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Your Website Takes Just 1/20th Of A Second
Read time: 3 minutes. In this small article:1. The Issue2. The Business implications3. How can you change it1. The IssueThis article explores the importance of design in the Internet world. A recent blog post on Signal vs Noise pointed out the article at Reuters which said that a website has around 1/20th of a second to make an impression that will stay with the user f

is common sense to you, will certainly not be common sense to everyone else. All of us are, after all, individuals and we all think differently about each situation.

Start Building Your Opt-In Email Lists Today
No matter what product you are marketing on the internet, your own opt-in email lists are a crucial part of the success equation. You have probably heard this before, but did you take action?Your opt-in list is the vehicle you will use to contact potential customers and build a relationship with them. You promise useful and valuable information in exchange for their email address. Once you successfully deliver on this promise, th

1. Get rid of the splash page, all that is, is an extra click people have to go through just to get to the value, which should be immediately available on your homepage. The first thing a visitor sees on the homepage should be the promise of useful information and once again, don't forget value, if they don't think the site is worth their time to stick around for a few minutes.... they wont. Landing pages for targeted traffic are okay, just remember generic splash pages or "enter" pages are annoying and useless to visitors.

2. Eliminate all of the irrelevant advertisements because you should be selling your affiliate products for dollars, not sending people away from your site for cents. Now days most people with experience surfing the net have trained themselves to completely ignore banner ads, so don't rely on them and do not use too many of them, especially animated banners for that matter, cause they are very annoying. Targeted adverts are the only way to go, within reason, don't spam our senses with a billion adverts, its a turn-off.

3. One of the most important cardinal rules of functional, good web design, is if you have to explain how your navigation works... it's a good sign you don't have good navigation. Web site navigation should first above all, function, cause if it does not function it is useless and people will not stay on a web site for more than a few moments if they cant navigate easily. Make your navigation simple and elegant, don't waste peoples time and patience with a bunch of useless Flash animation or disappearing links.

4. Have a clear naming or "branding" of each section of your web site. Don't confuse your visitors. Let them know what section of the site they are in at all times because what is common sense to you, will certainly not be common sense to everyone else. All of us are, after all, individuals and we all think differently about each situation.

Why it Pays to Specialize
Someone once said that you can’t be all things to everyone. What is true in our personal life is equally true in business.While it may seem counterintuitive to specialize and consciously limit the scope of your target market, it’s actually a very wise marketing strategy.A niche consists of defining the target audience for your business and the more defined your niche, the more specific your audience, the easier and more c

ust remember generic splash pages or "enter" pages are annoying and useless to visitors.

Creating A Marketing Budget
The Marketing Budget – Where To StartAs a new business, there is precious little historical information that can be used to guide the creation of a marketing budget. As a default, many companies will use industry standards as guides (very typically, the "average" will be somewhere between 2% and 5% of gross sales). Unfortunately, as with any industry standard, it does not represent the unique needs or strategies

ated banners for that matter, cause they are very annoying. Targeted adverts are the only way to go, within reason, don't spam our senses with a billion adverts, its a turn-off.

Sell Air - Become a Millionaire!
One of the best and easiest ways for someone to make large amounts of money is by selling air! Ok, maybe not literal air, but information. People are starving for information and they are willing to pull out their credit cards for it. Seriously!Millions of people go on the internet with the intent of finding one thing: information. Some are looking for ways to save money. Some are looking for ways to make money. Other

ction it is useless and people will not stay on a web site for more than a few moments if they cant navigate easily. Make your navigation simple and elegant, don't waste peoples time and patience with a bunch of useless Flash animation or disappearing links.

Online Marketing Guru Tricks - How They Do Their Magic Tricks
If you ever were to look in a top marketer’s closet do you ever wonder what you would find? I mean his business closet of course. You see, since I became an online marketer I got to see how the magic tricks were done. Let me share with you my observations.Next time you see a marketer just think of him as an encyclopedia of tricks & techniques. Usually there made up of only that. This is shown all over their campaigns when you loo

is common sense to you, will certainly not be common sense to everyone else. All of us are, after all, individuals and we all think differently about each situation.

5. Audio, please oh please if you absolutely MUST insist on putting audio on your site, at the very least please provide a way to turn it off. There is nothing more annoying than audio on a page that you can't stop. I just leave the website rather than sit through the interruption of some cheesy beat or one of those really annoying talking robot heads. When I am listing to satellite radio I don't want some alien sound destroying my net surfing Zen.

6. Most people in Western culture read from left to right, which means the natural tendency when someone lands on your homepage is to scan from the top left and continue from there. This is also true with navigation, put your most important sections of your site on the left side of your horizontal nav-bar or on the top of your vertical nav-bars. People don't want to see "Home" and "About Us" as the first links, no one cares.... at first. Give them the value, give them the bread and butter of your site... first. After they are satisfied with the meal, they will head on over to the "About" page for the desert, or the icing on the cake to seal the deal. Don't spoil peoples' appetites by putting something in their way that they didn't come to your site looking for in the first place.

7. No one likes an ugly web site, but what people don't like even more than an ugly web site, is a non-functioning web site. My final cardinal rule of good web design is the philosophy that every web site should look as good as it functions. Top shelf functionality will breed top shelf design, it's the nature of good web design.

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