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If You Only Understood Your Customer's Personality Style
Personality Styles
Understanding customer personality styles (Analytical, Driver, Amiable, and Expressive) will quickly tell you just how and what to say to each customer.Although every customer is different, most can be grouped into one of four groups: Analytical, Driver, Amiable, and Expressive. Here are some basic characteristics... continue reading "If You Only Understood Your Customer's Personality Style"»
Now You Can Have Lower Shopping Cart Abandon Rates
Increase E-Commerce Sales
Avoid these e-commerce shopping cart mistakes to lower your cart abandon rates and increase sales. Did you know that on average 52.1% of people abandon shopping their online shopping carts? Primary reasons for abandonment include high shipping charges, high cost of items, price comparison with other... continue reading "Now You Can Have Lower Shopping Cart Abandon Rates"»
Problems with Too Many Designers
Too Many Designers
The reason there are problems with having too many people involved in a web design. Recently there has been a bit of buzz about the problems associated with having too many people involved in a web design project. SEOmoz provided the following two graphs: Now this... continue reading "Problems with Too Many Designers"»
Understanding These Marketing Basics will help your website do better
Web Marketing Basics - How to be Successful
4 Important Marketing Tips
Understanding basic marketing skills increases your effectiveness on the internet. There are many aspects that you need to consider in order to be successful on the web, but there are some primary marketing skills that are exceptionally important. Much of your success will come from where you focus... continue reading "Web Marketing Basics - How to be Successful"»
Pulling Customers in, Not Pushing Them Away
Creating Web Copy That Brings In Customers
Online Writing Advice
The content on your website should always help pull in your visitors, not push them away. So, you've optimized your website for search engines, but have you optimized it for visitors as well? When a user arrives at your website from a search engine, they have typed in specific words that they are hoping... continue reading "Creating Web Copy That Brings In Customers"»
WIIFM - What's in it for me?
What's in it for ME and YOU
WIIFM, What's in it for me, is the one FM station that every single person is tuned into. Every time you write for your customers, you should think about the customer's needs because they are really just looking for "What's in it for me" or WIIFM. Copywriting is critical to your success on... continue reading "WIIFM - What's in it for me?"»
Review of Call to Action
Improving Online Marketing Results
While full of good online marketing information, Call to Action is a not a book to sit down and read in an hour or two. Well after almost an entire year, I have finally finished "Call to Action" - Secret Formulas to Improve Online Results by Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg.Although packed full... continue reading "Review of Call to Action"»
Clarify Your Unique Value Proposition
Unique Value Proposition
Clarifying your unique value proposition will help increase your sales. What is your website's unique value proposition? In short, your unique value proposition answers the question, "Why should I buy from you and not from your competitor."Now, if you don't understand your customers, you... continue reading "Clarify Your Unique Value Proposition"»
What is V7ndotcom Elursrebmem?
V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
SEOs battle it out for Google placement for the keyword "V7ndotcom Elursrebmem" in new SEO contest. Today the Wall Street Journal commented on a new Search Engine Optimization contest for the keywords v7ndotcom Elursrebmem. It seems that this contest has drawn interest from Matt Cutts (the... continue reading "What is V7ndotcom Elursrebmem?"»
RSS Feed Consistency
RSS Feed Icon Consistency
RSS feeds are becoming more consistent from browser to browser (Firefox and Internet Explorer) and should make RSS marketing in the future easier than ever before. Every internet marketer out there should be standing up and doing the happy dance. RSS has won another victory through Microsoft adopting... continue reading "RSS Feed Consistency"»
Goals - What is the Real Purpose of Your Website
Website Goals
Writing specific goals is the only way to know if your website is being successful.One of the first things I ask new clients is "What are your expectations for your site?" Understanding what they feel is success will ensure that I address their specific needs and desires. If I fail to address... continue reading "Goals - What is the Real Purpose of Your Website"»
Allinanchor, Allintitle, Allintext and other Google Keywords
Google Keywords
Google Keywords like: Allinanchor Allintitle Allintext Site Link can give you a greater understanding of how to get better placement in Google. Each of these keywords can help you understand better where you can focus your efforts to increase your ranking in Google. Here is a breakdown... continue reading "Allinanchor, Allintitle, Allintext and other Google Keywords"»
Never Miss a Chance to Sell
Sell, Sell, Sell
One of the biggest mistakes that companies make is failing to recognize and act on opportunities to sell. Isn't selling one of the main goals of the organization? So why do people shy away from the opportunities that are placed before them all the time? Here are just a few places that are commonly... continue reading "Never Miss a Chance to Sell"»
Understanding Customers is Key to Building an Effective Website
Understanding Customers
"Who are your customers?" Most businesses make the mistake of being too broad with their definition of their customer. For example, "My customers are all people that need a website." This is too broad and is NOT an accurate definition of their customers. For example, my sister needs a website... continue reading "Understanding Customers is Key to Building an Effective Website"»
Building a website is easy as P.I.E.
Website Design Tips
The three things that all compelling web sites do are entertain, inform, and provide contact information. If any one of these items is missing, the web site will not be effective. Ever consider why the World Wide Web is also known as "The Information Superhighway?" Information, information,... continue reading "Building a website is easy as P.I.E."»
Blogs a New Way of Doing the Same Old Thing
Blogs - Information Superhighway
Blogs or web logs are great, cost efficient ways of providing up-to-date information for clients and search engines.Lately it seems that Blogs have become the craze of the Internet. Everyone has one: dentists, artists, CEOs, poor starving college students, everyone. Blogs are a wonderful way to quickly... continue reading "Blogs a New Way of Doing the Same Old Thing"»
If Content is King, Linking is Queen
Linking is Queen - Content is King
If Content is King then surely Linking is Queen. And we all know who really rules the kingdom. I came across a great article that built on the well known saying that content is king by saying that "Content is King, but Linking is Queen." Content and Linking go hand in hand if the site is going... continue reading "If Content is King, Linking is Queen"»
Earning Customer Loyalty
Earning Customer Loyalty
Truly caring about your customers is the real key to earning customer loyalty. I recently read this blog on "The Easiest Way On Earth To Earn Fierce Customer Loyalty. And It's Free." I thought his list was pretty good for earning customer loyalty: following-up before they can calling to... continue reading "Earning Customer Loyalty"»
More Free Stock Photography
Free Stock Photography
More Free Stock Photography I've found another place (besides stock exchange) where you can get some free stock photography (even though it normally isn't free). If you go to the weekly archive for istockphoto.com, you can find a free image download every week. Although it isn't as robust... continue reading "More Free Stock Photography"»
Live Bookmarks in Firefox 1.5
Live Bookmarks in Firefox 1.5
It is even easier to add live bookmark RSS feeds in the newest Firefox v. 1.5.Firefox has again added the "automatic" recognition of RSS feeds in a website and added a quick way to bookmark the live bookmark. Any website that has added the following code to the head of their code will automatically... continue reading "Live Bookmarks in Firefox 1.5"»
IE Has the Majority of the Market; Designers building for only IE 6
Website Browser Statistics and Design Quality
Website Browser Statistics
Too many web designers don't make quality websites because their websites only work in Internet Explorer (version 6) and not other browsers like Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and Safari. Recently, one of my known website design competitors redesigned their website.... continue reading "Website Browser Statistics and Design Quality"»
Whitehat SEO versus Blackhat SEO
Whitehat vs Blackhat SEO
The showdown between whitehat SEO and blackhat SEO is heating up and search engines are backing the whitehats. Whitehat and blackhat SEO (Search Engine Optimization) are two different (and normally opposing) views of how to do search engine optimization. Whitehats are those website designers that... continue reading "Whitehat SEO versus Blackhat SEO"»
You are Nothing without High-Quality Content
High Quality Content
Your webpages need high-quality content.  Remember the dread of writing that 20 page research paper in high school? Although you don't need 20 single spaced, typed pages to get a good grade (or ranking) on the web, you do need two things:High-quality ContentAn Understanding of How People Read on... continue reading "You are Nothing without High-Quality Content"»
Who Else Wants to Build Links and Rank High in Google
Link Baiting
Who Else Wants to Build Links and Rank Higher in Google Link Baiting has become common place to increase organic inbound links and rank higher in Google. There was a great article by Andy Hagan but he broke his site to pieces, so I had to do some digging to find it again. Here are some of the best from... continue reading "Who Else Wants to Build Links and Rank High in Google"»
[SOLVED] Ubuntu Hanging at Shutdown - Blinking Cursor
Ubuntu Shutdown Fix
How to fix Ubuntu shutdown problem with blinking white cursor by using acpi=force. I had found this fix once before, but then when I went to look for it, I had to dig for about an hour to find it again, so I'm posting it here. I've seen this both on Jaunty Jackalope and Karmic Koala. The system would... continue reading "[SOLVED] Ubuntu Hanging at Shutdown - Blinking Cursor"»


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