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7 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Redesign Your Small Business Website

crowdSPRING Blog

Even if you have a blog, it might be lost in your website navigation and might look like it was designed in 1997. According to studies by content distribution network provider Akamai , a two-second delay in webpage loading time increases “bounce rate” (the number of people who immediately leave a site) by a whopping 103%.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And from a financial perspective, any investor would be better off buying stock in Amazon than buying and share of a corner bookshop; if you invested $100 in Amazon’s 1997 initial public offering (IPO), those shares would have been worth about $120,000 in 2018. Blitzscaling is a strategic technique for moving faster, not a reckless gamble.