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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Category Archives: Business Development
Our Newest Venture – Highlighter.com
For the past six months, Matt, Josh and I have been working on a super-secret new startup. I am happy to finally announce it! Highlighter is a WordPress plugin that allows authors to actively engage their audience. They can direct readers attention to any part of the post by ‘highlighting’ any word, sentence or image. Although we are starting with a WordPress plugin, Highlighter will … Continue reading
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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
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Why I Started Blogging…From Motivation to Game Plan
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 cars. In November of 2007, I was fortunate to meet … Continue reading
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Back to Vegas for Pubcon
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 be a lot of cool people at Pubcon including … Continue reading
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The Importance of Taking Time For Yourself In Business
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 type person and it’s always been hard for me to … Continue reading
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Blog World Expo Review
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 Expo (BWE), which was held November 8-9 in Las Vegas, … Continue reading
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Four-Hour Workweek? Try the Sixteen-Hour Workday…
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 had to (at least, initially) endure much more than even … Continue reading
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Unique Blog Designs presents… The New Shoemoney
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 features. Shoemoney is somewhat of a PHP guru so … Continue reading
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Using Free Ebooks To Promote Your Blog or Business
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 Mitch Harper all do this. All are also successful bloggers … Continue reading
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5 Reasons To Be Networking Online
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 a situation, and you gain a fresh perspective from another … Continue reading
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