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5 Critical Tips For Designing Your First Website
Over the last 12+ years, I’ve designed (or redesigned) hundreds of websites. That includes the initial brainstorming, sketching, wireframing, designing, and developing/coding. It can be a long, sometimes difficult process. But no site is ever as hard as your very first one.
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A Complete Guide: Using Your Startup’s Domain Name To Boost Your Branding
So you’ve decided to take the leap into entrepreneurship. Kudos. If you’re running a startup, then you know how hard it is to find the right business name and a subsequent domain name that is worthy of the value that you’re providing. What if your name is taken under .com? When it comes to your…
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3 Useful Things You Can Do With Your Domain Name To Brand Yourself
You’ve just purchased a new domain name. You’ve launched your website and you’re ready to get your name out there. The question is, what are some effective ways to make your new website name known? There is the option of paying for advertising, but if you don’t have a large marketing budget or backing from…
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Announcing: Porkbun’s HTTPS URL Forwarder
Nearly 90% of browser traffic worldwide is securely transmitted over HTTPS. So why are most URL forwarders stuck in the insecure ‘90s? A URL forwarder allows you to redirect browser requests for your domain to another website. Unfortunately, nearly every URL forwarder on the market won’t accept incoming connections over the modern, secure HTTPS protocol,…
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Happy 9th Birthday, .co!
In 2015, the internet welcomed 500+ new Top Level Domain endings – new gTLDs – giving people more options to choose from when registering a domain name. In addition to .com, .net and .org, people could choose from anything from .love to .marketing. But even before that, in 2010, there was another alternative to .com…
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How ThoughtLeaders.io Is Changing the Online Marketing Landscape
Are you a business trying to get your product or service in front of the right people? Sometimes throwing up some ads on facebook doesn’t do the trick because it’s not where your customers hang out. Moreover, banner ads on major platforms feel intrusive. Native advertising is definitely a smoother experience for the user, especially…
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Getting To Know The Creator of seamlesscreative.design, Brandon Reader
We were at the Adobe Max Design Conference last year, when Brandon Reader introduced himself and visited our booth. We started to explain the purpose of the .design domain name extension and he mentioned that he already had one! After pouring a lot of time and soul getting it to look and function the way he…
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What it takes for a small business to succeed online
It takes a lot to start a business and grow it to profitability, especially if you are a small business. Large organizations can easily outspend you in terms of PPC, SEO, SEM, and other digital marketing activities. And yet, look at the World Wide Web. It is filled with services offered by small businesses. The…
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The lessons business school won’t teach you, but being an entrepreneur will
A business school teaches you many critical skills: broader worldview, strategic thinking, better time management, self-discipline, problem-solving, amongst many others. It trains you to understand theories and models and how to apply them to real-life problems. But no matter how expansive your curriculum, it does not teach you much about entrepreneurial success. When it comes…
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Read This Before Deciding On Your Startup’s Name
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…
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