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Website Development is Imperative to Success!

We live in a world of high tech communication services that we all feel are necessary to contribute to making our lives a bit more productive. With the internet as our media we can immediately view the quality of services of our company compared to others who may be our competition. We draw conclusions using comparisons about a specific product or service that we may have an immediate interest in. However, seldom do we consider if our website is up to date with current facts and figures that may impact the effectiveness of our marketing efforts and the bottom line profit of our business.

A website that was designed 4 or 5 years ago may be totally outdated at this point and may have seen its better days. Many individuals never take a close look at their site once it’s on line and generating income. By using the services of a professional you may be able to get twice the sales or more as you’re currently getting just by having your pro tweak your website for maximum SEO exposure and effectiveness. A simple professional consult and review could make a huge difference to your overall business health.

Looking back to when you first put your website online and what your focus in marketing has evolved into today, are probably two totally different scenes. You’ve probably updated your phone system recently, your office furniture, your sales force so why haven’t you paid attention to one of the most important aspects of your business….your website? First impressions are always lasting impressions and if your potential client feels you website is antiquated they will probably just click off your site and go visit your competition. Guess what…..you just lost your next best customer.

Marketing needs and solutions are constantly changing online and as a business person you must be able to follow the latest trends in marketing to keep abreast with your competition. This is one aspect of business that if you snooze ….. You’ll end up losing to your competition.

When was the you last time you visited a website and you were absolutely blown away with the design, fresh content and the smooth closing approach that you were lulled into as you finished reviewing all the information on this beautiful site? What did you do? Did you go and visit your own site and compare the differences in your site and the competitors? Maybe a five minute comparison would have sparked some ideas on how you could change your sites presentation which would substantially jump your potential client’s interest to look further into your business opportunity and end up buying from you instead of your competition.

In this day and age of competitive marketing, one must pull out all the stops when it comes to building and maintaining a competitive edge. What worked a few months ago may be totally outdated in today’s marketing arena. You must ask yourself….is my website really good enough to withstand all the variables in this every changing world of internet marketing? If you have any doubts of whether your website is optimized for maximum exposure, then you need to acquire the services of a professional for some immediate help.

If you were trying to conduct your business in an old warehouse with little to no lighting, located on the top floor of the building with rat infested surroundings and a broken elevator that forced you to climb 10 flights of unstable stairs, how successful do you think your business is going to be? You don’t have to answer that question, we both know the answer.

A similar scenario can play out in the virtual world of the internet as well. If your website is outdated, poorly configured with misspelled words and questionable grammar would you have a better chance of success here compared to the scene described above? Once again you don’t have to answer this question either.

I’m not inferring here that you need a flashy website with all the bells and whistles because that is the opposite extreme of what’s necessary. Having a well designed website with good relevant keyword rich content is what the search engines are looking for in a website. The potential client is looking for information that will fill their needs right now and all the hype in the world is not going to make a smidgen of difference in their decision to do business with you.

By providing simple, straight forward, no hype information about your product or service as well as sharing your company history, contact information and guaranteed service after the sale your business will grow to new and exciting levels of money making success. Once your website is designed effectively, appeals to the user and optimized for the search engines, generating income should evolve into a natural course of events.

If you feel your abilities are not up to speed for making these critical choices about your website, then seek the services of a professional who understands and can handle your questions about web design, development, marketing and SEM and SEO Services. Choosing a good consultant and marketing company is important to your online success. Choose wisely.

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Traffic to the Wrong Kind of Website

There is not a week goes by that a network marketer doesn’t contact me because they are striking out trying to promote their MLM business online.

The conversation usually starts off with Dale, I would like to hire you to help me with my online marketing campaign.

When asked what there goal is; they usually respond with I want to sponsor new distributors into my downline. My next question is what website are you promoting?

Nine times out of ten it is a corporate, self replicated site.

I see this scenario play out over and over. There are three glaring problems. Let’s examine these 3 problems in detail in hopes that you won’t make these common mistakes.

#1 RECRUITING IS A PROCESS not an Event! To think that you are going to be able to drive traffic to a website and have people immediately pull out their credit card and join your company and order $200 worth of your product or service is a pipe dream. It is not going to happen.

Yes on rare occasions it may happen, but the majority of the time it is by people that have already tried your product, or have been previously educated about your opportunity.

Recruiting is a process, not an event.

The purpose of a website is not to “sell people” it is to “to collect data”.

#2 CORPORATE SELF REPLICATED SITES ARE BETTER SUITED FOR DISTRIBUTORS TRAINING, NOT PROSPECTING.

This is by far one of the biggest mistakes MLM distributors make. They send website traffic to a corporate self-replicated site. When your visitor arrives they have dozens of choices. They can watch the corporate video, read about the backgrounds of your home office staff, click and learn about 3 dozen different products, etc. etc.

A confused mind does nothing! One rule of internet marketing is to sell one thing and sell it well. The more choices you give a visitor the more likely they will leave your site and you will never hear from them again!

You should be using lead capture pages, not corporate self-replicated sites. Again, the purpose of your website is to collect data on potential customers or business prospects.

#3 DECIDE WHAT YOUR MRW IS, “Most Wanted Response” from your Website Visitors.

It is NOT for them to buy or join, it is for them to leave you their data so you can professional follow up with them.

I am shocked at the number of distributors who are spending big money driving traffic to websites that do not have the ability to capture data. Websites are a lead generation tool, not a recruiting tool.

Self-replicated sites are great tools to help train new distributors regarding the facts, figures, and company background but very few have been designed as data gathering, prospecting sites.

So make sure you send traffic only to sites that capture data with a clear Most Wanted Response and you will be miles ahead of your competition.

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Seecrets On Website Promotion

Few businesses are prepared for the hyper speed and competition on the internet. Experts estimate that less than three percent of the tens of thousands of new website registrations each day will eventually succeed. The sheer volume of daily announcements drowns out all but the savviest webmasters. Yet, most site owners overlook a simple law of physics.

Launching a new website with enough acceleration to rise above this ever increasing daily din needs some force. It is common to see a website with a different name and various product or service offerings with equally unrelated names. Promoting these diverse brands will naturally need more energy than promoting just one brand.

However, if the website’s name is carefully chosen to resemble the site’s main theme, all the promotion energies can focused on just one keyword. Products and services can have this name embedded into the official product names (think Microsoft Office).

Consider the example of “seecrets”, which is a misspelling of a common word. It also reflects the main theme of the website which is in the business of protecting digital data, documents and software. It is fortuitous coincidence that this name is the same as the site’s resident writer, Stan Seecrets.

This author then sent five articles in as many weeks to about a dozen article submission sites. The result was astonishing. Within a week after the first article, Google ranked this author’s site #1 for this particular keyword. MSN also ranked this same #1 after about 6 weeks.

It is perplexing with Yahoo. The moment this keyword is keyed in, it gives a #1 ranking. When this author repeats the search five minutes later, the ranking disappeared altogether. Maybe, there is a big bug in their software or this search engine is as indecisive as we are.

This is an example of getting a #1 ranking by careful selection of the website’s name. Obviously this author cannot provide a list of step-by-step procedures. Readers who are using the most powerful computer located at the top of their heads can easily figure it out.

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