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Young & Shand is a Digital Marketing Agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. Founded by Ben Young & Duncan Shand we create and deliver remarkable marketing campaigns. With a word of mouth focus, we digitally leverage your marketing strategy to deliver customer engagement and business growth. Everything starts with a story so read ours.
Language Analysis: What’s your readability like?
June 3, 2010 by Ben Young
The Hubspot Website Grader is a fantastic tool for analysing your Digital Communications. It’ll analyse your webpage (and your competitors) for a number of variables, one in particular is language analysis. What’s the reading level required to engage with your site? (more…)
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Ben Young
Ben is the Marketing Director at Young & Shand.
Phone: 09 308 6214 Email: ben.young@youngshand.com
A Winning Conversion Path
May 7, 2010 by Duncan Shand
Every website exists for a purpose, whether that is to sell something, to deliver information, to educate or to entertain. However, all too often something gets in the way of your visitors satisfying their needs. The first thing a new visitor does is quickly assess the site and determine whether it meets their requirements. To achieve a greater conversion result you need to ensure you have a great site, a usable site and have a clear conversion path. (more…)
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Duncan Shand
Duncan's the Managing Director at Young & Shand. He's into strategy, design and simple old fashioned marketing. He has more Linkedin connections than Ben but his desk is way messier.
Mobile: 021 447 775 Email: duncan.shand@youngshand.com
Facebook More Popular than Google
March 17, 2010 by Duncan Shand
Just last week something significant happened. For the first time in a long time Google lost it’s number one ranking as the most visited website in the world. The new number one is of course Facebook (you can read the story here on WebProNews). Those of you that live and breath social media would have been expecting this for some time. Facebook’s rate of growth has been nothing short of spectacular. (more…)
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Duncan Shand
Duncan's the Managing Director at Young & Shand. He's into strategy, design and simple old fashioned marketing. He has more Linkedin connections than Ben but his desk is way messier.
Mobile: 021 447 775 Email: duncan.shand@youngshand.com
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