Redesign of Teten.com and TheVirtualHandshake.com

Assembling a WordPress Website My mother Carol Teten and I met Daniella Norwood, the owner of ella j designs, and her husband Brian Bigda at a Lean Startup Machine weekend at which I was a judge.  She did a great job redesigning my mother’s site, DancetimePublications.com, so I hired her to do a redesign of Teten.com...

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Case study: Rebuilding our site

During 2009, we rebuilt from scratch the Teten.com, TheVirtualHandshake.com, and NavonPartners.com sites.  Paxcel has done a great job since then maintaining and updating our sites.  I wanted to share our process, so asked Mandeep Dang, Project Manager of Paxcel, to write a summary of what we did. As introduction, I am the lead web architect...

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Download The Virtual Handshake book at no charge

We finally did it: we have made our new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, available for free download.   Of course, we encourage you to buy the bound book at your local bookstore. It’s much easier to read that way (and actually cheaper than printing out the whole thing on...

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Summary of Virtual Handshake Conference, 12/1-2/2005

Chairing last week’s Virtual Handshake conference, “Beyond Blogs and Social Networks: How the Virtual Handshake and Consumer Generated Media Will Make or Break Your Business” was an honor and a pleasure. I’d like to thank Stuart Williams, Ali Curi, and Don Friedman of the Strategic Research Institute for making the conference happen. For those of...

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Update on the Virtual Handshake Book

I’m glad to report that popular reaction to Scott Allen’s and my new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, has been very positive. We have received rave reviews in BusinessWeek, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge, Kirkus Reviews , and many other leading publications. We have also been excerpted in CNN.com and...

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Get complimentary copy of new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online

I’ve been quiet on this blog for the last month, because we’ve been completing a major redesign. I’d welcome feedback on the completely redesigned site, Teten.com, courtesy of Jason Coward at OpenGeek. In separate news: Are you interested in reading a preview copy of my forthcoming book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals...

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