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My relationship with Fleet Foxes began with a blind date.

I was 19. A year before, I had moved from the city of Charlotte to the bigger city of Chicago. From there I had come to a small town in central Virginia just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Still reeling with culture shock and trying to find my place, I was sitting alone in a common area of my college studying. Out of nowhere, I was interrupted by a random guy I’d never seen before asking if I’d like to go on “The Great Date ‘08” with him. He explained that his roommates had challenged each other to find someone they don’t know and treat them to a group date involving home-cooked food and go-karts.

For our next installment of infrequently asked questions, we will be sitting down to interview Meghan Boice, a digital marketing strategist here at E-dreamz, who has been an integral apart of our team for almost 3 years now. Meghan moved from Endicott, NY a few years ago after graduating college to escape the cold weather and snow. Since then she has thoroughly enjoyed her time here in Charlotte and the amazing weather we have here year-round. Read on to learn more about our awesome digital marketing strategist, Meghan!

AI will continue to impact the healthcare industry in many ways as the latest technological advances are discovered and implemented. Not only is the healthcare industry impacted by AI for its role in the healthcare practices themselves, part of AI’s impact on healthcare is on marketing and advertising services, and how the website operates and helps users. There will be more access to services and resources available on the healthcare website. AI will also transform how web developers operate as many tasks will be automated as well.

When building an eCommerce website, understanding the website’s industry is hugely important. What kinds of customers will be visiting the site? What are they expecting to find? In the 10 years, I’ve spent working with large luxury furniture companies, I have learned a lot! Some of it is specific to the furniture business, but most of it can be applied to many different eCommerce industries.

They say music that ends up staying with you that you started listening to around high-school/college age, so essentially your late teens to early twenties. I started thinking about “albums” or “tracks” around this age that moved me and honestly they are probably right. (“They” is essentially the music industry people who honestly only create music for a certain age group now.) The music I listen to now was definitely shaped by my 19-year-old self. I guess ‘they’ were right.

For our next installment of infrequently asked questions, we will be sitting down to interview Katelynn Barlowe, a senior full-stack web developer here at E-dreamz who has been an integral apart of our team for over 10 years. Katelynn started her career as an intern with E-dreamz while in college and was quickly added on as a full-time web developer upon her move from Charlotte to Lynchburg, VA. Katelynn currently still resides in Lynchburg, Virginia with her husband and three children where she works remotely full-time.

Simply having a business online isn’t enough to get someone’s attention in today’s competitive climate. People browsing have the same amount of time but plenty more information and resources to scour through to get what they want.

Google processes over 3.5 billion searches on average per day according to internet live stats and the first page of Google’s search results eat up 95% of web traffic. It’s no wonder why so many companies starting out struggle to get their footing established online. SEO is a long term game and requires patience, determination, and the right practices but getting it right means your business’ success.

Starting July 1, 2019, Google began indexing the mobile version of every website. This means Google began putting a major emphasis on website responsiveness. Mobile searches currently account for over half of all of the web searches on the internet. By preparing your custom website design for mobile access, it allows your site to perform well on all devices. If you don’t know if your site is mobile-friendly, you can use this test that Google provides here.

There’s a lot that happens in the customer’s journey before making a purchase. Many consumers do research on the company and the products before handing over their money. Reviews are a big part of any business because many customers read reviews before making any decisions about purchases or restaurants to visit, etc. Whether you have a product or a service that you’re marketing to the public, it’s important to get your previous and current customers to leave reviews about their experience. There are many ways to encourage customers to write reviews, and often, different methods work for different types of businesses.

There is no doubt that 2020 has been an interesting year so far, to say the least, specifically due to COVID-19 and its impact on the economy as a whole. Many brick and mortar stores are going out of business due to lack of customers shopping in person but this is quite the opposite for eCommerce stores which are soaring due to the pandemic making most people, especially those most vulnerable, not want to leave their house to shop in person. Truthfully, COVID-19 has caused eCommerce stores to make more sales and profit than ever before. In fact, US & Canadian eCommerce stores have experienced a 146% growth in all online retail orders which is quite a leap.

As so artfully proclaimed by our Head of Project Management previously,  the E-dreamz Epic Albumz review category is all about recognizing and sharing stories about those classic records that helped shaped us E-dreamerz into the rockstar web devs we are today. Now its time to once again go down memory lane and pick apart those good vibrations and emotions that get so easily stirred up upon rolling down the windows and cranking up the volume to The Score album from the Fugees.

Today we will be kicking off the first of many infrequently asked questions with our employees here at E-dreamz. We will start our first post with Tristan Perry, a senior full-stack developer, who has been with E-dreamz for almost 10 years. Tristan is originally from Ohio but has since then lived in Charlotte, North Carolina and now currently resides in Norfolk, Virginia with his wife Lindsey and their two dogs where he works remotely for E-dreamz full time.