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Read This Before Deciding On Your Startup’s Name

Alisha Shibli

You took your idea and put it together in a business plan. After long, grueling hours or market research, analyzing your competition, coming up with prototypes, you’re finally ready to put this plan into profitable business action.

You even have a plan to raise funds to get your idea off the ground. But… before you proceed any further, you need a name for your startup. Sure, you may have an idea or two but how do you know it’ll work?

Most entrepreneurs consider naming their startup as the most undervalued aspect of their business. On the contrary, this name is going to stick with your business for its whole life. It’s the most valued aspects of your business. You need to get it right from the beginning.

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Connect With Customers By Using the .help Domain

Sam Torrey

If your company or organization conducts any of its business online, chances are your customers will need help with something. Whether it’s pre-sales type questions, or support for existing customers, or questions on how to use your product, you will need to find the best way to provide them with the information they need.

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Staying Ahead Of The Curve With .dev

Sam Torrey

Automation is changing the way entire industries function. It is what separates forward-thinking businesses from traditional mindsets. One company that has embodied the value of automation is Google. Whether it’s self-driving cars or an immense advertising network, Google is one of the leading companies invested in coding and development advancement. And so it’s quite a treat that, as of February 28th, 2019, Google is releasing a new domain name extension: .dev.

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7 Tips for picking the perfect blog domain name

Preston Lee

One of the most exhilarating things about starting a blog can be picking the perfect domain name.

With literally hundreds of domain extensions (like .com, .club, or .ink), it’s never been easier to get ultra-creative when naming your blog.

So why is it that landing on the perfect domain name can still often be a struggle? Why do many bloggers end up regretting the domain name they originally came up with, and change it months or years later?

The answer lies in what’s going through you mind when you’re learning how to start a blog.

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The .work Domain, For Getting The Job Done

Sam Torrey

Whether it’s shared workspaces, freelancing, employment-related services or corporate HR – the .work TLD is leading the global workforce.

The global giant Amazon uses the website amazon.work as their employee human resources (HR) portal for hundreds of thousands of employees.  Alexa.com ranks it in the top 3,000 US websites with over 380,000 unique visitors per month.

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7 Creatives using .design domains well + tips for a high-converting portfolio

Preston Lee

I work with hundreds of freelance designers every day on my blog and online community. And, I have to be honest, it’s scary just how often I hear something like this:

“I want to reach out to new clients, but my site’s just not ready.”

So today, I’d like to offer a few stellar examples of designers using the new .design domain extension to showcase their work. Some of the examples are extremely simple—in a good way—proving you don’t have to spend months redesigning (or designing for the first time) your portfolio site.

After highlighting a few great examples of just what you can do with a quality .design domain, I’ll quickly share some of my best tips for making the most of your design portfolio site.

Jump to my top tips for converting portfolio site visitors into paying clients.

Without further ado, here are 7 designers & agencies using their .design domain to boost profits & grow their business.

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Live Chat With Porkbun

Sam Torrey

Have you ever been browsing a company’s website and want to ask a question, but you don’t really want to talk on the phone? And, instead of writing an email that might take a day to get an answer, you would like a way to get more prompt feedback? To accommodate this, Porkbun is pleased to announce that we now offer live chat support on our website, porkbun.com. This post discusses briefly how our chat system works and what it means for you going forward.

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Getting To Know The Porkbun Domain Management Console

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When you purchase a domain name, you own the keys to your website kingdom. Your domain name tells the world what your website is about, and gives you a brand name. From a technical perspective, you can do a lot of things with your domain name. You can connect your domain name to a website that you’ve built with another web service like Wix or Weebly. You can use it as a re-direct if you own another domain name. You can integrate it into eCommerce shopping platforms so that your customers only see your professionally branded storefront. However, sometimes performing these tasks can be tricky for the novice user. Some registrars don’t make these tasks any less tricky when they make you go through multiple webpages and convoluted instructions to make basic changes. To combat this, we re-engineered our domain management console to make it easier for you to manage your domain names. Read on to get to know the new Porkbun Domain Management Console. Continue reading →

Making Content Marketing and Social Media Work In Harmony For Your Small Business

Sam Torrey2 Comments

Do you struggle with integrating multiple marketing efforts to achieve maximum results? As a small business owner, you wear multiple hats—and some fit better than the others. You’re not alone when it comes to struggling with the nuances and complexities of online marketing. Taking on the role of a marketer is not easy. There are more ways than you can imagine to reach consumers online and putting all the marketing practices together to work in harmony can be challenging.

Content marketing and social media are two must-haves in a small business’ marketing kitty. You can build a strong online marketing plan by combining content marketing and social media. When used in harmony, these two marketing tactics can engage your audience and bring the good kind of attention to your business. But before we get into how to integrate the two, let’s understand the core of each channel.

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How to Make The Most of New Domain Extensions For Your Marketing Strategy

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Let’s talk about Lucy. She is a pastry chef who recently moved to Chicago from Paris. She set up her bakery a couple of months ago in a quiet suburban neighborhood and is pleased with the response she has received so far. What started out as a hobby back when she was a teenager has now become her passion and profession. The business is thriving, she loves what she does and is excited about what the future holds for her.

It is likely that your brain has visualized this story as you were reading it and will retain those images for you for a long time to come. On other hand, your brain has presumably forgotten the name of this person (unless your name is Lucy or you have a specific reason to remember that name). The reason is that your brain selectively retains information that it finds meaningful and discards anything that it classifies as useless. This continuous process of dumping redundant memories and data is what makes the brain efficient. It’s not surprising that this intel into the functioning of our brain is the genesis of ‘marketing with storytelling’.

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