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Sending verified emails through Amazon Simple Email Service with DKIM and PHPMailer
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May 22, 2012
One of the most frustrating aspects of running Less Annoying CRM (and, I'd imagine, just about any website) is outgoing email.
Introducing Less Annoying CRM integration with email marketing tool MailChimp
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May 8, 2012
For a long time, our users (and prospective users) have been asking us about what kind of support we offer for email marketing or mail campaigns. Finally, we have an answer: MailChimp!
FIPer: A modified FIP with even less dependence on defense and luck
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May 4, 2012
If you follow baseball at all, you are probably familiar with the concept of ERA as a summary statistic of a pitcher’s performance.
How I monetized a blog in 30 days: what worked, and what didn't
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April 24, 2012
In this blog post I'm going to go over my findings. I'll tell you what worked, what didn't work, and I'll even give some real numbers which seem to be almost impossible to find anywhere else online.
The Ten Commandments of Small Business Customer Service, Part 2
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April 20, 2012
Let’s jump right in and check out the second tablet before Moses’ arms get any more tired.
The Ten Commandments of Small Business Customer Service, Part 1
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April 10, 2012
I've been doing customer service for my entire professional life, and luckily, I’ve had the pleasure of working at two small companies that are dedicated to providing quality, personal customer service.
You'll be done reading this post in 3 minutes or less!
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March 28, 2012
Let's talk about an interesting phenomenon in SaaS companies’ web design. Ever noticed that everybody wants to tell you just how just how totally freaking quickly you’re going to be able to sign up for their product?
5 Tips for Transitioning From Office Life to Working from Home
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March 13, 2012
I’m sure this is not the only list out there about how to successfully change to the work-from-home lifestyle. That said, these are a few things that, over time, worked for me in helping me settle in mentally and get work done.
Why you should write more reviews/testimonials for fledgling businesses
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February 28, 2012
About two years ago, a Vietnamese sandwich (banh mi) shop opened up near my apartment in San Francisco.
Easier full text RSS feeds with FiveFilters.org
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February 8, 2011
Last week I talked about how to use Unsum.com to convert partial RSS feeds into full text feeds. While the Unsum method is very general and customizable, it also takes a little effort to identify the content that you care about (determined by looking at the source HTML of the page).
How can designers and developers create great software if they don't know what it looks like?
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February 4, 2011
If there's one thing we like to talk about on this blog, it's great software. But unfortunately most software isn't great.
Customize RSS feeds with filters and full articles
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February 1, 2011
We've talked a few times in the past about how RSS feeds are a great way to keep track of a bunch of different online content in one consistent interface. While a number of sites provide excellent RSS feeds of their content, there are a few common problems that can get annoying after a while.
Gmail gets desktop notifications - HTML5 finally showing up in the wild
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January 27, 2011
If you use a web-based email client, you've probably received an email before that you didn't notice because there's not any kind of notification.
Transfer an existing Google AdWords or Analytics account to Google Apps for your domain
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January 25, 2011
Near the end of last year Google finally opened up the full slate of Google services to Google Apps for your domain users. If you had previously set up dedicated accounts for dealing with AdWords or Google Analytics (as many business users have), you may want to transfer those accounts to your domain account.
Our New Years Resolutions for 2011
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January 20, 2011
This blog post will go over some of the improvements we have planned. Please note that the dates aren't set in stone, and we won't know for sure what will happen with each of these improvements until we get around to actually working on them.
Updates to Mac Chrome application shortcuts and the iOS fullscreen webapp generator
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January 18, 2011
Today I just wanted to mention updates to two utilities we've posted previously.
How to save any file as a PDF with CutePDF
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January 13, 2011
In this post, I'll demonstrate how to use CutePDF to generate a pdf our of any file you can print.
Visualize your Google Analytics data in Google Docs with a motion chart
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January 11, 2011
One of the coolest features of Google Spreadsheets is the motion chart which helps visualization of multi-dimensional data
It's ok to adjust your expectations
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January 6, 2011
Today's post might seem off-topic, but it does relate to technology in the end.
Note to companies: Christmas is not an excuse to spam your customers
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December 22, 2010
Christmas is just a few days away, and businesses are scrambling to squeeze every last penny they can from desperate shoppers.
Test, run, and share code online with Codepad.org
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December 21, 2010
While it is by no means a full solution (or even a partial one, really), Codepad.org can be an occasionally useful tool for development in a number of popular languages.
Optimize the "conversion rate" of the website for your bricks and mortar store
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December 16, 2010
When designing and optimizing just about any website, the conversion rate is one of the most important statistics to focus on
How to submit a great bug report
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December 15, 2010
Yesterday Bracken wrote about how a Dropbox user was rewarded for submitting a detailed bug report to the company.
Good web service; bad web service
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December 14, 2010
Unless you've been hiding under an Internet rock for the past few days, you've probably heard by now about the massive security breach of the similarly large blog network Gawker.com.
Chrome Web Store Review - Browse tons of great web apps from one place
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December 13, 2010
If you are using Chrome, then you have a brand new way to find awesome web apps. Google just released a new online store called the Chrome Web Store.

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