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 [...continue reading]
Seeking WordPress Designer for my sites
I'm seeking an experienced Wordpress designer for both my personal use and for our portfolio companies; any suggestions? I want to upgrade two sites: - Teten.com (my personal site) - TheVirtualHandshake.com, the marketing site for my book, The Virtual Handshake. These sites are [...continue reading]
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. [...continue reading]
Free copies of The Virtual Handshake
The folks at Landslide have figured out a great marketing strategy: If you view a demo of their "sales workstyle management" system, they'll give you a free copy of The Virtual Handshake--Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online. Alex Salkever of Inc. wrote in Turning Sales Into Science that [...continue reading]
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 [...continue reading]
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 [...continue reading]
Seeking Interns for Book Marketing/PR: Blogs, Social Software, Online Networks
We are seeking interns this summer/fall who would like to work on the marketing campaign for our new book, The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, and for our resource website, TheVirtualHandshake.com. This is ideal for a college or MBA student interested in a full-time or [...continue reading]
