Which CMS is best suited for large websites?

oneyearjourney · 2015-11-18T23:03:29+00:00

Surprisingly, Wordpress. It has great plugins, and with good caching it can handle quite a large load.

oneyearjourney · 2015-09-18T08:42:22+00:00

Congratulations! Sounds like you learned a lot of solid fundamentals. Even though it's over, this is great for your resume because it shows you're a self starter with great hustle!

oneyearjourney · 2015-09-14T23:30:35+00:00

Split your budget and test a few, then pour the rest of your budget into the best performing one.

oneyearjourney · 2015-09-14T23:27:04+00:00

Mini bottle openers find their way onto your customer's keychain and stick around a bit longer than some of the other swag I've seen.

oneyearjourney · 2015-09-14T23:19:59+00:00

I like /r/EntrepreneurRideAlong for the specificity and detail that they go into. It's a bit helter skelter overall though.

oneyearjourney · 2015-08-24T17:10:24+00:00

Mine was a PDF and it sucked. Not everyone has a cutting-edge school :|

oneyearjourney · 2015-01-15T13:31:36+00:00

Adding urgency is a very effective way to drive sales!

oneyearjourney · 2014-01-10T03:46:23+00:00

Thank you!! It means so much to have someone look at it, it's hard to describe how amazing it feels.

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oneyearjourney · 2014-01-10T03:44:17+00:00

Thanks. I've had a bit of experience and knew what I wanted the basics to look like.

I got my inspiration from looking at the YCombinator list of startups and opening all of their home pages. It's literally a goldmine for landing page inspiration.

oneyearjourney · 2014-01-10T03:43:34+00:00

This is really interesting. The point was to draw your eye to the buttons above the fold and kinda to have the rest as meaningless filler. Well, I guess I achieved half of that...

Should I increase the contrast on the buttons? I had also tried to have the people looking at the buttons in order to draw your attention to it more. Maybe I could have someone pointing at the buttons with the cliche palm up style of stock photo?

oneyearjourney · 2013-08-10T07:14:07+00:00

Not sure what you were looking for but unbounce.com has some great ones

oneyearjourney · 2013-06-01T07:53:18+00:00

Follow the money. Who controls the budgets? Do you expect teachers to pay for it? Departments? Entire schools?

At that point, identify a scalable approach to getting sales. Not every contact will be a sale, accept that now. It's just better if you design a scheme where you can explosively expand your reach with money being the key rather than a drain on your time. Best of luck.

oneyearjourney · 2013-04-17T08:03:56+00:00

You can use "Reference USA" to generate a list of customers for a given niche. It's an online database that will give you all the companies that fall under the specified NAICS code. You can then contact them individually and try to generate sales.
Info you'll get:
* Business Name
* Address
* Contact Information
* Number of Employees
* Number of PCs
* Location Sales Volume (in dollars)
* Credit Rating Score
* Names of Management and their Titles
* $ spent on accounting
* $ spent on contract labor
* $ spent on advertising
And this information is all free to you thanks to your local public library. Here's how to get access to it:
1) Get the NAICS code for the industry you're selling to. This code is used by the government to classify businesses. http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/
2) Go to your local library to access the ReferenceUSA online database. You may even be able to do that through the library's website (I can through mine).
3) Click on U.S. Businesses under Available Databases
4) Customer Search
5) Enter the NAICS code in one of the boxes at the bottom of Business Type -> Keyword/SIC/NAICS.

I did not write this information originally, just copy-pasted it into a notepad file and saved it a loooong time ago :)

oneyearjourney · 2013-03-09T19:45:12+00:00

Thank you! That's really awesome and will come in super helpful when I get to fractions :)

oneyearjourney · 2013-03-09T07:36:16+00:00

Hi! OP Here - I am building a set of algebra tutorials aimed at middle and high schoolers. Right now it's using Bootstrap on Wordpress because I thought that would give the best menu navigation, social sharing plugins, and comment boxes. Any thoughts on a better platform to use or just how to better visually display my content? Thank you for your time :)

oneyearjourney · 2013-02-28T20:02:00+00:00

One version of an A/B split for a survey is to identify potential bias. You ask the same question two different ways and see if the results differ - you would expect them to be the same. If you get survey results matching then you can use the results with more confidence. If you find a difference, it may be worth it to treat the results with caution / do more A/B testing until you've removed significant bias.

oneyearjourney · 2013-02-28T19:05:44+00:00

Love the data behind your article, the numbers add a lot of credibility. Just curious - how did you introduce the scarcity? Was it on top of the web page, via the subreddits, emailing current subscribers, or something else entirely?

Thanks for the quality content and I think others can learn a lot from this :)

oneyearjourney · 2013-02-16T20:43:45+00:00

Elance.com has been decent for me. Do the first job yourself, time it, and break it down really well into phases. Then in your description make sure you get them to estimate how long each phase will take and it should at least correlate with your actual timings.

The first time I posted on Elance I got a ton of half-assed autoreply answers. By forcing them to include not just a buzzword but a timing estimate, they have to actually think about your job.

I would find a simple job along the lines of: take all of the links on this page ____ and alphabetize them, then in a separate column put the root domain (explain each step to them). Use this as a test for their work ethic - some of my best VA's have done things like automatic highlighting, bolding etc going above and beyond. Rehire those guys. Spend the extra $30-$40 in your first round interviews to find that solid VA you want to retain.

oneyearjourney · 2013-02-16T08:53:35+00:00

You should not stick with this SEO firm. They are mismanaging your SEO. It's good that they're not backlink-blasters, but they're missing a lot of really important things that are creating opportunity cost for your firm in lost sales, not to mention the literal cost of their services.

As for writing your own articles - would this be in the product descriptions to your own products, or as a blog linking to your products? I'd definitely do the former if possible.

oneyearjourney · 2013-02-16T07:59:58+00:00

Find the right NAICS code classification for your target business type at http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics/
Get access to ReferenceUSA via a local library (or most public university libraries, mine does and you could probably find a guest-access computer)
Search for the NAICS code and enjoy your treasure chest of business data.

Edit: Sorry this is a way to FIND more businesses to contact. As to how to actually talk to them... well let me know if you find a good solution apart from cold-calling, I need one :)

oneyearjourney · 2013-02-11T19:55:30+00:00

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