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Experiments in summer

The best time to improve things in your company is today. Besides today, the best time is summer, when there's less work to do and part of the team is away on holidays. Here's how we improve things at MarsBased during the low season of summer.

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The Martian way

We have been around for well over six years. As we learn day by day, we feel the impulse to give back to our followers and community not only to explain how we do things, but also why we do them.

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A cleaner implementation of Schema.org using JSON

Schema.org has been around for some years now, but recently they introduced a cleaner implementation that doesn't mess up with your code so much as the first one, this time by using JSON.

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This is what we do

We often get asked what are we working on. Here's a comprehensive summary of the projects we're doing right now as a company.

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It's OK to be vulnerable

A couple of months ago, on May 18th, I sent an internal message to our team on Basecamp to cheer them up. We were two months deep into the lockdown, and it was wearing down on a lot of people. Working from home is a blessing when it's your choice, but when you're forced to do it overnight, and your partner just lost her job and/or you can't send your kids to school, things can get extremely tricky.

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Boost your shop sales using an e-commerce solution like Shopify!

It is more important than ever to have an online presence if you're running a shop! Let Shopify help you to do that transition, and learn how our clients did it!

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This is what we learnt hosting two webinars per week

Our first podcast, Life on Mars is now live and available on Apple's iTunes and Spotify, both in Spanish and English! Subscribe now!

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Our Life on Mars podcast is live on iTunes and Spotify!

Our first podcast, Life on Mars is now live and available on Apple's iTunes and Spotify, both in Spanish and English! Subscribe now!

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Launching our podcast: Life on Mars!

June 2nd is the day! We're launching our first podcast: Life on Mars!

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Growing our brand: the MarsBased newsletter

We are growing our brand with the years. In this blog post, we review our first two years of running our newsletter!

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Building a Ruby CLI with Thor

We've written a Ruby CLI using Thor for a client project and we share everything we've learnt in this blog post!

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Six years grinding: How to manage your events and community

We have been hosting at least one event per month since we started the company in early 2014. After over 70 consecutive months of hosting events, we have compiled how we do it so others can profit from our experience.

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