A demo video, narrated by our very own Matt Moore, showing how quick and easy it is to make a website with Onepager. Then we go through all of our content types and features in the theme editor.

We’d like to start of by just saying thank you to everyone for the great feedback.  We know that small business owners are incredibly busy, so we really appreciate the time that you take when giving us comments and suggestions. 

We’re happy to announce that we’ve released two new major features - Around the Web and Video/Audio embedding.  

Around the Web - See what people are saying about your business on Yelp, Foursquare, and Twitter

In an effort to help make it easier for you to more easily manage your online reputation, we’d like to introduce you to what we’re calling Around the Web.  From your dashboard you can now see a stream of what people are saying about your business on Yelp, Foursquare, and Twitter.  If you want to reply to them, you can click the link on the dashboard and be taken directly to the posting.

You can now embed video and audio files!

One of the most requested features, the ability to add video and audio embeds to your site, is now available.  You can easily add in video files from sites like YouTube and Vimeo or music files from sites like Grooveshark.

As always, we’ve made a number of other minor changes as well to help make your experience Onepager better.  Please let us know if you have any suggestions for us on how we can improve Onepager for you.  Thanks!

We’re excited to announce some new features now available on Onepager!

Facebook, Google+, and Twitter

Onepager is now setup to help you make your website more social.  You can now add a Facebook Like button, Google+ button, and Tweet button to your website by simply checking off a few boxes.  These buttons are a great way for small businesses to help get their name out there and take advantage of the viral nature of the Internet.

Sort your photos and services

You can now reorder the photos and services on your Onepager through an easy-to-use drag and drop interface.

Onepager Features

We created a new section that explains some of the benefits of Onepager in more detail.  If you’re curious, check it out here and as always, feel free to email us if you have any questions. 

Thank You!

We’ve been having a great time building Onepager and appreciate all of the fantastic feedback.  We’re constantly adding new features to Onepager to help small business owners grow their business.  If you’re interested in setting up a website for your company, we’d love for you to give Onepager a try.  Please feel free to use the discount code “greatscott” at checkout and save 10%.

If you’re a customer then you already know that we send everybody a small token of appreciation for signing up (assembled in New York, NY by the same people who built/designed Onepager and delivered via the United States Postal Service). While we honestly enjoy being able to spend time doing things for our customers, we were wonderfully surprised when one of our customers, Ernie Pressman in San Lorenzo, CA, sent us a thank you card back! His card is as follows:

“Hey Gang!

Thanks for your welcome - in business 65 years never a card likes yours!

Again, thanks

Ernie Pressman

[picture of thumbs up] Thumbs way up”

It doesn’t take much time or money, but show your customers some appreciation and they just might remember you forever.  If you’re lucky enough, your customers will thank you and you’ll remember them forever.

We’re all over the map with our presentations the past several weeks! Last Tuesday we were lucky enough to be able to present at the September NY Tech Meetup, which is the big deal here in NYC. It’s always an awesome show that they put on with over a dozen demos. Other presenting companies included Framey, Gojee, Taskrabbit, Kikin and several others.

For the talk, it was Matt Moore on the mic and Yin driving the demo. Enjoy!

Thanks to UNYStartups for recording the video.

Tuesday was a big day for Onepager. Just before presenting at New York Tech Meetup, we released our latest version, which has a ton of new features.

Free Account
We’re now happy to offer a free-for-life account! Before, we had a 14-day trial, but we decided to lift that expiration policy, so now you can use many of Onepager’s features at no cost. Paid users gain the benefit of their own domain name and full access to the dashboard, among others.

Dashboard
All users now have access to their own personal Onepager dashboard. The dashboard is the place to manage your site and your business’s internet presence. This release includes analytics and email newsletters. We have much more planned for the dashboard in the future, but this was an important first step down that road.

Analytics
Now you can track how your site is performing by logging in to your Onepager. With a quick glance, you can see performance over the last week or month. You can also see where your traffic is coming from, both from sites that link to you and from the keywords people used to find your site through a search engine.

Email Newsletters
If you’d like to start a newsletter on your site, you can now activate the Newsletter Signup content type to start collecting email addresses. Then, once you have some subscribers, you can quickly send them a new message directly from Onepager! We are really excited about this feature because now you can communicate directly to your customers whenever you’d like. Have a special offer or important news to share? Just send your current customers an email.

Search Engine Optimization Enhancements
We’ve implemented some cutting-edge SEO enhancements that are a first for our market. We’ll announce more details on these new updates in a separate announcement soon. Very exciting news for your Onepager search engine ranking!

As always, minor improvements were made, but you’ll need to use Onepager to find them and be surprised! For now, we’re going back to work.

I’ve spent the better part of the last two weeks trying to write this post explaining why I care about small businesses. In the end, I realized that it’s not so much that I care about small businesses, but rather that I care about helping out the small business owners.

When I was growing up, my dad owned his own carpentry company (Jeff’s Custom Work), which is where he spent most of his time. He didn’t have a workforce behind him, so he was everything: sales, customer support, billing, or accounting; you name it, he did it. In order to support our family, he was forced to transform his carpentry skill into a robust, profitable business.

I think the ability to do it all is what distinguishes small business owners from other people. Not only are they extremely skilled at something that’s highly specialized, they also have the know-how to take that knowledge and turn it into something big. Not only that, but more often than not, local business owners find the time to be incredibly involved in their community and in their family life. I respect my dad for not only supporting our family of five, but for making sure to prioritize the important details in life, like coaching my siblings and me in sports, and for always being there for us when we needed him.

Regardless of how hard any small business owner works to develop their company, there are bound to be challenges. Creating an attractive, professional, and effective website is often one of them. That’s why I’m so excited to share Onepager with the small business owners of the world. We get to take our own specialized skill, and use it to help the people who are working so hard to build their businesses, families, and communities. We want to help small business owners stop spending time and stress on creating a website so that they can spend more time with what really matters to them – family.

-Matt Shampine

My parents were small business owners for the first 20 years of my life; they’ve owned 3 restaurants in my lifetime. One was a Taiwanese steakhouse, second was a Taiwanese congee shop, and the last was an American-Japanese sushi restaurant located in lovely Princeton, NJ.

If my appetite for steak, congee and sushi says anything about the way my parents ran their joints, it is that we ate what we served.

My hardworking parents, not working very hard here.

If you don’t eat your own fish and enjoy it, then you probably shouldn’t serve it. We weren’t high-end fine dining, but eating the food we serve certainly kept our freshness and deliciousness under control. To prove that point, here’s an internet review circa 2003:

I’ve become a regular here, my once a week habit. The food, from sushi to cooked dishes, never disappoints. A terrific selection of both traditional sushi and creative, delicious, original dishes. I order quite a few things that are not on the menu (wink,wink). Among them, ask for the live scallop or the Princeton maki. All of the sushi is very fresh and good portions.

Tying it all together

This philosophy applies to all types of small businesses including ours, Onepager. In all honesty, I have a lot of fun using our application. I enjoy the interaction with the theme editor, being able to see the changes take effect in real-time, and the ability to finish building under 5 minutes - the max of my adult attention span. Yes, I am part of the team that built this product and I feel a great amount of pride in our work, but if I can’t even be my own customer, then I shouldn’t expect other people to want to pay for it.

And thank goodness there are actually other people that found use in our product and eventually became our customers. Otherwise, my point would be moot :(

Speaking of whom, I’d like to give a shout-out to all our customers and supporters. We feel your love!

♥ Yin

Millions of people* sit at their desk jobs, bored, dreaming up side businesses they can start while “working” to make a little extra cash. These people aren’t greedy or trying to screw their company over, in fact they’re usually the most clever and hardest working.

This was me a few years ago. I was overly enthusiastic about my job and finished all my tasks quickly and efficiently. I wasn’t the smartest person in the room, but I was always eager to learn and approached all of my assignments with enthusiasm. Unfortunately, my hard work was rewarded with boredom and people digging up menial tasks (or giving me other people’s work) just to keep me busy. Pretty soon I stopped telling my boss I needed something to do because it seemed like *I* was bothering *THEM* as a result of doing my work “too quickly.”

Obviously something wasn’t right with this scenario so my mind began to wander. I’d read blogs and articles and research other skills I could learn. I dreamt that one day I would start my own business, but like most people I was was concerned about job security, “the economy,” and had family and financial obligations to consider.

After being paralyzed with fear for years, I decided to take to heart the old adage “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step,” and created business cards and a website. While no miracles happened the day after I launched, it was an important psychological step. I could now start telling people about my business and to visit my website for more information.

(here comes the plug)

Onepager can help make that first step even less daunting! If you were anything like me, you’ve already come up with 10 company names, so its time to find a domain and create your site. Your scented candle side business might not be as successful as this 13 year old’s, but who knows? Get your site up, start commenting on blogs and going to meetups and see where it goes from there. What’s the worse that can happen? 

(tl;dr version) How To Start A (Side) Business

1. Come up with an idea and name.
2. Create a beautiful Onepager w/ custom domain in 5 minutes.
   
3. Print out some business cards.
4. Start commenting on blogs/forums, going to Meetups, and tweeting.
   
5. ???
6. Profit!

*This number is backed by no facts or data whatsoever

- Eric T.

We were lucky enough to have the chance to present Onepager at the Entrepreneur Roundtable on August 17th. Matt M did the talking and Matt S manned the camera while Eric, Yin, and Omoney were coding at the office. This was a fun night because we were talking in front of Albert Wenger from Union Square Ventures. He’s one smart guy and posed some good questions for us.

Next up for us in the presentation world is the New York Tech Meetup. That one will be a live demo of our latest release, which is looking great!