Category Archives: Business
Producing websites is, in itself a business, but it often relates to the business of our clients. We’ll try to put all of those thoughts and processes in here.
Business: Euthenasing Internet Explorer 6
July 7, 2011
Much of the time website owners & developers decide to drop IE6 support and they forget a key tenet of customer service: it has to be focused on the customer!
Tags: e-commerce, ie6, internet explorer
Business: Why we host Big Red Tin on US servers
September 15, 2010
Previously I wrote about sticking with an Australian web hosting provider. Soon after I relocated the Soupgiant sites to an American service provider. Situations change and so I thought I’d explain why.
Tags: boxcutters, Linode, Media Temple, QuadraHosting, web hosting
Business: Networking is the New Networking
September 9, 2010
Networking is not about shoving your business cards in people’s faces.
Tags: exposure, marketing, networking, selling
Business: An Answer to the Twitter Question
August 19, 2010
One of the questions we’re often asked by clients when doing an initial consultation is “what about twitter?” After a couple of years of thinking about an answer, Josh might finally have one.
Tags: advertising, buzz, promotion, publicity, social networks, Twitter, zeitgeist
Business: Business is not like Sport
June 24, 2010
It’s easy to make sports analogies when discussing business. Watching World Cup soccer and playing baseball, as I do, the similarities between doing well in sports and business seem obvious. In fact, since Robert DeNiro, playing Al Capone in The Untouchables bashed in an associate’s head while making a baseball analogy, drawing lines of comparison between the two has become cliché.
Tags: 37 Signals, Analogies, Jason Calacanis, Jeffrey Zeldman, Leo Laporte, Molly Holzschlag, Risk
Business: Surprise. It’s all about honesty
June 22, 2010
We were unable to help a potential client with the task they had in mind. We may have been able to fudge it but we don’t think ‘fudging it’ is the way to keep clients happy.
Business: Thinking: More Important Than Ideas
April 23, 2010
Ideas come out of nowhere. We can’t hold onto them. We shouldn’t even try. Ideas are best blurted out and, subsequently, best thought over.