Over the last couple years we have had the opportunity to speak to thousands of Australian businesses in just about every line of work you can imagine from solicitors to tradespeople and we found many suffer from the same problem, lead blockage. We found that sometimes businesses can be their own worst enemy, making it too hard for potential customers to do business with them that they end up going elsewhere. After a careful analysis of their business we found the following to be the top 5 issues causing the lead blockage, many fixable within 10 minutes. What are they you ask?

Problem 1: Web Design or Website

Some websites are so complicated, loaded with so much content that they disable visitors from doing what they really need to do, so what are the top priorities when potential or return customers visit your website?

1. Get a quick idea of what you do and what your work is like
2. Get in contact with you
3. Purchase something from your site

Does you website do all the above simply and easily? If not you need to make changes to your website to accommodate anyone and everyone being able to visit your website

Problem 2: No Telephone Number

So many websites have no telephone number or the telephone number is so small and insignificant it might as well not be there. The perfect test is to get one of your friends to visit your website using their home computer or even their smart phone and if they can’t find your number within 5 seconds of your website loading, you need to fix it ASAP. Here’s a few tips:

1. Highlight your telephone number
2. Make your phone number click-able, so when someone visits your site using their iPhone or any other internet enabled telephone they can call you simply by clicking on your number
3. Make it stand out, highlight your number, make it larger, make it bold, move it to the top of the page and make sure you can’t miss it.
4. Put your telephone number on every page

Problem 3: No contact choices

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We’re lucky enough to speak to thousands of Australian businesses every month and we understand how disturbing it is to be paying thousands of dollars in marketing and optimising your website and not really know if it’s working or if it’s worth the money you’re spending.

We have put together a very simple survey that pumps out an answer or several answers on why your marketing might not be working or why your website is not getting the targeted traffic you’re after. This is an obligation free service that we provide and no there’s nothing you need to buy. Click below fill in your details and we will organise your free analysis (takes about 10minutes)

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Optimise Your Business In Google Local (Places) for under $6 It’s no secret that the old ways of advertising like local newspapers and directory books are dying a slow death becoming less effective for small business, especially when 82% of all local business searches are done in Google. We have been able to see the success of many of our customers who have seen real results and real business coming through the door within their first 4 weeks! So is online marketing the answer? Yes, but not all online marketing is the same. There’s 2 forms of online marketing:

1. Advertising that helps grow traffic to your website
2. Advertising that get’s your phone ringing

Let’s talk about no.1, this form of advertising is great if you have a website and the website is designed to turn traffic into calls or sales online and this is what we call a high converting website. Unfortunately, most websites are a tangled web and are either too simple with no information, no direction or too complex causing potential customers to leave before taking any action. The No.2 type of advertising is powerful yet hard to find, advertising that simply gets you the right kind of customers picking up their phones and calling you. This is where Google Local also known as Google Places comes in, the service is dedicated to helping you convert business interest in your local area into real business dollars. How does it do this? Let’s me you an example, Mr & Mr. Smith are watching a home renovation show on the weekend and decide that it’s time to give their house a fresh coat of paint, they jump online and search Google or they can’t be bothered getting up at all and do a quick search on their iPhone using Google to search for a “Painter” in “their local area” Google pops up a map (as seen below) and next to the map are the top 7 painters in that local area. The easy part is that next to each of the painters is their business name, website and their contact number and you’re one click away from calling the painter and getting a quick quote. Easy! So how do you get your business in the TOP 7 in Google Places?

This is a great opportunity for any business looking to grow online using the world’s largest search engine “Google” and join our successful customers who have been able to turn Google traffic into profits for their businesses. Want more information? click here for our contact details Timmy Sabre

September Special (Normally $999) Take your old tired website and give it a much needed face lift to the award winning WordPress system, it’s a businesses dream, a website that can be easily managed internally without the constant need for a designer. How easy is it? Can you write and send an email? Yes, it’s that easy. All our website packages come with the following to make sure you get the best value: 1 on 1 Training – Showing you how to manage and update your own website Award winning WordPress – CMS (Content Management System) back end used by some of the bests company in the world like Google, VW, The New York Times, Sony, Sumsung, Mozilla, Flikr and of course Publicity Monster. Custom emails – finally you can stop using that old hotmail account for your business and start using yourname@yourbusiness.com.au SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) – We upgrade your website so it’s optimised for the most powerful search engine in the world and in Australia - Google! We will also work to get your business name and your service or product optimised in your local area. NOW ADD EXTRA FEATURES:

• A BLOG – Keep customers up to date with your business and specials
• GOOGLE ANALYTICS – Get detailed statistics on your visitors, what where and for how long?
• FACEBOOK SHARE
• TWITTER SHARE
• LIVE CHAT – Allow customer to chat to you directly from the website and close a lot more business
• E-COMMERCE – sell products and services from your website
• GALLERIES – Feature your work and show prospective customer and that’s just the tip of the iceberg
• Google Local (Places) – Get your business featured at the top of search the search results in your local area

Get your business listed and optimised for the top of Google Local (Places) Australia today for as little as only $6 a week.

Why optimise your business in now?

1. There’s only Top 7 spots available in each suburb
2. Unlimited leads (you don’t pay per click or per lead)
3. 82% of all Australians go online to find their local business
4. 92% of all Australian’s online use Google
5. 12 times more people use Google than Yellow Pages Books
6. 18 times more people use Google than local newspapers
7. Due to high use of iPhone & smart phones – Google Places is the first choice in search
8. Be found easily by existing customers looking for your number
9. Get called by new opportunities in your local area
10. Jump ahead of your competition
11. Google Places mini-site featuring photos, testimonials, opening times, details about your business
12. Get quality targeted website traffic
13. Detailed statistics showing you who is searching for you, where they came from and what they’re looking for
14. 12 months support & assistance with your listing optimisation
15. Thousands of satisfied customers, see testimonials

Ask us how we can help optimise your business to appear in the top search results in your local area. We specialise in listing your local business in Google Places and Google Places Optimisation to help your business grow online Contact us

Google Local (Places) is for you! Watch the 2 minute video below.

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Some people are so disappointed with no traffic coming to their website. How good your products and services is still no any profit. What should we do? We must know how to do search engine optimization. 1. Keywords Don’t be too lazy. The most important thing to do is marketing research. You must know which keywords are more likely to be searched by people to find your site. Put emphasis on popular keywords regarding to your business or product. Domain Name, Title Tag, Content, Photos should be included keywords. But don’t be so greedy for putting keywords repeatedly in one page. It is suggested that one keyword should not more than 5%. Let I use web design as example. In the past 30 days, there are 323678 searchers searched “Web Design”. The figure helps us to identify what is popular keyword regarding to your business. You should look for that keywords are high in demand, but don’t have much more competitor. 2. Title Tag Use keywords in your title tag.You should place the most popular keywords in your page and include in your content. Title tag is the first thing that the search engines crawler will see. The keywords should be added in the frontend and backend. 3. Change content regularly Search engines love a web site which update and change content regularly. Also do not try to copy other site’s articles to your site. You should do something different. It is the best to have a unique content. It is the way to bring browsers come again. For example, if your eshop sell health products, you should write some articles in related to health message, such as teach them how to maintain healthy life. 4. Informative content Having attractive contents are very important to bring visitors come again. This means that your website should have more informative articles. For example, if you sell cake, it is better to tell more about the production, recipe and after-sales service. 5.E Marketing (i) Pay Per Click PPC providers exist, Google AdWords, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Microsoft AdCenter, are the largest network operator. You need to set what is your budget per day or per month, they would spider your ads to maximize exposure, e.g. blog, web site, forum, etc. PPC would be the fastest way bring business, because of your ads would be displayed at the most eye-catching place. Apart from paid advertisement, there are many free ways to promote your products, e.g.Blog, Video, Ebanner, Enewsletters, Email, Auction, etc. Try to do creative, don’t copy other’s idea. I have studied Internet Marketing and have a few years experience in web promotion and web design. Author: Cherry Fong Article Source: EzineArticles.com

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