Stay In Contact

Too many interruptions from disinterested parties created a chasm from staying in close contact with clients and partners. The inability to keep pace with critical discussions was increasing, and the current solution was only decreasing the amount of time available for these relationship-building opportunities.

As the site / product / service / campaign / solution increased in demand, the number of inbound phone calls increased, which increased the number of missed calls, which meant more time spent wading through voicemails and less time focused on meeting demand.

The Solution

Adopting a directory service allowed the user to take back the control of their communications, and keeping them in contact with their clients and partners.

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No Comments, No-reply: Is There A Shift Happening?

There’s MG Siegler’s discussion about disabling comments on his site.

Then there’s MacStories’ piece on shutting down comments on their site.

There’s a local news blog that doesn’t have its comments turned on, either.

Oh, then I’ve seen more and more of these:

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Does The Freemium Model Extend To Services?

Borrowing a quote from the Freemium entry on Wikipedia via Fred Wilson:

Give your service away for free, possibly ad supported but maybe not, acquire a lot of customers very efficiently through word of mouth, referral networks, organic search marketing, etc., then offer premium priced value added services or an enhanced version of your service to your customer base.

Fred uses the word “service” but if you look at the post the above quote comes from, service relates to a product or web service.

I’m wondering, if you’re a talented person with an entrepreneurial vision with limited coding / product-building experience / skills, can you instead shift the focus of the business model above from products to services?

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Free Marketing

FREE

It’s an odd word, Free.

These days, it’s normally tied to a bevy of hooks you don’t want to sign up for or ladders you don’t want to climb through.

We’re removing the hooks and ladders.

We’re offering our services – marketing, sales, copy writing, copy editing, design, technical – to you.

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Starting The New Year With A New Site

Over the past few weeks, I’ve made some changes to this website. My goal for this site has been to provide content, ideas, and real-life examples of technology that can help small businesses.

I’m hoping the changes made will provide even more help.

In general, here are the tweaks – both big and small – I made over the past few weeks:

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