ASANT Media

Mortgage Willow

ashivapu — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:50:39 +0000

Mortgage Willow is a research portal for mortgages and home loans. The project included complete design and implementation of a content management/directory system.

Features

Automated premium listing payment system.
Wordpress-PHP Link Directory integration.
Tabbed browsing.

URL

Launch website

Project – Webtolerant (Webmaster Blog)

ashivapu — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:35:34 +0000

I strongly believe 2010 will be the year that really sparks corporate branding online. Thanks to the loads of both free and cheap resources made available, no longer will the web-a-sphere be home to only large companies. A host of small businesses and individuals will flood the market to not only extend and globalize their brand but also cut down costs at the same time.

Combined with the fact that I get tons of questions regarding webmastering and web design, I have created a new website devoted specifically for this cause, Webtolerant.

Webtolerant is geared at informing individuals how to properly build, grow, and maintain their website, whether it is for a business or personal endeavor. The site will cover topics including but not limited to Wordpress usage, basic web coding, social networks, and website management.

Let us know if there is any specific you want covered.

Webtolerant

ashivapu — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:54:02 +0000

Webtolerant is our own project geared for webmasters. It teaches them how to properly build, grow, and maintain their website. The site uses advanced usage of Wordpress such as conditional tags, custom pages, and custom fields to better target specific user needs.

Features

Wordpress integration.
Custom pages by categories.
Video integration.

URL

Launch Website

Is Your Flash Site Hindering Your Business?

ashivapu — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:20:29 +0000

Being an owner of an online media business, obviously I always need to be on top of what design and marketing practices are being implemented. While things come and go, it still always makes me cringe every time I land on a 100% flash created website.

Whether it looks good or not, coding your site 100% in flash basically does more harm than good.

For those unfamiliar with how web coding and design works, there are basically two form of sites: flash and non-flash. Take the following example to help distinguish the difference:

Compare two identical parks: Park 1 is trapped within a glass box (flash site); Park 2 is not (non-flash site).

Which park do you think people will go to? Obviously the one not in a glass box because people can go into the park and interact with all the amenities it has to offer. Nobody just wants to look at the park just from the outside. This is exactly the effect flash has on a site.

Search engine spiders can’t read it.
Usability for readers is just horrendous.
There are no back buttons and no right click options.

Overall, the functionality and usability of flash sites are completely pointless and not solving our main problems.

Moreover, the overall design appeal of flash sites tend to be annoying to most users as well. In today’s internet world we have trained our head to think flashy, animated objects are spam. If we add all these things in our flash site, then what good does it do?

When flash is good to use. While I never believe flash is good except for some game or unique marketing campaign, there are coding techniques that allow flash to take on characteristics of non-flash sites; however, that requires some deep pockets, which is never really good on our bottom line.

The Wild Investor

ashivapu — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:19:53 +0000

The Wild Investor is a stock market blog. The needs were to focus on promoting the full database of articles as well as internal programs and create a sleek layout that allows for scannable content. The site ranks top page in Google search for various key terms.

Features

Wordpress integration.
Complete email marketing campaign.
Key SEO practices built into the design.
Custom squeeze pages.
Tabbed browsing.

URL

Launch Website

Speak Stocks

ashivapu — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:18:14 +0000

Speak Stocks is a premier database for “stock trading education” articles. Goals were to create a simple design that seamlessly integrates multiple contributors into one format for easy access to readers and to build a resources for traders of all levels, including a dictionary of over a hundred financial terms.

Features

Wordpress integration.
Dictionary template with built-in ads.
Tabbed browsing.
Custom archive pages.
Email lead generator.

URL

Launch Website

Chart Pattern Manifest

ashivapu — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:13:31 +0000

Chart Pattern Manifest is a “stock trading” training package built under a membership platform. Users must first pay fee through online setup before they can access locked content.

Features

Wordpress integration with premium members only section.
Payment integration with Paypal.
Member integration with email marketing software (Aweber).
Design of optimized sales page.

URL

Launch Website

Stock Brokerage Reviews

ashivapu — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:09:49 +0000

StockBrokerageReviews.com is a social-integrated review site for online discount stock brokerages. Along with user fed ratings and accurate reviews, users can find the best brokerage that meets their needs as well as other stock brokerage tips and news, including up-to-the minute tracking through Twitter.

Features

Wordpress integration.
Option for users to rate reviews.
Up-to-the minute tracking for specific keywords through Twitter.

URL

Launch Website

Project Debut – Stock Brokerage Reviews

ashivapu — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 05:01:25 +0000

Over the past month, I have been working on a couple different projects.. 3 main ones to be precise. I’ll be sharing all of them over the next couple of weeks; however, the first one I can talk about today.

In the whole online marketing/make money online field, you can never stop learning and adapting. Because so much of it deals with how people use the internet, understanding social tendencies is a great concept to grab a hold of.

There is definitely no shortage of business models to make money online. Of the top of my head, you can sell an information product, create a membership site, run a blog, or create a review site. My latest project, Stock Brokerage Reviews (SBR), fits under the review site category.

What is a review site?

This type of site focuses around one main topic, and just spits out reviews of similar products. Obviously, in this case, SBR focuses on stock brokerage reviews. They are great SEO content builders and highly optimized because most visitors of this type of site have come for a specific reason.

On the backend, money is made by using affiliate links to refer people from your review site and make commission once they sign up or take the necessary action. Check out my recommended affiliate networks. So if you can get affiliate links for majority of your review subjects, then you are likely to get a conversion regardless of the users choice, thus, giving the option of choice to the user.

The key to a good review site

Probably the biggest factor of a good review site is to be completely neutral. Don’t give a bad review just because you don’t have an affiliate link for something. Its best to develop some type of review format or template and just plug away. This keeps things aligned through the site.

Create SEO how-to content. While the reviews themselves are great SEO content, create solid how-to content. For example, on SBR I have articles that tell people what they need to sign up for a stock brokerage, how to sign-up for one, and so on. Odds are that people searching for those topics will like to see the reviews as well.

Allow some type of social integration. Whether it be through comments, some sort of rating plugin, or social network integration, try to give voice to visitors. If readers can see other perspectives, then it will make them more likely to take action.

Yes, this site is barely 1 month old, but it has already created over a hundred dollars in commissions, while distributing valuable content to visitors. I still have some tweaks and addition to make to the site, but overall it has definitely been a good experience so far.

Buying vs. Selling: What to Do?

ashivapu — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:01:50 +0000

Forget about just making money online, when you are dealing with anything that has to do with some sort of income we all would like to make money right now; however, the desire to experience satisfaction now might hinder that feeling a couple months down the road.

With any business, revenue is usually generated in an exponential format… meaning your money grows exponentially over time. While you make a couple cents in the first month, the next month could bring a couple dollars, followed by a couple hundred, and so on. The ability to see passed the rough patch and keep you eye on the end goal is what separates successful ventures from fallen one.

Many times though our long-term revenue is not effected by our work, but the decisions we make for the short-term.

Probably one of the quickest and easiest ways to make money online is by selling your site. Through sites like Flippa, there are many ways to do it. Sites can sell for as low as couple dollars all the way up to tens of thousands. Pretty much a decent design and some content will easily fetch you between $100-200. If you start to build a portfolio of sites, that money can be very enticing because what difference does one less money make, right… WRONG!

But how do we know when we should sell or hold?

To anybody an instant $100 seem rather enticing, but you have to remember that that $100 is all you will make from that particular site. How much more money could you make if you held onto it a little bit longer? Are there any other tweaks and changes you could make to squeeze every penny out?

Even if you don’t have enough time, what happens if you could work on it a couple minutes each week? A measurement to consider when deciding to sell or not, is “did you take it as far as you can go?” If there is nothing left for you to do or you don’t know what else to do, then it could be time to move on.

Point is… experienced greatly in the make money online business… at the beginning, the amount of money you make compared to the hours you put in might make a child laborer look like a billionaire. When we aren’t making money, any amount looks good; however, remember to consider your long-term outlook before making any final decisions because it could end up meaning less money overall.