Whether you are creating a new company website or starting a new web2.0 venture, you will need a plan of action to develop a successful website. Staying organized makes the website development process go smoothly and helps your team stay on track without going off on a tangent worrying about minute details. Planning also helps prepare for unexpected road blocks that could bring things to a halt if not foreseen. These processes have helped me over the years and I hope they help you too. Here are the six steps to planning and executing a successful website:   Planning – Forming an Idea and...

Recently diving into e-commerce, I needed to find the best service with the lowest transaction costs for my clients and for my own company. Instead of becoming overwhelmed with all of the choices, you should look into these great services from more the more popular companies out there. Paypal has a $10/month fee to use their basic service, where they would handle all transactions, including yearly billing. They also charge approximately 2% + $0.30 per transaction. This option is $20 less per month than the Paypal integrated service, but users would be directed off your website during their initial...

This is a jist of what Ed Dale teaches in the thirty day challenge. The process has enabled him to create multi-million dollar businesses online and now he is teaching people like you and me how to do it. After participating in his challenge, I learned that his principals not only apply to finding niche markets, but to business practices overall. After all, the people who benefited the most from the thirty day challenge were the ones who applied the thirty day challenge methods to their existing business. Instead of making $10 in thirty days, the existing businesses made thousands of dollars using...

Facebook is the new Microsoft Windows. Why? Before my time, Microsoft introduced Windows as a revolutionary new platform for developers make everyone’s lives easier. Apple came out with their aesthetic, remarkably easy interface that made (almost) everyone want a new Mac. It wasn’t long before these big companies like IBM, Xerox, Microsoft, HP and of course Apple knew what was coming down the train tracks. These revolutionary new personal computers were going to change everyone’s life. And they did. Bill Gates became the richest man in the world and Steve Jobs continues to lead...

We just got a new website and new business cards! Tell me what you think! I carry my business cards around in a case from my favorite place to go. Our website is not that web2.0 looking, but it’s simple and very easy to navigate. We do of course build web2.0 websites however if you are interested If you like the business cards, you can order them @ moo.com.

Ok, so you know about Facebook, Twitter, Google Trends, Web2.0, AJAX, YouTube and blogging (if you don’t you should read my first article, Step 1 to Building your Own Online Business). Next, you need to take your fresh list of ideas and start researching! Sound fun? The guys over at Thirty Day Challenge have come up with some great ways to research niche markets using FREE online tools. These tools are: Google Search Google Trends Free Keywords @ WordTracker.com They are simple yet they can determine almost EXACTLY how much traffic you can expect with a particular product and keyword phrase...

I am going to provide a few steps on starting a business, this being the first article. Since these processes are fresh in my memory, I am documenting what I have accomplished to try and make it easier for you to start your own web company. Of course, if you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to let me know. I will only provide a bit of information at a time so you can research the material in small chunks. Finding your Niche Market. Write down a list of business ideas related to popular items you see when you walk around the mall or retail stores, what ads you see in magazines and what...

Call this a Guide to iMarketing in 2007. There are a lot of new technologies out there such as blogging, podcasting, social bookmarking and networking, search engine optimization, internet marketing and web2.0. I have been researching these technologies about 40 hours a week this summer to understand how everything fits together. Now, I want to share what I compiled. It’s a basic laundry list and doesn’t go very in depth, but there are a lot of excellent resources in this guide. If anyone has anything to add, please comment! I. Website ad planning, placement, and analytics: A. Conducting...

Yesterday, I came across a really cool site. He talk about topics I am interested in, such as SEO, web 2.0, blogging, marketing, and business in general. The other articles not pertaining to web design seem a little too opinionated and might scare some people off, but some of the web design articles are right on. Finding ‘Slayerment’ on the Digg home page a few days ago, I browsed the site and found some really great articles about web design to which I can relate. His posts about web design are very easy to read and entertaining most of the time. Check out his article that was featured...

They make your iLife simple. “Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. ” - Steve Jobs They understand the engineer’s dilemma. Take a normal television remote control. All you really need to use is the power button, channel and volume buttons, and maybe a few others. So why are there 50 more buttons on the remote besides these essential ones? There was too much unused real estate on the remote control of course! When Apple makes a product they strip the functions down to their necessities. Take the iPhone. They took what was already there...