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Category: Webmasters
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 749
Date: Nov 30th 2007
1. Designing Websites for iPhone Viewing
Ten years ago most small business owners didn't have a website and probably didn't see the need for one. Now, a business without a website is considered second rate at best. In the next few years, the popularity of surfing the net on your mobile Web is going to skyrocket. How would your website look on a hand held device?...

Category: E-Business
Total Views: 1
Word Count: 759
Date: Oct 8th 2007
2. Reduce Shopping Cart Abandonment with Themed Navigation
According to the MarketLive Performance Index 2007 approximately 96% of visitors to an e-commerce website will not make a purchase and nearly 58% of shoppers will abandon their cart before completing their order....

Category: Email
Total Views: 7
Word Count: 711
Date: Aug 3rd 2007
3. Six Tips for Improving E-Mail Campaigns
What are your customers' experiences with your company's e-mail campaigns? The truth of the matter is that both small and large businesses make the same mistakes that cause e-mail campaigns to fail. Creating a successful e-mail campaign is simply a matter of following best practices....

Category: Web Design
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 774
Date: Apr 26th 2007
4. Tips for Improving Website Navigation
A business often has more than one target audience it wants to reach with its website. In order for visitors to find the right information, a website's navigation path needs to be clear. Here are some ideas to consider when designing the navigation on a homepage....

Category: Building Traffic
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 759
Date: Apr 4th 2007
5. Earning Customer Trust Online
Building customer trust online is a combination of good branding, good design, and good content. Even a reputable brand with a poorly designed website would cause people to leave....

Category: Copywriting
Total Views: 2
Word Count: 874
Date: Mar 30th 2007
6. Using Your Homepage to Tell a Story
A website is more than a brochure; it is an opportunity to start building a relationship with your prospective client or customer. The best way to do this is tell a story. The homepage of a website is probably the most important place to tell a good story. What you want to do is grab the attention of your visitor and keep them reading through the content of your homepage....

Category: Email
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 957
Date: Dec 8th 2006
7. E-Mail: The Big Time-Waster
Although e-mail is our primary tool for business communication, it wastes time and can cause miscommunication. The need to read e-mail throughout the day has become a big time-waster for companies. Most people have two or three e-mail accounts so that double or triples the time spent checking e-mails....

Category: Web Design
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 899
Date: Dec 8th 2006
8. How to Create an Impossible Website
A website is only as good as its content and navigation. When visitors come to a site, they need to quickly get the answers to their questions and quickly find the information they need to make a decision. Anything you do to interfere with that decision making process is going to cause your visitor to abruptly leave the site....

Category: Sales
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 561
Date: Dec 5th 2006
9. Sell Solutions, Not Products
You earn wealth by serving other people; by finding the things they want and giving it to them in the form of a product or service. Entrepreneurs who understand this secret will never have to worry about cash flow....

Category: Email
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 585
Date: Dec 5th 2006
10. How to Get E-Mail Successfully Delivered
E-mail is the fastest and most inexpensive method of marketing, but it is often the most unreliable. One of the biggest concerns facing online business owners is how to get legitimate e-mail past the spam filters. The sad fact is that often over 30% of messages never reach recipients because they are interpreted as spam....

Category: Email
Total Views: 5
Word Count: 800
Date: Dec 5th 2006
11. 5 Tips for Making the Right Impression with Email
Five tips on how to create email that makes the right impression...

Category: Lead Generation
Total Views: 7
Word Count: 779
Date: Dec 5th 2006
12. Integrated Marketing: The Key to Increasing Web Traffic
Companies are just starting to understand the value of integrated marketing. It doesn't matter whether you have a product or service to sell, taking a multi-channel approach will dramatically improve the outreach to your target audience. It will bring you more new customers and help you keep the customers you already have....

Category: Copywriting
Total Views: 6
Word Count: 616
Date: Dec 5th 2006
13. 5 Tips for Writing Search Engine Optimized Press Releases
The Internet gives a small business's website the same visibility as a large corporation's website and online press releases work the same way. Once an online press release is distributed, it's out there in cyberspace generating hits and driving traffic to your website for years to come....

Category: Building Traffic
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 752
Date: Dec 5th 2006
14. How Engaging is Your Website?
A successful website is one that encourages interaction with the visitor and becomes the first choice for the customer when shopping online. In order to do this, a website needs to be memorable and create a "stickiness" that makes visitors want to come back again and again....

Category: Building Traffic
Total Views: 3
Word Count: 771
Date: Dec 5th 2006
15. Stop Sabotaging the Sales Experience
As business owners, we all want to have a successful sales experience with our customers. But sometimes we tend to sabotage that effort, because we try too hard to sell (both on our website and in person)....

Category: Web Design
Total Views: 4
Word Count: 684
Date: Dec 5th 2006
16. Do You Need a Fancy Website?
It's not about how much traffic you generate, but what kind of traffic you generate. The key is to generate traffic from YOUR target audience. The people you want to visit your site are the people who would be interested in your products or services. No body else should matter....

Category: Email
Total Views: 13
Word Count: 555
Date: Oct 24th 2006
17. Importance of E-Mail Signatures
Every e-mail you send out is a representation of your company. Every word you write says something about your company. Therefore, every message you send needs to be professional and complete....

Category: Entrepreneurship
Total Views: 23
Word Count: 534
Date: Oct 24th 2006
18. Are You A Presentation Karaoke Machine?
As a service provider, one of the best ways to market your business is to offer free presentations at association meetings. It's a great way to share knowledge and build relationships. However, you've got to entertain as well as inform....

Category: Building Traffic
Total Views: 19
Word Count: 654
Date: Oct 24th 2006
19. Why is an Office Plant Like a Website?
It may seem strange to compare a website to an office plant, but there are similarities. For many business owners, their website is like an ignored office plant that dies from lack of attention....

Category: Web Design
Total Views: 14
Word Count: 1001
Date: Oct 24th 2006
20. Is Your Website Outdated?
A Web site can be your number one marketing tool if you keep refreshing it with new information and make it valuable to your target market....

Category: Search Engine Optimization
Total Views: 21
Word Count: 809
Date: Oct 24th 2006
21. Get Higher Google Rankings
Want to know what Google is looking for in a Web site and how to ensure that your Web site content is meeting the guidelines of Google? You may not be a Webmaster, but if you are writing the content for your Web site, you need this information....

Category: Building Traffic
Total Views: 20
Word Count: 638
Date: Oct 24th 2006
22. Take Away the Internet Language Barrier
Is there a language barrier on your Web site? No, I'm not talking about someone who doesn't speak English. I'm talking about the actual communication that goes on between your Web site visitor and your Web site content. Sometimes the communication breaks down and your message is not understood. I'd call that an Internet language barrier....

Category: Copywriting
Total Views: 13
Word Count: 616
Date: Oct 24th 2006
23. 11 Tips to Energize Your Website Copy
Imagine; you spend thousands of dollars designing your website and no one comes. Why? It could be that you forgot about the content or you didn't invest enough in the message. Good website content delivers the right message in the right way....