Productivity - Michael Reynolds

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29 May 2009

Today’s blog from Cali and Jody was awesome. It is titled “Does Your Commute Suck?” and touches on some things that are extremely broken about today’s traditional workplace. We migrated to a ROWE at SpinWeb last year and we have been very happy with the results. We no longer talk about hours or work schedules [...]

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12 Tips for a Great Chamber / Economic Development Alliance Website Design

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18 May 2009

At SpinWeb, we have a particular interest in helping local communities thrive and flourish using the Internet. For this reason, we love working with municipalities and agencies within, which includes chambers and economic development alliances. I have been researching both chambers and economic development alliances recently in preparation for an upcoming project and I’ve noticed [...]

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Tags: Design, Marketing, spinweb, website

10 Customer Service Details that Matter to your Customers

In: Lifestyle| Marketing| Productivity

9 May 2009

Every company talks about how great their customer service is. Put 5 business owners in a room and ask them how they are different and they will probably all say “we provide great customer service”. Great customer service is critical to building a great company but how many of us take the time to quantify [...]

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The Death of the Webmaster

In: Productivity| Technology

11 Apr 2009

Ok, not literally… perhaps another title might be “The Re-assignment of the Webmaster” but that doesn’t sound as dramatic. In any case, I still see a particular trend on this subject that bothers me. SpinWeb works with a lot of associations which are typically led by a board of directors and sometimes assisted by a [...]

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Tags: cms, Marketing, website

Improving the Usability of your Pricing

In: Marketing| Productivity| Technology

5 Apr 2009

Our Creative Director at SpinWeb, Rob Alan, sent me this blog post today that I absolutely loved:
Is there a better way for you to price your product? – (37signals).
I was very happy to see it because it validates something we’ve been doing for the past year – improving the usability of our pricing.
As an interactive [...]

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Tags: Marketing, spinweb, usability

Favorite Ubiquitous Capture Tools

In: Productivity

22 Mar 2009

As many of you know, I’m a productivity junkie (I happily drink the GTD Kool-Aid) and love to tweak and improve my personal productivity system. In the course of doing this, I’ve settled on a few great tools that assist me with ubiquitous capture. This allows me to capture and retain ideas, actions, and concepts [...]

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Tags: gtd

Network of Women in Business Embraces Smart Online Tools

In: Design| Marketing| Productivity| Technology

12 Mar 2009

Today, SpinWeb launched a shiny new web site for the Network of Women in Business, also known as NOWIB. The site is located at www.nowib.com. I am thrilled to talk about this client because it was such a pleasure to create this site. The team at NOWIB was great to work with and everyone was [...]

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Tags: indianapolis, Marketing, networking, spinweb, website

Interested in Feedback? Keep Your Surveys Short.

In: Design| Productivity| Technology

11 Mar 2009

As a member of a number of associations and networking groups, I receive a lot of surveys. It always amazes me how long and cumbersome most of these surveys are. Inevitably they will be multi-page monsters that require me to type things in and fill in blanks. 99% of the time these surveys end up [...]

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Tags: Design, usability

Be Efficient by Re-using Your Content

In: Marketing| Productivity| Technology

4 Mar 2009

With all the different mediums available to us today, it can be an overwhelming task to try to keep up. For this reason, I recommend writing content that you can re-use. When blogging, for example, use the same post in your blog, your email newsletter, your Smaller Indiana blog, your Facebook note, and send a [...]

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Do, or do not. There is no try

In: Lifestyle| Productivity

3 Mar 2009

Those of us old enough to have grown up watching Star Wars will instantly recognize the immortal words of Yoda:
“Do, or do not. There is no try.”
Not only is this good advice for a young Jedi, but a worthy philosophy by which to live – especially in business. I am becoming more and more convinced [...]