What’s your dream marketing dashboard?
November 30, 2015Chris Wolski - Talking with Jon Taylor (a.k.a Klipfolio Digital Marketing Guru) last week, he was geeking out about a digital marketing dashboard we don’t have. As a SaaS company...
View ArticleWhy you should re-read old notes – or how to take advice from yourself
November 27, 2015Allan Wille - The other day, I stumbled across some notes I’d made about a year ago. In those notes I itemized a number of issues I expected to face in 2015, and laid out what I...
View ArticleGive your online marketing dashboard the gift of Moz
December 2, 2015Nikta Kanuka - Christmas has come early! For all you online marketing nerds out there, you will be thrilled to hear that we have released 3 new Moz Klips in the Klip Gallery.We’ve...
View ArticleHow focusing obsessively on a single issue paid off for us
December 4, 2015Allan Wille - We always have our eye on our conversion rate – the number of people who convert from being prospects to paying customers.Earlier this year, we realized we had a problem....
View ArticleDashboard Design Mistake # 3 Poor layout choices
December 4, 2015Mychelle Mollot - You have a good idea of which metrics should be on your dashboard, and now you need to decide where to put them. Upper left of the screen? Lower right? Somewhere in...
View ArticleDashboard Design Mistake #4: Using charts and graphs that don’t work well on...
December 11, 2015Mychelle Mollot - .description-column { border-right: 1px solid #ccc;border-left: 1px solid #ccc; } .description-column .row, .good-bad-column .row { height: 70px; padding: 15px; }...
View ArticleHow a low-tech office whiteboard stimulates creativity in a high-tech company
December 11, 2015Allan Wille - Earlier this year, when we expanded our office, we decided that one wall in the lunchroom would be the office whiteboard.We therefore had an entire wall, 12 metres long,...
View ArticleNew Klips for TrendSpottr, HubSpot, Zoho and Google Analytics
December 14, 2015Stephen YatesDid you know that there are 16 ounces in a pound?Luckily, we have more than just a pound of new Klips in the Gallery this week...we have a TON! (see what I did there?)Here...
View ArticleKlipfolio gets cozy with Plotly
December 17, 2015Ali Pourshahid - Plotly is a comprehensive visualization library with tons of flexibility and rich features. You can create a number of different visualization types including basic,...
View ArticleWhy giving employees time off is a good thing – and how we manage it over the...
December 18, 2015Allan Wille - It has always been a tradition at Klipfolio to give our employees the whole week off between Christmas and New Year’s.Our recent growth has meant we’ve had to adapt to a...
View ArticleDashboard Design Mistake #5: Misuse of Colour
December 18, 2015Mychelle Mollot - Dashboards contain a lot of information and it is very easy to create a display that is visually overwhelming.This is particularly true when it comes to...
View Article2015 in Review
December 23, 2015Allan Wille - As 2015 comes to an end and I reflect back on the year, I’m very proud of the product, services, education and support our small, tight-knit team was able to deliver to...
View ArticleProviding a Meaningful Financial Dashboard Outside of Excel
January 13, 2016Stacey Shrout - Sharing key financial metrics with stakeholders is an important part of my role as a Controller. Sharing information is not the challenge but sharing information in a...
View ArticleMy New Year’s resolutions are external. Here’s why.
January 8, 2016Allan Wille - When you first start a company, you can’t help but spend time with customers. It’s part of the process of figuring out where you will generate business.Besides, in the...
View ArticleWhy hiring an in-house lawyer was the right thing to do
January 15, 2016Allan Wille - When we started Klipfolio, we used lawyers only when we absolutely had to.They’re expensive, right? Why pay a lawyer if you can cobble something together yourself? Sure,...
View ArticleNew Klips for HubSpot
January 18, 2016Stephen YatesDid you know that The Magnificent Seven was inspired by the film Seven Samurai? Well the 7 magnificent Klips that we released last week should inspire you to create an...
View ArticleNew Klips for Zoho, Infusionsoft and Weather
November 6, 2015Stephen YatesThe new Klip Gallery allows you to track your key metrics with just a few clicks. We’ve created pre-built Klip templates for some of the most popular services and data...
View ArticleWhere do you want to be X years from now?
January 22, 2016Allan Wille - As any company founder will tell you, for the first 12 months survival is always top of mind. That means developing a product people need and repeatedly selling it to a...
View ArticleHow the surging U.S. dollar is changing the tech landscape in Canada – and...
January 29, 2016Allan Wille - The continuing fall of the Canadian dollar in relation to the U.S. currency has been drawing a lot of attention lately.It should. The growing differential between the...
View ArticleDashboard Design Mistake #6: Forcing users to do the math
February 1, 2016Mychelle Mollot - The main raison-d’être of a dashboard is to enable decision-makers to consume information quickly. The design mistakes we’ve discussed in this series all have one...
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