September 18, 2019June 6, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile How Being a Maker Makes Me a Better Coder When Software Developer Rob Williams isn’t busy making beautiful websites and apps here at Brown Bag, he’s creating and building… Read More
November 19, 2018June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile How to Share our World with Robots With the fear of robots taking over the world, our intern Mashia has some advice on how we can take… Read More
September 24, 2018June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Employees are the Biggest Threat (and the Best Solution) for Information Security Cyber criminals, hackers and nation states are prepared to spend whatever time it takes to seek and exploit weaknesses across… Read More
July 17, 2018June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile The One Thing you can do Now to get Started in AI for B2B Marketing We are confident that Artificial Intelligence can help improve the B2B customer experience, but are you prepared to use these… Read More
November 15, 2017June 25, 2020 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile Key Benefits of our Agile Design and Build Approach Brown Bag Marketing continues to have great success with many different design and development techniques. In this blog, Danny explains… Read More
October 4, 2017June 6, 2020 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile Must-Have Qualities and Tools for Great Technical Project Management Our Technical Project Managers have a broad working knowledge of just about everything that falls under the digital umbrella. Find… Read More
August 22, 2017June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Mobile Payments at the Tip of Your Tongue According to recent research, 46% of US consumers have made a mobile payment. And not surprisingly, millennials are responsible for 39 percent of all… Read More
August 8, 2017June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile How To Avoid This One Costly Brand Mistake Two of the largest players in web analytics and marketing automation almost lost a critical piece of their brand. But,… Read More
July 24, 2017June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Google’s RankBrain: Connecting Complex to Relevant Google is making the Web an easier, better place to search. One algorithm already used globally is ‘RankBrain’. Find out… Read More
April 18, 2017June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Snapping into SnapChat Spectacles and Survey Results As most of you know, SnapChat Spectacles are Bluetooth-enabled sunglasses featuring a built-in camera that takes up to three 10… Read More
March 10, 2017June 6, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Brown Bag Wins Big at the 2017 AMY Awards! The Atlanta Marketer of the Year Awards, AMYs, presented by AMA Atlanta, have been rewarding companies for creating outstanding creative,… Read More
January 12, 2017June 6, 2020 Technology and Mobile Brown Bag Debuts IoT Dashboard at CES Conference The International Consumer Electronic Show® (CES) wrapped up it’s 50th conference on January 8th in Las Vegas, Nevada. We were excited… Read More
December 20, 2016July 13, 2020 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Willy Melt Goes VR: A Gamified Snowman If you’ve been a fan of Brown Bag you know we have a longstanding holiday tradition – our beloved snow… Read More
September 28, 2016June 6, 2020 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile When a pro photographer uses a smartphone camera About the Author: Jackelyn Belcher is the Manager of Business Operations for Vetlocity, a sister company of Brown Bag Marketing.… Read More
September 19, 2016November 7, 2016 Technology and Mobile Here’s how Blockchain is disrupting the banking industry When disruptive technology emerges, incumbents choose to either resist or adapt, and everyone loves seeing the drama unfold. However, what… Read More
July 25, 2016January 30, 2017 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Inside a Coding 111 session at the Bag Get a peek into Brown Bag Marketing’s Development Team as our intern, Joey, joins them for one of their Coding… Read More
July 5, 2016January 30, 2017 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Modern retail: Merging the digital and physical shopping experience At Brown Bag Marketing, we think a lot about the customer experience. I hear this throughout our office on a daily basis.… Read More
June 21, 2016November 8, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile The money and muscle of a modern-day Microsoft This isn’t your parents Microsoft. Last week, Microsoft put out some big news and also made a move not often… Read More
January 15, 2016November 7, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Still looking for that New Year’s resolution? We’ve got you coded, er, covered. Years ago, computer programming was viewed as a skill possessed by only technology’s savviest. Today, select schools around the world… Read More
December 3, 2015November 7, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile What do employees think of Coding 101 at The Bag? We launched a new program at The Bag this summer called Coding 101. The purpose of the ongoing weekly series… Read More
November 4, 2015December 8, 2015 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile The future of mobile payments, today. Last week marked the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future. I remember when I first saw it. I actually… Read More
July 7, 2015October 11, 2017 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile Saving Humanity: Literacy vs. Electracy As a 22-year old millennial, I often wonder how technology will influence my life next. Unlike the generations before us,… Read More
April 22, 2015May 4, 2015 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile User Testing or UAT? Yes. User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and User Testing sound similar and are sometimes misconstrued as one in the same, but User… Read More
March 12, 2015April 23, 2015 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Three Building Blocks of a Digital “House”: UX, UI and Usability Just as building a house requires a variety of skills and mindsets, building a digital “house”, such as a website… Read More
February 24, 2015October 11, 2017 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Three reasons to use podcasts in your B2B Marketing mix Packaged, online radio broadcasts called podcasts are powerful tools for B2B marketers. A personal favorite is Marketing over Coffee. An episode with… Read More
February 5, 2015March 10, 2016 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile It’s time to bring User Experience into the Boardroom It’s time we consider how User Experience (UX) directly impacts Return on Investment (ROI). Let’s start in the boardroom. How… Read More
October 9, 2014January 12, 2016 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Finding Your Perfect Mobile Website Clients ask us all the time: “What type of mobile site should I have?” “Do I have to target Android… Read More
September 22, 2014October 11, 2017 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile AMMO ATL Mobile Awards Recap It is hard to believe that until last Tuesday, September 16th, an official awards show for our city’s latest and… Read More
September 10, 2014April 23, 2015 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile WATCH Out: Apple has changed the face of User Experience Image source: Apple.com The Apple Watch – coming early 2015 I know you’ll agree when I say that Apple’s announcements yesterday totally captured… Read More
August 25, 2014April 23, 2015 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile A Huge Leap Forward for Cross-Platform Mobile App Development Mobile app developers have searched long and hard for the “Holy Grail” of app development: code an app once and… Read More
June 6, 2014April 23, 2015 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Need the skinny on Apple’s WWDC Conference 2014? As the name suggests, World Wide Developer’s Conference, is an annual meeting held by Apple to unveil its latest and… Read More
May 1, 2014April 23, 2015 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Big data? How about “medium data”? One of the hottest topics right now is “big data”. While the buzz of big data has penetrated nearly all… Read More
January 14, 2014April 23, 2015 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Google’s Nest brings us closer to the Internet of Everything I can’t stop thinking about Google’s acquisition of Nest for 3.2 BILLION. I love Nest and am glad for them… Read More
January 6, 2014January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile How Creative Technology pushed the limits in 2013 At the Createch 2013 conference I picked up on an overarching theme: We all want to push the limits for… Read More
November 21, 2013April 23, 2015 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile User Experience… same thing as Usability? All the jargon associated with the art and science of web site building can seem redundant. There are several similar… Read More
October 2, 2013November 24, 2020 Animal Health & Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Technology and Mobile The Internet is the greatest disappearing act of all time This summer, our team presented five high-level digital marketing trends for an interested client. Among those mega-trends discussed, the concept… Read More
September 26, 2013January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake on the #hashtag We’ve poked fun at the irrelevant hashtag, the hashtag-happy and sentences-as-hashtags here at the Bag before, so it was very… Read More
September 11, 2013January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile The Skinny on WordPress 3.6 WordPress is now powering over 60 Million Websites. It’s a clear choice for many businesses, and in particular, Brown Bag… Read More
September 6, 2013January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile Take your desktop with you on your iPAD. Really! I use one of Brown Bag’s mini iPads, and love it. Even got a highly responsive keyboard to go with… Read More
August 26, 2013January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Social Cage Match: Facebook Versus Google+ With a billion users, Facebook continues to trump every social media platform; they have the most registered users and the… Read More
August 26, 2013October 11, 2017 Design and User Experience & Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Guinness & Gifting? Santa in July? It’s in the Bag. Our Summer Highlight – 12 Days of Gifting with The Empty Stocking Fund Guinness and gifting? Santa in July? Shots… Read More
August 12, 2013January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile iOS 7 and The Golden Ratio iOS 7 and The Golden Ratio 1 to 1.618 The Golden Ratio is a term used to describe aesthetically pleasing… Read More
May 30, 2013January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Wearables, Zettabytes, and the always amazing Mary Meeker Today the brilliant Mary Meeker with Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers shared her latest State of the Web with us. I… Read More
May 1, 2013February 16, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Marketing & IT: So Happy Together Part 2 Last week I wrote about some perceptions and realities with how IT and Marketing work together in an organization. This… Read More
April 26, 2013January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Marketing & IT: So Happy Together Part 1 Having worked as an IT Director for marketing agencies for nearly 7 years, it took me a while to understand… Read More
February 8, 2013November 8, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile App Of The Week: PushPins You head to the grocery store, filled with purpose and a long list of “Gotta get ems!” But as soon… Read More
January 25, 2013January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Requirements to relevancy: 4 steps to developing a needs-based site We’ve all seen it – the great looking website that is fairly useless because it doesn’t meet a business need… Read More
December 20, 2012January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Marketing & Technology and Mobile The Power of Touch The use of texture on a touch screen device could allow users to infer meaning from a tactile difference between… Read More
December 18, 2012January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Technology and Mobile Instagram? Add Photographer to your LinkedIn skills now! We all take photos, but would we… should we…consider ourselves photographers? More than likely, most of us would answer that… Read More
August 17, 2012January 14, 2016 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile App Of The Week: Epicurious Happy Friday! In honor of our 10th anniversary celebrations, Brown Bag is devoting this month to FOOD. June was charity,… Read More
July 23, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile The end of (my) Facebook stalking? If you haven’t heard already, last week Facebook announced an update they made to groups. Now when you post in… Read More
July 9, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Merci, Microsoft! From the Bag To Microsoft: “Thank You! Gracias! Arigato! Shnoragalem!” OK, I know I’m the only one who would ever… Read More
July 2, 2012November 24, 2020 Life in the Bag & Marketing & Technology and Mobile Girl Talk says “Thanks!” Girl Talk is incredibly grateful to Doug Brown and Brown Bag Marketing for the tremendous amount of pro-Bono support they… Read More
June 8, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Watch Your Users: Thoughts on User-Centered Design Have you ever actually watched someone using your interactive digital media design to perform tasks on their own device… Read More
June 6, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile App of the Week: PicFrame Sometimes the images on your smartphone are just begging to be woven into a montage that tells the story… Read More
June 1, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile App Of The Week: Bump Taking photos on the fly is a popular activity in this mobile age. The process of saving these photos… Read More
May 29, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile The Millennial Mom: A Potential Brand Ambassador? Nielsen recently released an infographic titled The Digital Lives of American Moms, and the headline immediately caught my attention. The… Read More
May 25, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Weber’s on the Grill: App of the Week Get the grill fired up! Nothing brings people together like a hot grill and ice cold adult beverages. Cue… Read More
May 22, 2012May 8, 2017 Technology and Mobile Windows Mobile 7: iPhone Killer? In the late 80’s, I remember my dad having a cup of coffee every morning for breakfast in his red… Read More
May 7, 2012January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Bag Love for LinkedIn + SlideShare So I’m totally excited about the LinkedIn acquisition of SlideShare. I think that’s $120 million well spent. Most… Read More
May 3, 2012January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile Clear: App of the Week WE LOVE THIS APP! It is super simple to use and create lists fast and easy. Its simplicity is its… Read More
April 27, 2012January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile Gas Buddy: App of the Week We’re all trying to save money on gas right now. A penny saved is a penny more to party, right?!… Read More
April 20, 2012January 14, 2016 Technology and Mobile Out Tri: App of the Week Our app recommendation this week is Out Tri – a super helpful app for anyone training for and participating in… Read More
April 13, 2012January 14, 2016 Design and User Experience & Technology and Mobile Sketch Roll: App of the Week It’s about time we started to do this…we are rolling out the App of the Week! Each week, we will… Read More
February 14, 2012January 14, 2016 Technology and Mobile Beyond 960 Pixels In the typical discourse of the evolving interactive design frontier, I hear a lot about the 960 grid. In a… Read More
December 6, 2011January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Are you Siri-ous? Apple’s Siri: the latest innovation of man and machine, the built-in, natural speaking, intelligent personal assistant for the iPhone 4S.… Read More
October 31, 2011January 14, 2016 Marketing & Technology and Mobile Inbound marketing today [INFOGRAPHIC, WE HEART CHA] We all love infographics. But to come across one that captures a broad spectrum of what we do as marketers… Read More