by ahmeddirie on November 25, 2009
Once upon a time, web development was easy. Your typical web development contract looked somewhat like the following.
- Design the front end of the website
- Offer training to client to update their own website, or
- Offer your wonderful hourly fees for you to update their website
Now, customers want to be able to manage their own content. They want to be able to edit and add data on the fly without any learning curve. In short, its gotta be easier than using Microsoft Word.
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by ahmeddirie on November 16, 2009
December kicks off to a good start with DemoCamp 24 taking place on the 3rd. Gary Vaynerchuck, author of Crush It, will also be there to talk to all the entrepreneurs and developers. My feelings are that it would be different than the one that took place in Ottawa, with 3.5 times more people attending. All in all, it’s going to be a sweet event.
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by ahmeddirie on November 14, 2009
As entrepreneurs with great ideas, we rush to building on our visions. Rightfully so, we see the finish line, and know we want to get there as of yesterday. However, we tend to forget that getting there faster is only one half of the equation.
I’ve come across the links below and I think it might be beneficial in better understanding the other half of the equation. Customer development early on in the product development lifecycle achieves the following;
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by ahmeddirie on October 31, 2009
I think I found my favorite ad thus far.
As a freelance designer, I got contacted quite often to design advertisements and marketing collateral. Although, I haven’t done much in way of design for 2009. Most of my work this year involved a fair bit of networking, but a lot of web development on the back end. One habit I still carry forward is looking at how companies market their products and run their advertising campaigns. If it gets my attention for more than 10 seconds, its perfect.
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by ahmeddirie on October 30, 2009
Ottawa, ON, Oct 31, 2009 — Pick Yours Up, the leading provider of mailbox notification solutions, announces its updated management tools that enables mailbox service provides to automate their daily processes.
Service providers are consistently looking for better ways to manage their customers. Various workarounds and solutions have been implemented in order to track customer and their account activities. Simple taks such as knowing how many mailbox renter accounts are set to expire on a given month quickly prove to be time consuming. With Pick Yours Up’s management tools and rich user interface, this is one less thing for service providers to worry about.
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