Who Is Behind This Blog?
Welcome to my blog! My name is Nate Whitehill and I am the co-founder of Unique Blog Designs, a company that provides blog design and marketing solutions to individuals and small businesses, and Highlighter.com – a new startup in the e-reading space.I have been self-employed/running Internet businesses for over four years, since January of 2007.
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Author Archives: Nate Whitehill
Been awhile, huh?
So this is the longest I have gone without a post in a while. This blog and its audience definitely deserves an update though: Affiliate Theme My last post was announcing Affiliate Theme. Well, Affiliate Theme received a ton of awesome exposure and a TON of people are using it to more easily set up affiliate marketing websites. We have a lot of cool new … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Affiliate Theme
WordPress has become the content management system (CMS) of choice for not just blogs, but also websites and even landing pages/review sites for affiliate marketers! Why? Ease of use, familiarity, and more uses than Grandpa’s Swiss army knife. We have worked closely with and picked the brains of some of the top names in blogging and affiliate marketing, including: John Chow Jeremy Schoemaker Yaro Starak … Continue reading
Posted in Unique Blog Designs
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Funniest Moment of 2009 NBA All Star Game
At the last minute on Sunday, my Dad (who is visiting from Seattle) and I scored tickets to the 2009 NBA All Star Game, which amazingly took place in my current residence of Phoenix, Arizona. I have been to several professional basketball games in the past, including three separate Michael Jordan games (another story for another time), but no games since the late 90′s, and … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Seth Godin’s Advice to Internet Startups In the Down Economy
The other day I was perusing Mashable and I found this video by Seth Godin in which he explains how businesses should change their focus in the down economy. It is short, but worth watching. If you don’t know who Seth Godin is, he is the author of many popular business books and a speaker with appearances at Google, TED and a number of charities. … Continue reading
Posted in Business Development
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Top 5 Ways NOT To Use Twitter
I have been Twittering now for quite a while – since November of 2007. In my 1583 tweets (at this time), I have learned a lot about how to use and how not to use Twitter. It has taken me a while to get accustomed to the flow of Twitter – it definitely requires a different communication style than chat, email, or IM, even though … Continue reading
Posted in Twitter
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Crazy Fast, Exotic Cars at the Barrett Jackson Auto Auction!
WARNING: For anyone who is not a total gear-head like me, this post may be of little or no interest to you. That being said, you have to admit…half-million AND MILLION dollar cars are pretty cool no matter what you think about cars, right? Yep, that’s what I thought. This was my second time going to the annual Barrett Jackson Auto Auction and Car Show, … Continue reading
Posted in Cars
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Video Exclusive: Zac Johnson Talks About Facebook Advertising
This is my first in a series of videos I made from my trip to Affiliate Summit West. In this video, super affiliate Zac Johnson talks about Facebook advertising and it’s pros and cons. This video was shot using a Flip Mino HD (video quality needs to be worked with) and was recorded at the Market Leverage affiliate dinner at the Switch restaurant at the … Continue reading
Posted in Advertising, Videos
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Back to Vegas for Affiliate Summit
All of UBD will be heading up to Las Vegas this weekend for Affiliate Summit West. This will be our first time to vegas where we are not exhibiting, which is kind of a relief given the hassle and stress of setting up and managing a booth. Yep, this goal of this trip will be exclusively to network, hang out, and party with our dot … Continue reading
Posted in Tradeshows
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5 Tools All Web Developers Should Use In 2009
Out with the old, in with the new. 2008 was, by far, the hardest working, yet most productive year of my life. I have been fortunate to discover an incredible useful array of different tools that have made my life as a web developer MUCH easier. Now, I want to share them with you! Here they are: Rescue Time Over the past two months, I … Continue reading
Posted in Wordpress Development
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Follow Unique Blog Designs on Twitter
Unique Blog Designs is finally on Twitter! It is certainly about time, as I have been using Twitter for over a year now. Make sure you follow UBD on Twitter to stay up to date on all of the cool things happening. We have a lot of exciting things planned for 2009 that will definitely surprise you! In Q1 2009, we have something very special … Continue reading