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The whole notion of a minimum viable product stems from the fact that you don’t want to work away on ‘the next big thing’ only to launch it and find out that you’re the only one that thinks it’s worth any money. But there is some danger in getting something bare bones out.
Sometimes,
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I’ve mentioned before that I have a product in the works so I’m obviously interested in how to get customers for it. While there are a number of good tips in the article a few seem off base, or at least shady.
Build a network of landing pages that target various other long tail
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A recent comment on my post about staying away from services with no business models noted the irony that they found the link to the post via my Twitter account.
Twitter if course is by an large a free service, but it’s not really a service that has no business model. Currently Twitter has the ability
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I never really planned on hitting up the big tech sites but it’s nice to have some confirmation.
My original start-up, eNovella, and its latest incarnation, Jottify, have each been featured on TechCrunch…The day that eNovella was featured, we got 26 referrals from TechCrunch. The day that Jottify was featured – with a video
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compass pointing direction
A while ago I wrote that Seo Isn’t Magic but It’s Hard work. I too find that writing targeted content that potential clients will be searching for is hard work. Being a bit of a gear head I’m way more likely to be interested in expounding on technical topics that will interest
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The Issue
Working in the web industry means there is lots of news to follow. Tons of new developments all over that you are expected to keep track of. If you don’t keep track of the latest developments you can quite quickly find yourself using outdated techniques.
I use Google Reader to organize all my feeds. It’s
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You are reading a blog post (profound I know) and staple of blog posts is to cite other sources via links. Like when I wrote “You Might Need a Redesign if…”. In that post I linked to Niki Brown’s Ugly Website competition.
So why did I do that? Well ultimately Niki had content that was relevant
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shot of the nettuts site
- Nettuts
Nettuts is part of the Envato network. Nettuts covers all sorts of web design and development. Everything from WordPress to posts on Coldfusion. Articles are well written and frequent.
- A List Apart
Published by Happy Cog A List Apart covers all topics dealing with web design. From usability to introductions to Ruby
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yahoo homepage
The big story today seems to be the roll out of Yahoo’s new homepage. While this is very cool for Yahoo to do I still think that there are some problems with the idea.
- Is This What People Really Want?
I’ve recently read Getting Real and while I do not agree with all of the
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shot of tweetdeck
The Annoyance
I have been on Twitter for a while (Follow Me) and recently I have been noticing a trend with designer’s tweeting and offering their services for ‘rock bottom prices.’ Many days I see someone offer a deal to the next 5 people that tweet them. The ‘best’ I saw was logo’s
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