Posted by Chris Brown on January 2nd, 2009 in Marketing - General, Website Development, Websites
Considering a Website Makeover for 2009? If a website redesign is part of your 2009 marketing and branding program, before you begin updating and rebranding your website, here are some things you may want to consider:
Navigation: Making it easy for the reader to find what they are looking for. Not everyone thinks the same way and not [...]
Posted by Chris Brown on September 17th, 2008 in Website Development, Websites
I visited a website of a business this morning that has some old information on it:
the old address from before they moved
an email address and photo of an employee that is long gone
and event information from a date passed but written like it will be a future event
Perhaps you have encountered the same situation. What’s [...]
Posted by Chris Brown on January 31st, 2008 in Call to Action, Marketing, Website Development, Websites
Sandy Donaldson at the Donaldson Resources blog offers 3 telling clues for you to investigate that will tell you if you need to update your website:
Bounce Rate
Take a close look at the bounce rate (how many one page visitors) - if it’s greater than 30% then you may be driving the wrong audience to your [...]
Posted by Chris Brown on July 28th, 2007 in Marketing, Website Development
Do your customers see what you see? Probably not. Unless your monitor is set to the same resolution and you use the same browser.
When you review your online marketing materials, what browser do you use? If you’re like my company’s customers, you’re probably on IE 6.0 or maybe 7.0.
What about screen resolution? Again if you [...]
Posted by Chris Brown on April 24th, 2007 in Branding, Marketing, Website Development
Sometimes a business professional will come to me and ask if we “do websites”… and if we do create websites, “how much?”
My answer is “Yes” and “It depends.”
To me it’s much more important to make sure the marketing strategy and marketing program aligns with the objectives of the sales department to support the overall company’s [...]