Making the Horses Drink The Web is the most comprehensively flawed world-changing technology ever. The ways in which you can screw up a Web site are without limit. In contrast, it’s a lot tougher to botch a fire, a wheel, a toilet, an ATM, or one of those KFC chicken/potato/corn/cheese bowls. Like a really big [...]
Swissarmyknife.com: Using Web strategy to improve integrated marketing
What does the Internet have to do with your print, TV, radio, direct mail and other traditional tactics? Plenty. Along with the oft-cited belief that half of all marketing dollars are wasted lies a corollary, which is that the traditional components of most marketing plans are evaluated using less than scientific means. In many cases, [...]
Botox For Your Web Site
Make these changes now to improve online results Thousands of Web sites built circa 2000-2002 are showing signs of wear and fatigue like a dot com Larry King. Today’s trend is away from flashy, narcissistic pandemics about why YOUR bolt and fastener company is the BEST, and toward obvious, easy-to-use, functional Web sites that respect [...]
Actions not Words: Most web sites can’t get visitors to do much of anything. How about yours?
In comparison to their human counterparts, Web sites have certain advantages as sales representatives for your company. They work 24×7, don’t complain about the commission structure, and don’t expense $273 for dinner with “Paul” the imaginary new business prospect. But otherwise, Web sites are generally terrible salespeople. Nearly all Web sites have (or should have) [...]
Behave Yourself: Who cares how many people come to your Web site? What do they do once they arrive?
Math is the curse of the Internet. True, it’s the most trackable medium ever devised and what you can unearth by sifting through the sand dune of data created by every Web site is startling. Just about everything you’d ever want to know about your organization’s Internet success or failure is viewable numerically, if you [...]
