of someone before speaking. The key indicators contributing to these first impressions range from smiling, politeness, listening, and even… Continue reading How Website Design Can Affect Traffic & Conversions

The Ultimate Brand Toolkit: Your Brand’s Perfect Recipe In 2007, a prominent research firm found that people were being exposed to 5,000 brand messages every day. Every. Single. Day. Imagine how much more competition the consumer has for their attention nowadays! Enter you: You’ve created a badass company you’re proud of. You have a solution… Continue reading The Ultimate Brand Toolkit

User Experience Design What is UX Design? What’s the Difference Between UX Design and UI Design? Why Do I Need UX Design? Are you confused by the term user-experience design? If so, you are not alone. Many people use it to cover the process of creating products that provide meaningful and relevant experiences to users.… Continue reading What Is User Experience Design?

Zendesk Guide Customization: What Option Is Right For You? One-size doesn’t fit all when it comes to your business’s customer support needs. Zendesk Guide is a great way to allow customers to help themselves to support articles and get the answers to the questions they have while taking the burden off of your support team.… Continue reading How to Customize Zendesk Guide

This piece will layout simple steps to follow to create and conduct a high-level usability survey and interviews with internal staff and select clients, covering topics such as: What methods to use (survey, interviews, etc.), Who to survey/interview, What questions to ask, What tools we recommend, Pro tips for a successful user testing, and How to compile your findings.

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Your Sales Team is the First Chance to Make a Difference on a Project In the Development and Professional Services universe, where we at 729solutions spend most of our time, clients often reach out with a problem we’ve never seen before. It requires the work of our Sales Team, with the help of our Scoping… Continue reading A Good Sales Team is a Client’s Best Friend

When you begin creating a marketing plan, it’s important to have an understanding of the language that is going to be used throughout the marketing processes. It may be a little confusing, that’s why we decided to create this list of 10 key marketing terms to help you get started! Inbound Marketing – This is… Continue reading 10 important Marketing Terms you should know

What’s an API? Here at 729 Solutions we spend a lot of time talking about APIs, but do you know what that means, what they are meant for, or why they are important? API stands for Application Programming Interface, which simply put is a set of clear definitions and methods for communicating with a particular… Continue reading APIs are Key Part of System Integrations

Make website design easier by knowing these common web design terms If you work in tech, own your own business, or if you’ve ever created your own website, app, or print materials, you likely know a little bit about how to work with a web page designer. It can be daunting to enter a web… Continue reading 15 Terms To Get You On The Same Page As Your Designer

Responsive web design services make your site mobile-friendly and beautiful Have you ever quit reading a website on your cell phone because the text was too small and difficult to read? Have you had to struggle to pinch and pan back and forth across the screen in order to read every line? Of course, you… Continue reading Let’s learn all about responsive websites

Why We Test Much has been written about software testing. There are examples and tutorials for every kind of software testing under the sun at the end of a Google search. Unit tests, Smoke tests, UI tests, workflow tests, Load tests, and Hydration tests, just to name but a few! As Developers write code, they… Continue reading Why Is Software Testing So Important To Successful Engineering?

The Constant Contact API, managed by TIBCO’s Mashery, will no longer support TLS v1.0 or v1.1 when establishing secure connections. Because of changes made to meet new regulations set by  PCI (The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) TIBCO Mashery was required to turn off TLS v1.0 or v1.1 across their stack by June 30,… Continue reading Constant Contact API is Making Some Changes

If Velocity Based Agile is all about success, what does success look like? Here are two examples of how 729 Solutions used Velocity Based Agile to achieve customer happiness. Case Study #1 Client: Larvol Business Scenario: Give the client clear insight into short term timeline and budget without removing their ability to add scope, re-prioritize,… Continue reading Velocity Based Agile in the Wild: Two Case Studies

Sometimes it’s hard to decide when it is time to go outside of your company for resources. Our VP of Sales and Marketing Graham Silbermann breaks down when you should keep the work in-house versus when it’s time to hire an agency to pick up the slack.   Reasons to use in-house resources: Such a… Continue reading When To Hire An Agency