background image

How to Get Online Reviews From Your Customers

Online Customer Reviews Screenshot

Nothing promotes your business like great customer reviews. Customer comments online help your business succeed and grow in several ways: Reviews play a huge role in helping people decide if a business is a good business. 71% of US consumers look at online reviews to determine if a business is a good one, according to
Read more …

Posted in Local Marketing | Tagged | 2 Comments

Picky With Words? Why Being Too Consistent Can Kill Your Sales

Post with Happiness

Words build brands. That is, the words and feelings they trigger shape how we recognize things.  That’s how everybody learns Coke’s slogans, like: “Open Happiness”.  We want happiness, we see it, and we remember. Coke wants you to pursue your happiness with their drink.  So they tie happy feelings to their soda by using the
Read more …

Posted in Web writing | Leave a comment

Why Let Visitors Rate Your Content?

GD 5-star rating system plugin in action

Summary: How do you highlight the most useful content on your site?  A star rating system lets your visitors sort out your best content in a list, automatically. Hey, everybody.  GFXTown.com has a great example of how to use a star rating system to let your visitors sort out your best content in a list,
Read more …

Posted in Keys to Website Effectiveness | Tagged | Leave a comment

Grab Headline Power to Prevent Content Death

Engrossed reader

If you blog or write to promote your work, you need readers. Unless your readers actually dig into your content, even your best articles are dead on arrival. What makes people read? An attention grabbing headline. How important is the headline? Without a hypnotic headline, your message will perish unread. In the book Ogilvy on
Read more …

Posted in Keys to Website Effectiveness | Leave a comment

Marketing Sanity from the Radical Business Guy

Tad Hargrave

Do you ever get frustrated trying to market your business on the Web? There are so many important factors – publishing mechanics, social media, blogging, Search Engine Optimization, creating landing pages, looking at visitor statistics, writing engaging content, developing a target market, strategy for Google Adwords, developing products…. Does your head spin?  I’ll admit it
Read more …

Posted in Keys to Website Effectiveness | 2 Comments
  • Make your website easy to use, tough to beat

    Sign up for Websites That Work: brief, practical tips you won't find anywhere else. Don't like them? Unsubscribe in an instant.