Website Quotes

• Websites promote you 24/7: No employee will do that.

  Paul Cookson

  Technology, Design, Employee

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• A bad website is like a grumpy salesperson.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Grumpy, Salesperson

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• You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

  Drew Houston

  Doors, Problem, Ends

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• A website without SEO is like a car with no gas.

  Paul Cookson

  Car, Seo, Gas

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• Everybody thinks their website is above average.

  Matt Cutts

  Thinking, Average, Above Average

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• I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Thinking, Computer

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• Your website is the window of your business. Keep it fresh, keep it exciting.

  Jay Conrad Levinson

  Window, Exciting

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• Don’t forget: when you start a website, it’s not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

  James Altucher

  People, Forget, Site

  "Step By Step Guide to Make $10 Million And Then Totally Blow It" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2017.

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• Domain names and websites are Internet real estate.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Real, Names, Internet

  Interview with Mike Sullivan, www.businessinterviews.com. March 7, 2011.

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• Good website practice and optimizing for conversion usually makes for good search engine optimization. These work together to ensure you drive quality traffic and can persuade that traffic to help you meet your business goals.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Practice, Goal, Working Together

  Marc Ostrofsky (2013). “Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• Designing a website can be a bit like being a kid and inheriting a sweetshop. It's easy to get carried away. There are so many choices. A website can be like an attic that never fills up. Space is not the problem. Attention is.

  Gerry McGovern

  Kids, Space, Choices

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• Web analytics is a fire extinguisher. Your website is on fire and you're burning cash.

  Jim Sterne

  Fire, Marketing, Burning

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• No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions.

  Jay Baer

  Thinking, Marketing, Answers

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• Ultimately, users visit your website for its content. Everything else is just the backdrop.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Design, Backdrop, Users

  Jakob Nielsen (2000). “Designing Web Usability”, New Riders Pub

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• I wanted to highlight the destruction in Gaza by posting photos on my website - but on the internet, people only look at pictures of kittens.

  Banksy

  People, Looks, Internet

  "Banksy on New Gaza Art: We Care More About Kittens Than Human Suffering" by Lorena O'Neil, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 26, 2015.

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• Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

  Marc Ostrofsky

  Marketing, Important, Pennies

  "Search Engines 101: Part I" by Marc Ostrofsky, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 23, 2011.

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• Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine.

  Austin Kleon

  Thinking, Self, Machines

  Austin Kleon (2014). “Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered”, p.67, Workman Publishing

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• A personal website is vital, but it needs to change and evolve.

  Cory Trepanier

  Technology, Needs, Need A Change

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• Everyone wants a conversation. They want inspiration. Inspire people with your website. Don’t just interrupt, but interact. Asking about Return on Investment is the wrong question today. You should be asking about Return on Involvement.

  Kevin Roberts

  Inspiration, People, Inspire

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• My website inspired me to create my book club and provides me with a creative outlet where I can write about things that interest me. It's a platform where I can present ideas or new ventures and get feedback straight from the people who mean the most to me.

  Lauren Conrad

  Book, Mean, Writing

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• Up late talking to the fans on a website, That's the only thing that send ya man off to bed right

  Joe Budden

  Men, Talking, Bed

  Song: Whatever It Takes

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• Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.

  Neil Patel

  Marketing, Blogging, Helpful

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• Only astrophysicists new about the Internet 20 years ago. Today my cat has a website.

  William J. Clinton

  Cat, Years, Today

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• If you run a website that doesn't have something that's terrible on it, you are not trying hard enough. You have to fail, fail, fail. You have to fail and fail miserably many times.

  Erik Wemple

  Running, Trying, Failing

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• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  Patrick Macnee

  Jobs, Years, People

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