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7 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Small Business Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Many small businesses assume that brands start and end with their business name and logo, and overlook all of the other important marketing content that is a part of any substantial branding effort. Even if you have a blog, it might be lost in your website navigation and might look like it was designed in 1997.

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Who’s Your Daddy? 5 Lessons from GoDaddy

Growthink Blog

GoDaddy was created in 1997 as Jomax Technologies by Bob Parsons who had recently sold his other company, Parsons Technology Inc., At the time, a company called Network Solutions was essentially the only place from which people could register domain names. That changed in 2001, however, and GoDaddy.com quickly grew.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Let's face realities here: it's no doubt tempting and cool for many developers to work for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter to name but a few. Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products.

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Why Search Is Hard

Diego Basch

There was one time when building a decent search engine was relatively simple: crawl a few million pages (in 1997, that would have included pretty much every interesting web page out there). If you and I start typing a first name (J-o-h), odds are it will show us people we know named John, along with their pictures.

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[Review] Twitter Is Not A Strategy

YoungUpstarts

A case in point is Apple, whose “Think Different” campaign in 1997 (see video below) served as a rallying call to those who shared the brand’s values. These include fun and useful apps like Uniqlo’s “Uniqlock” – a blog widget which tells time through dance and music.

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Because the Domain Makes it Really Real

This is going to be BIG.

Three years ago today, I grabbed the domain name BrooklynBridgeVentures.com. Getting a domain name. I got an internship on the buy side at the GM pension fund in high school--in 1997. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

Ironically, they’ll especially think this if they are working in a big company because they are more cautious about taking risks on “no-names”. I read your blog over the weekend and am inspired to add my two cents. I was fortunate to live in Silicon Valley for six years before moving to “Silicon Hills” in 1997?—?having