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Spam phishing attempt of the day. I get these at least once a week. Always the same message … can you handle website design and do you take credit cards. They claim to be hearing impaired so you only communicate by text. Obviously, they don’t want to get on the phone with you and reveal … Continued
Tagged: credit card spam, hearing impaired spam, text phishing
At Agileana, we believe that work anniversaries are significant events – more so, in some cases, than birthdays. This week, we are celebrating the first work anniversary of Deborah Holmstrom, our CFO. The CFO position is probably one of the most important positions in a company. If a company cannot meet its expenses, make it’s … Continued
Tagged: celebrating work anniversaries, deborah holmstrom
Identity theft, hacking, phishing, and malware are huge problems and they are only going to get worse. Once of the biggest issues we have nowadays is that we have hundreds of accounts on hundreds of platforms and many platforms have unique password security requirements. Some organizations require 8 digit passwords while others require 10, 12, … Continued
How I got businesses to refund thousands of dollars and take responsibility We learned a long time ago that one unhappy client, regardless of whether or not they are in the right or wrong, can make life miserable for you if they decide to go social. “Going social” is like going ballistic but on social … Continued
Tagged: go ballistic, go social
There are a ton of communications tools out there. The problem is that there is a ton of communications tools out there. It’s a problem because people may monitor some communication channels while ignoring others. Consequently, important messages could get missed or delayed. For us, it is important to use the right tool at the … Continued
Tagged: basecamp vs team, email vs slack, slack versus google hangout, zoom versus gotomeeting
There are different ways of getting new business. One is through traditional advertising. Another is through word of mouth. A third way is word of mouse marketing. Word-of-mouse marketing relies more on clicks, searches, and hash tags. When it comes to growth hacking, developers apply science to marketing. Science is the study of behavior through … Continued
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We are pleased to introduce Jennifer Long to our staff at Agileana. Jenny is a graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and a Computer Science student at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. We originally met Jenny at our 2016 Summer Internship Hackathon, which was a 6-week tech venture designed to … Continued
Tagged: Agile development jobs in virginia, Growth hacker Washington dc, uva alumni, Word of mouse marketing
Congratulations to Virginia Alvarez on her two-year work anniversary with inQbation, the company that spawned Agileana, Balystic, and a host of other dot com startups. We originally met Virginia years earlier while she was attending college pursuing a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Interactive Media Design. At the time, she was seeking an internship … Continued
Drupal 8 is an entirely new content management system (CMS) re-built from the ground up using a more modern, modular, object oriented framework. Migrating from earlier versions of Drupal to Drupal 8 is almost like migrating from an entirely different CMS, but it is well worth the effort due to its advantages, benefits, and features, … Continued
Tagged: Drupal 8 contractor, Drupal 8 web developer, migrating to Drupal 8
In web design and development, we have this concept called, “Usability,” which means that we strive to make our websites and user experiences (UX) more intuitive and obvious to our intended target audiences. Once you become cognizant of usability, you start noticing it everywhere. When I land in a new airport and rent an unfamiliar … Continued
Tagged: how to make things intuitive, how to make things usable
Spam of the day. Like a recurring dream, I get this same spam email multiple times per month. Usually from a different person, usually in the form of a text message, and usually they ask if I also take credit cards. The one and only time I responded, they said they were hearing impaired and … Continued
Tagged: phishing alert, spam alert, spam of the day
Website design has evolved into a sophisticated art form backed by data-driven science. The graphical skills and thinking that used to work for static prints, flyers, and advertisements are simply inadequate for interactive user interfaces (UI) performed on a variety of device types, sizes, browsers, and connection speeds. To provide effective user experiences (UX), particularly … Continued
WASHINGTON, DC – Agileana, formerly inQbation, holds a General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) for Information Technology (IT) services under the GSA Schedule 70 for Special Item Number (SIN 132-51) IT Professional Services. You can find our schedule online at GSA eLibrary.
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Problem New business. In order to get new business, people (and companies that don’t know you) will ask for references from past clients. If you don’t have Happy Clients who have had Happy Endings then you have nobody to use as references for these prospective clients. Without happy clients and happy endings, it becomes extremely difficult to get new clients … Continued
Problem The problem is that we often forget about things and those forgotten things bite or haunt us down the road because we forgot to do something. These are things like forgetting to include the Google Analytics tracking code in a website before launch, forgetting to unblock robots while developing a website in stealth mode, … Continued
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