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Affordable Web Design & Management Solutions for Web Business

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Good design has the power to boost conversion rates of your website. Choosing the right tone, colors, fonts, and other visual elements all influence whether the customer decides to leave or stick around. The power of design can be seen in any grocery store. Whenever a consumer is choosing between two products, they will subconsciously examine the packaging. Brands that utilize attractive packaging will evoke a feeling of trust from the consumer. Even if two products are alike, a consumer will often choose the product with superior branding. When building a website, is important to realize that the customer will always be comparing your site to others, and this is where your design plays a vital role in establishing customer confidence. We will examine how tone, color, and fonts can amplify the look and feel of your site.

Affordable Web Design & Management Solutions for Web Business

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5 Ecommerce Strategies for Boosting Holiday Sales and Increasing Conversions

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

In the highly competitive landscape called ecommerce, the holidays seem to bring out the best and worst in all consumers. The stress levels are higher however, the wallets seem to be a little looser and the purchasing decision makers are all on the prowl. Web retailers need to be ready for not only managing the expectations of these consumers who are ready and willing to give you their credit card, but also need to understand what will maximize their online sales potentials throughout the holiday season. Now is the time to make these decisions so you are not caught falling second to your competition.

5 Ecommerce Strategies for Boosting Holiday Sales and Increasing Conversions
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5 Tips to Effective Facebook Ad Marketing

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Facebook Ads have become a popular, cost-effective way to promote small businesses online.

According to MerchantCircle, 22% of small businesses have used Facebook Ads, and 65% say they would use Facebook Ads again, citing ease and flexibility as the top reasons to run another campaign.

5 Tips to Effective Facebook Ad Marketing

However, much like Google PPC, Facebook Ads are not a guaranteed overnight success — about one-third of users who say they wouldn’t run another campaign, nearly 70% say that it didn’t work to acquire new customers. (MerchantCircle).

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Adding a Store Locations Page to Drive Customer Confidence and Increase Retail Sales

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

If you have retail storefronts or your products are sold at retail locations then it is a great idea to spend some time putting together a ‘Store Locations’ page on your ProStores Storefront. Having a list of physical store locations helps drive consumer confidence and sales. Your customers will gain confidence in your online presence and have a sense of security knowing that they can find you in the real world if they need to.

Adding this page to your ProStores is a pretty simple process and we’ll walk you through it.
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Sophisticated Design and SEO Answers your S.O.S.

Monday, January 24th, 2011

The ability to garner information on SEO and Web design tactics from the internet is both a blessing and a curse. The sheer volume of data is often overwhelming. Distinguishing good information from the bad can be downright confusing.

Being both a Web designer and developer, my goal is to help you distill this information into key tactics that will increase traffic to your website and convert visits into sales.

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Fixing non-secure checkout images in ProStores

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

Have you ever arrived at the checkout page, ready to buy, and a message pops up “this page contains secure and insecure items“? For many non-technical web shoppers this warning can cause alarm and possibly abandonment from your checkout page.

These security errors at checkout show up more prominently within the Internet Explorer (IE) web browser then Firefox or Google Chrome. Unfortunately, IE has almost 70% of the market share of internet users (Source: http://www.statowl.com/web_browser_market_share.php) and such security warnings can impact a large portion of your purchasing visitors.

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