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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.

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  • Connie Carlson
    Posted by Connie Carlson, Seattle, Washington | Jul 10, 2009

    Wow, I am astounded that I am the first to sign up for this; it sounds like such important information! I am in the process (very beginning is more like it) of getting my own website together, and am very much looking forward to hearing what you have to say. Thanks for offering this, see you then!

    Connie

    PS - what is the actual address?

  • Leslie Sierra
    Posted by Leslie Sierra, Seattle, Washington | Jul 11, 2009

    I'm 99% sure I can make it. I can use this info for myself and a few people I'm going to try to pin down to sign up.

    Connie, you can't miss it. At least the last time I was in the neighborhood it was painted on the side of the building. It's the NE corner.

  • Mari Geasair
    Posted by Mari Geasair, Seattle, Washington | Jul 11, 2009

    Welcome Connie and welcome Leslie- I am excited you will be joining us. I think it will be both useful and fun. And I am looking forward to meeting you both.

    The exact address is Wallingford Boys and Girls Club 1310 N 45th Street Seattle, WA 98103 206-547-7261

    And it is super easy to find. On the corner of 45th and Stone way there is a brightly colored toy store- Archie McPhee (in a building many people still know as the liquor store) and just behind that, clearly visable from both Stone Way and from 45th is the Boys and Girls club.

    Can't wait to see you all there!

  • Connie Carlson
    Posted by Connie Carlson, Seattle, Washington | Jul 13, 2009

    Thanks Mari, Looking forward to it!

  • Kristine Rooke
    Posted by Kristine Rooke, Bellevue, Washington | Jul 13, 2009

    I'm looking forward to this event, I will be traveling from the Lake Sammamish area at that time of the evening, and will be working hard on getting there on time!

  • Mari Geasair
    Posted by Mari Geasair, Seattle, Washington | Jul 13, 2009

    No problem Kristine- just pop on in when you get there and we will stick around to answer questions afterwards so we can catch you up on what you miss!

  • David Smith
    Posted by David Smith, Seattle, Washington | Jul 13, 2009

    Neat! An event with info I need, and its within my (hopefully temporarily reduced) bicycling distance.

    I'm 16 days out from a major chest trauma, 6 ribs broken and shoved out of position, so I am concerned. Will people be laughing at this event?

    And please take note: it was a bees hive not a bicycle that was involved.

  • Mari Geasair
    Posted by Mari Geasair, Seattle, Washington | Jul 13, 2009

    Oh my David- I am glad to have you with us- but I have to say imagining the bees hive vs. the bicycle incident (which is not what you wrote, but is how I initially read it) made me laugh. So we can try to be somber but no promises. :-)

    Seriously though- please let us know if there is anything we can do to make you more comfortable!

Event Location

Boys & Girls Club

45 & Stone Way
Seattle, Washington 98103
Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:45 PM

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