It would seem entrepreneurship and being part of a startup is very popular these days. Being a startup, having the right tools at your disposal is crucial. Personally, I have tried countless frameworks, SaaS applications, etc and only a few have made the cut. Without these applications, my life would be in endless chaos and I probably wouldn't still be in business.

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It's not everyday that I feel compelled to give out a public announcement; however, sometimes when something is so blatantly a scam I feel compelled to alert the masses. Rippln is the new "We're going to be THE NEXT BIG THING IN SOCIAL MEDIA!" site and they use tactics that appeal to the lowest common intelligence denominator. When you get a spam e-mail that says "YOU CAN WIN $1000 RIGHT NOW!", all in caps, do you click on it? No; because you're not an idiot.

However, it would appear that the owners of ..

In today's world you really have to do something big to become any sort of sensation. To get someone to actually care enough about you to look at your Facebook page is somewhat of a constant struggle.

Not everyone cares about what you do. You may be a tech provider, and the person reading your post sells little ceramic vases. They may need what you provide to sell their services, but all in all, what you have to say doesn't really interest them. So what is the quickest way to grab the attention of thou..

When we develop websites, we believe that too much information can actually be a bad thing. Not because you want to hide certain things, but because people really don't care. I took a screenshot of our website, and googled: "Web design atlanta" and came up with one of our competitors.

We really want to know, what's better? Is minimal better; or should you throw it all out there and cram as much information as you can into one tiny screen?

In the constant hustle of sales and marketing of our products and services, I think it's wise that we stop and look at what we are promoting and make sure that we haven't gone a little "off the page" so to speak, in what we offer.

We had a client a few months back that had a pretty insane wordpress install and they came to us and said: "Can you host our site?". Of course, having dealt with a plethora of wordpress sites in my past I quickly jumped at a response of: "Of course!". What I soon realized is that..

As a development company we get asked time and time again, "Who should we use to process credit cards online?". Maybe 1% of our customers have ever said: "We want to use [insert vendor name here]". In order to give an accurate response, and to ensure that our customers are the happiest possible, I am going to explain who we use, and why we use them. We also have a few applications that we have developed as a SaaS offering and we use these same two companies for pretty much everything.

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We made a post earlier today on Facebook about our new office space that we are moving into on Monday. Originally, I personally wanted to move into a "techie" area downtown. However, the more I thought about it the more I thought it would be advantageous for our business to live near our customers.

If we are a tech company surrounded by a bunch of other tech companies, then we don't really stand out much. If we moved into an office building that looks like a law firm, then we move into what could possibl..

I have noticed a trend among people hosting with "cheap" providers. You can find their tweets and facebook posts blasting these companies for downtime, slowness, and terrible customer support. To these people, I say: "You are paying 4.95/mo; you need to start acting like it."

Listen, I'm not saying that customer support is not important. On the contrary, I believe it is extremely important; so let's put this into real life terms. If I go to McDonalds and pay $4 for 20 McNuggets and they mess up my order, c..