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How does it feel to work for an eCommerce provider? 2008-08-12 10:33:11 I bet that if you are reading the Avangate blog, you would love to hear how things are going around here. As head of the Avangate Marketing Department, I’m in the position to know a little bit about everything, which probably makes me the right person to talk about it.
Not sure if you know, but [...]
We are blogging! 2008-08-04 09:43:37 You know how each company has the smart guy, the lazy guy, the fat boy and the blond secretary? And from all these human typologies, I’m… the blogger guy. That’s why they trusted me enough to write the first post and jump start the Avangate blog. Still, I can’t play around with the new toy [...]
3 Usability Gurus that Should not be Missed 2008-08-29 07:14:38 Lately, website usability is the favorite subject for a lot of people I talk to. They feel the need to improve their sites, to make them easier and more pleasant to use, to increase their conversion rates or just want to know more about what I do here at Avangate.
Knowing that getting on the road [...] Read more:Gurus
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Effectively Choosing Website Colors 2008-09-15 10:25:28 I was doing some research a few days ago in order to update an old article about effectively choosing colors for websites posted on the Resources section on Avangate website. My goal was to aid web developers with useful instruments for choosing the colors that should best suite their business.
I thus came across a very [...] Read more:Colors
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Blogging for microISV 2008-09-09 10:51:32 During SIC last year, I’ve got the chance to attend Bob Walsh’s presentation on Business blogging for microISVs, and back then I’ve noticed how the audience was very interested in using blogs to gain more exposure and ultimately sales.
I think you can find hundreds of articles on the Web debating the importance of business blogging [...] Read more:Blogging
First day of ISDEF, 2008 2008-09-26 04:25:42 The Avangate team arrived in Moscow yesterday around noon. I soon found out that the traffic is very busy, and although this year the conference takes place at an excellent location at Holiday Inn, it’s still outside the city. Hopefully we will have time to do some visiting - at least Moscow’s Red Square on [...] Read more:First
Avangate is expanding its US operations 2008-09-24 11:06:43 Mountain View, California… this is the way press releases from Avangate US will begin from now on. But to reach this goal (i.e. the Silicon Valley office) there was (and will be from now on) a tremendous work to be done.
The first step was the Board decision on expanding
US operations. Basically Avangate needed fresh [...]
Your secret weapon: Great Customer Support 2008-09-22 10:00:22 At most companies, customer and technical support are the least resourced, least important and least respected functions. How else can you explain why so many large companies treat their customers - their paying customers mind you - like something that should be scrapped off the bottom of their shoes?
Whether it’s voicemail hell and 45 minute [...] Read more:Customer
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Firefox for Web Marketing Ninjas 2008-10-30 12:25:53 I am writing this article for at least 75% of you, who, according to our tracking tools, are using Firefox
to read this blog. The chances are that your Firefox browser is not “naked”, as dressing it up is what makes it such a great and beloved browser around the world.
The best part of it, [...] Read more:Marketing
Getting on the right side of economics 2008-10-24 08:15:47 Unless you’ve been on a raft in the middle of the Pacific this last month, you’ve noticed more than a few financial sharks circling around your microISV or startup.
The Credit Crunch, Iceland - the hedge fund with glaciers - hitting the Titanic of ansy bankers and locking up more than few billion pounds in the [...]
Work hard, play hard 2008-11-13 07:08:48 If you’ve met with one of the Avangate guys or gals, then you probably know that this year we worked hard. We attended lots of conferences, had presentations, booths and wrote a lot of white papers and other articles. But you should also know that we also like to play hard and relax with our [...]
Checklist before (re)launching a website for the win! 2008-11-12 08:38:45 After so much work you’ve done redesigning your website
, adding all those cool features and getting rid of all annoying bugs, it would be a pity to ruin everything because you forget the small but essential details.
You cannot afford to lose page rank, valuable links or loyal visitors, in a word, you should not lose [...] Read more:Checklist
Yet More Tips (and Tools) on how to survive the crisis 2008-11-07 03:16:00 In a twisted, fortunate kind of way, along with news on the economic crisis, recession, however you want to call it, bombarding us for the past few weeks, there’s also hope and help – a myriad of tips, to do lists, practical advice on how to survive
the crisis. You cannot apply everything ad-litteram to [...] Read more:Tools
Being a good Affiliate Manager 2008-11-03 03:35:05 This morning I’ve got an interesting email in my inbox, apparently from someone that has read one of my articles (so after all someone is reading what I write). I think it was one of these: 6 Tips for Affiliate
Managers or Affiliate Merchants Mistakes. I’m going to copy paste the email below because it’s [...]
Squeeze the soul out of your images and offer it as a tribute to Google 2008-12-08 08:51:06 How to optimize website images from a SEO perspective.
Product images, screenshots, your beautiful team members, catchy images for your website content, corporate images, logos, icons, you name it – all your online images should join forces and work for your website success, rigorously planning to embrace the new era of universal search.
If you want to [...] Read more:Google
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Why you Should Get on the Twitter Train? 2008-11-27 08:38:53 Right around this time of year, you’re going to start seeing Predictions for 2009. Let me post mine: 2009 is the year you as the CEO of your microISV, startup or ISV get on Twitter
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For those of you who’ve managed to avoid Twitter, or dismissed it as some pointless flakey time waster, here’s a few [...] Read more:Train
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