Ade in Business

The enterprising journey of a web developer

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Buzz

March 24th, 2006 · 4 Comments

I submitted FormSpring for review to Emily Chang’s eHub blog yesterday, she posted it around 2:30am and the site’s been buzzing ever since. There’ve been some moments when I got several users sign up for a demo account per minute. I was somewhat pleased with the trickle I was getting before now, but [...]

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Tags: Business

I am not a designer

March 23rd, 2006 · 1 Comment

I finally got some copy up on the Recursive Function site and redesigned the FormSpring site as well to integrate the new logo. It’s funny how four people in the last two days have asked me when I’m going to add copy to the RF site. You guys are so impatient.
Actually, [...]

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Nostalgia and a new FormSpring logo

March 21st, 2006 · 7 Comments

Muchas gracias to Ed Illig of Brainstorm who helped put together a new logo for FormSpring. I wasn’t very happy with the old one, asked him for help, and he more than pulled through:

I did some of my first freelance work for Brainstorm and worked a couple summers there while I was still in [...]

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Tags: Business · Miscellaneous

A new name, a new site

March 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I finally decided to incorporate and assume a formal business name. I was going to wait until I was more established and closer to thinking about having permanent employees, etc., but I just finally got sick of all the limitations of trying to market with, “Olonoh, Ade Olonoh.” (Read that to yourself in [...]

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Things that work: AdWords

March 11th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I know I’m behind the curve on this one, but just recently created a Google AdWords campaign. I’d read a lot about AdWords in the past but never actually gone through the motions of setting up and running a campaign. I must say I’m very impressed with the product and my results so [...]

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Tags: Business