What Blog Conferences Can Do for Your Small Business
As a small business owner, you don’t have a lot of money to throw around on marketing.
What if you could take a little trip and be surrounded by hundreds or thousands of reporters, potential clients and great connections? You know that exposure is a vital piece of your marketing puzzle, and that the more you [...]
New Blog Design for UBD's Director of Marketing, Josh Mullineaux
Our Director of Marketing, Josh Mullineaux, has redesigned and relaunched his personal blog. Josh is one of the co-founders of UBD and a long time friend of Matt and myself.
Josh has been blogging since May of 2007 on the topics of personal finance, business, and personal development. Josh’s previous blog design was one of the [...]
Matt Blancarte's "Blog Design Makeover" Speech @ IZEA Fest
UBD’s own Matt Blancarte recently spoke on the “Blog Design Makeover” panel at IZEA Fest in Orlando, Florida. Matt also spoke with Scott Allen and Christopher Schmidtt, two other incredibly talented web designers.
For the panel, Matt was asked to redesign a British Columbia boating blog, www.boatinginbeautifulbritishcolumbia.com. This blog is owned by Heather, an attendee of [...]
John Chow dot Com Version 3.0 Launches
We are proud to report that we recently had the opportunity to work with John Chow on the next generation design of his blog.
We first redesigned John’s blog back in August of 2007, which was also the launch of our brand. We are happy that John chose us to redesign his blog again this year.
Some [...]
UBD 1-Year Anniversary Contest Winners
WOW! I never expected that we would receive such an overwhelming positive response to our 1-Year Anniversary Contest, especially given the short time frame.
Let me be the first to say, thank you to everyone who left a comment or wrote about the contest!. 606 comments and 113 trackbacks later, we have a few winners.
First of [...]
Blog World Expo Relaunches Blog with Help from UBD
We are proud to announce we recently redesigned and helped relaunch the official Blog World Expo blog. Blog World Expo is a new media and blogging convention being help September 20-21 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The blog design was done by UBD’s Senior Designer, Matt Blancarte.
Meet Us At Blog World Expo
Last year, we [...]
ATTN: Smashing Magazine Readers – We Are Hiring!
Hopefully, eye tracking works and you are reading this sentence. Are you a talented web designer/developer? If so, we may be very interested in working with you! Why are we telling you this? This past day, we have received an enormous amount of traffic from Smashing Magazine. We thought it would be smart [...]
Read More »Yahoo! Mail Blog Relaunches
You may be asking yourself, why is UBD reporting that the Yahoo! Mail Blog relaunched? Well, we are truly honored that we recently had the opportunity to work with Yahoo! to redesign and relaunch the official Yahoo! Mail Blog. Our Chief Marketing Officer, Josh Mullineaux, met Ryan Knight from Yahoo! at the Blog World Expo [...]
Read More »New Blog Design For UBD's Lead Designer, Matt Blancarte
I am happy to announce that UBD’s Lead Designer and Chief Operating Officer, Matt Blancarte, has officially rolled out a new design for his personal blog, Matt Blancarte dot Com.
Matt has been blogging since July of 2007, and he has been working with UBD since its August 2007 inception. Matt’s blog focuses mostly on design, [...]
The Official UBD Recommended Resources List
We have put together what we think are the best resources for new and seasoned bloggers looking to take their blogs to the next level. We have put together a list of resources for:
Recommended Blogs
Stat Tracking Tools
Advertising Programs
Photo Sharing
Social Media Marketing
Email Marketing
If you believe we should add a resource to our list, please let us [...]
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From working with thousands of bloggers and companies, such as MySpace, Inc. and Yahoo!, Inc., to exhibiting at the Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada, and IZEA Fest in Orlando, Florida, Unique Blog Designs (UBD) is known by much of the online world. How did they get started?