“Tasty Nectar” Makes Tasty Profile Sites For Your Personal Brand

Written on 11th November 2008                                                                                                              8 COMMENTS
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Tasty Nectar is a new startup focusing on, as they put it, “selling you’. Rather than helping businesses with their sites and promotion, Tasty Nectar have launched a service designed to make creating a beautiful personal profile site, a piece of cake.

Created by the team at Texas based creative agency Fuor, your new personal site will include a gorgeous design (supposedly well optimized for search engines) and a basic lifestream.

How Does it Work?

Select a general theme (design) for your new website and sign up. Once you’re all signed in, you are greeted with a clean UI and requested to answer some pretty straight forward biographical type questions. The next step is to insert all your social media username’s and blog URL’s, this step includes options for all the major social media sites as well as any site with an RSS feed. The final step is to include any relevant contact details such as your IM and email. Click “view” at the top of the screen and voila, your new personal website is ready. I went through the process and created mine in a matter of 15 minutes and as you can see, visually it’s rather impressive.

Pricing

Well, here is where the majority of techies will gasp. (more…)

lifestream, personal branding, portfolio

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Portfolio service Fresh.li addressing the untapped potential of non-geeks

Written on 25th August 2008                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS
Ernst-Jan Pfauth, editor in chief

Every week we publish an interview with a start-up. We ask five questions, hoping the answers will give you inspiration and new views.

This time we’re interviewing Tijs Teulings. He runs a small web agency called Automatique and has been busy building the online portfolio service startup Fresh.li during the evenings. Now that he’s finished, I’m glad to interview him about his “shoestring-project”. Thanks to outsourcing some of the work and keeping his regular clients, Tijs managed to keep the costs under €5k. Let’s hear the details…

How did you come up with the idea of Fresh.li?

“Well my main source of income is my web development business, I do technical design and build web apps for businesses small and large. For some reason family and friends always seemed to think this implied that I would be more than willing to build a nice website for them, maybe in return for a cake or a hug. Other freelancers might nod in recognition at this point. Enticing as these offers where fact of the matter was that I never really had the time to build these websites for them, much less keep them up to date. This never ending deluge of requests together with the fact that a lot of my family and friends tend to dabble in the arts lead to the idea that I would be well served with a generalized tool that would allow me to quickly setup an online portfolio and that would allow the artist in question to maintain it themselves. So what started as a website and CMS for my mother quickly turned into a full fledged consumer product.” (more…)

five questions for start-ups, fresh.li, non-geeks, portfolio, the hague, the masses, The Netherlands

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