Ensuring your Website doesn’t blow a sale for you

Do you ever do research on the web? Ever research real estate on the web? Do you judge a home on what you see in on the Internet? Do you think if you were buying a business that you might be inclined to do some internet research on the business you were considering? What would …

People now use the Internet for research in such large numbers. (Don’t you?) If you have a business and don’t have a website presence, how do you expect people to find you? That’s like not having a phone number in the phone book. It doesn’t have to be a large website as long as it’s …

In just 5 hours Firefox 3 set the record for most downloads in one day. If you’re asking what the heck Firefox is, you’re missing one great browser. Browsers are the things you view websites with. For Microsoft it’s that ‘e’ symbol. (It’s surprising how many people we are doing web design in Durham for …

A study of 40 million emails revealed that the emails that got opened more frequently were in fact ones that simply described in the subject line what was inside the email. Sales type headlines simply didn’t get opened. Ensure when people agree to receive your emails/newsletter that they are clear what they will expect to …

Lately there have been many online directories showing up. Newspapers are getting into the game by charging a hefty monthly fee for the privilege of their directory, with your listing, coming up high on the search engines. But are people using them to find you? I ask this because I tend to skip through the …

I had a great discussion today with a client about Web Design. Port Perry, along with having this years Playboy Playmate of the year, has some pretty great business people. Today’s discussion centered on exactly what is Web Design. Toronto is where this particular client’s business is. He noticed that the majority of the clients …

Each week there seems to be a recurring “theme”. This week’s web design in Durham Region “theme” seems to centre on the difference in an IT type company/division creating a website, verses a marketing type company/division building a website. The battle centres on who should construct it. The short answer is, it’s not about who …