From Idea to Website: The Startup Guide for non techy entrepreneurs

Posted on: April 6th, 2010 by admin

Imagine this conversation happened 5 years ago:

John: Mark, come here I need to share something with you. Something so crazy, it might just work.

Mark: Ok, I’m listening

John: Here it is. Lets create a website where we allow users to post on a website through what they are doing in 140 characters or less.

Mark: Ohhhh k, I’m still listening…

John: I’m done, that’s it.

Mark: That’s it?

John: That’s it.

Mark: I can’t create a website, and you can’t create a website – how can we create thisidea into a live website without breaking our wallet?

Lets just imagine for one minute that twitter was really created like this and that Mark genuinely thought the idea was a good one. The last sentence in their conversation is the most important. How can we create this idea into a live website?

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Mobile App Development – iOS, Android or HTML5?

Posted on: May 2nd, 2012 by admin

The Million Dollar Question: Should you build a mobile native app or an HTML5 web app? Should you build iPhone first or Android first? Should you build them all at the same time? The good news is there is no right answer, the bad news is that there is no right answer. Venturebeat just wrote an article about how Linkedin’s hot new iPad app is 95% HTML. 95%!

What this means is that you can create an application in HTML5 and then re-use those elements in a native iOS or native Android app.

HTML5 still isn’t great for everything, but it is slowly increasing. Mobile technology is increasing dramatically which allows developers to create more with less. Here at rawdesignr, we are excited to be part of this ever increasing movement.

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iPhone App submitted to App Store – Waiting for Approval!

Posted on: May 13th, 2010 by admin

We are very excited at rawdesignr to show off our iPhone app in the store when it gets accepted.  It will have our blog feed, twitter feed and most importantly our portfolio.  This would allow anyone to follow us that much easier!  Will keep everyone posted when it is published.

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Inbound Marketing – Book Review

Posted on: April 6th, 2010 by admin

I was one of the lucky few to get my hands on a book by the founders of huspot (http://www.hubspot.com) called Inbound Marketing.. Well, I actually bought it from amazon.com, so I’m not sure if that makes me lucky or not.

The full title is called Inbound Marketing – Get found using Google, social media, and blogs. The book lived true to its name and gave its readers content on how to use social media and blogging to your advantage. I really hate long book reviews so here’s my take:

  • Outbound marketers are old school (not the cool kind of old school)
  • Create a lot of content and it must be remarkable. Basically, your content must be the shiznit or nobody will care
  • **** your website! Blogging is where its at. (To be fair, they just placed more emphasis on the blog. Rawdesignr is a web company, I wouldn’t throw it under the bus like that!)
  • Always know how your content is doing on the web. In other words, make sure your shiznit is trackable, and optimize your shiznit where necessary.
  • Hire Digitial Citizens – You need web veterans on your team, and you need them bad. Check how many followers they have, how often they write on their blog, how many connections they have on linkedin etc

Overall, the book gets 5 stars from rawdesignr. Check out their inbound marketing blog

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There’s an app for that, well not really.

Posted on: April 6th, 2010 by admin

Google Maps GPS with turn by turn navigation. Amazing. It’s also voice activated. More importantly, those app users can no longer say “There’s an app for that”. Check out the link below, and you must watch the youtube video that goes along with it.

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