Tuesday, December 30, 2014

New portfolio addition: Mirror Mirror

We believe that fashion is the art by which we express the uniqueness and spirit within our hearts and souls. Everyone deserves an experience in which you can let your glamorous spirit run free and we offer that at Mirror Mirror Fashion. So friends, come and let us help you bring out your inner diva… “Have Fun, Live Life, Be Happy and Feel Pretty!”


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Mirror Mirror

Monday, December 22, 2014

Pura D'or

At Pura d’or we specialize in providing the best, pure Argan Oil available so you can immediately start experiencing some of its wonderful benefits. This oil is derived from the Argan tree, found only is the southwest area of Morocco. It is very rare, and very effective, and we make it easy to get premium quality products for use on your hair, skin, and nails.


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Pura D'or

Saturday, December 20, 2014

Social Media Is A Must In Your Website

In this article, we will discuss the importance of integrating social media into your website. It is very common nowadays as you surf the web, most sites you go on will have social media icons on the site that link to their Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, ect. pages. These links are great sources about a business to get updates and other information like specials or promotions the company is running.



Social Media Is A Must In Your Website

Wednesday, December 17, 2014

New portfolio addition: MD Consult 247

When a medical issue arises, MD Consult247 is a quick phone call away! 91% of all issues resolved with one call! 97% Satisfaction Rate! Call our U.S. based board certified physicians 24/7/365 to determine if that ER visit is necessary, if it could wait until morning or better yet – if it could be treated over the phone by our doctors, and get your child on the path to feeling better now with no charge for the call


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MD Consult 247

Thursday, December 11, 2014

GWP Consulting

Our range of solutions, from coaching high-potential leaders and CEO’s to Board-level advisory, reflects my personal experience leading companies as well as my years coaching and advising the most senior executives in a wide variety of industries.


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GWP Consulting

M&M Placement

Our reputation for success is closely linked with our ability to specialize. Our commitment to excellence begins with our people, industry experts who understand your needs and more importantly know how to fill them.


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M&M Placement

Friday, December 5, 2014

New Portfolio addition: Dr. St. John

The Progressive Psychiatry TMS Center is an extension of the office of Martha St. John, MD, PA. Dedicated to excellence in patient care, Dr. St. John provides the most up-to-date and innovative options available for the evaluation and treatment of psychiatric conditions.



Dr. St. John

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

How To Prevent Spam From Your Website Forms

We have all seen it, whether in English or another language. A email comes in that says in the subject line that it is a contact from our website, only to find out instead a qualified lead it is some type of spam message of a company soliciting their products or services. Sometimes these emails come in groups or 10 or even 20 seconds apart and flood our inbox. Well, that is because it is a spam bot, a software program that scours through websites looking for form to fill out with spam.


Years ago when this happened to our clients there was nothing we could really do about it, other than chalk it up to a disadvantage of having your business online and to ignore the spam emails. Nowadays, there is a new technology that can stop the website spam, it is called Recaptcha and it is a Google product.


Whether you have a standard Html/CSS based website or a CMS based website, reCaptcha can be easily installed to stop unwanted spam mail. In an HTML/CSS site, it takes about an hour to install. For CMS based sites, it is as easy as installing a plug-in and activating it.


 


 



How To Prevent Spam From Your Website Forms

Monday, December 1, 2014

New portfolio addition: Premium Roofing

Premium Roofing and Siding offers superior quality and expertise at fair rates. We have served countless satisfied customers in New York for more than 2 decades.


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Premium Roofing

New portfolio addition: Polka Tots Clothing

Polka Tots, a children’s clothing boutique located in Starkville, Mississippi, is owned by Wayne and Jessica Scarbrough. The Scarbrough’s purchased the store, which has been in business since 2001, in December of 2012.


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Polka Tots Clothing

New portfolio addition: One Direction Fitness

No need to hustle out to the gym on cold mornings. Train in the privacy of your home. I bring the equipment, expertise and motivation to YOU!


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One Direction Fitness

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

New portfolio addition: Lonestar Recycling

Lonestar Recycling is your solution for responsibly recycling electronic generated through your company’s everyday use and needs. With over 10 years of experience, Lonestar Recycling has built the team and technology to ensure we can provide any level of service to any company of any size with locations anywhere in the U.S.


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Lonestar Recycling

Thursday, November 20, 2014

How To Choose The Perfect Domain Name

With over one billion sites online as of 2014, getting the exact domain name you want is not going to be easy. Although you have a business name you have filed, in no way does that mean yourcompanyname.com will be available when you prepare to get a website for your business. Most people assume the first step to starting your own website is the design, but choosing the right domain name is equally important. In many cases, it’s the hardest part of the website creation process.


domainnameThese days it’s harder and harder to find an “easy to remember” domain that is available. What we recommend to our clients is if their company name is not available, instead of just settling for the .NET(assuming it is available), try to get creative in order to get a variation of the .COM. Your company credibility is crucial in the eyes of your clients and potential clients, and we strongly feel without a .com, you may lose some credibility.


Since your website is bringing your business online to service your clients more effectively and attract new clients, register yourcompanynameonline.com. We do completely understand your concern that with the word online it makes your domain longer, but also realize that short domains are no longer available with 1 billion plus sites online.


Hyphenated Names?


Should you get a hyphenated name? There are some things to consider here:


It’s easy to forget the hyphens when typing a name. Many visitors are used to typing URL’s without hyphens. The worst case scenario is they leave out the hyphens and end up at your competitor’s site.


When people recommend your site to their friends or family verbally, having hyphens in your domain name leads to more potential errors than when the name does not contain hyphens. For example, how do you think your visitors will refer to your site if it is named “acme-plumbing-and-electric.com”? They might say, “I visited Acme Plumbing and Electricity dot com yesterday. It was a great site.” Their friends, remembering that comment later, might type into their browsers “acmeplumbingandelectric.com”.


In conclusion, whenever a visitor reaches your website or scrolls through the results of search engines, they look at your domain name and make that vital first impression analysis that is a crucial component to your online success. Your domain name reveals a lot about your website and that may determine if your visitors click on your website or your competitors’.


An attractive and an appealing domain name can become a crowd puller. A good domain name that is descriptive in nature can be informative about your site content to the visitors.


Choosing a good domain name is not merely a formality. Do spend some time in deciding your perfect domain name.


Where to find cheap domain names


We personally recommend Godaddy to all of our customers, we have had very good experiences with their customer service, they are one of the few domain registrars that actually pick up their phone, most others only have an online support ticket system which takes 24-48 hours to get assistance, online knowledge bases to answer your questions, or even worse, an online form on their contact page for support.


Here is a list of our top 5 companies based on annual cost and customer service:


Go Daddy


Namecheap


Name.com


Namesecure


Domain.com



How To Choose The Perfect Domain Name

Cheap photos for your website

Attracting visitors to your website and keeping them on the website is not easy. Of course you must have great information, since that is the core of your service. The text is the most important part of your site’s content that search engines read, and thus, keywords, headings, originality, and links are so important.


On the other hand, visitor retention will be difficult if you have pages and pages of nothing but text. It is important to make the pages visually appealing. That is where the importance of images comes in!


If you’re looking for professional, affordable, legal stock photography for your website, you  have plenty of options options…



Limited Free Photo Options


  • Photopin.com – You will need to select commercial images if you will be using the photo for your business. Once you find an image, just follow the instructions for appropriate credits. They have photos of local places, too, many from Flickr, etc. Do a search, and you’ll see what options you have. We highly recommend this site for finding free stock photos.

  • Sxc.hu – With this site you will need to create an account, but it’s a good resource for free images with no restrictions.


Cheap photos for your website

How To Get Your Business Listed In Google Places

Google Places is a free listing on Google that if done correctly will give you top page ranking for local are searches. It is  important to be set-up right to take full advantage of this free listing on Google.


By listing your business on Google Places and focusing on the right keywords you will attract local and visiting customers in your area. This is a completely separate listing than your organic listing which shows under the local area (map related) searches in Google. So, in essence, you have two chances of coming up at the top of page 1 in Google by adding your website into Google Places



What is a local search? – A local search is when someone searches online using your primary service and city as part of the search string (i.e. YOUR service in YOUR city). Below is an example of a local search for roofers in the Mountain View, CA area.


Google Places Example

Google Places Example


 


Research shows that customers  prefer to engage with local businesses where possible and with the rise of smartphones it should become a crucial part of your online marketing strategy while making it easier for customers to find you.


Being in Google Places is crucial to get yourself additional exposure locally and it is free. To submit your site to Google Places, please click here.



How To Get Your Business Listed In Google Places

Importance Of Responsive Web Design

You have probably heard the buzz right now one way or another. Responsive web design has been a very hot topic in 2014 and for good reason.


When you look around at the incredible amount of devices on the market these days it’s not surprising that current market research shows mobile internet usage is set to grow massively by 2015 with an increase of almost 20% from 2010. What is more interesting is that this also means that the number of mobile internet users will overtake that of desktop users during this time.



Smartphone Internet Usage Statistics

Responsive Web Design


There is little doubt that this change in how people are browsing the Internet and viewing websites means we need to be considering how we engage with them to offer the best online experience for our products and services. So what can you do to make this happen? Simply ensure that your website is built with Responsive technology.


Responsive Web Design is a coding technique that allows a website to adapt to the size of screen it is being viewed on. Someone opening your site on a small smartphone will be shown the same site as the person opening it on their laptop but the site will have noticed the constraints and automatically reformat to give the user an experience better suited to their device and it’s display area. No more loading a huge website and having to zoom in and out to find the content you’re looking for. Responsive web design takes into account interaction too and makes your site easier to use by acknowledging and integrating things like touch screens to aid navigation.


To test to see if your site is responsive you can go to Responsive.is and click the different devices at the top of the page. Here’s our company site to get you started: http://responsive.is/internetsolutionsforless.com


Even Google has said it “highly recommends using responsive design” and has made it an important part of its search engine algorithm.


What are the benefits of responsive web design


Improve Your Google Ranking

Google is focused on the user experience and wants to return search results that will enhance the user experience no matter what device they use. Websites that provide a better user experience with well written content and a well designed user interface across all devices (including mobile phones and tablets) will take priority in searches, thus improving their Google ranking.


Higher Visitor To Lead Conversions

It has been proven when using Google Analytics for websites that are Responsive in design with a well-designed user interface enhances the user experience and in turn keeps them on the site longer, decreases the bounce rate and increases the vistor to lead conversion rate. This is a goal we’re all trying to achieve!


Cost Effective

Having a website that is responsive in design means one site for all devices. No longer is there a need for a completely separate mobile website. This also means when updates are needed, you only need to update one site, not two.


In summary, you cannot afford to have a website that is not responsive to cater to all devices that visit your website.


For a free quote on a responsive web site, contact us today.



Importance Of Responsive Web Design

Steps To Getting Your Site Built In Ten Business Days Or Less

So your taking the big step and have hired someone to redesign your old outdated website or your getting your first website built. Congrats! You’ve either been putting it off for a while or maybe business just picked up and you have budgeted for it or your old site just isn’t cutting it anymore. Whatever the reason, you’re excited and in a bit of a hurry. So you’d like to expedite the work, but keep your costs to a minimum. Possible? Yes, very and we’re here to offer you some tips on how to do just that.



Clients often think that a speedy turnaround time for a website means throwing more cash at the development team for faster results. Depending on your timeline, yes sometimes fees to expedite the project may be in order, but we’re here to offer you tips to work more smoothly and efficiently with your designer, in order to cut down on their time spent, which will likely cut your own cost. And of course, less time spent is less time that you’re waiting, stuck with your old site.


Getting started is potentially the most crucial step since this step is where you and the designer will not only start establishing the look and feel for your site, but also because this is where most clients lose a lot of time. It’s exciting to have a new site, but the process is fairly lengthy!


Have your content ready:


No matter who you choose to redesign your website, they are going to need your content. The content from the old site is a great start, but one of the reasons you are getting the site redesigned is probably due to the content being outdated. So rather than the designer programming your content in exactly how it is read in the old site, then revising it several times until it is to your satisfaction, you can speed up the process by having the content ready and proofed ahead of time. A tip I give to my clients is to open up a Word doc, copy the and paste the text into it from the current site and then revise it in the Word doc itself. Aside from the text portion of the site, the following items also fall under content and should be prepared in advance to speed up the web design process.


–> Images – If you’re going to use photos of your own for the site, it’s much more time efficient and you’ll see better results if you can provide at least a starter set of images at the beginning of the project. If you know that you want images but don’t have any of your own, not to worry, they can be purchased through stock photography sites at a range of prices (Istockphoto, Fototlia, ect.). Purchase your images and save them in a folder on your desktop that can easily be zipped up (compressed) and email to your designer as an attachment. You may also want to retitle the images based on the page they are to be built into.


–> Links to sites you have a presence on – We do not suggest placing links to other sites on the Internet on your site, unless they are ofcourse links to other sites which contain your business information or reviews (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yelp). The Internet is so competitive these days with billions of sites out there and you work so hard with your marketing efforts to drive traffic to your website, you should not give visitors an easy way out by linking to other sites, unless of course the site is promoting your business.


–> Navigation -This doesn’t mean that you must have everything set in stone, but just like the images, designing around real content from the start, allows your designer to leave realistic space for items, establish an appropriate hierarchy, create buttons and icons as needed, and all the other magic that you’re paying him/her to do.


Communication is important! This is YOUR business website, so your involvement is crucial.


For an affordable web design solution contact Internet Solutions For Less @ 877.932.4735



Steps To Getting Your Site Built In Ten Business Days Or Less