In the last few years smart phone use has exploded globally and with it the need for website access through a mobile solution that provides users a unique presentation for companies to highlight their products to an eager customer base.

One example of increased mobile browsing and this is just the U.S.!

Simply having a web browser on the phone isn’t the answer. A fantastic desktop site can be frustrating to read and simply too much trouble for the visitor to use on a mobile device and the function of one doesn’t naturally translate to the other; on the mobile web utility is more important than style.

Yet companies are slow to advance their online presence through the platform of the mobile device. One reason may be that they haven’t yet got a marketing handle on the company website and its many moving parts – blogs, video, news sections, etc. – and adding a mobile site seems like less of a priority.

Nevertheless, recent studies show that more and more of the global population is experiencing the web through a mobile device and that time spent browsing the net on a phone is overtaking the time spent at a PC.

Still not convinced that a mobile app will contribute to your company’s success?

•    According to a recent survey from Compuware, 40% of users have turned to a competitor’s site after a bad mobile experience.
•    Google Mobile Ads found that only 21% of its advertisers had launched a mobile site by mid-2011
•    61% of users call a business after finding it in search –Google

The Key

DevHub’s mobile solution gets you in front of your target audience quickly and affordably and allows you to create both a desktop site and a mobile version congruently.

This dynamic service delivery platform and industry-leading infrastructure enables rapid deployment of a full suite of web services designed to help business customers get online easily and profitably.

And because custom templates are included, for mobile screens and are optimized for all iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices, this answer to your mobile needs is Future-proof!

DevHub is focused on providing a single solution for managing user’s content and data across any screen, network, or platform. By bringing it all into one system, enormous value from built-in efficiencies around production, overhead, R&D, and maintenance will return dividends to our customers in the form of larger profit margins.

And all this at a fraction of the cost of using multiple providers.
 

Highlights of the article by Curt Woodward. (full article on EVO Media's DevHub Private Label Website Builder)

The customers in DevHub’s sweet spot now are businesses like domain registration sites or yellow pages directories, which can offer website-building services as a way to land more small- and medium-sized business customers of their own. Those bring a lot larger base all at once than DevHubs’s old method of upselling a free product to small website or blog owners.

“We’re really targeting and talking to companies that have these captured bases of probably a minimum of 5,000 small businesses,” co-founder Daniel Rust says. “But we’re flexible, as long as they have a market or a base sort of idea. Right now, we’re working on rolling out a new implementation in New Zealand with a partner that’s going to start doing franchised website building.”

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EVO has a goal of getting 1 million sites served by its private label platform in the next 14-18 months, and each site can bring EVO average revenues ranging from 50 cents to $4 per month. To harken back to an analogy from 2009, when investor and chairman Jeff Schrock said EVO was “ramen profitable,” Michael says the company is now working with flank steak.

That’s not the only change. Michael and Rust are now manning the positions of co-president, after third co-founder and former CEO Geoffrey Nuval moved out of managing the company. He’s now in a senior business development role with EVO, although his LinkedIn profile indicates Nuval also is also working on a different company in California.

Rust and Michael are comfortable working together. Now in their late 20s, the pair were high school classmates in the Tri-Cities area of eastern Washington and attended college at Central Washington University, in Ellensburg. EVO Media is just the latest in a long line of the pair’s entrepreneurial projects over the years.

This is a guest post from Debt Kid who starting a blog about his journey to get out of debt in 2007. He recently launched the "Get out of Debt" Blog Network to help others blog their way out of debt.

When I was really, really broke in 2007, and living in my office I had only been blogging for less than a year. But, I had a few readers and one day a reader emailed and offered to buy me a cooler so I could keep some perishables in my office. It touched me more than anything. Here was a complete stranger, offering to help me out, just out of the goodness of their heart. I declined the offer (I was intent on digging myself out), but it was much appreciated. That's just one of many positive stories I have about blogging and getting out of debt. And if you're lucky to have never been in debt, well being in debt sucks. It's like carrying around a 50-lb weight on your shoulders that even crushes you while you are sleeping. You don't sleep well, you are stressed all the time, your friends might think you are fine, but you're worried every time your phone rings that it might be a collections call. The top three reasons to start a debt blog? 1. Blog Therapy Blogging about your thoughts, financial stuggles, anything...it helps you work stuff out. Just writing down and tracking how much you owe is a huge step towards getting out of debt 2. Accountability With a written blog you can share it with others, and have them keep you accountable. You know if you buy that new iPad you shouldn't have...well, your readers will be on top of you! 3. It's Free Unlike many get out of debt programs, blogging your way out of debt is 100% free. Want to start blogging your way out of debt? Check out the "Get out of Debt" Blog Network. Good luck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Greetings DevHeads!

It's been almost two months since DevHub's re-launch, and the network of DevHub users has already grown to over 50,000! This week, we've been working on a new tool and template for users who are interested in rapidly creating a bunch of sites that earn them real money.

The new tool is our ClickBank module, which you'll find in the 'Make Money' section in the DevHub editor tool tray. Find this tool in DevHub and search for thousands of new offers a week that you can build into a revenue-generating site!

The new theme is Freshly Squeezed, which you'll find in 'Styles and Colors' when you create a site in the Promote Products track. This template is a narrow, one-paged theme that is focused on 'squeezing' visitors on your site to click on the offer presented to them.

Put these two together and you can easily create numerous money-making sites based on ClickBank affiliate offers. This is one of a number of affiliate marketing integrations slated over the next few weeks. The last part is to drive traffic to these sites, which you can easily do by signing up for an account with Google Adwords ($75 credit for free) and bidding on keywords.

With this latest offering from DevHub, getting into the online affiliate marketing game has never been this easy!

Game on...
Geoffrey Nuval
CEO/GameMaster

ClickBank: The ClickBank module allows you to choose a specific product, build a single page site for it, and sell that exclusively. People have been asking us for ClickBank integration for awhile now and we think we've nailed it. It's FREE so try it out and make some money.

HeyZap Games: With our new HeyZap.com module, you can now use social games to boost site traffic and CPM rates. Play some fun games, share the scores and watch the visits pile up. Yep, it's also free!

New Market Items: This week we added a new theme to the marketplace.

1. To Establish A Presence
2. To Network
3. To Make Business Information Available
4. To Serve Your Customers
5. To Heighten Public Interest
6. To Release Time Sensitive Materials
7. To Sell Things
8. To make pictures, sound and film files available
9. To reach a highly desirable demographic market
10. To Answer Frequently Asked questions
11. To Stay In Contact With Salespeople
12. To Open International Markets
13. To Create a 24 Hour Service
14. To Make Changing Information Available Quickly
15. To Allow Feedback From Customers
16. To Test Market New Services and Products
17. To Reach The Media
18. To Reach The Education and Youth Market
19. To Reach The Specialized Market
20. To Serve Your Local Market

Bonus: DevHub has a free website builder! :)

Welcome to another edition of your personalized DevHub Weekly Times, news about the Online Empire you are building on DevHub.com. This week, I want to talk about free promotion of the sites you are building, much of which we already have incorporated within DevHub. If you want to build up a readership of your blog or visitors to your online store, then make sure you take advantage of the following:

Promote your site/posts on FaceBook and Twitter. Your immediate social circle is your best way to get the visitor cycle going. Think about the virality... Each post you make can be shared by your own FB friends or Twitter followers and they can share it with their contacts. DevHub makes this easy by offering to post your blog posts directly to FaceBook and Twitter.

Increase your chances of Getting Ranked for Keywords in Google, Yahoo!, Bing. Once your site is further along, make sure to do the task in the DevHub Stream regarding metatags and metadescription for each of your pages. Use keywords for the terms you want to rank for. This is rich information the Search Engines use to figure out what your site is about.

There's one more regarding Google, but you're gonna have to find it in the DevHub Stream!

Game on...
Geoffrey Nuval
CEO/GameMaster

UPDATE: As of 5:27:37pm PST, all game elements on DevHub are back up and running (except for Leaderboards, which should be back up shortly).  Thank you all for your patience during this process.  We will be working with our game backend partner to make sure downtime like this doesn't happen again (see BigDoor's explanation as to what happened here).

As for the == DevHub Prediction Contest ==, congrats to our Winners!!!

4:45:54pm PT -- predicted by David Marriott, Jr (davidmarriottjr.devhub.com)

4:20:00pm PT -- predicted by Curtis Kolbrenner (jumbocat.com)

6:15:00pm PT -- predicted by MJ Bedford (mjbedford.devhub.com)

Winners will receive their prizes in their accounts within the next 24 hours.  Lucky!!!

Thanks to all who participated.  We will be doing more random contests like this, communicated to our user base via this blog, our twitter account, or our FaceBook account -- so get connected and stay in the loop!