Valitics. Web Strategies, Net Results

Small business owners get to wear a bunch of hats, one of which is the website administrator.  Although I highly recommend letting the web development company who you work with keep tabs on the technical aspects of the site, here are 3 websites that will increase your web I.Q., 1 site that will save you money and 1 site that is just fun.   

Apple's (over)hyped ebook-reading, video-gaming, mail-sending, photo-displaying, video-playing wunderkind iPad device has the ability to change the way we interact with the web, in a few ways. 

Yesterday I talked to a dental professional who spent a great deal of time and money investing in a talking avatar and videos of their office. He told me that the salesman did a great job selling him on how cool everything was (I am paraphrasing and condensing things a bit). I asked him what the response was from patients. Since the site additions had only been up for a couple weeks, I was the first to see them. 

Earlier in the week, we ventured over to Red Sky for a fantastic chili cookoff. After thoroughly testing the 5 varieties of chili, all I can conclude is that 1) chili is delicious, and 2) I can't have a photo taken of me and not look completely ridiculous.

At any rate, it  was a lot of fun to see Carew Co. peeps and Red Sky peeps "in the wild."  

The other day I had a conversation with a friend who had purchased a website elsewhere and was having some frustrations over what he assumed he would get and the product that was actually delivered.  With this conversation in mind, I think there are 7 questions (at least) you need to figure out before deciding on someone to build your online business.