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Short articles on websites, advertising and systems for businesses, with what happened to us and to our clients. Straight to the point, with data.

Software5 min read · 3 reads

What should your system let you undo

How to decide what can be undone in a system before building it: six decisions, three examples and a worksheet to bring to your project meeting.

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Websites3 min read · 2 reads

Would ChatGPT recommend you? How to get it to name your business

How to get ChatGPT to recommend your business: where it gets names from, what your website needs to say, and a test to run today for your trade and area.

Software4 min read · 4 reads

Five tests to request before launching business software

Five checks before launching business software: accounts, shared links, repeated actions, failures and recovery. Examples and expected outcomes.

Websites4 min read · 3 reads

When your domain expires and whose name it's in

How to check when your .com or .com.ar domain expires, whose name it's in, and what to do if your web designer registered it, before someone else does.

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Websites3 min read · 4 reads

What stops a purchase on your website

Why people abandon checkout: required accounts, costs at the end and extra steps. The $300 million button and how to check your own website.

A small wooden cube, sharp, in the foreground, and behind it a pile of large half-assembled cardboard boxes, out of focus.

Strategy3 min read · 6 reads

Launch something small and watch what people do

What a minimum viable product is, what «something small» looks like for a business and what to watch after launch, with YouTube, Slack and Instagram.

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Websites5 min read · 12 reads

What people see first isn't your homepage

When someone shares your website, WhatsApp shows a preview with an image, a title and a line of text. What Open Graph is and how to fix yours.

A pile of blank slips of paper, a phone with its screen off and a single slip set apart on a tray: many messages and one that fits.

Advertising6 min read · 13 reads

Your ad brings messages, not customers

If your Instagram or Facebook ad brings lots of messages and few sales, Meta is optimizing for what you asked. How to spot it and how to fix it.