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Is your website helping you make money? It should! Check out this Manta Minute with Jason Koeppe, Manta’s Engagement Marketing Manager, for 3 tips on how to make your website one of your most valuable assets. Check it out here.

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7/26/12 at 7:05 am
Tip of The Day
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Member Since: 2/29/12
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Manta Media Inc.
Columbus, OH
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So true!

I spend time every day reviewing websites and it is amazing the number of websites that are not set up to be a marketing tool. Many I wonder why they were set up at all. Even many professionally built sites have no marketing principles and little if any on-site SEO done on them.

If your site isn't working, you need to question it's design and seek some answers.

Dan Ramthun
http://www.getmorebusiness.co
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7/26/12 at 7:20 am
Dan Ramthun
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Member Since: 6/17/11
Posts: 1030
Local Marketing Concepts
Watertown, WI
Before doing anything to your website, think what you want your website to achieve. Direct sales? Leads? Branding? Define key performance indicators to measure your results, and start optimizing.

If not, you risk spending a lot of time and effort on your website without generating the results you want. A lack of focus is extremely important!

If possible, use AB-testing on your website and in your advertising to continuously increase your website's performance,
7/26/12 at 9:54 am
Olaf Pijl
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Member Since: 2/16/12
Posts: 98
Searchify - Search Engine Marketing
Oshawa
We are a manufacturer various protective packaging products so we use our sites to help potential clients learn about the various protective packaging products and services that we sell such as military spec packaging products. Our products can get very technical so we have videos, content, product specs ( mil-prf-131 ) and industry applications to help clients see how our solutions can help their business succeed.

Than Nguyen
http://www.protectivepackaging.net/moisture-barrier-bags
7/26/12 at 3:19 pm
Than Nguyen
Member Since: 4/11/12
Posts: 30

It is not so difficult to understand why so many businesses have poorly designed websites. It is called "lag time," "not getting it," "Don't see the possible return," or whatever you want to call it. When you are a small business, you are working more hours per day than most anybody and just don't have time to put yourself into what online marketing could mean for promoting your business. And then everything changes so fast and you feel even more lost.

A business owner needs to "see" what online marketing could give in return for the spend, AND THAT AIN'T EASY.

The other problem is who to trust. In this field, like every other, there is the 80-20 rule: 1 in 5 know what they are doing. How does the business owner find the capable 1-in-5? THAT is not so hard. Here are your choices:
1. You hire your nephew.
2. You hire a "web specialist" that is geographically close to you.
3. You do some research online and take the time to call and ask questions.

Personally, I like number 3. As a business owner, all you have to do is start asking questions about how this marketing will help his business. If the answers come back clearly and concisely, in the business owner's range of understanding, the person on the other end of the phone probably knows what he/she is doing.

That has been my experience is several quests for professional help whether is has been doctors, dentists, programmers, stockbrokers, or other mysterious professions.

Take it for what it is worth.
8/3/12 at 11:47 am
John Danenbarger
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Member Since: 11/4/11
Posts: 9
WSI
Ottawa, KS
Web design also got more and more complicated. Designers aren't web builders, and web builders usually aren't savvy about search engine optimization (SEO).

If you want to know more about the SEO-opportunities of your website (and check if your web builder has done things right), feel free to apply to a free SEO audit here.
8/3/12 at 3:14 pm
Olaf Pijl
Owner
Member Since: 2/16/12
Posts: 98
Searchify - Search Engine Marketing
Oshawa