12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

If people visit your website and don’t ‘get it’ they disappear fast – often referred to as a high bounce rate.  This is bad news, so you need to know how to hang on to visitors long enough to persuade them to take action. There are lots of reasons why people leave...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

The Art of Writing Commercial Copy

I’ve been reading On Writing Well by William Zinsser and have been delighted by some of his descriptions of convoluted use of English.  A classic example is the announcement that ‘We are presently anticipating experiencing considerable precipitation’ really means ‘it...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

Building your online reputation

Marketing is a vast subject – and impacts on every area in your organisation no matter how big or small.  Reputation marketing is a small part of it. So what is reputation marketing exactly? It’s taking control of your online profile (and equally your offline profile,...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

7 steps to Social networking success

Social media is a powerful tool – for both social and business use.  It’s like being in a massive networking event where you can seek out exactly who you want to talk to and get into conversation. If you’re in business this is excellent news – and most business people...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

Marketing messages

If you’re creating marketing material then you really need to get the message targeted – and most marketers know about that.  They do lots of research into what attracts their ideal client’s attention.  However, few marketers know HOW people process...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

Do you get recommended?

Recommendations from other people are the lifeblood of most businesses.  It’s what is known as ‘third party validation’ and the reason most business owners actively seek testimonials and feature a testimonial page on their website.  It’s saying...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

Marketing your book

If you’ve read the previous blogs on turning your book idea into a plan, then getting the idea into words and finally getting published you just have one very important step to complete now: Marketing! Whether you publish your book through a conventional publishing...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

How to get your book published

If you’ve done your research, got your plan worked out and have started writing your book, you’ll need to think about how it will be published. There are a number of options: Get a publishing house interested and get a contract Self-publish Publish it as an ebook and...
12 Key Strategies to Keep Visitors on your Website

So you want to write a book … 2

If you’ve read the first blog in this series you’ll be focused on writing a book that actually has a market.  So how do you go about putting it together? If you’re a professional writer it shouldn’t be a problem, however, I’ve met a few people who have no...