BSO Website Success

Bricks and Clicks

David Dougerty — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:22:01 +0000

How do potential customers know your business exists? Do you have an established base of customers who continually buy your product or services? Is this enough to keep your business profitable and growing? Do you have retail exposure? Could I see your business when I drive down your street. If I never drive down your [Read more...]

Focus on Facebook for Business

Janelle Hulme — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:56:54 +0000

Everyone has heard of Facebook. People are connecting with family, friends and people we knew from 20 years ago. Facebook’s main aim initially was a means to stay in touch and reconnect, share photos, stories, experiences,links etc. Basically to share personally. However with the growth of Facebook, we see a change. A lot of companies [Read more...]

Does your company website tell the real story?

David Dougerty — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:01:21 +0000

Over the past nine years I have spoken and meet with hundreds of business owners and staff members. The majority of these people have or work for quality businesses that once you meet them, you can see they are a very reputable and successful business. If I were to judge their business just based on [Read more...]

Websites that look unfinished on iPad or iPhone

David Dougerty — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:52:54 +0000

It is common for websites to contain flash animation which could be best summarised as images that move whilst you’re looking at the screen. Occasionally you can come across a complete website that is created in Flash. When many of these sites were created, there was no consideration for people viewing them on iPhones and iPads. Unfortunately these two items [Read more...]

Get Social

Jason Hulme — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 04:24:59 +0000

Many businesses are using social media successfully to connect with clients and potential new clients. If you have a poor (or no) social media presence your business is going to look behind the times. When someone likes your page on Facebook they are publicly recommending you to everyone in their social network. Exposing your business [Read more...]

Have you ever heard the saying If you don’t ask you don’t get?

David Dougerty — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:20:01 +0000

Have you ever heard the saying if you don’t ask you don’t get? I am assuming most of you will have. I can remember my father telling me this after I watched him negotiate a discount on a new car when I was a young boy. I use it now when a client or potential [Read more...]

Mobile Phone Website Usage soon to exceed Desktops

Janelle Hulme — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 04:45:42 +0000

Remember the days when a mobile phone was a big brick and you only used to make phone calls. Well those days are well and truly over. Practically everyone these days has a smart phone, giving users the Internet in the palm of their hand. Statistics show that within 5 years mobile searches will overtake [Read more...]

Website Success – Step 3 Website Development & Launch

Janelle Hulme — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 06:39:51 +0000

Now that you have your strategy and your design sorted, the next step is to get your website built! Here are our hints to make the website development and launch go as smoothly as possible. Development Process In web development, often elements of the original website concept need to be modified during the process. Flexibility, [Read more...]

Website Success – Step 2 Website Design and Functionality

admin — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:00:22 +0000

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed how strategy comes into play when creating a new website. Today, we will talk about everybody’s favourite theme – website design and functionality! Design – Website Look and Feel We think that establishing ‘good look and feel’ generally involves using elements like quality images, stylish colour schemes, [Read more...]

Website Success – Step 1 Create a Strategy

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 05:10:48 +0000

At Website Success, we tend to find that creating a website requires a holistic approach. Over the next 3 days, we will be releasing a series of posts which detail important things you should consider before you jump in and have a website built. 1. Develop a Strategy Achieving any targeted goal requires a solid [Read more...]