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One of the most important yardsticks to measure the success of any web-based venture is its online conversion rate. Getting people to your site is all good and well, but the real measure of your website’s design and content is whether you are able to turn the casual browser into a paying customer. Those who endeavour to increase conversion and do research on the topic will find a slew of online references that tout everything from eye-tracking to hover-to-click-ratio as the ultimate answer to conversion-related worries. Sifting through this heap of information can be confusing and frustrating to say the least. So, before you throw out the baby with the proverbial bathwater and shell out your hard-earned cash for a complete website redesign, we recommend that you take a good, hard look at your current website to see if there are simple adjustments you can make. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

In Part 1: Online Brand Communication, we discussed the best methods of online branding and how this relates to the online user’s experience of your brand and website. The next step in claiming the online user’s attention is through effective web usability and brand interaction which can lead to increased sales and brand loyalty. By following this outline of best usability practices, results will be certain to follow.

What is Web Usability?

In a nutshell, usability is the art of ensuring visitors to your website can easily find what they are looking for, reach the relevant pages and take the desired actions before getting frustrated, generating negative feelings towards your brand and leaving your site feeling unfulfilled, never to return. Here we will present only the basics to give an impression of what is involved in the best usability process.

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Today’s internet user is endlessly bombarded with a tumultuous flow of visual impressions. This persistent imagery lodges itself in the human psyche like a worm wriggling through the earth in search of fertile soil burrowing its perception and creating an awareness, subtle or gross, which in some way or another leaves its mark. In this information age where fingertips can guide the online user to a heady state of overload, how does one break through and create a positive impression given the limited amount of time the active online user allows us? What effective tools are available to online producers, designers, developers, bloggers, e-merchants, brands and businesses whose offerings and ideas are useful, informative and full of worldly promise? CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

It seems that wherever I go, I hear more and more people discussing how we are living in very tough financial times. This is unfortunately a worldwide phenomena. Recently I gave a talk to 50 franchise owners in a struggling industry and the question came up, Why should we do search engine optimisation? Why  should we spend MORE money in such tough times.The answer to this is simple. In such tough times, we need to look at all areas that can help generate more enquiries, leads and sales. A website can be harnessed and turned into a strategic selling machine, providing a successful SEO campaign is implemented and traffic is converted. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Many website creators are under the impression that an attractive and clever website design is all that’s required to achieve high. While website design certainly forms an integral part of improving your conversion rate, there is so much more to conversion than visual appeal. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE