March 2013
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Facebook Pages are a bad investment for small...
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December 2012
1 post
Shipping Products From Your New Online Store
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November 2012
4 posts
Why did Apple fire the Maps product manager?
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How we set up our online store, Part 3: Domain,...
(See Part 1, Part 2)
Now that we had picked our ecommerce platform, we needed to get a domain name and email accounts. I also decided to set up a company phone number as I remembered seeing research that ecommerce sites that prominently display a phone number convert better.
Initially we had wanted to pick “lulubee” as the company name, but as “lulubee.com” was already...
How we set up our online store, Part 2: Picking an...
(See Part 1)
The first thing we wanted to do was get a nice looking store up and running so we could put some products online, and start to get real world feedback. The store had to look professional, because we wanted to gauge whether people liked the products or not. We did not want people leaving because the store looked cheap or fishy looking.
My criteria for selecting an ecommerce...
How we set up our online store, part 1
Over the past six months I’ve been helping my lovely and talented wife, and her business partner Laura Burch, with their new online business, lullubee. Their company designs and sells kits for creating all kinds of crafts, from jewelry to costumes to toys and more. In order to help out, and as an opportunity to learn about ecommerce, I volunteered to handle the technology side of the...
January 2012
1 post
An AppStore for Health - Electronic Health Records...
The current state of affairs
There have been lots of failed attempts at getting consumers to use electronic health records. Google Health was probably the most visible one, but there have been many many others. Many of the early online health sites created their own online electronic health record systems, in the hope that people would use them to store their health data and then be...
November 2011
1 post
The International Opportunity
One question that people keep asking me is how did I decide to start Medico.com. Not why, but rather, how, did I come up with the idea. On the one hand it seems pretty obvious. Of course every country should have a high quality online health site, but on the other hand its one of those ideas thats almost too obvious, and that one assumes already exists in every country.
There are a number of...
