Just launched a new website, Starling Marine. Starling Marine is your premier source for: yachts for sale in Wilmington, NC, Wrightsville Beach, NC and Morehead City, NC as well as Parker fishing boats, Pursuit fishing boats and Spencer Yachts. Check it out.
This weekend has been crazy. One of most recent clients had a major online emergency and it has been all-hands-on-deck.
Hip 2 Save is a blog about coupons and saving money that gets 1.9-2.2 million page views per month. Our client was in the middle of a giveaway of 20 $100 Amazon gift cards, to benefit Toys for Tots, and Blogger flagged the site as potential spam and disabled it. This occurred at 1am on Friday morning as the comments on her post climbed over 7000 responses. As of this post the site is still off line. Unfortunately for our client, she hosts her on the domain name hip2save.blogspot.com, which can not be redirected till the site comes back up.
To say that it has been disruptive is an understatement.
You can read about the process on her temporary website if you like. Hip2save.com
Make sure you read the comments, her readers are very loyal.
One interesting good point about this issue is that we have been working with this client for the last two months to complete a new version of the site that we host. The original plan was to launch the site in the first week of January, beta it over Christmas holiday, and we are just pushing that date up. We are finishing it up all this weekend in case the blogger site is not back up on Monday. Hopefully, everything will be fine and we can take the time to finish all the little tweaks for the new site, but if not, we are going for it.
This is something that we are going to write a case study about, that is sure.
My new company, TayloeGray, just launched a cool new site. Saturn Capital Management is an actively traded and managed long/short equity fund. Unfortunately, you can see any of the content without being approved as an acreditied investor.
I will be teaching a short class on social networks on Nov. 6th at UNCW. The event is open to the public. http://uncwec.org/events/?event_id=15
The day before, I will be attending the Internet Summit in RTP, which is a huge event with a ton of top-tier speakers. My plan is to work on my presentation the evening before and incorporate are much of the material from the Summit as possible. My goal is to capture the highlights and bring them to people who could not make the event.
If you are going to the IS, please let me know, I would love to catch up there.
Visit the following link for more information about the UNCW event: http://uncwec.org/events/?event_id=15
New lifestyle brand. Mobile Party Strike Force.
From the snow boarding of West VA to the Florida Keys, the Mobile Party Strike Force is the one to reconked with.
Originally designed by Megan while she worked at dot. Ventures, the logo has been around for a while.
An Eagle with a Keg.
Check it: http://www.cafepress.com/mpsf
I am adding a new category to my blog for things that I have spent too long looking for online.
Now when ever I need to find something that I only need once every couple years, I can save the Google searching. I have to admit, I found this one with Bing. Maybe someone else with the same problem will find this with out the hassle. Read the rest of this entry »
This month has been huge at TayloeGray.
We have two great new client, ACT Medical Group and Swim Envy. Both need brand new website by the end of August, so it is going to be a busy month.
Swim Envy sells designer swimwear and accessories and ACT Medical Group place clincians in assisted living facilities. Not too much of an overlap, but they are both going to be great projects.
I have started a new consulting firm, TayloeGray, with Nathan Tayloe. Please visit my new company website, for more info.
For now I will be blogging over there.
I was preparing for a talk to Jonathon Rowe’s entrepreneurship class on Wednesday, working on my slide deck, and staying up late on a Sunday night. I will be giving a lecture on SEO for the undergrads in his class.
While taking a break to catch up on digg, I found that someone had already pretty much done my whole presentation in a rap. I might just play this on the screen, drop the (figurative) mic, and go home. Not sure if I would be invited back, but I think I would get the same point across.
Almost 1/2 million views when I found it, not bad.
The lyrics after the jump
Matt Magne, Nathan Snell and I have been playing around with the idea of having a regular event where IT and technical people can get together to talk about technology with other like minded people.
This is the first of such meetings. It is going to be casual and you should come as you are from work or your home office.
You can get more details here: wilmiti.com where you can join the facebook group.
Our first meeting will be at City Tavern at Mayfaire in Wilmington. Visit City Tavern’s Website
Come out an meet other IT professionals in a casual atmosphere and talk tech topics.
We have reserved a side room for the event and City Tavern has a full bar and great food.
Come by on your way home from work, or get out of your home office and come join the event.
This is the first of our rotating monthly events.
