Archive for June 2008

Conversion killers for your landing page

Jun 25th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Landing pages, SEO

Landing pages are constructed for higher website conversions from targeted visitors. Your landing page audience is searching for a specific product or service via keywords in organic or PPC campaigns and need to be convinced they have arrived at the most relevant destination. There are numerous landing page techniques and conversion killers but I am [...]



92 percent of developers ignoring Microsoft

Jun 18th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Splattered Thoughts

Steve Ballmer thought otherwise, but all I have to say after watching these two clips is
Laughter, Laughter, Laughter….

For more info on why developers are giving Vista the cold shoulder head on over to CNET



Spam injection in RSS Feed

Jun 18th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Splattered Thoughts

For those of you subscribed to the Startup Addict Musings RSS Feed — I thank you. For those of you who stayed with the RSS feed after a nasty bout of spam injection — I commend you. I know what your thinking, spam injection sounds like a bad case of the clap but I assure [...]



Virtual LLCs legal in Vermont

Jun 18th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups

Vermont my neighbor state is known for being a little different and you can add requirements for Limited Liability Company formation to the list. Apparently on June 6th a bill was signed that will no longer require LLCs to have a physical address (in Vermont anyway). This trumps Delaware in startup friendly law and will [...]



Algae-based fuel is startup central

Jun 15th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Going Green

Algae based fuel startups are now running the gamut of most biofuels. Ranging from biodiesel, gasoline, jetfuel to ethanol (a lot cheaper than the corn derivative to boot). Fortune Magazine did a nice piece on “The next big thing in energy: Pond scum? stating the trials and tribulations of Cambridge, MA based GreenFuel Technologies. [...]



Top 50 Ad Networks

Jun 14th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Uncategorized, advertising networks

You will probably be as surprised as I was when you see some of the names in the The top 50 ad Network according to comscore

The top 10 Ad Focus properties also maintained their February rankings with Platform-A, the ad network combining Advertising.com, Tacoda, AOL, and Quigo, leading the ranking in March, reaching 91 [...]



Viral Marketing is all the rage

Jun 9th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups

Every Entrepreneur needs to master the ever evolving and elusive viral marketing secrets that turn startups into legends. First, lets make sure we are all on the same page in our terminology. Wikipedia has one of the best technical definitions of Viral Marketing:

Viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social [...]



Wamp server problem solved.

Jun 8th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Splattered Thoughts

Any technology problem that swallows endless hours of my time, compels me to post solutions so someone else can avoid the same pitfalls. Wamp server is an apache, php, mysql bundle for dynamic website development (a localhost environment). The problem I ran into was I could not browse my local host or load phpmyadmin. It [...]



Carbon Emission Reduction is next commodity!

Jun 8th, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Going Green

We all know that “green” is the new “black” and social responsibility for climate change is becoming everyone’s duty. The reality is carbon emission reductions and other climate change agenda will be a result of the next financial revolution and windfall profits rather than a social duty to reducing our carbon footprint on the planet. [...]



Entrepreneurs head to RaiseCapital

Jun 3rd, 2008 | By Startup Addict | Category: Startups

I receive a fair amount of solicitations for free plugs but when Maureen Mecke from 5W Public Relations sent one for RaiseCapital. I felt it was right for this audience. RaiseCapital is like the funding section on StartupAddict.com, it gives entrepreneurs the ability to find the ever “elusive” startup funding.
According to the 5W Public [...]