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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes down to using wordpress to power your business website there are not a ton of themes out there that actually make your site look like a website.. and not a blog. Fortunately I&#8217;ve come across these themes that actually do a great job at making your wordpress powered site look like you&#8217;re ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When it comes down to using wordpress to power your business website there are not a ton of themes out there that actually make your site look like a website.. and not a blog. Fortunately I&#8217;ve come across these themes that actually do a great job at making your wordpress powered site look like you&#8217;re actually running a business. I&#8217;m really fond of Delirium, Concept and Benzo because they look a bit more sleek, clean and professional.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: line-through;">9</span> Now <strong>11 Business WordPress Themes</strong>: <a href="#1">Delirium</a>, <a href="#2">Revival</a>, <a href="#3">Solutions</a>, <a href="#4">Cubit</a>, <a href="#5">Concept</a>, <a href="#6">Octofirst</a>, <a href="#7">Benzo</a>, <a href="#8">Twicet</a>, <a href="#9">Quaon</a>, <a href="#iBlogPro">iBlogPro</a>, <a href="#WhitehousePro">WhiteHouse Pro</a></p>
<p><a id="1" name="1"></a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/delirium/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/viva-delirium-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Delirium WordPress Theme" width="510" height="345" /></a></p>
<h2>Delirium WordPress Theme</h2>
<p>Delirium Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Theme compatible with WordPress 2.8.x</li>
<li>100% tableless css design.</li>
<li>Advanced typography.</li>
<li>Custom Login panel.</li>
<li>Advanced theme options panel.</li>
<li>Integrated blog.</li>
<li>Attractive front page slider.</li>
<li>Widget ready right sidebar.</li>
<li>4 level page oriented custom dropdown menu.</li>
<li>Additional footer menu.</li>
<li>Additional full width page template.</li>
<li>Threaded comments.</li>
<li>CSS &amp; XHTML valid.</li>
<li>Cross-browser compatible.</li>
<li>IE 6 png fix.</li>
<li>Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Live Demo" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/delirium/" target="_blank">LIVE DEMO</a></p>
<p><a id="2" name="2"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/revivaltheme/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/viva-revival-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Revival WP Theme" width="510" height="425" /></a></p>
<h2>Revival WordPress Theme</h2>
<p>Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Theme compatible with WordPress 2.8</li>
<li>100% tableless css design.</li>
<li>Very lightweight and fast loading theme.</li>
<li>Easily manageable front page slideshow, with ability to place as many slides as you want.</li>
<li>Widget ready right sidebar and 2 front page bottom bars.</li>
<li>4 level page and category oriented superfish dropdown main menu.</li>
<li>CSS &amp; XHTML valid.</li>
<li>Cross-browser compatible.</li>
<li>Additional full width page template.</li>
<li>Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Revival Demo" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/revivaltheme/" target="_blank">LIVE DEMO</a><br />
<a id="3" name="3"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/solutionstheme/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/viva-solutions-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Solutions Theme from Viva Themes" width="510" height="482" /></a></p>
<h2>Solutions WordPress Theme</h2>
<p><strong>Theme Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Theme compatible with WordPress 2.8.x</li>
<li>100% tableless css design.</li>
<li>Advanced typography.</li>
<li>Advanced theme options panel.</li>
<li>Integrated blog.</li>
<li>Front page slideshow.</li>
<li>Widget ready right sidebar.</li>
<li>4 level page oriented custom dropdown menu.</li>
<li>Additional footer menu.</li>
<li>Additional full width page template.</li>
<li>Threaded comments.</li>
<li>CSS &amp; XHTML valid.</li>
<li>Cross-browser compatible.</li>
<li>IE 6 png fix.</li>
<li>Delivered with .png source files (.psd files delivered upon request)</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Viva Theme" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/solutionstheme/" target="_blank">LIVE DEMO</a></p>
<p><a id="4" name="4"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/cubit/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/cubit.jpg" border="0" alt="Cubit WordPress Theme" width="510" height="408" /></a></p>
<h2>Cubit WordPress Theme</h2>
<p><strong>Main Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>The theme uses a <strong>FLASH LIKE</strong> javascript image transition at the  mainpage only seen in flash before which suports an unlimted number of  images.</li>
<li>Highly flexible admin area, you are able to edit every content from the wordpress backend</li>
<li>6 different cholor schemes</li>
<li>Multilevel Dorpdown menu, Breadcrumb Navigation, Post Pagination</li>
<li>jQuery Lavalamp for main menu</li>
<li>Advanced comments with reply function</li>
<li>Ajax Contact Form</li>
<li>Unobtrusive Javascript, Fallback scenarios if Javascript is turned of by the user</li>
<li>Psd Files for every Skin, if you want to edit an existing Cubit Skin or create your own</li>
<li>Valid html/css, works in all major browsers (IE6,7,8. FF, Opera, Safari, Chrome)</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Cubit Demo" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/cubit/" target="_blank">LIVE DEMO</a></p>
<p><a id="5" name="5"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/concept/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/concept-wordpress-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Concept Theme" width="510" height="398" /></a></p>
<h2>Concept WordPress Theme</h2>
<p>Main Features:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>In 6 Colors uniquely styled themes</strong> (Blue, Green, Pink, Orange, Green, Dark Blue).</li>
<li><strong>All Core Page Templates</strong> (Home, Content Page, Image Gallery, Blog Post w/ comments styling, Search/Results, 404, and a Contact Form)</li>
<li><strong>Custom Admin Panel (Full  CMS )</strong></li>
<li><strong>Clean, commented code</strong></li>
<li><strong>jQuery Lightbox</strong></li>
<li><strong>jQuery Homepage &amp; Gallery Slider</strong></li>
<li><strong>Optional  SIFR  font rendering</strong></li>
<li><strong>Gracefully degrading code</strong> (for older browsers)</li>
<li><strong>Layout  PSD  Files</strong></li>
<li><strong>All Sliced  PSD  files</strong> (for easy re-skinning)</li>
<li><strong>Favicon Ready</strong> (just overwrite the browser icon with your own)<strong>The Custom Admin Panel features:</strong>1. Custom stylesheet selection (dropdown).2. Custom Logo entry.3. Turn  SIFR  on/off.
<p>4. Custom Homepage elements (callout box, feature box, blog feed).</p>
<p>5. Custom Title and Subtitles on all pages.</p>
<p>6. Navigation Link Control (header and footer)</p>
<p>7. Custom footer copyright text.</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Concept Live Demo" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/concept/" target="_blank">LIVE DEMO</a> or buy it.</p>
<p><a id="6" name="6"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/octofirst/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/octofirst-wordpress-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Octofirst WP Theme" width="510" height="399" /></a></p>
<h2>Octofirst 2 Theme features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Easy to customize</li>
<li>Theme options panel with color picker included</li>
<li>Custom write panels</li>
<li>Drop down menus</li>
<li>4 sidebar-enabled areas for widgets</li>
<li>Portfolio lightbox gallery. you can have as many portfolio pages as you want. TimThumb generates the thumbnails automatically</li>
<li>Modular homepage design, full-width option available</li>
<li>Modular homepage slider (which can be replaced easily with a static  image), full-width option available, can take flv videos as well</li>
<li>Clean &amp; valid code, lightweight, optimized for speed</li>
<li>Functional Ajax contact form</li>
<li>Dark/light/rounded/square versions, as well as a bonus super-optimized theme version (which you are demo-ing now),designed to further reduce page load times. uses combined javascript files and  CSS  image sprites</li>
<li>Automatically rounded corners with jQuery in the rounded theme version</li>
<li>Cufon font replacement which won’t hurt your  SEO</li>
<li>Free fonts used &amp; included</li>
<li>All  PSD  source files included</li>
<li>Twitter plugin with xml file-based caching</li>
<li>When Twitter is off, a sidebar for regular content is activated in its place</li>
<li>Tested on the 2.8 WordPress branch and the current release 2.8.4</li>
<li>Styling for up to 5 levels deep threaded comments</li>
<li>Gravatar ready</li>
<li>Scissors plugin for easy image resizing</li>
<li> RSS  feeds ready</li>
<li>jQuery improved, degrades gracefully when Javascript is turned off</li>
<li>Comes with a bonus full-width page</li>
<li>Localized in 2 languages: DE &amp; IT; po files included so you can easily generate more translations if needed</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Live Demo" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/octofirst/" target="_blank">live demo</a> or buy it.</p>
<p><a id="7" name="7"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/benzo/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/benzo-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Benzo WordPress Theme" width="510" height="423" /></a></p>
<h2>Benzo WordPress Theme</h2>
<p><strong><a title="Benzo Theme" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/benzo/">Benzo</a></strong> is simple and clean WordPress theme and comes with some nice features, like an image gallery, Youtube gallery, etc.</p>
<ul>
<li>Video Gallery (Category based)</li>
<li>Image Gallery (Category based)</li>
<li>Image Slider</li>
<li>Pagination</li>
<li>Mootools Lightbox (Imagezoom &amp; Slimbox)</li>
<li>3 Page Templates: Single image page, gallery page, media page</li>
<li>Widgetready Sidebar</li>
<li>Mootools Dropdown Navigation</li>
<li>Theme Options</li>
<li>Google Analytics</li>
<li>Works with WordPress 2.8.4+</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Live Demo!" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/benzo/" target="_blank">live Benzo demo</a> or buy it.</p>
<p><a id="8" name="8"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/twicet/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/twicet-wp-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Twicet WordPress Theme" width="510" height="439" /></a></p>
<h2>Twicet WordPress Theme</h2>
<p>Twicet Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Valid  XHTM  Strict1.0 and  CSS 2 .1, tableless Design</li>
<li>jQuery Support:
<ul>
<li>Fading Portfolio/Item slider</li>
<li>Dropdwon Menu, improved with jQuery</li>
<li>jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off</li>
<li>Gallery Page with lightbox</li>
<li>Working ajax/php contact form</li>
<li>Newsticker</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>All  PSD  files I used are included</li>
<li> MANY  Backend options to customize the Theme:
<ul>
<li>5 Option Pages: general options, mainpage, portfolio, contact, blog</li>
<li>Highly flexible: for example the 3 content columns on the mainpage  could be a mix of pages, posts and widgets, all administrated through  the backendSame goes for portfolio footer</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Extensive Documentation File included</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Twicet live demo" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/twicet/" target="_blank">live demo</a> or purchase this theme.</p>
<p><a id="9" name="9"></a></p>
<hr /><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/quaon/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/quaon-theme.jpg" border="0" alt="Quaon WordPress Theme" width="510" height="434" /></a></p>
<h2>Quaon WordPress Theme</h2>
<p>Theme Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Works with WP 2.8+</li>
<li>6 Color Schemes</li>
<li>Includes PSD Files</li>
<li>Has a Jquery Slider</li>
<li>Threaded Comments</li>
<li>Dropdown menus</li>
<li>And lots more!</li>
</ul>
<p>View the <a title="Live Demo" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/quaon/" target="_blank">Live Demo</a></p>
<p><a name="iBlogPro"></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/pagelines/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/iblogpro.jpg" border="0" alt="iBlogPro" width="510" height="290" /></a></p>
<p>Really nice looking theme from called <a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/pagelines/" target="_self">iBlogPro</a> from Pagelines&#8230; <a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/pagelines/" target="_blank">Click here for details</a> and Demo.</p>
<p><a name="WhitehousePro"></a></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/pagelines/" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/images/blog/whitehousetheme.jpg" border="0" alt="WhiteHouse Pro" width="510" height="243" /></a></p>
<p>Really nice looking theme from called <a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/pagelines/" target="_blank">WhiteHouse Pro</a> from Pagelines&#8230; <a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/out/pagelines/" target="_blank">Click here for details and Demo</a>.</p>
<hr />
<p>This is not by any means a definitive list. I will be updating this post with more business wordpress themes in the future. Looking for more <a title="Premium WordPress Themes" href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/premium-wordpress-themes/" target="_self">Premium WordPress Themes</a> (view my post)</p>
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		<title>Pivots of Change</title>
		<link>http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/pivots-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin has just posted a short but sweet article on pivot points of change. When industry norms start to die, people panic. It&#8217;s difficult to change when you think that you must change everything in order to succeed. Changing everything is too difficult. Simple examples: Keep the musicians, but change how you make money ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Pivot Points of Change" href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/03/pivots-for-change-swords-and-plowshares.html" target="_blank">Seth Godin</a> has just posted a short but sweet article on pivot points of change.</p>
<blockquote><p>When industry norms start to die, people panic. It&#8217;s difficult to change when you think that you must change everything in order to succeed. Changing everything is too difficult.</p></blockquote>
<p>Simple examples:</p>
<ul>
<li>Keep the musicians, but change how you make money (sell concerts, not CDs).</li>
<li>Keep making guitars, but make bespoke expensive ones, not the mass market ones that overseas competition has made obsolete.</li>
<li>Keep the punch press and the lathe, but make large scale art installations, not car parts.</li>
<li>Keep your wealthy travel clients, but sell them personal services instead of trips to Europe.</li>
<li>Keep the factory that makes missiles, but figure out how to make high-efficiency turbines instead.</li>
</ul>
<p>These are some great points and make you think about your business in a new way.  After all things are changing, thousands of people are losing their jobs and they need to figure out a new way to support their families.  Thousands of businesses are going out of business and they need to find a way to redefine themselves, to stay in business.  Time are a changin.</p>
<p>How will you cope with the changing economy?  It&#8217;s time to be inventive.</p>
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		<title>Knowing Your Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Online Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonia Simone has written a great post &#8220;50 Things Your Customers Wish You Knew&#8221; that I thought I&#8217;d promote because it&#8217;s such a great article. I&#8217;ve listed some of the highlights below&#8230; Your employees treat me about as well as you treat them. I don&#8217;t understand a lot of the messages you send me. Can ...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/6a00e3982641fb883300e55005ddc98834-150wi.jpg" rel="lightbox[355]"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-356" style="float: left;" title="6a00e3982641fb883300e55005ddc98834-150wi" src="http://www.jeffhendricksondesign.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/6a00e3982641fb883300e55005ddc98834-150wi.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="200" /></a>Sonia Simone has written a great post &#8220;<a href="http://remarcom.typepad.com/remarkable_communication/2008/04/50-things-your.html">50 Things Your Customers Wish You Knew</a>&#8221; that I thought I&#8217;d promote because it&#8217;s such a great article.  I&#8217;ve listed some of the highlights below&#8230;</p>
<ol>
<li>Your employees treat me about as well as you treat them.</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t understand a lot of the messages you send me. Can you make them clearer?</li>
<li>The wealthier I get, the more I like free stuff.</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t understand how to use your Web site, but I can&#8217;t admit that because it would make me feel dumb.</li>
<li>Our relationship isn&#8217;t equal and it never will be.</li>
<li>I hate salespeople, but I really like to buy things.</li>
<li>I want you to do the hard work for me. Even better if I can get all the credit.</li>
<li>I have the attention span of a goldfish. Go too long without contacting me and I&#8217;ll simply forget you exist.</li>
<li>embarrassment scares me more than death.</li>
<li>I believe I deserve much more than I&#8217;m getting.</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t know what I want most of the time. You need to figure it out for me.</li>
<li>It really is all about me.</li>
</ol>
<blockquote><p>If you knew, really knew, these 50 things about your customers, and acted accordingly, you&#8217;d gain their trust and even their love. After all, who doesn&#8217;t want to be loved despite all our flaws and embarrassing insecurities? The better you understand both the noble and not-so-noble secrets in your customers&#8217; consciousness, the better you can serve them.</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://remarcom.typepad.com/remarkable_communication/2008/04/50-things-your.html">Read more</a>.</p>
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