Marketing

Interview with Saul Colt

Posted by Kevin Dees on Dec 17, 2011 in Design, Marketing, Programming, Videos | 2 comments

In this interview I speak with Saul Colt about the Freshbooks redesign, customers and start a web service. Saul has been an advocate for Freshbooks for some time. He has helped develop their brand and community over the years with great success.

I hope you enjoy this interview and gain a new prospective on working with customers, building new features and finding your passion. Saul is a great person and is super enthusiastic about Freshbooks. I use Freshbooks personally for my own invoicing and I was not paid to interview Saul.

24 Ways is here again in 2011

Posted by Kevin Dees on Dec 1, 2011 in Design, Journal, Links, Marketing, Programming | 1 comment

Its that time again. The advent calendar of web design is pumping out 24 more post until the day of Christmas. 24 Ways. This is one of the few blogs I look forward to each year.

24 Ways is a blog for web designers and developers published at the time of Christmas. Each day until the 25th of December an expert in the web community blogs about current and influential topics. These range from design to business development.

Website: Postmark

Posted by Kevin Dees on Nov 21, 2011 in Links, Marketing, Programming | 0 comments

I have an account for Postmark. I plan to use it very soon. I should have been using it. You should be using it is you ever plan to send email from your website. Using a service and its API is the best way to send email from a website or web app. They protect you from ISP filters and spam folders. Postmark is one of the best. There is even have a WordPress plugin for Postmark.

Adding SEO Friendly URL’s to OpenCart

Posted by Kevin Dees on Nov 2, 2011 in Articles, Marketing, Programming | 15 comments

First off, I must give credit where it is due. I got most of my information on OpenCart Clean URL’s from PHP Genious. In this post I will explain how friendly or clean URL’s work in OpenCart.

Clean URL’s are built into OpenCart 1.5. To use SEO URL’s you need to enable them under your stores server settings, rename the .htaccess.txt file and add your SEO keyword for each product and category you create. The keywords will not be created for you. You must also have Apache mod_rewrite turned on. Most web hosts will have this on by default.

Interview with Patrick O’Keefe

Posted by Kevin Dees on Oct 29, 2011 in Marketing, Videos | 2 comments

This this interview I talk with Patrick O’Keefe about managing online communities. Patrick has been managing online communities for well over 10 years. He is author of “Managing Online Forums” and a host of the Sitepoint Podcast. Patrick is also a professional speaker and has spoken at global events like SXSW.

Website: Trello

Posted by Kevin Dees on Oct 19, 2011 in Links, Marketing | 0 comments

If you need to get hings done and keep your tasks organized Trello can help. This tool was developed by Fog Creek as a way to help speedup, manage and organize projects. I use it to keep track of my plugin development goals.

Interview with Jason Blumer

Posted by Kevin Dees on Oct 15, 2011 in Marketing, Videos | 0 comments

In this interview I speak with Jason Blumer. Jason is the Managing Shareholder and CPA at Blumer & Associates, CPAs. As I speak with Jason we cover his view on the creative field, the importance of having strategies over product and pricing your services.

Top 5 SEO Tips For Your Site

Posted by Eric Evans on Oct 7, 2011 in Articles, Design, Marketing, Programming | 0 comments

What can you do to your site today that will make a difference to your site tomorrow? Are there secret SEO tactics that will change your rankings tomorrow? Probably, but those tactics won’t realistically help your site rank high for long. So I’m going to give you five of the top white hat SEO tactics that you can work on that will have a lasting effect on your site.