I’ve been listening to the 2Bobs podcast a lot lately. David and Blair do an exceptional job, and I highly recommend it to anyone in the creative industry. One of Blair’s big pushes is that proposals and contracts are two different things. Proposals should ideally simply be a way to reach a soft agreement, and […]
What is a Facebook “like farm”?
You see it all the time on Facebook: “Our previous winner of this car/boat/RV didn’t claim their prize, so now is your chance to win!“. As you may have guessed, there is no “previous winner” or even a prize — it’s all just a hoax. But why? “Like” Farming The scammers are building what’s known […]
Be Better
I just got an email from an auto dealership I’d been talking to. This email wasn’t about a particular car, though, it was just their general newsletter that they send to everyone. Spam, essentially. They were nice enough to include some info near the unsubscribe button: You are receiving this email because you inquired about […]
They didn’t ask for that feature
I recent had an interesting conversation with a developer from another web agency. He was showing me a site they had just launched, and it looked great! However, I quickly noticed there was no SSL on the site, so it was showing “not secure” at the top. It’s a pretty important thing to have these […]