Another thing this year that is getting increasingly popular is posting videos.

This can be popular with industrial sites that would like to highlight their manufacturing facilities who would like to show how their equipment works, a CEO delivering a ‘welcome’ all the way to a church that would like to post their church services.

We can make single video players, or we can make video players with play lists. Play lists are usually a drop down menu on the video player that show titles of videos. The viewer can click on any video they would like to play and the player will produce the selected one.

Both options are very affordable. If you are a little bit computer ‘saavy’ you may be able to add your own videos to the playlist once it’s developed.

We have run across a wonderful “LIVE CHAT” program that you may be able to consider depending on your staffing in your office. Check this out http://banckle.com/.

This shows up on your site wherever you decide you would like it to appear.

If you notice on their website on the lower right corner, it says “ONLINE – Start Chat Now”. If you have this program installed on your website, and people are browsing your site, they can click on the button and start a chat session about your services and products. Also, if they are browsing, you the website owner are notified and you can INITIATE a chat with whoever is browsing.

Pricing depends on how many ‘agents’ you have in your office that want to be involved. You would need people that would be at their desk most of the time. At least SOMEONE should be signed in during the day. NOTE: If no one is signed it, there is a note that you are “OFFLINE – Please leave a message” and they can enter their question which you can pick up easily.

To to http://banckle.com/ and try the chat with them. You can sign up for a trial period and see if you like it. There are reports to view also which help in knowing what is happening.

Your prospective customers ability to retain information is severely compromised by continuous contact with their cell phones, email, mobile devices, cable TV and text messaging. If you want to be HEARD, there is no better way than with the sound of the human voice. We recommend a couple of different options:

OPTION 1

When the person enters your site, there is a quick ‘welcome’ that starts automatically. It only lasts a couple of seconds at most. This is simply a ‘welcome to ______’. We set a cookie so that it will only play the first time they enter during that visit. If they happen to go back to the home page, it won’t play again. Go here to view this www.selectiveplatinginc.com

OPTION 2

When a visitor clicks a simple audio button on your homepage they will hear and comprehend your message – INSTANTLY. The sound of a human voice will do more to turn prospects into customers, than a thousand words of complicated text.

Web audio is an effective way to evoke emotion and present important information to your target audience, and it is VERY cost-effective. An entire two-minute presentation, including script writing, professional voice-over talent, licensed music, sound effects and software to stream it on the web is amazingly priced. There are no residuals or recurring charges to pay.

It only takes about 200 words to write two-minutes of audio. With the right verbiage, delivered by a professional voice-over artist, you can convey more than just a pitch: you can deliver your entire marketing message and corporate personality. The web is going audio – are you on the forefront of innovation? Go to my website and at the bottom right you will see a button to click on to hear this 2 minute synopsis of my website services. This does NOT force people to listen, but simply makes it available.

Go to my website to hear this professionally done audio.
Look at the bottom right of the home page. These are affordable options! Marketing done right.

A - Z Biz Development has plans available to get your website to the top of the Google searches. They offer many different services including ‘pay-per-click’ with Google, Bing, and Yahoo that will get you up and running FAST.

They also offer other back-door services to increase your traffic at affordable rates.

Go to their website to learn more and get started right in 2012!

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Design services on-site ….

You may have seen one, but didn’t know what it was. When a smart phone scans the QR code on a brochure or magazine ad, QR code tells the smart phone to go to your website or wherever you want them to go on the internet!

We can make these codes and send them to you as a ‘file’ that you can pass on to the people that do all of your print material (business cards, magazine ads, brochures, etc.) Pricing is less than $100!

If not this is also something you may want to consider. Everyone has the smart phones now as mentioned above. If you try to view your website on one of these smart phones, you’ll notice that it’s hard to see it or read it properly.

The new craze is to have a mobile phone optimized site. This means we do a mini site for you with maybe just 1 page or 2, 3 or 4 pages. It’s just the right size to fit on a smart phone. This is not meant to be a full-blown website, it’s meant to just show the main points of your website, with a link to ‘view complete site’. An example of this is here http://www.permaseal.com/mobile.html (1-page site) or here http://www.gaucherdisease.org/mobile.html (4 pages). Price vary depending on design and number of pages. Call or email me concerning this service.

Apple doesn’t support FLASH on these devices. With the popularity rises every day for these mobile units, we can offer you a solution for your website.

For $95 we can have one of your Flash images show up instead of the FLASH when an iPad or iPhone is used. The website if shown on one of these devices will sense that there is flash and instead show a JPG image of your choice (usually one of your FLASH scenes). If you would like to have this done, please email me and we will put you on our list!

This is a HUGE issue inside the web development network and alot of buzz going on. Any new applications that we do that we would normally do a FLASH header for, we will now start using HTML5 which is really basically the same thing, only done differently. This doesn’t mean that everyone with FLASH needs to panic. I’m sure it will be phased out slowly …possibly by then you will want something different anyway on your site. But you should be aware of this.

Problems with Windows 7 and Internet Explorer 9
ARE UPDATES ALWAYS GOOD? NO!

Also, we have been made aware that Adobe’s latest update to FLASH has cause people using Windows 7 and/or Internet Explorer 9 to see FLASH on website with a “BLACK BACKGROUND”. This has also caused problems and has the Flash community in an uproar. If your site has FLASH, you may want to consider a ‘fix’ to this issue.