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4 solutions to avoid having a "Website under construction" forever
Written by Jean-Michel Marcotte | 2 May 2012 | 
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Ever seen a website showing “Under construction” during a couple of months ? Impossible to say no.
Company managers often have the reflex of creating a temporary page allowing potential visitors to get their contact information and to know that something will be up eventually.
A very simple tool should help in making the most of this situation by gathering contact information from potential customers and creating hype around the upcoming platform: the temporary registration page. It basically consists of temporary page to harvest email addresses of people interested in learning about future developments of the company.
We're proposing several interesting solutions that can solve this problem very quickly.
Launch Effect
A free solution to build beautiful temporary registration pages, Launch Effect provides a URL to share with your friends. The main problem is that their solution is based on Wordpress, so you have to download and install Wordpress before. If "Installing a Wordpress blog" is a phrase that scares you, you should rather opt for one of the next solutions.
KickoffLabs
KickoffLabs is another alternative to a simple “site under construction” page. This solution offers many different features and customization is available for non-technical people who want a simple solution. If you do not want see their company logo or create multiple pages, it however quickly falls into a paid solution. Their solution is also equipped with an API to further customize your page.
LaunchRock
LaunchRock also allows you to create nice temporary pages online. Their system is made to go online very quickly, by downloading a wallpaper image and adding some text. The customization possibilities are however limited. Lauchrock is also equipped with an API, can import your contacts for sending emails and has native viral sharing capabilities.
My Beta List
I would suggest opting for My Beta List but they are still in beta stage. So you can give them your name and email to stay tuned ;-)
Les réseaux sociaux détrônent les emails
Written by Jean-Michel Marcotte | 5 November 2010 | 0
Les médias sociaux sont encore relativement nouveaux dans le monde d'internet et pourtant, selon une étude, de TNS « digital life » sortie le 10 octobre 2010 et réalisée à l'échelle mondiale, l'utilisateur typique passe plus de temps sur les sites de réseaux sociaux que tout autre site.
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Source: eMarketer
Refine your Google Searches
Written by Jean-Michel Marcotte | 19 May 2010 | 0
I recently discovered a website which can make complex searches on Google very simple. The website is named guiGoog and no, I don't know how to pronounce that. It's actually one of the reasons why I'm writing about it.
Some of guiGoog's functionalities can be real time-savers, especiially if you're a student, journalist or anyone else who probably spends too much time surfing on Google. Basically, what guiGoog does is repackaging Google's advanced search functions.
Here are the main functionnalities:
-Search within a date range, easily
-Include/exclude filetypes in your search
-Include/exclude urls in your search results
-Search from a specific country, or even postal code or city
-Search in a precise language
For some of us who do not want to be redirected to Google.ca because you're from here, it can be a plus.
To make this post complete, I even made a trial search with my name in France in pdf format between 2001 and 2002. Surprisingly, something comes up.
So the name is guiGoog, very useful website but awkward to pronounce.
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