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ISSN# 1559-6532 Volume 2, Issue 12

Change Your Web Site for Explosive Sales, Pt 2.

Change Your Web Site!If it's not working change it. Change is good for business marketing!

Are you making this mistake with your web site? Too many web site owners look at their site as an online brochure. They use it as little more than a place to store their office hours, product or service list. A different way has emerged. Now your web site can be used as an effective marketing tool. Used in the right way, it can spear-head many successful marketing campaigns for you in the near future.

Did you know that many of your prospects (even locally) will type your business name or business web site name in Google to see what you offer? Often they are looking to see what you offer compared to your competitor. Recently, Calif. based USC Annenberg School said from 2005 research, 78.6 Americans go online. An almost equally large percentage 72.3 say that the search engines provide whatever information they are looking for.

Find out what it takes to put the right sales language, content on your site and bring more targeted visitors (visitors looking for what you have to offer.) Know the robots of the various search engines examine web sites daily looking for good key word food, free information, and content.

To begin to effectively use your web site to attract leads and customers; use it to let prospective clients know who you are. Offer valuable content related to your expertise. Educate, inform them, improve their lives, their bottom line to attract them back over and over like bees to honey. Soon you will become Top-Pick over your competition.

Here's the checklist to revise your web site for explosive sales:

_____5. Revise brochure style home page.

I know your bio, your achievements, your service list are all important to you. Relax, don't get rid of them; but do put them on your About Us or even Contact page. Put on your home page what your visitor came to your site looking for benefits -- answers, solutions. Let them see benefits in the form of valuable content that answers their concerns. Put benefits in your headlines, bullets and even links to draw your prospects into your site.

_____6. Post testimonials from clients and customers.

Most everyone wants to know who else has had a good experience with your product or service. Testimonials act as a referral and even an endorsement. The compliments from another customer help melt away your prospect's fears and doubts about trusting you.

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Case Study.

S4R Ministries' Founder Jerome C. Brown, Sr. charged Good Designs a division of Arrow Productions to build a website that would help him and his staff appeal to the Techno generation of today. Using video samples and sound elements, the web site is bringing additional awareness to his get (sober4real.com) message and DVD teachings in an online store. (Visit here for more case studies)

In This Issue

1. Change Your Site?
2. Web Success Quote
3 . Make Your Site Pay!
4 . New Case Study
5 . Web Glossary

 

Inspire Me to Success

"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution.
If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds."

~Norman Vincent Peale


Make Your Site Pay!

Maintain Your Professional Image

Make sure your website reflects the same quality and professionalism you have in your company. Things that detract from your website and company’s image are poor graphics, sloppy text, poorly aligned pages. Be sure to leave white space – don’t fill every spot with a message. It will confuse your visitors.

Invest in the construction of your website. It will pay you back with loyal visitors and customers. Build a cheap-looking, unprofessional site and it will reward you with visitors that don’t take you seriously.

Want to know more about maintaining your professional website image? Read: Top 5 Mistakes that May Drive Your Visitors Away In Less Than 2 Minutes.

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Web Bits & Pieces

Web terms made simple

BLOG

Blog is short for weblog. A weblog is a journal that is
frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.
Blogs generally represent the personality of the author or the
Web site.

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© Earma Brown, 12 year web developer, author and business owner
helps small business owners and non-techies who want to deliver
their message effectively, build client lists and create additional streams of income.
Author of "Creating WOW WebSites", she offers mentorship through her monthly ezine
Web Wit at www.clickeasywebsites.com and other
free articles and books webwit@clickeasywebsites.com
"Helping Non-Techies Win on the Web"
 
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