So you have decided on the niche for your website. Now you need to start planning what the website will look like and what functionality you want to include to create a great experience for your members. The website functionality needed to be all live when you first launch, but it is worth thinking through what you will need and when. These articles should help you.
Running a part-time business can be fun and rewarding but maintaining a healthy work/life balance is vitally important - especially if you have other commitments like holding down a full-time job or keeping a happy family. Throwing yourself into things is admirable, and variety may be the spice of life,...
Here at SubHub Towers we're currently up to our eyebrows in the development of the next version of our platform. Our walls are covered with post-it notes, mindmaps and other project related scribblings. Exciting times!While for the most part we follow Agile project methodologies for our development work, we have found that...
Yesterday I was running through the business plan with a client. They are launching an online magazine about DIY design for small companies. As you would expect, given the subject, they had created a wonderful website design, brilliant stationary and some exciting marketing concepts. But as I read through the...
It is often said that the Internet is like the wild west and certainly in the domain registration business there are some real cowboys. These are some of the tricks that domain registrars use to try to squeeze more money out of you, make cash from your domain or worst of all,...
Here at SubHub, a lot of our most frequently asked questions are understandably based around SEO and everything it relates to - optimizing and ranking of membership sites, competitor analysis and so forth. For a while i've been meaning to write an article that answers most of the questions we're...
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is "how do I learn about internet inbound marketing?" The web is a minefield of poor and inaccurate marketing advice. At best most of the information will waste your time. At worst, if followed, it could get your site banned from...
If your love affair with Twitter has recently faltered, due to information overload, there's plenty you can do to improve your user experience and restore your bond with this great tool. Recently i've adopted a number of measures to drastically improve how I use Twitter, which i'll share with you...
Every online content publisher should know about Creative Commons. It is a well established and very important way to handle online copyright for the distribution of free content. To take the Wikipedia definition: “The Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others...
Coverage about your website in the press – online or offline – is very valuable indeed. Unlike advertising, readers see it as an independent third-party endorsement for your service. So how can you get press coverage without breaking the bank? My experience of PR is very mixed.When I worked for...
