Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Your website is your virtual storefront… and accessible worldwide. There is no other communication vehicle which provides such a wide range of access to potential customers.

It becomes your brand identity, your voice to the world.

And unlike print material, your website is a dynamic vehicle through which you have the opportunity to provide timely information for all your customers. A good website uses this leverage to engage with customers, extend the reach of a brand and – most importantly – sell more product.

Your website has the luxury of being able to host as much content as is relevant to your brand, your customers and your business objectives and a good website provides visitors with detailed information about your product, your company, your story and how to contact you. And of course, you want them to discover whatever information they are seeking or provide them information on how to reach you to answer their questions….

Over the past few years with the explosion of social media and WordPress, there are now additional ways to update your website with relevant content far more efficiently than just a few years ago.

Creating a website which fully integrates social media, WordPress and RSS Feeds, allowing one post to be multi-purposed, optimized content across a broad spectrum of media and be 100% trackable, unlike print media or television, is the way to go today and we believe this requires the skills of an experienced marketer and a well thought out marketing strategy.

Using the full power of your website integrated with social media allows you to get your message out quickly and efficiently and retain the analytics to track return on investment.

Of course, there are strategies which work more effectively than others and optimizing your website by giving visibility to your best selling products and providing an easy path to purchase those products on your home page is key to converting visitors. A great website asks for the sale by including a compelling Call-to-Action up front.

Our goal with our website design is to helps companies make the most of their websites by creating a thoughtfully designed site map which is goal oriented and ensures that the site is driving and attracting new traffic, converting visitors to buyers, increasing sales and extending the reach of your brand.

We provide full reports on websites for a nominal fee to give clients a snapshot of what they are doing right and what areas they need work on. If you would like to know how your website is doing and in what areas it could use some assistance, drop us an email at steve@stephenroper.com or visit our website to check around for yourself.

Search engine optimization (SEO) is a term familiar to Internet marketing world. However, a relatively new term, social media optimization (SMO) is now gaining popularity among online marketers.

Social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Diggit, Delicious, and other popular blogging, news or social networking sites are revolutionizing the world of online marketing. Many popular brands have already started their social media campaigns by joining an account in Facebook or Twitter.

Blogs and articles are on their way to create more traffic to the Web site through social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Kaboodle and more.

With the advent of social media sites, new possibilities arise for brand marketing.

Companies are exploring innovative ways to reach out to millions of customers who are active in their social networking community.

A recent study shows that companies like CocaCola, IBM, GE, Microsoft, Google and others have gained hundreds of thousands of fans in popular social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter. Another study from ad network Chitika found that social media sites such as Facebook and Digg are more likely to create returning traffic to a Web site than popular search engines such as Google and Yahoo.

The study found that more than one fifth of the users referred to a site by Facebook visited that site at least four times in the course of one week whereas only 12 percent of Google-referred visitors remained loyal.

During the last three years, we have found that Facebook has become a significant referring site to the web sites we create and manage.

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