Posted on February 06, 2009 by Nate Whitehill

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 [...]

Posted on January 21, 2008 by Nate Whitehill

It has been exactly one year now since I wrote my first post. Funny story: Vinay Menon was the first person ever to comment on one of my posts. I became friends and have kept in touch with him and his business partner, Anthony, over the past year through our mutual interest in exotic sport [...]

Posted on December 05, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

In four hours, I will be flying from Phoenix to Las Vegas to attend the Pubcon Webmaster Convention. The main reason for my attendance is because Unique Blog Designs sponsored Shoemoney’s Party Like A Search Engine Rockstar contest. The winner of the contest was Laura Martin, who also appeared on The Next Internet Millionaire.
There will [...]

Posted on November 20, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

One of the hardest things to do with any time-consuming enterprise is take a break. As most of you know, I haven’t blogged very much over the past 3 months. This is not due to my disinterest in blogging, but only my new obsession with business development. I have always been kind of an all-or-nothing [...]

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

About 3 weeks after first I redesigned John Chow’s blog (mid-September), my business partner, Josh, stumbled upon a tradeshow devoted entirely to bloggers. Being that we had just started UBD and we were starting to experience some early success, we decided it would be an incredible branding opportunity to exhibit a booth at Blog World [...]

Posted on September 10, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

With all this talk lately about the dream of a shorter workweek, it just convinces me how much spin dominates consensus. One only gets to the 4-hour workweek after years of insanely difficult work.
Even though everyone has dreams of the 4-hour workweek, the fact is that 99.95% of those who have been successful have [...]

Posted on September 04, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

The New Shoemoney
About a week ago, right after the launch of UBD and the redesigned John Chow theme, I received an email from Shoemoney who was interested in updating the look of his blog.
Shoemoney wanted to retain his basic layout, but polish it up with some web 2.0 goodness and add a few new [...]

Posted on August 30, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

As many of you know, last week, I launched a new online business. Developing this business has allowed me to experiment with some new direct marketing techniques which I have only recently learned about. One specific example is releasing a free ebook in order to promote your blog or business.
John Chow, Jane May, and [...]

Posted on July 19, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

Every so often, we meet a person or group of people who makes an extraordinarily positive impact on our lives. For example, isn’t it awesome when you are trying to solve a problem, and you coincidentally meet the person who can help you solve it? Isn’t it just as cool when you are stumped by [...]

Posted on July 11, 2007 by Nate Whitehill

Even if you are not paying attention to the calendar, you can always feel it when the PageRank (PR) is coming because there is an an insatiable buzz within blogosphere and webmaster communities. Every three months (or so), Google updates it’s proprietary PageRank. PageRank is Google’s special algorithm for determining the authoritative value of sites [...]