Several people this week have asked me, “Why did you all redesign your website? The old one was perfect.” Well, most everyone who asks this question doesn’t really go past the homepage and for the most part, doesn’t grasp how powerful of a marketing tool a website can be. For us, it’s our bread and…
With the launch of our new website, we made the strategic business decision to stop selling email accounts with the @webmail.us domain name extension. The minute we did that, we had a ton of people write in asking if they could still buy one as well as wondering why we made that move. The Email Discussion Forum also…
We broke our single day sales record (based on the volume of orders) yesterday for the second time since we launched our new website. We broke the record while I was at the New River Network Professional Mixer and so of course, I told some people about it. Someone asked me what the record was…
I was contacted by a senior at Northeastern University whose advanced organizational communication class is studying blogging. We did an interview over email with regards to blogging and specifically, the purpose of our company blog at Webmail.us. They asked some good questions, so I figured I’d share the Q&A; here. Why did your company begin…
I’ve blogged before about why I believe it’s difficult to keep great people in Southwest Virginia. One of the reasons I believe it’s a challenge is because the social scene isn’t as great for young people outside of college as it is in other parts of the country. That is something we just cannot deny….
I’ve needed a new car for a while. But I’d been putting it off, mainly because I didn’t want to deal with the hassles (or at least the perceived hassles) of buying a new car. I’m not one to “talk about” buying things. In fact, I’m probably one of the most spontaneous buyers I know….
Last Update: January 30 2006 2PM I’ve blogged before about how I love what I do. And I meant every word of it. Probably because I’m lucky enough to have found a career where I love going to work every day, I’m constantly evangelizing to people—family, friends, employees, and prospective employees, etc.—how important it is…
Spam sucks. Everyone hates it. And unfortunately, when people think of spam, they think of email. I can’t tell you the number of articles I’ve read in the last few years proclaiming that because of spam, email is useless and will soon be replaced by chat, text and instant messaging, wikis, blogs, RSS, social networking,…
Last Update: June 16 2007 4PM Lew Moorman from Rackspace wrote a great article today about Google. He asks an interesting question: can Google continue to snub their customers? I think it’s a great question and one I’ve been thinking about for a long time. As a disclaimer, I try really hard not to be…
Last Update: May 06 2007 8PM After my blog post yesterday in reference to the recruiting article in the Roanoke Times, an employee sent me the following email: This confuses me a little bit. It almost seems like this “check everything you have out there and judge you by it” stuff doesn’t really match our…
Last Update: February 17 2007 10AM I am flattered to be able to say that entrepreneurs and business executives are contacting me these days seeking business advice. I am always happy to help and frankly, I really enjoy working with ambitious, motivated people. One question that I constantly get is, “when is the right time to…