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• Finding Web Development Jobs

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Wed 3 Dec 2008 at 18:03

  Type

  Blog Entry

  With companies constantly cutting back nowadays, web development projects are consistently being shipped overseas, making web development jobs and projects much harder to find. I use to have a constant stream of projects coming in from clients (I mainly do sub-contracts), but it seems I'm now having to go out and search for jobs. In my case, this isn't too bad because I need to focus on school anyway, but for others this is not the case. The only two job-search tools I have used with success are the SitePoint Marketplace (quite a long time…

• Advantages to Giving Software Away for Free

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Wed 28 May 2008 at 11:28

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Comments

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  If you have ever been involved in the process of launching a piece of software to the public, then you know the difficulties and the costs of doing so. There is much more to do than just to launch your software to the world. First, let's just take a look at some of the basics of what you need to handle after launching an application (that do not involve programming): Support (email, phone, helpdesk, etc.) Licensing Marketing There is no way around support and marketing if you want a successful application, but luckily both can be …

• Small Scale Online Group Collaboration

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Mon 19 May 2008 at 21:34

  Type

  Blog Entry

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  2 comments

  There is an immense amount of online group collaboration tools; so many that it becomes overwhelming trying to decide which one to use. On one hand, you have open-ended tools like wikis and email and on the other hand you have more sophisticated tools like Basecamp and Google Groups. At Lowter, we have tried a number of collaboration tools to facilitate communication amongst our four-person team. Most of them nobody used because they were simply too out of the way and too time consuming. When it boils down to it, we have an extremely smal…

• Interview: Greg Lubbelinkhof of BudgetHost

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Tue 25 Apr 2006 at 21:04

  Type

  Article

  Ethan interviews Greg Lubbelinkhof of BudgetHost, a Canadian web hosting company. Greg has owned a web hosting company in the past and has extensive experience in the hosting field. He advocates reliable servers, quality support, and focus on customer relationships.

• The Power of Referrals

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 2 Apr 2006 at 15:14

  Type

  Blog Entry

  Any freelancer must know the massive importance of referrals and word-of-mouth. Both promotional methods are vital for a developer to get good, profitable leads. From my personal experience, I can say that almost all of my projects come from four main sources. Each of these four sources were some of my very first clients, for whom I slaved hours on end. However, in the end, each was extremely pleased with my work and I have profited greatly from them simply referring friends to me. Referrals are easy to obtain as long as you approach t…

• Online Customer Support 101

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Wed 10 Aug 2005 at 7:45

  Type

  Article

  Customers care how you treat them. Revise your online store's support model by traveling back to the basics. Learn the benefits and disadvantages of help desks, ticket systems, live chat, and knowledge bases!

• Dirt Cheap Advertising in the Offline World

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Thu 23 Jun 2005 at 9:55

  Type

  Article

  Online advertising is a flat dud. Webmasters need to bring their promotional efforts offline. Using these simple, dirt cheap methods for promotion you'll see your online service take off!

• Interview: David Mytton of Olate Ltd.

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sat 18 Jun 2005 at 19:11

  Type

  Article

  Ethan interviews the head guy at Olate, David Mytton. Olate produces Olate Download and iono, both well programmed applications.

• Interview: Tina Peters of AffordableHOST

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sun 30 Jan 2005 at 7:39

  Type

  Article

  Lowter's new host, AffordableHOST is a top of the notch webhosting company, complete with its own datacenter. Here Ethan interviews Tina Peters, owner of AffordableHOST.