Our final five suggestions on what “not to do” with your website!
6. Don’t bombard the reader. Websites that come at the reader with all the offers up front, and then some, lose our interest quickly. Don’t put all of your offers right out there on the home page. Rather, entice us in to spend a [...]

Our first five tips on how to build a successful website!
1. Don’t use a dark background. Think about the websites you’ve seen that are fun, refreshing, and really draw you in. Ever notice they usually have a white or light background? Aside from the fact that dark or heavily patterned background are somewhat emotionally draining [...]

Interesting results from a recent survey by Tessa Stowe of Australia’s Sales Conversation. She wrote:
I recently did a survey on whether people like audio playing automatically on web pages or not.
Of the 81 people who responded:
80.2% (65) said they did not like automatic audio 13.6% (11) said they did like automatic audio [...]

The Publicity Hound, Joan Stewart, had some cogent comments in her blog on getting a decent headshot. Read Photos Will Look Better If You Follow These Tips. And avoid looking like a startled deer, or worse ‘a moose’ as one of my friends insists.
Technorati Tags: Headshot, self promotion, portrait photography

So I’m really not so mean, alright? In fact, I’m an old softie. AND I really want you to understand how to package yourself so you come across as the credible expert that you are. Here are some sites that do exactly that … and by the way, some of them are blogs.
Go to http://debbieweil.com/ [...]

In my Get Known Now Blast Off group coaching program the other day, I did something really mean. I showed my clients some lousy websites. They were sites that simply didn’t work from a marketing point of view because they were too cluttered, too hard to read, unfocussed, or simply way too general.
I chose [...]