Gary Ricke Gary Ricke

Finding Marketing Truth

The most beautiful interview I’ve ever done · Facebook jumping the shark · Making profiles more beautiful · What was Intuit and Mailchimp thinking · The degree for the greatest chance of success · And 12 sites we built on Squarespace in 2 minutes. Whew!

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Gary Ricke Gary Ricke

Get your DNS under control. It can take you down, like it did Facebook

Your Domain Name or DNS (i.e. ours is orbisdesign.com) often doesn’t live where your website does and many clients have run into serious issues because they didn’t have control over there DNS — kind of like what looks to have happened to Facebook disappearing off of the face of the Internet today.

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Gary Ricke Gary Ricke

Why Intuit Bought Mailchimp for $12 Billion

As a MailChimp fan, several have asked my thoughts on the recent $12 billion purchase of MailChimp by Intuit. I believe it’s telling us something important for small business audience building.

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Gary Ricke Gary Ricke

12 sites we built in Squarespace in 2 minutes.

Imagine your website is like the iPhone — constantly getting killer upgrades. Now imagine if the price for those upgrades are included in the original cost. That's what Squarespace does and they just announced yesterday some exceptional new features coming.

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