Love What You Do - A Recipe for a Successful Website

Obvious, often overlooked and secret ;-) ingredients behind website success...

Give Your Website a Facelift

I’m amazed at how often we come across companies that are spending lots of money to grow their sales functions but don’t have the right marketing in place. They fundamentally haven’t got the right mix between sales and marketing investments. In particular, in the 21st Century, a company’s website is an absolutely key component of the marketing communications mix, especially since websites are now the primary vehicle for capturing and converting leads and turning them into sales prospects. Lots of companies that are trying to increase sales have outdated websites with stale messaging, poor positioning, outdated graphics, unexciting web copy and few offers or calls to action.

Selling a Website Business

If you are planning to sell your web-based business, you would be glad to know that the process, which you would have to go through to complete the sale, is pretty much the same as you would if you are selling a traditional business. As such, you also need to be aware of the ins and outs of selling a business, which can help you get the best possible deal. Usually, this involves being aware of the different aspects of selling a business from the moment you decide to get a broker to help you find buyers up to when the final purchase agreement is signed. However, apart from gaining knowledge on the whole process, there are also other steps you can take to help you get the best deal for your business.

Website Basics – Increasing Website Performance

To achieve public awareness it is not enough to just set up a website. You need to define the website goals that will transform your web presence from a simple announcement that you are in business into the very sales tool we were talking about.

Real Time Web Site Analytics

Real time website analytics is an online tool that provides accurate, detailed, and reliable reports to webmasters and web site owners almost instantaneously. Real time website analytics answers questions related to visitor behavior, site performance, and retention of customers. Vendors of this technology claim that it is up to 60% more accurate than the traditional log-file analysis. The service can be purchased online from a host of providers. With real time analytics, you can obtain page views, visits, visitors, navigation, entry and exit pages, time spent on site, countries, languages, continents, search engines, and keywords used online within no time.

How I created a PR6 Authority Website part 1

How I created a Website with a Google page rank of PR6 and generated more than 1000 visitors a week (and climbing) This Article is a weblog or roadmap if you like of how I created a successful website starting in March 2006 to the current date August 21st 2006

Real Estate Web Site Content Is Key To Online Success

Real Estate Web Site Content is key to boosting search engine ranking and driving traffic to your web site. The more traffic you generate the more leads you'll get...and leads are key to your success.

60 Performance and Optimization Tips for Your Website

Learn and implement vital tips on increasing your website's performance. Find out how to make general improvements, how to optimize images, tweak HTML source code, get better results from ASP and ASP.NET, tune your database, and enhance IIS. Use one or more suggestions to give website visitors a better impression and keep them on your site longer.

Writing for Profit

Brilliant and strong writing makes profit... Great writing is efficient and can also be elegant it delivers its message plainly and directly; it wins the business and avoids confusion and also tells you reader that you understand the subject you are telling them about and care to explain it in plain English.

Web Design and CMS - A Good Match, But When?

To use a CMS for you Web Design could be a good idea. There are situations in which you rather would not use one. Here are some advantages and disadvantages.

Rent to Own, or Lease to Lose?

Just as the Rent-to-Own stores are prevalent in our cities, now web designers are offering website leasing. For a monthly fee, some companies will design and maintain a website. It may be convenient, but is it cost effective?

Increase Online Sales with Rich Internet Applications

As more Internet consumers begin to use broadband connections for their personal use, the more options you have to incorporate rich Internet applications (RIA) into your website. A Rich Internet application will provide your users with a new and improved web experience that is mutually interactive, engaging and flexible. RIAs provide the instant response that is received when using desktop applications but now on the web. Examples of RIAs can be a product configurator, an Internet Bot, or an intuitive audio and video site. Now many of these use heavy amounts of bandwidth but as more people move to broadband there will be no issue in terms of page load time.

Knowing the Demographics of Your Website Visitors

Demographics and marketing sources interact in the business world. Demographics allow you to find out about and understand your customers (your visitors/your market).

How to Build Your Website for Free

Building a new website can be a time-consuming task. But with a few free tools and a little practice you can design your own quality site for free!

Using 301 Redirects

Before we go any further, you are probably wondering what in the world 301 redirects are in the first place am I right? You've heard the term, heard people asking about it and are curious but it just sounds so technical you aren't sure what to do with it.