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Teamwork PM provides an excellent web and mobile app for keeping you and your team on track. A very productive tool is the task manager. With the task manager, you can create tasks and sub-tasks and even store them as a template. So for instance, if you run a construction business you might have...

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Are you starting a new business or have an existing business? At Red Cherry we can help make you look good and generate sales. How do we do this? 

 

Through a proven process called user centred...

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Using your website a the first and foremost marketing strategy can not only have a dramatic effect of an increase in sales but the quality of leads by providing relevant personalized content based on the type of user and their behaviors. By tieing into network data about your visitors you can...

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Using software as service applications such as video and screen sharing, project management, chat tools will help not only help your business keep connected during your response to help combat the coronavirus. Having those tools already integrated into your company's workflow would make the...

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Creating blog content not only shows you’re an expert in your field but can also be used as a key function in your SEO campaign. The main reason is each time you create a blog post your creating a new page that contains title tags, meta tags, and content that now can be targeted for...

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When designing and building your database overtime the tables sizes will increase and if over one million rows per table it can often really slow your application. First and foremost is building a relational database structure where foreign keys relate to one other tables and data is organized...

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Yoast is a popular WordPress plugin that helps you easily optimize keywords, key phrases, synonyms and related keywords for faster and better rankings with the Google search engine.  It’s a nice tool for beginners to advanced SEO experts helping you easily manage your websites...

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Two Simple Security Concepts with Ajax/PHP

We wanted to review a couple of very basic security concepts when building a user management system as an example. First, this user will have a photo and other identification this is sensitive information so we want to take the best measures for...

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Building interactive prototypes means bringing your designs to life with interactive gestures, animations and the feel of a rich app experience.  Giving not our your team but your client the means to truly interact with the app its ebb and flow and user experience gives insights and...

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Good content is where it all starts if your page provides obvious content that is authentic and valuable past self-promoting your services. This will drastically improve your chances of ranking the pages for specific keywords. Making sure there is some media like video or images to accompany...

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Using our use centred design process we are able to plan out software builds to little or no refactoring but when it comes to scaling a build using platforms using Amazon AWS auto scaling allows your application to adjust on the fly to demand saving money and resources. Optimizing the...

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Software builds are a complex process and have to be broken down into digestible components so both parties client and design team can ensure the MVP is not only reached but executed successfully. Having been executing a UCD (user centred design ) process we initially after the persona mapping,...

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As your aware many website allow up voting, likes, loves of content. What has this really done for you in the past besides help large corporations build a social profile of the goods you like and promote to you better. Also yes there is the social aspect but what if we told you could actually...

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The new iPhone X with Face ID seems to scare the crap out of me. How much data "they" are gathering on the population now right down to your fingerprint, face and voice what kind of consequences if any will this spell in the future?  It's coming across in such safe manner too....

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Quantum computers can instantly crack any current keychain or password combination but how does this work and why will this be a concern for Cryptocurrencies? With Quantum computing comes to a significant change in processing power in conjunction with using algorithms like Shor's quantum...

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Using voice and text you can now integrate Amazon Lex in your chat bots using AI ( artificial intelligence & deep learning ). This allows for our client to have better customer support with life like natural conversations that answer real problems. So for instance your looking to book a...

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Typical software requests for proposals can sometimes be very detailed and sometimes not have the right details.  They can contain some process flows showing internal business processes but what really needs to happen is a solid information architecture needs to be included. Using verbiage...

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Having a software or App come to market has many stages before it reaches the user testing stage. With many Apps we like to get as much user testing from specific personas that would be engaging your software...

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Using PPC or Pay Per Click can give any online business instant results. By this your website shows at the top of a Google search right away for any specific keyword combination. But building a strong PPC campaign starts with understanding the right keywords to target and optimizing those...

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Your data is tracked at an all time high these days so perhaps you feel at this point they might as well let them have it all or not…. Well that is the case and its becoming the case in many of our daily social patterns, decisions and trends. The tracking of our patterns and data will be...

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If you looking for new keywords ideas for your services or product it very common to use the Google Keyword Planner to get an idea of what kind of traffic those keywords might bring and how competitive they are. The other benefits...

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Google Analytics offers a really cool tool setup called real time data. This allows you view real time visitors on your website and see what they are doing. With popular social media site like twitter you can tweet out to your favourites or to new popular folks on twitter and see the real time...

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Red Cherry has been working on a new App called Clean the Creek over the last 6 months. Clean the Creek will be a free App that will allow users to tag and clean dirty locations around where you live. For instance you see some garbage all on the side of your favourite hiking trail but...

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Many software systems that we must build at Red Cherry are very complex, have many use cases and requirements. But how do you tackle all of this and come out with a software product that not only meets your clients expectations but surpasses them? Using a UCD (user centered) design process...

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Heading out this summer on camping trip? Figure you will have no cell service there and it may be a difficult place to find? Here is a little trick that will give you the power of Google maps satellite maps and your phones GPS. Before you head out simply pinch and zoom into each area you will be...

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We all know the free app outs there sometimes come with ad banners that help generate click through revenue for the app developer but also consume space on your app near the bottom. These are called banner ads and are supported by many ad networks. They do produce revenue but are loosing allot...

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Remarketing is powerful means to keep your brand in front of your customer base. How it works is someone first lands on your website. Once they arrive we drop a cookie into their browser that allows us to display your ad in front of them after leave your website.  You might have seen this...

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Your website must offer more than a stunning design that renders pixel-perfect across mobile, tablet and desktop. How to best connect with your target audience? Content is key. While graphics and functionality are part of the lure, it is insightful content that compels your intended audience to...

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Do you have an idea that could be the next Twitter or Facebook? Is your idea so new that there are no competitive benchmarks to compare it too? Creating a new user experience that ties into our idea can be tricky as you have convince your early adopters that this is a valid idea it's easy to...

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Invision is a great tool for creating interactive wireframes that allow everyone to collaborate, comment and contribute easily from all devices (mobile, tablet and desktop). Adding the wireframes to Invision allows for a streamlined agile approach allowing menus, click through and linked menus....

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