Seth Godin had a cool post on his blog the other day that ended with the statement… The next time you have a choice between chasing the charts (whichever charts you keep track of) and doing the work your customers crave, do the work instead. I used to have grand ideas about marketing… that great [...]
I’m stoked to announce the completion of yet another Tribeswell website design project. Meet The Next Step which can be found at myxts.com. The Next Step is a personal training and fitness company owned by Jeff Sidwell with locations in northwest Indianapolis and Carmel, Indiana. Jeff contacted me after seeing some of our previous work, [...]
Remember the old saying, ‘Garbage-In, Garbage-Out’? It means that no matter what you’re trying to put together, if you use inferior components from the start, it will affect the final product. I deal with this a lot when designing things for clients. There are basically 3 things that a web designer needs as starting material [...]
If you’re wondering if what you’re reading right now is important, let me just say that if you follow a few tips here you can increase the effectiveness of your blog by 2-3 times. The way you title your blog posts has vast implications from search engines to social media and even in the direct [...]
My traffic quadrupled last Tuesday, largely due to the fact that we got a brief mention on the online talk show This Week in Startups. It was really weird how it happened too… This Week in Startups was filming their show and the host, Jason Calacanis, was interviewing Tony Haile of Chartbeat, which is a [...]
One of my hobbies is typing in random words into Google just to see who comes up. Today, I decided to type in the word ‘blog’. Here’s Seth Godin, first page right under the wikipedia article and blog.com with the white house blog right after him. I don’t care who you are… that’s impressive.
I just had what I believe to be a brilliant idea that could potentially make Facebook or one of its app developers a lot of money. I just wanted to throw it out there and let the community beat it around to see if it’s really as good as I think. Facebook Insurance – and [...]
