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5 Mistakes to Avoid When Designing Your Website

For many of you, your business website will act as a central hub for your marketing, branding and communications. It will be a major touchpoint in your relationship with your prospects and customers. If you...

byTom Shapiro

April 28, 2009

Tips for Developing Your Online Writing Style

Ever thought about writing like you dress in your online communications? I gave a talk the other day on making the most of social media and email marketing and we got into the conversation of...

byVerticalResponse

April 23, 2009

Are Visitors “Bouncing” from Your Website?

If we are talking about trampolines, basketballs or even Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, being bouncy is a wonderful thing. If we are talking about your website, though, being bouncy is not so wonderful. In...

byTom Shapiro

April 14, 2009

Maximize Your Bang-for-the-Buck through Integrated Marketing

How integrated is your marketing? You’ve established a website for your business. You conduct various marketing activities to promote your business. Now, do you connect the two, or do you instead leave the recipients of...

byTom Shapiro

April 2, 2009

11 Reasons People Leave Your Website

You've put a lot of time and effort into building your website. And for good reason -- it's an important part of your marketing portfolio and helps you to build the bottom line. With this...

byTom Shapiro

February 26, 2009

4 Quick Changes to Boost Web Sales Fast

Did you know that you can boost sales for your small business fast by making a few small changes to your website copy? And the best part is…it won’t cost any money! To start, here...

byMelanie Rembrandt

August 12, 2008

New StartupNation.com Homepage & Global Navigation on the way

StartupNation.com users have been telling us what they want and we've been listening. Now you shall receive! The new StartupNation.com is days away from being introduced, including improved navigation!! Here's a smattering of some of...

byJoel Welsh

March 28, 2007

How to Ask for a Proper Website Critique

I never, never, ever ceased to be amazed by the intelligence that rises forth from a properly engaged community. The wisdom of crowds is a popular topic of intriguing evaluation these days and you can...

byJoel Welsh

January 2, 2007

Website Traffic Tips from Overstock.com founder

This past weekend on StartupNation Radio we were joined by guest host, Patrick Byrne, founder and CEO of Overstock.com. The theme of the show was all about creating a web presence that takes your business...

byRich Sloan

July 19, 2005

What it’s Like…

We woke up this morning and logged on to the Internet only to discover that our website had been COMPLETELY transformed! it wasn't a shock that our web manager, brian, actually re-launched the site. the...

byRich Sloan

March 17, 2005