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Practical notes on websites that work — leads, care after launch, hosting, and Joomla.
I'm going to let the cat of the bag here. One of my favorite websites for information on e-commerce is Practical Ecommerce. It consistently has relevant, practical articles and tips. One idea from their site back then...
Read more →We help organizations set up email marketing services like Mailchimp and Constant Contact. We even help some develop and maintain campaigns. E-mail marketing used to be a load and fire kind of activity, but things have...
Read more →One of the things we try hard to do is not reinvent the wheel. That's why we use Joomla! instead of writing our own Content Management System, why we search hard for off-the-shelf components before we write our own. For...
Read more →Although many of you may have participated in a GoToMeeting, some have been missing out on this great "remote" conferencing tool. It saves a lot of driving!
Read more →As a first step in setting up a new PayPal account, you have to list the business name contact under which the account will be known to PayPal (and posted on a lot ofyour client-facing PayPal correspondence). Before you...
Read more →What is affiliate marketing and is it right for you? In its basic form, internet affiliate marketing is one site advertising another site's goods or services for sale. When someone follows the link and buys the item,...
Read more →If you've been our client long, you know we emphasize that good images for your website show real people doing things that the website visitor would like to be doing. If such images aren't available yet, we'll put in a...
Read more →Years ago, a prospective client asked us about a “screaming deal” on hosting. A few dollars a month. Would we still support his site there?
Read more →I spoke at UGA's Small Business Bootcamp on October 2nd, and gave a presentation on electronic marketing. See the online version after the break:
Read more →We try to host most of our clients' websites. We started doing this because we tried using a service that claimed to offer 'custom Joomla hosting' packages. After two days on that service and horrible website load...
Read more →Years ago, customer information was kept on rolodex cards or ledger sheets. Today the web-based equivalent is the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. They're still about as exciting and visually appealing as...
Read more →Choosing a good password is always a problem. The essential tension is that a good password should be easy to remember, yet hard to guess. Most people err on one side or the other. Most people choose passwords that are...
Read more →In 2010 we wrote about “drop-dead simple blogging.” Our tip back then: if you didn’t want to blog inside your main website, use a free service like Blogger, then pull an RSS feed of your posts onto your site.
Read more →Tell us about your site, or the one you wish you had. We’ll get back to you with next steps.