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Software I Use: Basecamp

One indispensable piece of software that I use both personally as well as in my day job is a project/time management software package called Basecamp. First, a quote from 37 Signals, the company that made Basecamp: For years project management software was about charts, graphs, and stats. And you know…

The Conversation: True Story

Dan Benjamin, host on the 5by5.tv podcast network, conducts a great interview with Greg Storey on all things business. It should be required listening for those on both sides of the design, development and marketing of web work. There’s lots of great tips and info for everyone involved from Greg,…

Overnight Success After 10 Years

Biz Stone is the co-founder of Twitter (follow Lemon Productions here) and had this to say in a blog post about the perceived overnight success of Twitter: Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success. Surrounding yourself with smart people you like…

Build Your Own Website – Virb and Squarespace

Some people want to understand all the HTML, CSS, Javascript and whatchamakalit code behind their websites. Other people want to hire someone to take care of everything – they don’t want to know about what goes inside their website anymore than they want to know about what goes inside their…

How Not to Be a Bad Email Marketer

Great advice for anyone setting up a new email newsletter list from the folks over at MailChimp : Bottom line: make sure people are legitimately signed up to your list. You can’t just throw a bunch of email addresses on your list and hope people will be so happy to…