Leslye Schumacher is a Founding Partner with Vici. Leslye’s background in media spans 25 years and includes working for both large and mid-size television, radio and newspaper companies. She has held positions in sales, management, marketing and NTR. Leslye has extensive experience in training salespeople and coaching managers. She is Google Analytics Advanced Certified, a Certified Radio Marketing Consultant and a Certified Sales Talent Analyst, having assessed over 10,000 media salespeople and managers. Leslye was the Vice President Of Talent Services for The Center For Sales Strategy before going on to start TalentQ Consulting and then Vici Media.
If you want to know what a website looks like when called up on a smartphone, there is a way you can do this right from your desktop. Google Chrome has a great feature that allows you to do this in a snap. You can even look at what the website looks like on different smartphone models
1. Open up Chrome and enter the URL of the website you want to check (I’m using www.ViciMediaInc.com for example
2. Click on the settings icon on the far right (where the red down arrow is on the graphic below), then click on MORE TOOLS, then click on DEVELOPER TOOL
3. Click on the smartphone icon in the box that opens up on the right hand side of the page (where the red arrow is on the graphic below
4. Click on your REFRESH button at the top of the browser page and it will load what the website currently looks like when accessed from a mobile phone. You can even click the down arrow next to DEVICE and choose which smartphone brand you want to see it displayed as
With Google’s recent announcement that from April 21st forward it will be “expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal,” having a mobile optimized site is more important than ever to make sure your search ranking is not penalized.
