Recently, we received an email from a gentleman looking for music lessons: “So, I am an English teacher in the Bronx and I got hired to teach music next year. Although I am a music lover, I have never played an instrument and definitely not a musician. I need to take piano and music theory …
While a domain name change is certainly a challenging experience, I think with proper planning, you can make it a little less painful.
We recently switched the name of our company and our domain to http://TakeLessons.com. The name is shorter, easier to remember, and translates better internationally. On our old domain, ClickForLessons.com, we had a Google page-rank of 5. We knew that by switching the domains, we were going to take an initial hit in our organic traffic, …
I do not know a single internet-based company that decided to use debt vs. equity as a main source of working capital. Perhaps it’s because most companies need a fair amount of capital, and there isn’t a proven business model yet. In this scenario, equity financing makes perfect sense. But what about internet companies with …
The grass may seem greener, and the pasture may seem larger somewhere else. But what I’ve learned is that I must be able to answer the question, “What is the value we’re creating that people are willing to pay for?”
Focus on making a product good enough that a core group of people will buy it. If it’s useful for the few, you have a better chance of making it useful for many.
For those with a little stage fright, perhaps these 28 tips will help you out. Here are a couple of my favorites:
I am absolutely blown away by the quality of the product and the sensitivity of the staff, and the detail throughout the resort. It made me think about our site, and wonder what else we could do NOW to improve the detail, and give our users a better experience. Here is the list I came up with:
Over the next few months, we are going to be a living experiment in converting a hierarchical site to a more circular tagging site. We realize that we cannot possibly keep up with the ever-changing creative outlets that our users want to learn about. What we believe is that over time, our users (who are the experts) will tell us how things should be organized, and we will use that data to develop tighter social graphs, more relevant search results, and a more fluid overall experience.
“The initial results are showing that our site is running about 60% faster now. Here is a comparison chart of three main pages of our site and the size before and after. Overall, it’s a 25% savings site-wide on performance.”