For most sites, recognition is the name of the game. Many sites, such as Digg, are designed to facilitate such recognition in ways that encourage that meaningful, quality content reaches people who care about it. There are a huge number of such meta-content sites and therefore a myriad of ways to aid people connect their content to these sites. For the purposes of this discussion, we will stick with Digg, a well-known and prominent meta-source for topical news and articles.
Read the rest of this entry »In that we are a part-time - everyone has full-time work elsewhere and just works on Alamazoo in our spare time - service-oriented company, one of the goals is to find legitimate ways to monetize our website without turning off potential customers. We do not plan on charging customers for our services so naturally our thoughts turn to advertising.
Read the rest of this entry »A telephone is a requirement of business, even in the age of texting and email. But telephony has branched out and we had to think carefully about our options. Being a young start-up, we didn’t want to overspend or purchase things before we need them. There were three main options for telephony: the traditional landline handset (I’m including wireless handsets utilizing landline base stations), online (Vonage or Skype), or cellular mobile phone.
Read the rest of this entry »Alamazoo was formed on January 1, 2008. This blog category - Building Alamazoo - is intended as a public record of the process we undertook to build an online business from nothing to (hopefully!) something. We will try to be honest with our mistakes and successes.
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