A handful of tips for selling online (through the lens of specialty coffee, of course).
CRMs for Small Teams
From the trenches reviews of six contenders: Highrise, Streak, Base, RelateIQ, Sellf, Pipedrive.
Transactional Emails
Small updates that will get big returns for your online shop. Bonus: the world’s first WooCommerce transactional email guide.
Schoolhouse Electric Tour
Needmore gets schooled on the art of crafting timeless pieces at Schoolhouse Electric.
10 Tips to Being Authentic in Social Media
Why building an online community is about winning hearts, not counting hands.
Tradeoff
Everything is a trade-off.
On Building from Scratch
We’ve been around for a decade and have seen much progress in the tools and foundation of building out websites.
Think Before You Share That Screenshot
When sharing screenshots or showing presentations with clients be sure to hide the bookmark bar, you’re clients might be misled.
9 Tips for Getting Started in Web Design
Nine tips for getting started in web design from Needmore’s Studio Director.
A Tale of Two “Basecamps”
After much resistance we’ve moved to the new Basecamp, here are some of our thoughts on the new Basecamp project management tool.
Of Analytics and Funnels
The Next Web has been putting out some great writing lately, and yesterday’s Analytics: If You’re Not Measuring, You’re Not Marketing was certainly no exception. It’s a good overview of the basics. If you’re…
Grit
I have been reading the wonderful – and brief – book Nine Things Successful People Do Differently by Heidi Halvorson. Number 6 is “Have Grit.” “Grit is a willingness to commit to…
The Celery Test
I’ve been reading Start With Why by Simon Sinek, and while the book itself is frustratingly repetitive, there are some excellent lessons. My favorite so far has been what he calls The…
Do Web Designers Matter?
From time to time, we find ourselves looking for a way to describe our clear benefit.
WP Engine Hosting Blues
A week ago, we walked into what can only be described as every website owner’s worst nightmare.
Basecamp and The Law of Unintended Consequences
When Basecamp first launched, Needmore was psyched. We were still a young business, but Basecamp proved to be invaluable. We’ve used it religiously for many years now. It provided a way for…
Robust, Reliable, and Carefully Constructed
We at Needmore are big fans of Louis CK
2011’s Most Costly Mistake
Our expensive lessons comparing Daylite, Highrise, and Flow CRM’s.
Do You Have an Auteur?
One thing we’ve found over and over is that it’s much easier to work with a single decision-maker than to work with a committee.
Our Thoughts on Stumptown
Our thoughts on the Stumptown Coffee Roasters investor controversy.