Every day, I wake up, eat something healthy and get stuff done. Today I wanted to do an extended list of my rules for creating and building a successful website. It is not my usual Top 7 list but there are so many key points here…
Category: Build Better Websites
18 Things Making Your Website Slow
Optimizing the loading time of your website is a win-win approach to keep the visitors of your site happy and to increase the revenues generated by your online business. To shed light on all those issues that slow down your website, we invited Stavros Papadakis to…
30 Best Designed Blogs of 2011
“Ooh, that’s different!” Yep, the latest Income Diary redesign brings the total number of major redesigns of this site up to five in three years. That’s how much emphasis Michael puts on having a good-looking, high-converting, content-promoting blog design. If you need a designer or developer…
Outsourcing Work on The Internet
My first foray into outsourcing was before I even knew anything about internet marketing. I had read a blog post on Tim Ferriss’ blog and it blew my mind that I could hire people in India to work for me…all without leaving my apartment. I had…
11 Essential Lessons From Going Into Business With People
Over the past four years, I have started 7 different businesses with fellow entrepreneurs. All these businesses and ‘partnerships’ brought me new lessons and today’s post reflects on the Big Lessons these business journeys have provided. But first some distinctions: Partnership: A business owned and run…
20 Best Designed Pricing Comparison Tables
One of the most effective things you can do to help a customer buy from you is help them choose what to buy. When you have multiple options for them to consider, the best way to help them make a decision is to communicate the differences…
15 Best Practices for Responsible Responsive Web Design
Responsive web design is not just a matter of squeezing and stretching. It’s about delivering one website countless ways depending on the width of the screen. What to add? What to remove? How to prioritize what’s most important? What are the implications for search rankings? And…
The AwesomeWeb Story – Investing, Business Partners & Making It Happen
Today I have a special announcement… I want to introduce you to a project I have been working on for quite some time: It’s called AwesomeWeb. You go to AwesomeWeb to find the best designers and developers who could’ve started working on your project yesterday. AwesomeWeb…
5 Design Features Guaranteed to Boost Sales and Conversions
Is there anything better than a beautifully designed website? Actually yes, there is. A beautifully designed website that converts. Chances are, you might be using a website or landing page that just plain sucks at converting visitors into completed goal actions, or in simpler terms –…
What 40 Successful Entrepreneurs Can Teach You about Hiring a Virtual Assistant!
How would you like to reduce your daily workload by at least 50% and double your annual business revenues? As in workless while earning more! It’s common to think that the easiest way to get out of the 9 to 5 work week is to start…
25 Ways You Can Increase Trust On Your Website
Q: What’s the most scarce and valuable resource online? A: Trust. Trust is scarce because anyone can publish content online. There are no publishing companies or editors to separate the good writing from the bad or to make sure all of the sources are double-checked and…
How Do I Start An Internet Business Pt 2 – Establishing The Value Ladder
Before you begin reading this article be sure that you’ve read Part 1 of this “How Do I Start An Internet Business” Startup series. The upcoming steps and information are based on the assumption that you have taken the necessary action to enable adequate preparation to…
20 Design Features That Will Make Your Blog Stand Out From The Crowd!
Hello Everyone, Make Your Blog Stand Out From The Crowd! Today we have a review of some of the additional design features you may wish to consider adding to your blog in order to make it visually more appealing and also to make for a better…
10 Lessons From 10 Years Of Hiring Freelancers
Want to scale your online business quicker? Then get help! Nobody reaches the top on their own. There are many ways to go about it. Hiring freelancers to work for us has consistently given us a positive return on investment. A sales page redesign doubled our…
30 Great Examples of Blog Post Styling
Last week I spotlighted 30 of the internet’s best designed blogs. A brilliant header, clean sidebar, and minimalist footer can go a long way towards making a blog look good. But the one area that’s often overlooked in blog design is the post styling. Here are…
10 Steps To Successfully Outsourcing Your Online Business
Are you feeling stressed out and overwhelmed? Is your business suffering because of your busy-ness or lack of focus? Are you looking to scale what you do now to a greater level? This post will help you with all of that and more. Yes, it’s about…
10 Design Elements All Big Blogs Have In Common
Anytime you create something new, whether it’s a product, a service, or a website, start by taking a look at what others have created before you. To help you set the foundation for your blog design, I’ve listed 10 design elements that almost all big blogs…
30 Great Examples of Mobile App Design
Mobile app design is not like web design. Sure there’s color theory, setting type, and maintaining grids, but there’s so much more to consider when the device changes. To shed some light on the do’s and don’ts of mobile app design, Tomas Laurinavicius to lay out…