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Today I opened another business venture, this time to help businesses make their websites work better. "Work better" covers a lot of ground, sure. But after toying with the idea for over a year it seems like a good time to put my technical knowledge
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One of my fellow moderators on an Entrepreneur forum we both spend too much time on,Todd Chism, just got nominated by his colleagues for Entrepreneur of the Year - and made it to the final! Todd's a great guy and has built a great company selling
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I came across some great quotes this evening from a business forum I recently joined..think about them. When you complain.. " 80% of the people don't care about your problems, and the other 20% are glad you have them " Another.. " People
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Dan asked me to post an update as I explore deeper into the Google forest. I'm now fully committed to Gmail and Google Calendar (why isn't it GCalendar?) and Outlook is now purely an evil tolerated for work purposes only. And with Rob Howard's
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My daughter thinks it's funny when I talk about Gmail - she says it sounds like "super hero mail". I am of course ok with that. I've been using it more and more recently. I've been sucking in my personal email to Gmail for a month
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Yeah, working as a FTE does change your perspective. Way, way back I loved reading about and playing with SEO techniques - all new and sneaky. Just this month I've started looking around again at what's going on and frankly I'm stunned. All
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Last summer, prompted by a neighbor who has the UPS guy at her front door even more than we do, my wife decided to get into "selling stuff online". It's not just beanie babies on eBay apparently. There's a lot to learn about - wholesalers,
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I went to renew my Microsoft Partner Program membership today before it runs out at the end of the month. For a few hundred bucks I get 10 copies of XP and Office to use around the house - there are other benefits, but that alone makes me renew each year.
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I've had a blog post from Seth Godin marked as unread for a month now, even though I've read it a few times. I'm not sure why it struck a chord with me, but this wasn't actually something that Seth said - he was just reporting on some
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Ok, I ought to give credit where it's due because you won't find this great example of "how to do PR properly" unless you're searching the site. Floyd Price of Code Spaces posted a comment on an old Subversion post and did a great
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I've posted about the ups and downs of Blockbuster before. This morning Mike points us to the latest pundit who says that Blockbuster will die within 2 years . I can't refute his findings, and if true it's pretty sad. Everyone needs competition,
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This experiment is fascinating . I now have CA's version of CallingID toolbar in FF/IE and it is really interesting to watch. The big names are obviously all green, but some very well known sites are yellow. Most small sites are yellow, but some are
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I was offered a free year of credit monitoring a.k.a Identity Theft Protection with Equifax, so I signed up today. If you're ever going to use a super-strong password I suggest Equifax is the place. So I made up a nice strong one; mixtures of upper
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I didn't intend to post about Blog Action Day , but I had to at least respond to Daniel's 5 Practical Tips : Turn off the lights when you leave the room - Check! I program in the dark like many people. There are no lights. Turn off the computer
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A good few years ago I started another company to run some local city websites . At one point I had created a few thousand city sites and was making some decent coin from selling ads to local businesses. The idea didn't scale unfortunately - although
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