Kevin Gillen of Merge, an agency based in Greenville’s NEXT building (which is neighbors to an accelerator program I had the pleasure of working with, The Iron Yard), is not just some production shop – they focus more on the on-going strategy of a clients needs so that we can deliver unprecedented results. Those results are different for each client (some are sales goals, some are community engagement, some are back-office efficiencies that we create for companies). Their job is to find what their needs are and tailor solutions to those needs, not just build pretty sites. And, they decided to […]
Behind the Scenes: Meeting Room Delay
Ugh. I hate delays. One of the last pieces to our new office build-out is the one single meeting room that will be both a conference area as well as our soundproof podcasting room for Hello Dolly. Oh, and it’ll also be my official napping room so I can take much-needed breaks from all the activity. But if you’ve ever worked with contractors then you know what I’m talking about with delays – permits from the city, regulations, and being “up to code” all make things incredibly slow. It slays me! We’re almost there and it’s going to be amazing, especially when we get […]
Making a Better News Site with Your Help
We’ve been going nearly non-stop since we started just a few short months ago and it’s been hard to keep pace even internally with all of the work that goes on to building a successful blog, a passionate community around it, and the technical components of pulling it off. For those that know, it is really like trying to replace a wing of an airplane mid-flight; it just doesn’t work that well (and yet you know it’s still possible). As a result, things like a responsive design and advanced features are bigger tasks than they might seem as we try to […]
Don't Forget: Distraction Free Writing Mode
If you haven’t discovered the benefits of minimalist writing tools then I’d encourage you to give it a go as soon as possible. Although many people think they need hundreds of features when they write their first draft (the full Microsoft Word if you will) in actual fact reducing the number of functions (and thus tasks) you have to do increases your productivity and speed. Until recently this would mean writing a post using an offline editing program or in another program for WordPress, good advice anyway considering the risks of losing your work due to a lose of internet […]
Interview: Creating a WordPress Marketplace
Pippin Williamson shared his thoughts recently with Matt Medeiros on how he created a WordPress-powered marketplace and was big on helping others to see the possibility of actually creating your own, rather than leverage or completely bank on the large and existing networks, like WordPress.com or ThemeForest. Pippin lays out the strategy fairly concisely: Create great products, in his case, plugins. Create great customer service. Don’t be naive, creating a business is tough work. Do it! Scaling the business, staffing, and compensation strategy matters! Reinvest in your own product. It might be worth your next 64 minutes if you’ve got some time […]

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