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Last month’s hack of TicketFly’s website made national news, and for good reason. The company resorted to completely turning their online-based business, offline. And not just for a matter of minutes, or ...
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There’s only a few things in life that are a guarantee. One of them is time, although unfortunately we have no way of knowing how much of it ...
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Yeaaaah….When building websites, I’ve come to realize that there are very critical ways in which you need to qualify your prospects. If you’re a developer who’s just getting ...
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Ever find yourself watching football, and thinking things like “man, Tom Brady gets paid a million dollars to play one sixty minute game. What am I doing wrong?” ...
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Business owners: I have put together a comprehensive guide of the 16 best ways to ensure your web guy never returns your calls again! See below and act accordingly: Start ...
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Keeping up with social media is a huge pain in the ass. You’re just trying to run your business, which keeps you busy enough as it is, and ...
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Stock photos suck. See exhibit A: …the irony of licensing this photo from my Adobe Stock account, ugh. Excuse me while I wipe the vomit off my keyboard. Maybe you’re ...
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First things first, it’s not lost on me that I previously wrote about not being afraid to work for free. Am I now contradicting myself? A little bit… ...
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Search engine optimization. If there could ever be a profession that was on par reputation-wise with selling snake oil, it would have to be anyone who sells SEO. Don’t get ...
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We all need to start somewhere. When I first started building websites it was still acceptable for your design to look like this: Thankfully, I didn’t build that website, ...
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If you’re wondering how I’m going to connect the dots with ramen noodles and building websites, read on. And for the record, I’m not referring to the fancy ramen that’s ...
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Have you ever had a client call you at 11pm on Sunday night because they’re locked out of their AOL email account? And before you even have time to ...
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Yes, I’m aware the title of this post comes off a bit used car salesman-ey. Read on and you’ll see it’s not a complete sleaze fest. Growing a loyal ...
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Back in my humble beginnings of building websites, I would charge a fixed-price. In these much simpler times, it would be commonplace for me to end up billing ...
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Some of the most important lessons I’ve learned as a web guy have nothing to do with things like PHP and CSS; they have everything to do with honesty ...
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I have someone doing renovations on my house today, so I looked for somewhere close by with Wifi. I stumbled into Dunkin Donuts, bought a coffee, and setup ...
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