Author Archives: Angela Nielsen

Get your own .CO domain!

A New Domain Extension “.CO” Launched Last Week How difficult was it for you to find a good domain name when you started your company? With the explosion of the web, landing a solid .com address is now more difficult than ever before. What do you do when you can’t find the domain equivalent of [...]

You want more website traffic?

The most common complaint I hear from website owners is that they aren’t getting enough traffic to their website. More traffic = more business… but how can you increase your traffic? 1. Pay Per Click Campaigns While setting up a pay per click campaign may not be right for everyone, most website owners usually see [...]

Vote For Angela in the 2010 StartupNation Leading Moms in Business Competition

Vote for Angela Nielsen to be named one of the top 200 Moms in Business from StartupNation! Contest Bio… Angela is the wife of a United States Marine. Knowing that his career moves their family all over the country every few years, she wanted a business she could run from home, and in 2000 decided [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 7 of 7)

Mistake 7: Not reviewing your website statistics. The most fatal mistake that a website owner can make is to not review, or even understand the performance of their website. Nearly every hosting company out there provides some sort of web analytics tool. And if they do not, Google Analytics can be added to any website [...]

Rework – 37 Signals

From Amazon… This book will make you uncomfortable. Depending on what you do all day, it might make you extremely uncomfortable. That’s a very good thing, because you deserve it. We all do. Jason and David have broken all the rules and won. Again and again they’ve demonstrated that the regular way isn’t necessarily the [...]

Ten Free SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Tips

Found a great top 10 list for search engine optimization today – very easy to understand and really gives you the ability to understand the basics of SEO. 1.   Build sites in html or another simple language the search engine spiders can read. If your webmaster or ad agency wants to build a cool Flash [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 6 of 7)

Mistake 6: Taking too long to respond to inquiries, or not following up at all. It’s happened to all of us. We visit a website, find something interesting, and email the company for some additional information. Then you get the dreaded thank you page, “Thank you for requesting more information from ABC Company. We will [...]

One Lily Inc. named as finalist in 2010 American Business Awards

Website launched for Human Capital Initiative places web design firm in running for 8th annual Stevie® Awards to be presented on June 21 in New York City. Carlsbad, CA. May 13, 2010 – One Lily Inc. was named a Finalist today in The 2010 American Business Awards. The American Business Awards are the nation’s premier [...]

7 Mistakes Website Owners Make, And How To Avoid Them (Part 5 of 7)

Mistake 5: Too much web copy. We see this mistake being made on huge numbers of websites. People want information now, and they want it fast. They do not want to spend half an hour reading website content. Studies suggest that on average, a visitor spends less than 10 seconds deciding whether or not they [...]

One Lily Inc. receives Gold Hermes Award for creativity in emerging media design

Website launched for Advanced Wellness Center garners Golden Hermes Award for these web design veterans known for their ingenuity and one-stop services that help small and mid-size companies succeed on the web. Carlsbad, CA. May 7, 2010 – Appropriately named for the god of diplomacy, commerce, and persuasion, One Lily’s latest in a string of [...]