Lately, a lot of our work in the area of email correspondence systems has been in weening clients off of Constant Contact or other third party systems and setting them straight on the MailChimp path. MailChimp is by far my favorite third-party, hosted email campaign system. The user interface is spectacularly well designed, the mail [...]
Read MoreAnother fantastic product: YouMail. Manage your voice mail through this website. I thought it was a dumb idea at first, but then again I thoguht YouTube was silly when they first launched (originally as a video dating site, I must note.) I signed up for YouMail today, and I gotta say it’s easy, clear, simple [...]
Read MoreOnce in a while I come across simple tools that just make sense. GrabUp is a tool that does one thing only, and does it well. I’m hooked!
Read MoreBust Out Solutions is looking for standards-based XHTML and CSS developers who have a good sense of search engine optimization and JavaScript. We are a full service web design and development shop located in Minneapolis, but are willing to work with good talent from anywhere. No formal resume needed! Just email us the URL to [...]
Read MoreMatt Mullenweg and the WordPress community announced the release of WordPress 2.5 today. It continues to be Bust Out Solutions’s publishing platform of choice, and probably will be for a while as it keeps getting better! Way to go Matt, and the rest of the code contributors.
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Read MoreInteresting article from A List Apart about the misuse of sign-up forms. The bottom line: engage new users in your site BEFORE you ask them to enter their personal information.
Read MoreI gotta think the Cringely is a bit off in his article about the death of social networking. I think what he means to say, is the death of 95% of social websites as natural selection weeds out sites that don’t drive traffic. The big ones will turn a profit as the advertising model takes [...]
Read MoreIn Bob Cringely’s recent blog posting, “Social Networking is Just Another CB Radio,” he describes why he believes social websites are destined to crash and burn. His basic argument: there’s no business model, or at least not a very good one. If you have loads of traffic, you have a business model – advertising or [...]
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