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.
When building a membership website, you don’t have to go it alone. There’s a wealth of free web tools and online resources available to take advantage of to improve your design, optimise for SEO, deliver content, investigate usability issues & much more. We’ve rounded up some of our favorites and...
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...
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...
Building trust between you and your audience is all about building credibility and authority. Visitors want to know who you are and why they should bother reading what you have to say. One of the most important pages on your website is the “About Me” page (or "About Us" page...
If you are planning on starting a content-based website or online magazine, getting things right from the very beginning can save you a lot of time, money and heartache later. This checklist of features is based on our experience of building hundreds of content websites for a wide range of...
Recession is here … and it could be with us for some time. In this article, I will explain how you can plan and create an online business about any subject. The target income I look at is $60,000 a year, but you can decide and plan your site for...
