

As the central hub of your online presence, your company's website is arguably your most important marketing tool. Search engines are giving more and more ranking weight to the relevance of your site and the quality of visitor experience, so it's important to keep the design as well as the content up-to-date. For most businesses,…

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WEB DESIGN
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The design of your website is important because it is your door to your customers' interest. In our competitive world of online business, it is imperative that you have a well-designed website.
Website users take just a few seconds to decide whether they are going to continue browsing your site or not and if they are interested in what you’re selling. A well-designed website does not fail to communicate your intention, your message, your tone, your services/products, and what you want your customer’s to do.
A well designed website means that it:

Is my website mobile-friendly? When should I update my website? How old is too old?If you had your website created five years ago, but are not sure if it is outdated now then check your website’s “score” on https://website.grader.com. Enter your URL and email address, and press go. The website above (a.k.a. Marketing Grader or Website Grader) will give you an overall score for your website, based on five categories:
· Blogging
· Social Media
· Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
· Lead Generation
· Mobile.

Do you know the ‘Charlie bit my finger’ video or seen ‘pizza rat’ roaming the streets of New York? These are videos that went viral, and with most success stories, tales of a meteoric social media post going viral can make you believe that the same kind of success is right around the corner for you, too. But usually Twitter and Facebook visitors don’t roll-in in the 100s or 1000s. That doesn't mean you can't have success with a social media marketing campaign - it just means that you'll have to make it work for you.

You have a gift! You have the gift of knowledge about a particular industry, company, product, and services! Sharing your gifts will ultimately help you in the end. Sharing is caring and if people see you as an expert in a certain field, then they will go to you with their questions and their business. You can develop your leadership by sharing online.

In continuing our series from the popular po st last week about "Good, Fast, or Cheap Web Design", we want to stress that your website’s search engine optimization (SEO) is also important … very important!

Over the past few years, online marketing, and especially social media, has developed into a situation where there is less "businessy" talk, and more real human interaction between businesses and customers. Spouting slogans and pasting logos everywhere is no longer the best way to get customers - you have to have actual conversations with the people you are marketing to, and let them know that they're dealing with real humans, not some corporate machine.

Last week, we provided a variety of spring cleaning tips for your online marketing strategy as a whole. Today, we are going to dive into the finer details of this process, including a closer look at the design of your company’s website.

Are you interested in having your corporate website redesigned in 2014? Is this something you are beginning to plan for right now? If you answered yes to these questions, you know the importance of finding the right company for the job. Along with this, you should have some basic ideas of what you are looking to accomplish.