Small Business Neglect Data Backup
The newly released Small Business Authority Market Sentiment Survey shows that less than a third of small businesses surveyed back up their data offsite. As businesses increasingly rely on data—whether it be customer information, creative work, or even internal accounting info—this kind of neglect to insure from the very real (arguably inevitable) risk of data ...
Read MoreNew Services from ReadyMadeWeb
ReadyMadeWeb is now officially offering a whole slew of new services to clients. I’ll be re-writing our services pages over the next few weeks, but I wanted to give our blog and newsletter subscribers, along with our followers on Facebook and Twitter, an early look at everything we’re going to start serving up to clients. ...
Read MorePasspack: Great Password Management for Groups
photo credit: 28 misguided souls I like to use secure passwords—really long strings of characters that aren’t my dog’s name or the word “password”—but it’s hard to remember these things. Up until recently, I had a collection of .rtf files with all my password info in them. If I had to work with team members ...
Read MoreOnline Stores Made Easy with Shopify
photo credit: Design Packaging Do-it-yourself online stores used to be limited to having a store on Amazon, eBay, or some other service. It wasn’t really a “store” it was more like having a little kiosk in a behemoth online mall. Enter Shopify. This great service lets you build an honest-to-goodness online store customized to your ...
Read MoreResource Bank Presentation: Now with Audio!
Here's my presentation on open-source software and the wide world of web-based applications. Thanks again to everyone at the Heritage Foundation for inviting me to participate in this event, with special thanks to Alex Adrianson, Bridgett Wagner, and Robert Bluey. Also, thanks to my co-panelists David All and Robert Willington.
Read MoreHow to Spend Next to Nothing on Your Non-Profit’s Web/IT Needs
After talking about tools like content management systems, databases, bulk emailers, measurement tools, web forms, and a bunch of other tools here on ReadyMadeWeb, it seemed like it was time to do an overview of these tools and outline how to run an entire organization using only ReadyMade tools.
Read MoreThree Tools for Website Data Collection Forms
Many programs—especially bulk emailers and payment systems—have their own form creators which will generate a form for your website, but that form is single-purpose, processing data for only that one program. Its great that services provide these form-creation features, but they just don't cover situations like automatically processing a payment, adding a person to your CRM, and placing them on a bulk email list.
Read MoreAvoiding the Fourth Kind
Software can be intuitive and blessedly easy or it can require expertise and training. Software can be free or can be sold at a price. If you were to categorize the entire world of software by these two dimensions—easy vs. hard and free vs. paid—you'd notice that all the software you've grown to hate is at the nexus of difficult and expensive. That type of software is the dreaded fourth kind.
Read MoreCRM Made Easy with HighRise
If you're looking for a Customer Relations Management (CRM) solution, I strongly recommend HighRise by 37Signals, the CRM solution we use at ReadyMadeWeb. There are a lot of other CRM solutions on the market, so why choose this one? It really comes down to four reasons: simplicity, web accessibility, price, and extensibility.
Read MoreGoogle Apps Updates
Google announced a few great updates to Google Apps suite this week, which means those of us using Google Apps (like ReadyMadeWeb) are getting free upgrades at no additional cost (we pay nothing to use Google Apps) and without any additional setup—this is the beauty of web-based software.
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