Posts Tagged ‘web’

Interested In Internet Marketing?

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Internet marketing is a very broad subject. If you understand how broad offline marketing and sales is, it is the same for online or internet marketing. Therefore, in order for your online marketing campaign to be successful, there must be a group of marketers that truly focus on doing it. It is complex and the methods are variety. Fortunately there are few distinguished techniques for you to start. While the others, they can be implemented later accordingly.

1) WEBSITE - Why having a properly designed website is very important to optimize your online marketing?

The purpose of marketing is to create leads.  Once you have leads, then it is up to the sales team to close the deal. Among the leads, there are people whom you can close them right on the spot. For others, there must be some leads nurturing effort before they are convinced to engage on your products or services.

The campaign that you make to get people to visit your website is called marketing. It can be via both ways; online and offline or just one at a time. Once the visitors are at the home page, your website is taking the role of a salesman. Therefore, it is not wrong to say that your products’ website is your online sales men. That factor alone is a very good reason for you to invest for a well designed website.

Now, you’ve understood the function of your website. Let’s get to understand in brief about what are the visitors’ expectations and behaviours about any website:

  • People come to web sites to satisfy goals, to do tasks, to get answers to questions.
  • They come for information, for the content that they think (or hope) is there
  • Answers a question or helps them complete a task
  • Information is easy to find and easy to understand
  • They expect the content to be accurate, up to date, and credible
  • They don’t read much, especially before they get to the page that has the information they want.
  • Even on information pages, they skim and scan before they start to read.
  • They want to read only enough to meet their needs.

Let’s discuss about the vital points to consider….opps! I’m sorry. I have to catch an appointment now. We’ll continue later, ok? :)

“Not Just a Beautiful Design, But a Design That Can Sell”

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

Let’s get a very short and firm conclusion on the differences between a beautiful website and a sales website.

  • Beautiful Website

A beautiful website is a website that triggers the “WOW!”  gesture from your most first time visitors. There’s less needs of bragging out values that you offer or displaying your featured clients. Simple words should be enough.

Even if there are good copies, visitors will tend to be more ‘hypnotized’ by the design. The design tells it all. You’ll have numerous leads asking for your service. All you need to do is to market your website. Most of the time, these kind of websites are suitable for web design firms.

  • Sales Website

A sales website is not necessarily beautifully design. It’s more about the content. Yes, it’s CONTENT! CONTENT! CONTENT! I’m not going to say much about this. Showing you practical examples would be the best.

If you go to www.cworks.com.my I am totally convinced that most of you will agree with me that there’s not much of great artistic values on the whole website. But guess what? They are a multimillionaire company that recently expended their business in Middle East! The odd is, their website is their MAIN marketing channel. Their website has all the vital information needed to convert visitors to be their sales leads.

Now, lets get a look of a website that has quite good artistic values plus really great content; www.asterdata.com. This website highlights their entire strong value proposition and they’ve structured it well. They seem to know much about ‘Information Architecture‘.

Next, the most excellent example of a sales website is www.salesforce.com. Have a look of it yourself. I think it is the best sales website I’ve ever see. Their content is top notch!.

Lastly, if you want to learn on how to create great content for your own website, learn from the expert. It’s not going to be easy but you just need to go through the learning curve. You’ll get there eventually. If you have time, go to this link http://www.redish.net/writingfortheweb/ and think again on how have you craft the content of your website.

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Is your company keeping information secure?

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Are you taking steps to protect personal information? Safeguarding sensitive data in your files and on your computers is just plain good business. After all, if that information falls into the wrong hands, it can lead to fraud or identity theft.

A good data security plan is built on 5 key principles:

  • Take stock. Know what personal information you have in your files and on your computers.
  • Scale down. Keep only what you need for your business.
  • Lock it. Protect the information in your care.
  • Pitch it. Properly dispose of what you no longer need.
  • Plan ahead. Create a plan to respond to security incidents.

To learn more about how you can implement these principles in your business, talk to any of our representative. Safeguard your business before it’s too late.

Funny Firefox Icon

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I really like this picture! I don’t know who created the modification, so I can’t give the credit.

At slvRidge, we spend most of our time on Firefox testing the numerous websites we created for our clients. Only after all the tests are done in Firefox, we start testing the sites using other internet browsers; IE, Opera, Safari, etc. It’s not because we don’t like other browsers, it’s just that Firefox is more developer friendly.

Why your business need a web?

Thursday, April 17th, 2008

One of our services is website consultation and development. So It’s natural to kick off the blog with some understanding why does your company need a website? Coca-Cola had survived the great depression in the 20’s and 30’s without a website. So why do we need a website now then?

A website is an extremely valuable tool that bolsters your existing marketing, sales, recruitment and communications effort. In fact, if your business is not online or your existing site is unprofessional or ineffective, then you are losing sales opportunities. A good website will help you reach and retain customers!

But how do you go about finding out your companies needs and ultimately, finding out the need for a website? Here are a few questions to ponder, with a few answers to go along with them…

1. Do you currently (or would you like to) use email to communicate within your business and to your customers/vendors? If so, you will need a domain name in order to send and receive corporate email, which is the first step to getting a website. Slvridge’s solutions can develop a website tailored to your specific professional appearance and personal style. We strives to create a functional website designed to be completely user freindly while also giving a very professional look and feel to attract new customers to your business.

2. Do the people in your business’ target market spend time online? If your customers are online part of the time, then they may be looking for your business online. This is an extra medium for you to capture their interest and inform them about your business and your products/services.

3. Do you seek a higher return on your investment than what you’re currently using? Determining your ROI can be very tricky online. A well designed and well managed website will help you to not only achieve these goals, but achieve the repetition of these goals. If you sell to a customer once, that’s great, but if you can sell to that same customer 10 times or 100 times that’s even better. It’s far easier to sell to existing customers than to try to get new ones.
So now it is your call!