Stop working too hard and let your website do some of the work for you. It’s time to stop settling for an underperforming website.
Make the most of your website and learn how to get more traffic and increase sales. Get specific help to create a site that authentically represents your best value, and at the same time attracts clients and gets them to take action.
In this informal networking event we will enjoy mini- presentations on key aspects of successful websites. We will then have plenty of time left for sharing our own questions, triumphs and best practices and getting to know each other.
Topics We Will Cover:
• Easy and Effective Website Creation:
From do it yourself options to hiring a designer how to make sure you get what you need, quickly without paying too much. -- With web designer Anne Dukelow
• Getting the Content Right:
Learn how you can turn visitors into fans by creating the kind of content that builds relationships and avoiding the common content mistakes that reduce your impact and credibility. ---With marketing coach Mari Geasair
• Making it Useable:
Many websites lose visitors and sales because of simple mistakes in usability design. Learn what you can do with your organization, fonts, layout and images to ensure that people stay on your site longer and take the actions you need them to take. --- With usability expert Louise Pemberthy
• Selling Stuff- Making The Transition from Static Site to On-Line Store:
Get help thinking the requirements through so that your shopping cart system works the way you need it to work- without costing you a ton of money or months of waiting to get it put in place. --- With Cal Pfahl
• Attracting More Visitors:
If you build it, they will not necessarily just come. You have to attract people to your website. Learn about easy and effective ways you can draw the right traffic to your website. Without spending a fortune or feeling like you are being pushy or spaming. ---With Marjorie Desgrosseilliers.
About Our Speakers:
Anne Dukelow owns Green Acres Web, a web development company focused on building attractive, usable websites that will grab people's attention. She can discuss web concepts in plain English and provide personalized solutions. She has over 25 years of experience working with computers and over 10 years of experience with websites and the Internet.
Mari Geasair helps small business owners get more clients, experience more success and feel less stress. She has been an entrepreneur for over 18 years and has owned five successful businesses of her own. As a coach, facilitator, and marketing instructor she has worked as a hands-on partner with hundreds of executives, small business owners and self-employed individuals.
Cal Pfahl helps you improve your bottom line through dependable e-commerce solutions.
Marjorie Desgrosseilliers helps small business owners find effective, targeted, and inexpensive ways to market their services, and takes the mystery out of search engine optimization and Internet Marketing. Is the CEO and owner of Smarty Pants Search, she has been in the information industry for over 20 years.
Please join us! We look forward to learning with you.