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Reduce Your Server Response Time for Happy Users, Higher Rankings

ConversionXL

With a good SRT—and a site optimized for speed—your website will appear to load almost instantly. Without it, the page will take longer to load, which can damage the user experience and, ultimately, search engine rankings. A slow site means a poor user experience, and search engines will respond accordingly. Image source ).

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The Best Small Business Tools of 2013

Up and Running

Trello : “We use this on the dev team to manage and organize our projects. ” -Mike Wheeler, Lead Web Developer. HipChat : ”The dev team uses HipChat pretty extensively for chatting, both one-on-one and group. ” -Evan Coonrod, LivePlan Developer.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

Do a web search to find platform-specific tools. This will protect all parties involved, ensuring your developer is treated fairly, your work is done in a timely manner and all expectations are met on both sides. Also make sure that you’re communicating well with any web developers or designers you hire.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

We have been using LinkedIn for both sourcing recruits and reviewing backgrounds for recruits. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Its been great to zero in on very specific skillsets.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

With development teams often based around the world, being the center of communication and progress can either lead to a tremendously successful strategy or a bottleneck that can slow down an entire company. Organization and Execution Your new CTO should be able to handle your development team so that projects run along smoothly.

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Web Analytics Technical Implementation Best Practices. (JavaScript Tags)

Occam's Razor

Best practice is to run this nice little program, or your own equivalent, once a week and send a report to your web development team with a list of pages missing the tags. # In many web analytics implementations on the web you’ll see the tag right at top or in the header or before the <body> tag.

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Do You Need to Be a Developer to Found a Web Startup?

thenetsetter.com

Facebook was a new way to manage social interaction, Google was a new way to search, Amazon was a new way to purchase, both Twitter and Blogger were new ways to communicate, and Digg was a new way to determine the relevance of news. Out of the four of us, we had two web designers, one graphic designer and a physicist!

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