You can't go to a website these days without seeing social proof. However, some companies use it better than others.
What one thing that sets good and bad social proof apart? Context.
Postmark does an awesome job of this — embedding social proof into their hero to support their top-level messaging.
Simple, clear, contextual, and creative.
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