There are only two kinds of sites on the Internet:
1. Informational 2. Sales
Of course, that is a gross exaggeration and over generalizes the landscape of the Internet, but it will be useful for this article. We want to talk about how you can take any site you
/>have and create a sister site of the other type in order to improve your traffic, sales and mission. First, let's define these types of sites a little more and give some examples.
1. Informational
This is the classic content or free information site. It includes hobby sites, huge communities like Yahoo, search engines, discussion forums, news sites, how-to sites and a vast majority of the Internet in general.
2. Sales
This can be a classic e-commerce site sells something directly. It can describe a product/service and provide a way to provide payment directly on the site. The famous sites in this category include Amazon, Orbitz, and Ebay. The less famous sites sell a vast variety of the kind of merchandise that used to be sold via direct postal mail campaigns, catalogs, etc.
It can also include a more subtle type of sales site. Everyone was warned in the last decade that you had better be "on the net" or you would be out of business. Most organizations have taken that advice. Almost every corporation, non-profit organization, government agency, church and school now have a website. When many of these organizations created their website, they realized they had nothing to sell directly, nor did their true mission include providing a lot of free information content about their topic. ( Next Page )
In almost every business publication there are articles telling us how, as a small business, we need to have a website. This is very true! The Internet is where most people go to find a product ...
Individual differences teach us that we have diversities with other people included in this diversity is our sense of craftsmanship and artistry. To express this eccentricity in design we can rely on ...
A professional quality brochure can attract interest to any business, organization, or cause. On the other hand, a poor quality brochure invites readers' criticism or scorn. Your brochure has a single ...
The idea behind good website design is to offer your viewer a logical flow while making it interesting and easy to navigate. Lead your viewers to the starting point and then direct ...
More and more, people don't have traditional websites: static things where pages can be added, updated or taken away. Instead, they write new material for their website when they feel like it, and ...