02.03.2012 By Lara Swanson
Retail Page Speed & Web Performance Report: How Did Dyn Stack Up?
Strangeloop recently published their State of the Union for Page Speed and Website Performance, focusing on retail industry websites. Their extraordinarily disappointing key finding was that retail sites are 60% slower than they expected with an average page speed of 11.21 seconds. It’s really too bad that websites, especially ecommerce sites, haven’t met site speed expectations.
Retail sites should be at the forefront of optimized page load time. There’s been plenty of research about the correlation between fast page load and revenue and I would guess every retail site wants to increase their revenue using established best practices like compressing text and images, combining JavaScript and CSS, using a CDN, and other tools mentioned in Strangeloop’s report.
Strangely, according to the report, most sites failed to implement these.
Read More02.02.2012 By Dyn News
Dyn’s Culture-Con Brings Business Community Together
Manchester, NH – February 1, 2012 - It seems like everyone derived some benefit from Dyn’s first-ever Culture-Con — even the keynote speaker.
“I got so many great ideas,” said Donavon Roberson, Director of Service Innovations at OOBE and formerly Culture Evangelist at Zappos.
More than 50 people crowded Dyn’s world headquarters at 150 Dow Street in Manchester’s historic mill district on Tuesday to participate in the event, which also featured a panel of local businesses talking about their own company cultures.
Roberson discussed the importance of creating a workplace that brings out the best in employees. He learned these lessons from Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and is fine tuning them at South Carolina-based OOBE.
Read More01.31.2012 By Chris Gonyea
How To Switch Managed DNS Providers In Five Easy Steps
When talking to a potential or new customer, a constant fear I sense is how to switch to a new DNS provider without any downtime. Perhaps it was a past DNS move that didn’t go well or maybe it’s just resistance to the unknown, but it’s the job of myself and my awesome Concierge team to make transitions painless and ultimately successful.
I have some great news: moving DNS providers is easy and straightforward and you can accomplish it in just five easy steps, avoiding any downtime. If you have ever thought about switching but just can’t pull the trigger, let’s put those fears to rest forever!
Read More01.30.2012 By Lynda Elliott
Culture-Con Preview: Examining Dyn’s Culture And How We’re Different
In the business world, culture is defined as “a shared set of values, attitudes, practices and goals that make a company unique”. In essence, it is the character of the organization. Every company creates its own culture whether consciously aware of it or not.
Whether you are an employer or an employee, culture is very important and it impacts individuals as well as the company as a whole. For employers, culture affects morale, communications, productivity, growth, the bottom line and can ultimately make or break the company. For employees, a positive culture can motivate, inspire creativity, loyalty, cooperation and a desire to go above and beyond. On the other hand, it can erode trust, security and connectedness while increasing stress, indifference and job searches.
Dyn is definitely in the minority of companies ahead of the culture curve. Receiving regional recognition from Inc. Magazine as a winner in the 2011 Top Small Company Workplaces competition and being named one of the Top Small Businesses To Work For by Business NH Magazine for four years isn’t by happy accident. Dyn’s overall success and rapid growth is greatly attributed to the following three major culture factors:
- Dyn’s People: Priority One
- Dyn’s Practices: Transparency, Trust, Team Building, Timely Reviews
- Dyn’s Perks: Traditional and Fringe Benefits
01.27.2012 By Julie Parenteau
Five Tips For Creating Your Company Yearbook
Given that our yearbook was such a hit among Dyners (see some visuals in my previous yearbook post), I encourage your company to take on this endeavor and see what comes of it. It may seem like a daunting task, but to help out, I put together five thoughts to make your own yearbook creation process smooth.
Outline
We knew that we wanted each employee to have their own page in the book, so from the outset, we were looking at a 100 page book. Since we weren’t planning on making the book a part of the fitness program, we kept the additional content down to a minimum.
Remember to consider your bindery here. If going with a perfect bound book as we did, you’ll need to keep the page count divisible by 4.
Here’s how our outline looked:
Read More01.26.2012 By Mikel Steadman
Culture-Con Preview: From Disney To Dyn, Employees Matter
I have glanced at many of Dyn’s culture blogs recently and thought about a story I heard several months ago from a reliable source in the world of customer service, budgeting, planning, and business practice: my wife, Lisa.
It is about a company who had very humble beginnings, nearly closing its doors on a regular basis in its early years and then expanded beyond even the belief of its owner and board members. It is a business that is particularly good at driving a brand through every one of its employees, 133,000 and growing.
Here’s the story that you’ve also likely experienced.
Read More01.25.2012 By David Lemaire
Improving Sender Reputation With The Joan Jett Law Of Email Delivery
It’s hard for me to think about sender reputation without having Joan Jett’s “Bad Reputation” getting stuck in my head. When it comes to being a sender of email (unlike Joan’s recommendation), you really should give a damn about your reputation!
Sender reputation is a combination of many elements. That reputation is critical to getting your messages into the inbox. So how do I get a bad or good reputation? Here’s a slew of suggestions on email content, volume, bounces, complaints and more that will give you some insight in improving your reputation or keeping it strong.
We’ll call it “The Joan Jett Law Of Email Delivery”.
Read More01.23.2012 By Mike Veilleux
Five Common Questions About Moving Email Delivery Services
Change can be scary, especially when it comes to Internet Infrastructure. Even when switching would be a better solution in every possible aspect, being comfortable and taking the path of less resistance is an easy way out. We’ve all done this, both at work and in our personal lives. How many times have you thought about trying a different service but stopped because of the path to get to your final destination?
We get it and when it comes to DNS & Email Delivery, we often hear the question, “How easy is it to move to Dyn?” That’s why Chris Gonyea and I are going to bring you separate posts on how it’s easy as Boston Cream Pie to move to DynECT Managed DNS and Email Delivery services.
We begin with DynECT Email Delivery and with these five steps, you’ll be sending and experiencing improved deliverability before you know it.
Read More01.20.2012 By Kyle York
Fit & Hustle: Making The Final Call On Customer-Facing Positions
All of you potential candidates of Dyn looking to work in client services, biz dev, marketing or sales, let me tell you a little secret.
If you’ve made it through our phenomenal screening / interview process and got to me for a sit down, you’re in damn good shape but don’t drool on yourself when we actually meet up.
I’m literally just looking for two things from those sitting across of me: fit and hustle. Will you match the brand and culture and will you work your a$$ off to achieve big things? (Yes, those dollar signs are on purpose.)
Read More01.20.2012 By Dyn News
Dyn Scouting For UK Talent In IT, Sales & Support
With Dyn’s 2011 physical expansion into London, we are continuing to become more of a worldwide presence. Things have gone so smashingly in the UK since our office opening that we are expanding our operations there with a few key hires in operations/IT, sales and our support team.
Here is what we’re looking for across the pond. Be the next person to jump aboard the Dyn freight train (or the Tube!)
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