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Great solution for major website irritant

Readability is a simple browser plugin (bookmarklet, actually) that strips away everything — except what you came to read: the content.

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Customer Experience: Why bigger often means badder

Why a website redesign isn’t enough: why big, global enterprises need visionaries to keep from ruining the Customer Experience.

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Tech jargon, boulders and other jive

Vague, jargon-filled buzzwords are like boulders in old TV westerns. They’re really great to hide behind.

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Negative reviews? Fear not

Negative online reviews are not necessarily the kiss of death for your product’s sales. Sales often increase anyway. And the company looks gutsy to allow it.

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Welcome! Now go away

Are annoying pop-up windows chasing potential customers away from your website? Is there a better alternative for collecting visitors’ email addresses?

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When marketers act like pushy strangers

Imagine a complete stranger walking up and demanding your name, phone number or other contact info. Whether it’s on the sidewalk or at a party, that degree of pushiness, especially by a complete stranger, would be totally unwelcome. And yet marketers do it all the time. I’m talking about those pop-up windows that ask for …

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Coming soon: Bigger, louder, more obnoxious ads

Hate those awful online ads ? You know the ones I mean. The ones that blink and spin and move around and morph into different shapes? Brace yourself. They’re about to get even worse. “The Online Publishers Association has created a series of new standards for really big, intrusive, bash-you-on-the-head sorts of advertisements, which you …

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