From the category archives:
The excellent blog of SmallFuel Marketing is full of great information about how to do better marketing for small business. But iif you don’t have time to read through the whole site, you can at least check out this article on the whys and hows of small business blogging:
The big picture of blogging for business [...]
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Inspiring and original design: “26 Hand Drawn Websites” listed by inspiredology.com.
Obvious applications: a personal blog, a school or daycare site, an artist’s gallery, an architect’s portfolio.
Less obvious applications: a business marketing to a young or jaded audience, a venture capitalist (back of the envelope calculations or napkin note-taking), any business not automatically thought of as [...]
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Over at designboom, there’s a brief but insightful interview with Ivan Chermayeff, a designer who helped create the NBC peacock logo, among may other famous symbols.
could you describe your style as a good friend
of yours might?
it’s not really as easy as that because design is a service, you do what people need, not necessarily what [...]
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Over at Increasing your website’s conversion rate, Robbin Steif writes consistently useful and interesting posts about figuring out how people are finding your site and what they’re doing when they get there, and about making your website effective.
Today she tells us why she’ll no longer be using Blogbeat, a service that tracks which searches people [...]
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It’s a pretty unscientific ranking, but any list that puts Pittsburgh above Boston, New York City, and Washington D.C. is going to turn heads around here.
“10 Top Tech Towns” in Wired Magazine, January 2007.
(Thanks to Sri Bala for pointing out the article.)
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It’s already been featured as One of the 10 Most Helpful Pittsburgh Web Sites, but I found out about it only recently and I bet a lot of other local business people have yet to hear of it: The Pittsburgh Business Calendar.
Listing an event is free, and you can receive the upcoming week’s events by [...]
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If you’re uncomfortable in negotiating situations and don’t have a chance to take a course, you can get the critical basics from this concise article: “Basic Negotiating for Fun and Profit,” by Steve Pavlina.
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SCOUT Corporate Blogging offers 10 excellent tips for corporate bloggers, key among them being to conduct good “Blogging Relations”:
Blogger Relations is what blogging is all about—starting and maintaining a conversation. Unlike Public Relations or media relations where you are trying to pitch your story, [...]
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From Startup Journal: “Winning Sales Through Customer Testimonials” by Sarah Needleman.
Mr. Welsh recruited one of Expensewatch’s first customers, a director of finance at a Texas manufacturer, who had sent a complimentary email about its products. The executive presented a 20-minute speech, accompanied by an online demo Expensewatch created. About 75 participants called in.
The conference calls [...]
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From today’s Wall Street Journal, “PayPal Prepares for a Challenge from Google” (free feature):
Long the Internet’s leading online-payments service, PayPal has a 24% market share of U.S. online payments, according to financial-institution consulting firm Celent LLC. PayPal, founded in 1998, boasts 96 million accounts with consumers who want to send payments online without revealing their [...]
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