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How to Start a Small Web Design Firm

Up and Running

For web designers, transitioning from working full-time for someone else to freelancing has some perks, like being your own boss and having a more flexible work schedule. Many freelance web designers choose to use their name as their brand, which on the positive side lends a personal attachment to your business. Build your brand.

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Times Square Strategy Session – Web Startups and Customer Development

Steve Blank

I was in New York last week with my class at Columbia University and several events made me realize that the Customer Development model needs to better describe its fit with web-based businesses. In it, I got asked a question I often hear: “What if we have a web-based business that doesn’t have revenue or paying customers?

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RSS Troubles (FeedBurner)

Software By Rob

Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. Apologies to those who read this blog via RSS. For about two weeks no new posts were showing up in my RSS feed, then last week old posts were marked as new with multiple rows of links added below them. Subscribe via RSS On Twitter? Just curious.

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What you have to know about conversion optimization

ConversionXL

It will teach you about conversion optimization – how exactly to do it, based on all the best research and experiments. Why do conversion optimization? Conversion optimization is the method of tuning websites or landing pages with the goal of converting more visitors into customers. This post will make you money.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #13: Measure Macro AND Micro Conversions.

Occam's Razor

We love our conversion rates. :) Really really. Part of me is glad because my book and the Trinity strategy and the Web Analytics 2.0 But I have come to realize that we are not being the best we can be by focusing on just the overall website conversion rate. oh conversions. : ). No Outcomes = No Happiness. Let me explain.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. It needs to be a conversation. Do you need to provide RSS? Dates/Time Zones - Do we need to handle multiple Time Zones and do conversion automatically? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? There's just too much variation. Dismissable?

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

But I've often been very surprised by one aspect of these conversations. It needs to be a conversation. Do you need to provide RSS? Dates/Time Zones - Do we need to handle multiple Time Zones and do conversion automatically? Beyond simple web analytics, what is needed? There's just too much variation. Dismissable?

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