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Hi gang, Rick here from Community Joint Ventures on why outdated Web Sites Drive Away Visitors. Here are 7 Key Points for an Annual Website Tune-up. It happens each and every day.

Web site visitors discover a site that seems to deliver the exact information they are seeking, only to be greeted by an outdated copyright notice, dead hyperlinks, or a contact or order form that doesn’t work. The visitor instantly loses trust in that site, leaves, and begins a new search. The online business owner has lost that prospect forever. “In the same way that your mechanic conducts a regular inspection of your automobile, online business owners need to conduct an annual checkup of their web site”, says Donna Gunter, Internet Marketing Coach and Founder of the Internet marketing community for service businesses, http://www.OnlineBizU.com.

There are 7 critical areas that Gunter says need to be checked on every web site every year:

1. Copyright notice. Create a solution that permits you update the copyright year on all your pages at one time, rather than updating them individually.

2. Opt-in forms. Do your opt-in forms work? Do you need to add additional fields to the opt-in form to collect mailing addresses, for example, or to ask how visitors found your site? Is the information contained on your confirmation and thank you pages up-to-date?

3. Autoresponder followup. Are they still current? Do they mention offers or upsells that are still available? Do you need to update any copyright or contact information contained within them? Are they making it through spam filters?

4. Signature files. Does your email signature file contain a call to action that’s still working for you, or does it need to be updated? Have you changed any portion of your contact information?

5. Your free electronic giveaway. Update the copyright and content information in the electronic ebook or audio file and review any biographical/profile information that you list about yourself or your business. Is the content you provide in this giveaway still valid and current? Do you want to keep the current call to action, or does it need to be updated to better fit with your current business model?

6. Missing images and dead link check. Tour your website to ensure that all images are displaying as they should. If you link to or make reference to many resources on your site, run a dead link check annually to weed out or update those that no longer work.

7. Order forms. Be sure that your shopping cart order form works all the way through the checkout process. Create a reciprocal agreement with a colleague to check each other’s order forms.

Thanks to Donna Gunter, http://www.OnlineBizU.com

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Hi gang, Rick here again from Community Joint Ventures with how not to do web site design and Writing.

1. Don’t load your web site with a lot of high tech clutter. Your visitors may miss your whole sales message.

2. Don’t use unnecessary words or phrases on your site. You only have so much time to get your visitor’s attention and interest; make ever word count.

3. Don’t make the mistake that everyone will totally understand your web site message. Use descriptive words and examples to get your point across.

4. Don’t write your strongest point or benefit onlyonce. You should repeat it at least 3 times because some people may miss it.

5. Don’t push all your words together on your website. People like to skim; use plenty of headings and sub headings.

6. Don’t use site content your target audience isn’t interested in. If people are coming to your site to find info about fishing don’t include soccer content.

7. Don’t use 50 different content formats all over your web site. Use the same fonts, text sizes, text colors, etc.

8. Don’t use words your web site visitors might not understand. People are not going to stop and look in a dictionary, they will just go to another site.

9. Don’t let selling words and phrases go unnoticed. Highlight important words and phrases with color,bolding, italics, underlining, etc.

10. Don’t forget to use words that create emotion.All people have emotions, people will have more interest when they are emotionally attached.

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Hi gang, Rick here from Community Joint Ventures. A popular topic these days is Creating Lead Capture Pages. The biggest mistake I see time after time is someone setting up a web page and putting tons of banners on it, lots of info about 10 different programs, it is just a mess. I am sure you have seen those sites, and I am sure you probably even built one or two of those before realizing it wasn’t working. I know I did when I started building sites.

So, the main question is what type of sites should I create? The goal here is to capture as many emails and names as possible so you should be creating lead capture pages. Contact with customers and potential customers are the most important thing in any business.

If you look at any large corporation you will see they try to capture your information in many forms. Many retail stores will ask you for your phone number, or address. When you buy products you always see a card that says send this in with your name and address on it to receive product updates. This is the off line way of capturing leads.

The online way works very similar. Your websites should ALL have email capture forms. Now when I say email capture forms I do not mean some malicious way of grabbing someone email with out their permission. I am talking about a nice form that says enter you email and name here and join. You will need to add a privacy policy. Many sites get away with just saying you will not share the users details with any third party. I recommend you have a professional policy written, or review other sites policies to get an idea of what you need.
Here is an example of a lead capture page http://www.doubleyourdating.com/

The reasons these sites are very power full is they give the user just enough information about what they will be getting. It gives them a reason to sign up. Notice that the sign up button does not say subscribe now. That is a big no no Try different variations like Instant Access, Download Now…. and so on. Now, what if you are just trying to build a list and not selling any products? Well that’s why you should offer something in return for the sign up. Most of the times you will see people offering software, or Ebooks if they sign up. That is an excellent idea on how to build your list.

Now, let me tell you a secret about your email list. Whatever you do, do not just send them advertisements. This is how you will get people to leave your list faster then joining them. I am sure you have been on newsletters that send ad, after ad. You know how long it takes me to leave those lists? A few seconds Treat your lists as they are the most valuable thing you have, they are!

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