Your business website is essentially your storefront, business card and most significant marketing piece all rolled into one. How it affects your visitors and customers is then essential to your success. Provide a memorable experience and customers are sure to return time and time again. Let's take a look at five keys to creating a website that sells.
Key #1: Make your website interactive
As the internet continues to grow and evolve itís becoming more important to create a community around your business. To accomplish this you want to engage your visitors and customers. This can be accomplished a number of ways. You can:
Provide a forum
Post surveys or polls
Enable visitors and customers to review or rank items. For example a "How valuable was this article?" question and a scale of 1 to 5 stars or a ranking from 1-10.
Offer a blog and inspire comments and feedback
Host contests and sweepstakes
Publish video and audio content as well as written content. This gives users another way to access you and your personality.
Key #2: Make sure your website provides value
People go online for a number of reasons. They go online to research a potential purchase, to seek solutions for a problem they're having and to be entertained. If your website provides all three; products, information, and entertainment then you're in tip top shape. The good news is your content can provide both the information and the entertainment and when written well, can also inspire purchases. Here are a few ideas to provide value for your customers and prospects:
How to articles, videos, and audio
Tips articles, videos, and audio
Case studies
Workbooks and reports
Interviews with experts
Product reviews
Key #3: Make sure your website is easy to navigate
It takes a visitor about 20 seconds to make a decision about whether theyíre going to stay on your website or click away. If your site is laid out nicely, with products and services, information, prices, FAQs, and content easy to find then people are more likely to hang out and the longer they stay on your site the more likely they are to make a purchase or to return again.
To make your site easy to navigate consider:
Keeping your site simple.
Keep your pages uniform with the same options and appearance.
If you have a lot of content, great! Use drop down menus and organize your content by topic for easier access.
Offer a search function where users can search for products, services, or content topics quickly and easily.
Provide a way for users to easily go back to previous pages. A back key is an option however if every page has the same options and drop down menus, including the ability to quickly return to the home page, a visitor will always be able to find what they need.
Test your website's appearance on different browsers to make sure every visitor has a good experience.
Key #4: Make your website easy on the eyes
Ever visit a website and the text was so small or the colors so incompatible that you couldn't read a word? Readability is critical to a selling website. Make sure:
Your colors are easy on the eyes,
Your graphics aren't distracting
And keep formatting like underlining, bold and italics to a minimum.
Spacing between sentences and paragraphs is adequate
Font size is large enough for people to read and font is easy to read
Key #5: Give them a soft sell
People expect to be sold to and they're looking for it even on your site. Instead of hitting website visitors with a hard sell, provide information, solve their problems and show them the benefits of your products or services. They'll be much more receptive and appreciative.
Creating a website that sells requires a structured approach and a desire to create the best experience possible for your visitors. Once you've created your website, consider testing it and asking associates, friends and family for their opinion. -- Silvia Pencak is The Magnetic Branding Expert and Mentor. For over 7 years Silvia kept building successful venues in Europe and Canada. She became known as the expert in building a powerful brand and is often asked for advice in management, marketing and organizational areas of building a powerful small business brand. She understands that the power of branding, authenticity, relationship building and marketing efforts can make or break a successful business. Silvia shares her expertise online at http://MagneticLook.com to help other women entrepreneurs build successful brand and to support those who don't settle for a mediocre business and average lifestyle. Source: http://www.articletrader.com
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Simple Steps To Boost Your Own Rate of Metabolism And Burn up More Fats
Hate dieting? You're not alone. If there's one thing most people dread more than anything, cutting calories is it. But, if you want to lose weight and tone up your body, you know that you must consume fewer calories each day than you burn off. Now, rather than focusing on continually decreasing your calorie intake, how about you focus on the other element of that equation - increasing your daily output?
This is a far more effective and enjoyable way to lose weight and if you go about it in the right manner, will produce superior results as well. If you use the follow simple tips you can quickly increase your metabolic rate, which is what determines how many calories you body burns off daily.
Get it revved up to very high levels and you'll be able to eat more food and still see the weight loss you're looking for.
If that sounds like something you're interested in, pay attention to the following ideas.
Eat More Protein.
The very first thing that you should do if you want to ramp up your metabolism instantly is to eat more protein. Many women unfortunately don't get enough protein with their fat loss diet and this really causes them to see a decline in results.
For every 100 calories worth of protein rich food that you eat, your body will actually only 'net' about 75 of those calories. If you were to take in those same 100 calories worth of carbs or dietary fats however, you would net at total of 94 or 98 of those calories. See the difference?
By eating protein rich foods more often you're essentially boosting your metabolic rate by 25% so this is a very fast and effective way to melt fat faster.
Perform High Intensity Exercise
Second, the next thing that you should do to elevate your metabolism is to perform higher intensity exercise. The great thing about high intensity exercise is not only is it going to whip you into shape faster, but it'll dramatically reduce the time you have to spend in the gym as well.
If you're doing a high intensity workout, whether it's with your cardio training or your weight lifting workout session, you can get in and out of the gym in as little as 20-25 minutes. For anyone with a busy schedule, this is definitely the way to go.
What's more is that after that high intensity workout, your metabolism will stay elevated for up to 48 hours. This means you'll be burning more fat while watching your favorite TV show later on in the evening.
Use An Appropriate Metabolic Increasing Supplement
The third way to increase your metabolism is to consider an effective supplement that works to stimulate the metabolism so you burn more calories at all times. Phen375 is one example of a proven supplement that can speed the rate of weight loss, while also providing you with more energy.
Remember that supplements should always be used with a proper fat burning diet and workout program, but when you do pair the three together, you simply will not beat the fat loss results that take place.
So there you have three of the top ways to increase how many calories your body burns on a daily basis so you don't have to succumb to food portions so small they wouldn't feed a five year old. If you can look at this side of the fat loss equation instead, you're going to find the process of weight loss that much more manageable and may actually enjoy it!
Circuit training burns a lot of calories and is time efficient. A great training method to add variety into your cardio routines is to use Circuit training. Circuit training allows you to switch between multiple forms of exercise in one session.
This keeps your routine fun and also burns extra calories by adding more intense styles of cardio exercises. A sample Circuit training cardio routine may include 15 minutes jogging on the treadmill, followed immediately by 15 minutes on the elliptical training machine and then followed immediately by 15 minutes of stationary cycling.
This cardio workout consists of 3 different exercises and last a total of 45 minutes in 25 lengths. You can decrease or increase each time interval to fit your fitness level. You want to start out with the most intensive exercise first and end with the least intensive exercise.
Always make sure you warm up and stretch and cool down and stretch to prevent injuries.
I hope this helps you get started on the road to your new body and your next great achievement.
Don’t ever give up and don’t ever quit!
Make this your best journey ever!
(John15:16) YOU did not choose me, but I chose YOU, and I appointed YOU to go on and keep bearing fruit and that YOUR fruit should remain; in order that no matter what YOU ask the Father in my name he might give it to YOU.
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Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio
"To celebrate growing older, I once wrote the 45 lessons life taught me.
It is the most-requested column I've ever written."
My odometer rolled over to 90 in August, so here is the column once more:
1. Life isn't fair,but it's still good.
2. When in doubt, just take the next small step.
3. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
4. Your job won't take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch.
5. Pay off your credit cards every month.
6. You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
7. Cry with someone. It's more healing than crying alone.
8. It's OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
9. Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
10. When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
11. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present.
12. It's OK to let your children see you cry.
13. Don't compare your life to others.You have no idea what their journey is all about.
14. If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.
15. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don't worry; God never blinks.
16. Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
17. Get rid of anything that isn't useful,beautiful or joyful.
18. Whatever doesn't kill you really does make you stronger.
19. It's never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
20. When it comes to going after what you love in life, don't take no for an answer.
21. Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, and wear the fancy lingerie. Don't save it for a special occasion. Today is special.
22. Over prepare, and then go with the flow.
23. Be eccentric now. Don't wait for old age to wear purple.
24. The most important sex organ is the brain.
25. No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
26. Frame every so-called disaster with these words 'In five years, will this matter?'
27. Always choose life.
28. Forgive everyone everything.
29 What other people think of you is none of your business.
30. Time heals almost everything. Give time, time.
31. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
32. Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
33. Believe in miracles.
34. God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn't do
35. Don't audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
36. Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.
37. Your children get only one childhood.
38. All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
39. Get outside every day... Miracles are waiting everywhere.
40 If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s, we’d grab ours back.
41. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
42. The best is yet to come.
43. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
44. Yield.
45. Life isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift."
