3D printing is now at DME Delivers.
You may have heard about 3D printing and that it has the potential to revolutionize the world, but how much do you really know about it? Here at DME Delivers we are all about education. 3D printing is also known as additive manufacturing and It was invented in the 1980’s. Since that time, it has been used for rapid prototyping. Rapid prototyping allows companies or people to quickly and efficiently fabricate a scaled model of a physical object or part using three-dimensional computer aided design (CAD) data. It wasn’t until the last few years that it started to evolve into next-generation manufacturing and has a lot of potential applications in the next few years. The materials that can be used for 3D printing include thermoplastics, pure metals, ceramics and many more. The objects are typically printed in 0.1 mm thin layers but not always. Such is the case with larger objects such a house. Yes, just recently a company has printed an entire house within 24 hours. There are a few ways to start with 3d printing, the first is a CAD model and the other is through a 3d machine that takes over 150 pictures to get a 360-degree view of the person or object. We use the 3d machine at DME Delivers. So far, we have completed 3D prints of several people that results in little statues that look identical to the people. There are 4 different categories of 3d printers. The first are printers that release molten, semi-liquid material. The second type are those that fuse granules of powder. The 3rd are those that solidify a photocurable resin. The fourth type are the ones that stick together sheets of paper, metal and plastic. Within these categories there are currently 9 types of 3d printers but this will change as time goes on. Stereolithography Digital Light Processing Fused Deposition Modeling Selective Laster Melting Electron Beam Melting Selective Laster Sintering Binder Jetting Laminated Object Manufacturing Material Jetting / Wax Casting
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Fundraising is a large part of how colleges and universities raise money for student organizations and the athletic department. However with the booming debt bubble that many graduating students have to deal with fundraising has taken a large hit. The only exception to this would be Ivy League schools where students are almost guaranteed a career upon graduating. So what are the donor loyalty fundraisers to do in order to battle the decline? Many colleges think they can just send out standard postcards or flyers soliciting donations. This is probably the best way to make sure you don’t get dedicated donors. Each message needs to be personalized based on the personality of the donor receiving the mail piece. You might be thinking, well how the heck can I do that? Well the answer is simple, variable printing. We are one of the few direct marketing companies in the United States that has the sophisticated software and machines to make any direct mail campaign a success. Variable printing with our Traxion insights allows you to understand the temperament profile of your alumni based on several personality types. From there we can create several personalized mail pieces that speaks directly to the one receiving the piece. It doesn’t stop there though. After a successful donor becomes apart of your donor loyalty program we then send out a package with a few gifts for them as a thank you for being part of your association. The gifts can be a key chain, water bottle, t-shirt or many other things. Now that is how you gain donors and keep them. "DME Delivers own Greg Dean, EVP of Marketing & Technology, will host an education session at the upcoming DscoopPhoenix! Greg will discuss how DME utilizes psychographic data modeling to create more emotionally engaging direct marketing campaigns. Want to learn more? Dscoop" DME Delivers.
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But with the evolution of paid advertising and expansion of universal search, as well as Google’s continuous efforts to provide consumers with content that resolves their demands directly in search results, the opportunities attached to traditional keyword rankings are diminishing at an alarming rate. In today’s search landscape, SEOs and digital marketing specialists have to consider whether it’s worth the amount of time and resources it takes to achieve premier organic rankings, considering the click-through rates (CTR) associated with organic rankings that are positioned under PLAs, local results and other forms of content." Source: http://searchengineland.com/organic-keyword-rankings-matter-anymore-267885 While I agree that SEOs work tirelessly to rank highly organically I do not agree that SEO rankings are dwindling. Yes, google is making significant changes with paid advertising and universal search but that does not mean you should over look SEO. Besides, just because PLAs are above organic results, many Googlers scroll right past them and look at the listings right below them. However, if you don't don't have a very catchy meta title and accurate meta description then you will be dead in the water. Let's not forget long tail keywords either. Chances are there will never PLAs above organic searches that involve long tails. So are we suppose to ignore these and instead pay for Adwords? Listen, I love Adwords but I also love SEO and for now they are married to each other in my eyes. Here recently Google rolled out the Voice API and there are some things you need to know about it:
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Just by being different in their responses to negative PR, they will very likely be seeing a surge in customers. I'm not entirely sure if they expected their tweets go viral or whether they had the whole thing planned out. Either way it's hilarious to read through them and it makes me keep checking back for more responses from Wendys. So is what they are doing really the best idea customer service wise? I'm not entirely sure it is but apparently they don't care if they offend customers/potential customers. DME Delivers This article is going to discuss white hat on-site SEO. As I have mentioned previously, I have been obsessed with digital marketing and direct marketing for several years now. With Google constanlty changing their alogo's you might be wondering if its even ok to do SEO. The answer to this question is a resounding yes but with a few exceptions. It's perfectly fine to optimize your website as long as you do not break Google's guidelines. Most of their updates are to prevent people who are "gaming the system". Google is full of highly intellectual people so when they know virtually every possible way someone could break their guidelines.
White hat SEO is the ethical way of optimizing your site. It's quite straightforward honestly. Optimize your meta titles, meta descriptions, use H1's and alt text. Then silo the content on your site so that it's easy to navigate. A word of caution though, when you are optimizing your website be sure not to keyword stuff. Write things as if you were talking to someone and don't pay too much attention to the keywords in the beginning. This will help make sure you do not go overboard. Remember what I said, Google will slap your site if you go over board with using keywords. Read our last post on Google ad blocker & overcoming the challenge. |