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Actual for You - Web Coach Tip: Top 10 New Years Resolutions for Your Website
Strategic planning is a management tool. It is used to help an organization clarify its future direction – to focus its energy, and to help members of the organization work toward the same goals. The planning process adjusts the organization’s direction in response to a changing environment. Strategic planning is a disciplined effort to support fundamental decisions and actions that shape and guide what an organization is, what it does and why it does it, with a focus on whe
7. Review your Pricing. Do you have unnecessary services listed you can delete? A new service you can add? This is also good time to do a rate change.
8. Revisit your pre-contact Assessments and Questionnaires. Did you notice questions that went unanswered more often than others? Perhaps re-wording the question or deleting it all together would be wis
Employees have been known to take excessive days off leading to production problems for many companies. One of the solutions is employee attendance incentives. These are usually rewards given to employees as an incentive to limit their absences from work to a specified number of days.The perceived benefits of employee attendance incentives are to give the employee some control over their income, and give them a greater sense of responsibility for their jobs. They are
Sick websites are just like sick people. They’re not as productive or functioning as they normally are. Broken links and outdated info compare to a sore throat and nagging cough. Ignored and left untreated will eventually lead to bigger problems ahead.
So prepare to take notes while you read this article. Print this out and grab a pen & paper, I’ll wait.
1. Remove outdated events or expired offers. Nothing is more unprofessional than outdated info. Ie, Sign up for our August Super Conference. Either revised it, or delete it. As you prepare for 2006 include your “still on the burner” projects on your site. Give your visitors something to look forward to.
2. Update client testimonials and completed projects. Let the world know how busy you’ve been and what you’ve been up to. If you’ve not been so productive – make it look like you are – new clients are attracted and want to work with successful “happening” people.
3. Move a successful product or service to the front page. Make it a feature product and run a “special” for the month. Then next month, swap it out for another service or product. Take the time now to plan your “specials” for the next 6 months, or better yet – for the whole year!
4. Have your products or services morphed into a life of their own? What I mean is, look at your navigation – do these categories still apply? (ie. About us, web development, business solutions, etc.) Break out an item worthy of standing on it’s own into your navigation menu. Your customers will thank you for bringing your goodies out of hiding.
5. Got an updated photo of yourself? Or is it time to make an appointment with the photographer? Enough said… just do it.
6. Check your auto-responders. ALL of them. Test the entire series by sending to yourself and scouring over each with a fine tooth comb. Prepare to update your copy.
7. Review your Pricing. Do you have unnecessary services listed you can delete? A new service you can add? This is also good time to do a rate change.
8. Revisit your pre-contact Assessments and Questionnaires. Did you notice questions that went unanswered more often than others? Perhaps re-wording the question or deleting it all together would be wise
Increasing shareholder value is the most important driver for organisations in the modern business world. Shareholder value is built through growing profit and building confidence in the organisation, which moves share prices upwards. Shareholders like this!And the employees of an organisation have a crucial part to play in both elements of this.They contribute to sales by selling more, both to new and old customers. They build t
1. Remove outdated events or expired offers. Nothing is more unprofessional than outdated info. Ie, Sign up for our August Super Conference. Either revised it, or delete it. As you prepare for 2006 include your “still on the burner” projects on your site. Give your visitors something to look forward to.
2. Update client testimonials and completed projects. Let the world know how busy you’ve been and what you’ve been up to. If you’ve not been so productive – make it look like you are – new clients are attracted and want to work with successful “happening” people.
3. Move a successful product or service to the front page. Make it a feature product and run a “special” for the month. Then next month, swap it out for another service or product. Take the time now to plan your “specials” for the next 6 months, or better yet – for the whole year!
4. Have your products or services morphed into a life of their own? What I mean is, look at your navigation – do these categories still apply? (ie. About us, web development, business solutions, etc.) Break out an item worthy of standing on it’s own into your navigation menu. Your customers will thank you for bringing your goodies out of hiding.
5. Got an updated photo of yourself? Or is it time to make an appointment with the photographer? Enough said… just do it.
6. Check your auto-responders. ALL of them. Test the entire series by sending to yourself and scouring over each with a fine tooth comb. Prepare to update your copy.
7. Review your Pricing. Do you have unnecessary services listed you can delete? A new service you can add? This is also good time to do a rate change.
8. Revisit your pre-contact Assessments and Questionnaires. Did you notice questions that went unanswered more often than others? Perhaps re-wording the question or deleting it all together would be wis
It is curious how the use of something can change over time. Like the tailbone or the appendix, many things have survived from the past that have lost all reasons to survive. Yet they do survive, clueless dinosaurs from a previous age that have adapted themselves to newer uses, becoming a croc or a lizard in the process. The lanyard, that curious piece of string that pops up in all places and comes attached with all sorts of things, is one such remnant of a previous age.
3. Move a successful product or service to the front page. Make it a feature product and run a “special” for the month. Then next month, swap it out for another service or product. Take the time now to plan your “specials” for the next 6 months, or better yet – for the whole year!
4. Have your products or services morphed into a life of their own? What I mean is, look at your navigation – do these categories still apply? (ie. About us, web development, business solutions, etc.) Break out an item worthy of standing on it’s own into your navigation menu. Your customers will thank you for bringing your goodies out of hiding.
5. Got an updated photo of yourself? Or is it time to make an appointment with the photographer? Enough said… just do it.
6. Check your auto-responders. ALL of them. Test the entire series by sending to yourself and scouring over each with a fine tooth comb. Prepare to update your copy.
7. Review your Pricing. Do you have unnecessary services listed you can delete? A new service you can add? This is also good time to do a rate change.
8. Revisit your pre-contact Assessments and Questionnaires. Did you notice questions that went unanswered more often than others? Perhaps re-wording the question or deleting it all together would be wis
Gone are the days when glossy printed handouts would suffice in attracting customers to your restaurant. Today, in their quest to catch eyeballs, advertising agencies have created a nonstop marketplace that knows no limits.Restaurant Advertising Gets CustomersWill Rogers, the late entertainer, once said, "All I know is just what I read in the papers". Restaurant advertising generates interest in the papers along with the news coverage. Although, people know the
5. Got an updated photo of yourself? Or is it time to make an appointment with the photographer? Enough said… just do it.
6. Check your auto-responders. ALL of them. Test the entire series by sending to yourself and scouring over each with a fine tooth comb. Prepare to update your copy.
7. Review your Pricing. Do you have unnecessary services listed you can delete? A new service you can add? This is also good time to do a rate change.
8. Revisit your pre-contact Assessments and Questionnaires. Did you notice questions that went unanswered more often than others? Perhaps re-wording the question or deleting it all together would be wis
Good communication is the key to encouraging your auction buyers to leave you positive feedback. Such communication also helps avoid most negative feedback on eBay.1. Good Communication Prevents MisunderstandingsGood communication helps to avoid misunderstandings. For example, if surface shipping takes six to eight weeks but the customer doesn't know this, he may expect almost immediate delivery. When such quick delivery doesn't materialize, h
7. Review your Pricing. Do you have unnecessary services listed you can delete? A new service you can add? This is also good time to do a rate change.
8. Revisit your pre-contact Assessments and Questionnaires. Did you notice questions that went unanswered more often than others? Perhaps re-wording the question or deleting it all together would be wise.
9. Double check your contact info. Include your instant message (IM) id’s or modify your business hours. Add your turn around time for answering inquires, etc.
10. Edit copy on all your web pages but save the homepage for last. Now stand back, see the big picture and incorporate those edits into your homepage. Remember, you’re going to take your visitor by the hand and lead them where they are to go.
While you're on a roll - don't forget to take a look at your System's housekeeping. For example, I revisited a production checklist I use for one of my major clients. Adding in little tid-bits of info that I spent way too much useless time searching for each month will save me thousands of moments of frustration. Plus, every production based item I need for this client is right at my fingertips.
WOW, now doesn't that feel better!
While you still have pen in hand, what else can you do to improve and simplify?
What about being creative - do you spend enough time marketing to attract clients? Do you spend quality time reflecting on your business to learn from past mistakes and how to avoid them?
Now that you've created a weekend project, please don't obsess. Start out spending only 15 minutes with each task. You can do ANYTHING in 15 minutes.
Copyright 2005 Donna Payne
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