marketing

After tons of careful research, we’ve decided to suspend our Standard Plan, starting immediately. While current customers on this plan can retain it for the time being (probably until the end of 2018), we will not be accepting any new orders. Priced at $20/month, this plan has been our entry-level and cheapest managed hosting plan […]

Many of my clients over the years know how much I hate GoDaddy. Unlike other “bad” web hosts, such as the dozens of brands gobbled up by EIG, GoDaddy has always gone the extra mile to lie, cheat, and steal their way toward maintaining a sizeable monopoly on domain registration in the United States (e.g. […]

Throughout my ‘consulting’ career in SEO and online marketing, I’ve always had two general types of clients: those that tried to boss me around and/or make excuses for their poor choices, and those that — despite my young(er) age — listened with keen interest to my suggestions, and tried to implement them (if only in […]

Below is a free video recording of a rather insightful webcast that SendGrid put together several weeks back, which discussed some of the basic concepts involved when putting together a business marketing email. If you are not aware of SendGrid, it is an email ‘delivery’ service at its core, and something that we offer here […]

After spending time in Southeast Asia, I came across many clients and companies involved in the tourism industry. One of the most common “issues” I saw was the peculiar attraction to embedding “weather” widgets into their homepage. Since the early years of web design, “weather” widgets have existed. When the first generations of personal homepages […]

Do you ever check to see if a company uses their own products? I sure do. Whether its a local coffee shop whose staff only seems to drink coffee from the Starbucks located across the street, or a web hosting company who seems to “sell” technology to their customers that they don’t even use themselves… […]

For the past 3 to 4 months, I’ve been running an experiment on the largest freelancing website in the world, oDesk, focused entirely on one thing: website loading speed. Specifically, I sought out clients who were in the market for website migrations, security improvements, SSL certificates, and on-site optimization services, and offered them the following […]