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FREE Advertising Tips to Get Your Website Out There
Reading Time: 3 minutes Customers can’t love your products/services if they don’t know you exist! If you want to know how to promote your website for free, to increase customer awareness, read on.
Find out:
– How to promote your website for free – using other websites
– How to keep your web address in potential customers’ minds
– How to enlist support from other businesses
Website Design that Makes People Want to Buy from You Now
Reading Time: 5 minutes How do you make people want to buy from your website? While there is no one single answer to this question, a good place to start is website design. This blog looks at the importance of website design in relation to first impressions, and how to effectively engage your target customers.
— How “The Fold” impacts website design
— Strategic layout for maximum impact
— The importance of visual appeal & your unique target customers
Why You Need To Include Customer Reviews on Your Website
Reading Time: < 1 minute If you have a website without customer reviews, you could be harming your business. Why? Let’s take a look at the following:
– Proof that Website Reviews Work
– How Do Website and Online Reviews Work?
– How to Get More Website Reviews for Your Business?
Love at First Site | Does It Matter What My Web Design Looks Like?
Reading Time: 4 minutes As a business owner, have you ever found yourself wondering: ‘Does it really matter what my web design looks like?’ The short answer? Yes!
Just like the concept of ‘love at first sight’, first impressions matter. A lot! This blog explores why your website’s appearance matters, and how you can use it to connect with and engage your ideal customers.
Top 5 Common Website Design Mistakes
Reading Time: 3 minutes Need a new website? Before you get too far into the creative process, we suggest you get your head around what makes for good website design. It’s actually very important that this occur, given that 75% of consumers will judge a company’s credibility based solely on its website design.
Why Has My Website Stopped Working?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Are you feeling frustrated and dissatisfied with your business website’s performance – or lack thereof? This Blog looks at some key issues you may be facing with your website, and how a web developer can help.
How Long Does it take to get a Website Designed?
Reading Time: 4 minutes You want to be cautious of definitive answers to this question, as they can easily lead to potential frustration, misunderstandings and disappointment. The truth is there are so many moving parts to coordinate that what’s really important when it comes to website design, more than timing, is quality.
The Risks of Using an Inexperienced Web Design Company
Reading Time: 3 minutes You’re looking to save money on web design for your business… we get it. But choosing the cheapest web design company is rarely a good idea. Low prices can indicate a lack of experience, and experience matters. A lot. Here’s why.
How to Switch Website Design Companies?
Reading Time: 3 minutes If you’re googling how to switch website design companies then it’s likely that you’re pretty unhappy with your current website designer. This may be because: they never get back to you, charge exorbitant fees for minor maintenance or, just don’t have the technical know-how to take your website to the next level.
How Often Should You Update Your Website Software, Content + Design
Reading Time: 4 minutes Googling ‘how often should I update my website?’, Be aware that if your website technology, is poorly maintained, your site can actually break. Find out why.
Is Fully Managed Hosting Essential for My Business?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Need website hosting? Websites require constant maintenance to ensure functionality and security. Opting for fully managed website hosting ensures this.
How Can Video Marketing Grow My Local Business?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Did you know that websites with video are 50 times more likely to be ranked? More businesses are increasing sales through video marketing in 2019 – 2020.
Lunch Break Website Marketing Part 2
Reading Time: 4 minutes So you’ve got a fantastic website; it looks slick and professional and perfectly explains your services or products. But how do you get more people to see it? Below we’ve provided our Top 5 ways to Cheap Website Marketing.
Lunch Break Website Marketing – Part 1
Reading Time: 4 minutes Want to know how to promote your business in a half-hour lunch break? While web-based solutions are an essential part of business promotion, low-tech methods can be effective too. Think customer relations, enquiry follow-ups, staff competitions and more. Read on for our top five recommendations to promote your business, they are all relatively simple to execute and can have a big impact.
Do I Own My Website?
Reading Time: 4 minutes If you’re asking yourself the question, “do I own my website?”, you are not alone. It is a common and important question. At Web-Sta we ensure you have access to all of your website’s passwords, and that you can edit content if, and when, you choose.
Read on to find out how to take ownership of your website.
Professional Website Hosting for Optimal Website Performance
Reading Time: 3 minutes As a business owner, do you feel like you just don’t have the time to manage your website hosting? Unfortunately, in today’s world of online business, neglecting your website maintenance is a recipe for disaster. This Blog looks at the importance of website hosting, and the benefits of outsourcing.
Quality WordPress Web Designer Meets Marketing Expertise
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you’re on the hunt for quality WordPress website design Brisbane, Web-Sta has the solution you need. Based on Brisbane’s northside, and with 12+ years in the industry, we specialise in building a professional and effective online presence for small and medium businesses throughout Australia.
Brute Force Attack – A Real Website Threat
Reading Time: 4 minutes The digital landscape can be an extremely hostile place. Without the proper protection, your website (and data) is left vulnerable to a host of security threats. Brute Force Attacks are one threat that Web-Sta has recently encountered. Read on to learn more about what it is and what we’ve done about it.
5 Benefits Of Using A WordPress Web Designer
Reading Time: 3 minutes With 12+ years in the web design industry, we’ve personally found WordPress Web Designer to be a superior website builder and content management system, offering the widest range of benefits for our clients. As Brisbane and Sunshine Coast web designers, we use and recommend WordPress for all your website needs. Read on for the top 5 benefits of using WordPress…
Websites! How Much, How Long + What’s Involved?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Want the recipe for creating a quality, customised website that will grow your business? You need to invest time and resources to make it happen! At Web-Sta we aim to complete each project within the shortest possible time. With the various stages involved and the Client’s review + approval process, generally this occurs within 6 […]
What It Takes to Create a High Quality, Results-Driven + Scalable Website
Reading Time: 4 minutes Need your website to just nail it? An experienced web designer who can deliver exceptional, customer-satisfying results is your best investment. At Web-Sta our customisable, multi-staged web design process has been honed over 12 years and leveraged on 100s of Brisbane and Sunshine Coast websites. Don’t risk having this vital marketing tool built by an inexperienced web designer.
3 Essential Tips on How to Save Time + Money On Updating Your Website
Reading Time: 5 minutes Most of us don’t want to invest our Time + Money into designing a content strategy let alone creating any actual content. Let’s face it, Writing blogs, engaging on social media, and sending out eNewsletters can be incredibly time-consuming.
This is why we are sharing our 3 essential tips to help you manage your website content creation more effectively!
3 Reasons To Go Local with Your Web Design
Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s look at the top 3 reasons why selecting a local web designer is better:
Meet your new web designer face-to-face
Customised web design solutions for your business
Local web design = Local knowledge
3 Effective Strategies to Let Everyone Know You’re Open For Business!
Reading Time: 3 minutes The internet is an ocean of information, so how do you make sure your website is seen and heard by your target audience? We share our 3 key website marketing strategies:
1. Search Engine Optimisation or SEO Marketing
2. Blogging
3. Email Marketing
The Top 7 Website Updates for 2020
Reading Time: 4 minutes Want to update your website but don’t know where to start? We share our top 7 tips for 2020. For more information, contact Web-Sta on: 0415 142 178.
How Offline Marketing can Boost Your Website in this Digital Era
Reading Time: 3 minutes From product packaging and vehicle signage to networking and merchandise; these ‘non-digital’ tools all contribute to your overall ‘digital’ presence and performance. At Web-Sta we believe a mix of digital and off-line marketing strategies work best. Don’t just take our word for it… gurus Digital Doughnut agree!
3 Website Updates That Will Make It Better
Reading Time: 2 minutes While there are 100s of possible website updates you can implement to make your website better, here are our top 3.
1. Tighten Up Security
2. Add Fresh Content to Help Boost Google Ranking
3. Update Your Design
Quality Web Design = More than just Fancy Photos
Reading Time: 3 minutes Quality web design is about so much more than just the way your website looks. The definition of a well designed website is a site that will help you grow your business, engage with potential customers and ultimately, increase leads + conversions. Let’s take a look.
4 Reasons Why To Invest in The Power of Email Marketing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Email marketing remains a highly effective tool for growing your business. At Web-Sta, we find Clients sometimes overlook this marketing tool in favour of ‘newer’ approaches but this could be a mistake. Want to know why?
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3 Questions We Ask When Building the Best Tradie Websites
Reading Time: 3 minutes Tradie Website Design: How do you change the stereotype that tradies are over priced? (Without dropping your prices!) – Better Marketing! Combat the stigma with e-marketing and web design.
How To Respond To Google Reviews?
Reading Time: 6 minutes How can you use Google Reviews, even negative ones, to take your online marketing to the next level? Regardless of how good your product or service is, in today’s world, your online marketing strategy can make or break your business. And online and Google Reviews play such an important role.
Web Design Brisbane | Why Going Local Will Save You From going ‘Loco’!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Local web design from Brisbane compared to getting web design from some international freelance site? Here are our top reason for going local!
Business Ideas to make you go WOW! – Top 5 Craziest Online Business Ideas
Reading Time: 3 minutes Do you have a bunch of business ideas buzzing around in your head? A bunch of business ideas that just seem too crazy to work, but they still just keep popping up? Maybe, just maybe, you should follow that ‘crazy’ urge! These 5 businesses did!
Consumer Behaviour – Two Key Elements That Can Make Or Break Your Business Online
Reading Time: 3 minutes There are many, many other factors involved in predicting and influencing consumer behaviour online, but without these two your business isn’t even in the game. Your website needs to have sitewide aesthetic appeal honed specifically to your target market, and it needs to be optimised to carry this aesthetic appeal across all mobile platforms.
Managed Web Hosting Services – An Investment You Can’t Afford Not To Have
Reading Time: 2 minutes While standard ‘website hosting’ can be thought of as the long term leasing of land to build your website ‘shop’ on, ‘managed website hosting services’ is the equivalent of a long term lease AND ongoing shop monitoring and maintenance.
A Formula for a Road to Success ( It’s Not Just Internet Marketing )
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘We just need more followers, more ‘likers’, more subscribers! That’s internet marketing success!’ You may have heard this idea, and possibly bought into it yourself. But it’s not the full picture. Expert internet marketing is only half of the equation. A visually appealing, fully functional quality website with intuitive navigation is the other half. Internet […]
SEO Spam And The Lure Of Black Hat tactics
Reading Time: 3 minutes Today we’re talking about an SEO industry term known as Black Hat Tactics, why you don’t want to be lured into this evilness, and how the angelic road is the higher road to prosperous business relationships and longevity.
As business owners we receive many emails. Some of them, like a new order enquiry, and repeat work from previous customers are business email gold.
Building Your Database: Potentially the greatest love story that ever was!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Picture this: You’re out on a first date. Maybe you found each other online, or maybe this meetup is the result of an enthusiastic matchmaker friend’s encouragement. Either way, you’re both here and you’re definitely glad you came. There’s good conversation about things you both value, the atmosphere is good, your date is well […]
4 Things That Need To Happen To Keep Your Website Functional
Reading Time: 4 minutes For those who’ve never owned an effective website before, or been privy to the insurance that is “managed hosting”, there’s often a perception that a website is a ‘Set and Forget’ type of affair. Once it’s set-up, it’s good to go right? Just launch it into the mysterious world-wide-web and get on with the rest […]
What is a blog? And why does my business need one?
Reading Time: 4 minutes ‘Blog’ – An ugly word for a beautiful thing! It’s also still a bit of a forgotten or misunderstood thing for some business owners. Let’s help shed a little more light on the topic, shall we? According to Webopedia, the term ‘Blog’ was first coined in 1997 by Jorn Barger, it being a truncated version […]
You need to be perceived as an expert. The Mysteries of SEO revealed! (3/3)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hi! Great to see you here again! If you missed the first two pieces in this series, we highly recommend you go and have a look at those first. ‘What does ‘SEO’ really mean?! starts at the very beginning and also clues you into the first metric Google and other search engines use to determine […]
You need more than static content. The Mysteries of SEO revealed! (2/3)
Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello! Welcome back. If you read our last post you’ll be well informed of what SEO stands for, and you’ll know the super important first step to ensuring your website ranks highly in search engine results. And we know that higher search engine results mean higher click-through- rates, which means more potential customers are visiting […]
How To Get Found! The Mysteries of SEO revealed! (Part 1 of 3)
Reading Time: 3 minutes ‘SEO’, that often talked about term that website builders and online marketers insist is super important. ‘SEO’, that magical pot of gold that you know you most probably need1, but you’re a little hazy on the details. Let Web-Sta ‘go behind the curtain’ and reveal a little of the magician’s magic for you. Let us give you […]
Is My Website Tax Deductible?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Turns out your Website is not only tax deductible, it’s also somewhat of an anomaly.1 Who would have thought that in this day and age just under 20 percent of medium-sized Australian businesses2(those having 20 – 199 employees) still don’t have a web presence!?! According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), this contributes to more than half […]
HOTTEST 5 TIPS to Effective Emails Series – Part 5/5 – Inboxes Management
Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to the 5th and final part to this series. We hope you’ve found it informative and extracted a number of keys takeaways that you’ve since applied and are enjoying the new benefits of. Now that your email communication has improved and your participating more efficiently and effectively in the world of digital bombardment and […]
HOTTEST 5 TIPS to Effective Emails Series – Part 4/5 – Email Marketing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Welcome to Part 4 in our 5 Part Effective Email Series. When it comes to email marketing – knowing how to do the basics well – is critical to producing WIN-WIN outcomes. If you haven’t got the run-down on the basics outlined in our previous Parts, you’ll find a link at the bottom of this article. […]
5 HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails – Part 3/5 – The Sign-off
Reading Time: 2 minutes In our first part to this 5 Part series to Effective Emails, we provided three striking email communication statistics together with our 5 Hottest Subject Line Tips. In Part 2 we presented our 5 Hottest Email BodyTips, and now in Part 3 it’s time to share our HOTTEST SIGN-OFF TIPS. If you missed any of the previous Parts, we’ve included links at the bottom of this […]
5 HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails – Part 2/5 – The Body
Reading Time: 4 minutes In our first part to this series, we provided three striking email communication statistics to encourage you to read, consider, and employ these TIPS in your email communication. Once we’ve got The Subject Line right, and our recipient or audience has opened our email, it’s now important that we gain and hold their attention a) long enough to read the […]
5 HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails – Part 1/5 – The Subject Line
Reading Time: 3 minutes Although often the bane of our existence, email communication is also where a HUGE portion of business communication gets transmitted. For this reason, The Web-Sta Team agreed to kick off a series consisting of 5 Part of the HOTTEST TIPS to Effective Emails — it truly is an activity worthy of our attention and continuous […]