I have been blogging on Quick Sprout for around 3 years now and the blog has been through 4 different designs. At first I redesigned the blog to have a better aesthetic look, but then I started to redesign it based on user feedback.
Over the course of 4 different designs, here are some things that I learned:
Categories
I tried placing each blog post in categories to make it easier for you to read older posts, but that didn’t work. You didn’t seem to click on categories as it takes too much work for you to get to the older blog posts.
When I removed the list of categories in my sidebar during the second design, a few people complained, but the majority of you didn’t mind.
My assumption on why categories don’t work well is because people have to work hard to find the “good” blog posts. [click to continue…]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about how I would never live in a rich neighborhood. Funny enough, when I wrote it a few of you called me out because you knew that I own a place in the Hyatt hotel.
Around a year ago, I moved to Seattle from Orange County California because they have a better entrepreneur community and no state income tax. And because I don’t believe in paying rent, I naturally bought a place once I found the right deal.
It’s too often that you hear about successful entrepreneurs creating multi-million and billion dollar companies. The reason this is bad is because no one really talks about all of the companies that didn’t do well, so you’re left with a false hope that you too can create the next big company.
So lets face it, neither you nor I are going to create the next big company. Due to this I asked 10 successful entrepreneurs who have all created companies that are worth at least 50 million dollars, what their biggest business mistake was.
So even if you aren’t going to create the next multi-million dollar company, it doesn’t mean you can’t learn from the mistakes successful entrepreneurs have made.
Here are the mistakes you need to avoid if you want to increase your odds of succeeding: [click to continue…]
As you already know the U.S. tax system is complicated. So complicated that in 1913 the tax code was 400 pages and today it’s 70,320 pages long. But instead of me rambling on for hours, I thought it would be fun to explain the complexity of the U.S. tax system in a visual format. [click to continue…]
When I first launched Quick Sprout in April of 2007, my goal was to create a community that was so engaged that it would cause each blog post to get at least 20 comments. At first I thought this was a lofty goal that would never be achieved… boy you proved me wrong.
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About Neil Patel
Neil Patel is the co-founder of 2 Internet companies: Crazy Egg and KISSmetrics. Through his entrepreneurial career Neil has helped large corporations such as Amazon, AOL, GM, HP and Viacom make more money from the web. By the age of 21 not only was Neil named a top 100 blogger by Technorati, but he was also one of the top influencers on the web according to the Wall Street Journal. Continue reading
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