Ahh, it’s Friday. Time to wrap up some loose ends and catch up on what you might have missed this week.
Have a good weekend!
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Design plays a big part in every aspect of web development, Seo, making conversions and just about every other aspect of the web. Here are some articles I came across this week that give some good insight to different design elements. Enjoy!
It’s Monday and we’re all wishing it was Sunday, our fun day. But it’s not so grab a cup of coffee and catch up on what you missed from over the weekend.
- Entrepreneurial Enlightenment
- 7 Difficult Client Expectations You Will Encounter In SEO
- The Laides Night Strategy
- What One Does
- How To Identify A Font
- Why Do So Many New-Media Startups Commit Suicide
Here are some of the most interesting articles I came across this week. Let me know if I missed something you think should be on here!
- What Does Your Site Say About Your Organizations Personality?
- How Our Startup Got Featured On CNN
- $100k in Revenues in 12 Months- Wow!
- 121 Creative Advertisements That’ll Make You Look Twice
- Do SEO’s Bear the Burden of a Company’s Conversions?
- 5 Unique Calls to Action That Will Make You Click Twice
- 10 Foolproof Ways to Promote Your App in the App Store
- Sales Psychology: Why People Won’t Pay Your Rates
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Wild weekend? Not for me! I have been sick for the past few days so while that is unfortunate for me it works out for you because I had a chance to track down these interesting articles for you to catch up with!
As always, if I missed your favorite please let me know using ourWeekly/Weekend Round Up Submission Form
- How To Handle Difficult Client Situations by @DesignFollow
- Top SEO Blogs to Follow to Become an Expert by Geek Sucks
- 13 Ways to Get $10 Million in Revenues by TechCrunch
- Online vs Offline, Service is a Game of Telephone by AdAge
Another week down, more lessons to learn. Here are what I found to be the most interesting and useful articles of the week.
As always, if I missed your favorite please let me know using our Weekly/Weekend Round Up Submission Form
- 7 Lessons I learned from Monetizing Quick Sprout by @NeilPatel
- 10 Tips To Drive Twitter Traffic to Your Blog by @SocialMouths
- Stop Resisting and Start Creating by @jonathanfields
- How I Work Less and Accomplish More (By Managing My Energy) by @FreeLanceFolder
- Three Kind of Page Test Visuals and How to Use Them by Web Performance Today
- 3 Form Fields That Kill Landing Pages by @HubSpot
- The Four Main Things Investors Look For In Startups by Both Sides of the Table
- Simple Flow: Minimalism In Web Design by WDL
- Things Your Startup Needs and Doesn’t Need by Cdixon
- 36 places where you can submit your startup for some coverage by Traindom
Too much partying this weekend? Don’t want to spend your Monday morning scouring your RSS reader for articles you might have missed. Fear not! I have done the work for you.
Of course if I have missed anything you think should be on here let me know using my Weekly/Weekend Round Up Submission Form.
The best in SEO, Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Design from the weekend:
- Visual Search Engine, Quintura, Sells Their Patent Technology
- How to Solve Problems More Quickly
- The Buddy System
- How and Why Design Impacts User Behavior
- 20 Use WordPress Contact Form Plugins
- 33 Killer Free Funky Fonts
- SaaS Subscription Billing and How Not To Get Your N*ts in a Vice
- LinkedIn Signal = Exploratory Search For Twitter
- The New and Improved Social-Media Glossary for 2010
- Do Better Work and Faster Using Minimalism
Did you have a crazy week of work? I know I did but I also had time to put together this list of great articles and blogs I came across. They cover different topics like Design, SEO, Marketing and Entrepreneurship. So, here is your chance to catch up on something you might have missed.
Of course I couldn’t find everything, so if I left off your favorite for the week please use the new Weekly/Weekend Round Up Submission Form and let me know about it!
Happy Reading!
- Should You Outsource Your Blog? 5 Questions to Consider
- Multiple Domains vs Subdomains vs Folders in SEO
- 4 Tips to Increase Conversions for Subscription (Recurring) Revenue
- Discover Proven Money-Making Results for PPC Text Ads…Guaranteed
- 7 Simple SEO Tasks to Complete for a New Site
- The 5 Deadly Sins of Voicemail
- Social Media Insights from Predictive Analytics
- 10 Detailed Tips for Managing Adwords Campaigns
- 23 Entrepreneurs Reveal How They Have Built Their Communities
- Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started
- Going Fremmium: One Year Later
- When Creative Conflict is A Good Thing
- Foursquare Marketing Hits and Misses: 5 Case Studies
- 6 Reasons Your Startup May Be Viable but Not Fundable
- Brand Trends on Facebook
- Google Webmaster Updates SEO Starter Guide
- Branding Your Freelancing Business: Personal Name vs Business Name
- What Mortal Kombat Can Teach Us About Entrepreneurship
- The 9 Worst Ways to Use Twitter for Business
- White Hats: This is Why You’re Getting Beaten
- Design for Conversion -Cialdini’s 6 Weapons of Influence
When I think of what makes a great infographic it usually needs to have two main components, visual and informational.
Visual
It needs to achieve the first goal of being attractive. Lots of colors and pictures will grab a readers attention and make the information you are displaying fun to read. But there cannot be so much going on that the reader will become overwhelmed.
Informational
The second goal is it needs to convey simplified information, almost bullet points on a subject that is interesting to its viewers. I should be able to follow an infograhpic and come away with a decent understanding about the subject that was being discussed.
Here are my 10 favorite infograhpics. It was hard to narrow it down to 10 so if I left off your favorites please comment and share your favorite!
How Do Colors Affect Purchases?
Create Your Own Personal Infographic
The Music Industry & Online Piracy By The Numbers
5 Ways to Cultivate an Active Social Network
Social Media Collider
Here are the best articles I found this weekend all centrally located so you don’t have to spend your Monday morning surfing the web to see what you missed.
- The 3 Keys to Success with Freemium
- The Spirit Of The Times
- How to Find Work The Work You Love
- 30 Guerilla Marketing Tactics for Freelance Designers
- 5 Keys To Avoiding Social Media Fatigue
- 10 Essential Pages in Your Freelance Website
- A Copy Of Your Records
- Why You Have Read “The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working”
- 6 Natural Energy Foods To Revive You At Work
- Overall Conversion Rates Are Useless
- Social Media Can Change Corporate Culture
- Protecting Your Site From Getting Hacked
- 70 Awesomely Creative Flyer Designs
- 5 Best Presentation Creation Tools
- 102 Proven Social Media Headlines