Author: Brad Miller

Writing Enticing Product Descriptions

Seven Tips for Writing Product Descriptions That Sell! 1. Familiarize yourself with the target audience Amazingly, most people completely ignore their target customer when writing product descriptions. However, the site visitor is the key to how the copy is shaped, the tone it takes and which angle is used to communicate the benefits. For example, let's look at a box of gourmet chocolates. If your target audience consists of gourmet chocolate lovers, you'll want to focus on the distinctiveness of your flavors, the quality of the ingredients or perhaps the luxurious texture. What if, on ...
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Video and SEO

Video is the hottest thing going on the web. If you’ve been thinking lately about starting a blog or setting up a Twitter account, you’re still slightly behind the curve.  Everyone’s talking about video now… and with good reason.  It’s entertaining, it’s easy to find and consume, and it engages viewers in a way that text simply cannot. Video is on a meteoric rise, and shows no signs of slowing soon.  Along with that trend, there is a growing segment of the online audience that has begun favoring sites that use video over sites that just have text. Additionally, vide...
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BAMsites Welcomes Jamie Koop Insurance

We are proud to announce the addition of Jamie Koop Insurance to our family of websites. Jamie Koop Insurance is a long standing home, family, auto and business insurance business dating back over 35 years in the Crosby area. This site is designed to draw targeted traffic looking for insurance solutions in an area comprised of the following north central Minnesota towns: Crosby-Ironton Emily-Outing Deerwood Bay Lake Crosslake Garrison Brainerd-Baxter Nisswa Pequot Lakes Thanks Jamie and all the staff for entrusting your new web presence to the professionals at BAMsite...
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Do You Like WordPress – 7 Killer Plug-ins

There’s no doubt that WordPress rocks as a blogging and content-management system. Once installed, you can do amazing things with it right out of the virtual box. 7 Must Have Killer Plugins for WordPress. In this series we will present you some Plugins every pro uses on his blog. You should use them too! Ultimate Search Engine Optimization:  All-In-One-SEO - Pretty much the current standard for allowing page and post individual optimization - a must for a multiple landing page approach to organic rankings. Google Site Map Maker - Be friendly to Google and you will win. Make it easy...
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Viral Marketing: What is it? How should you use it?

The buzzwords viral marketing and viral advertising refer to marketing techniques that use pre-existing social networks to produce increases in brand awareness or to achieve other marketing objectives (such as product sales) through self-replicating viral processes, analogous to the spread of pathological and computer viruses. It can be word-of-mouth delivered or enhanced by the network effects of the Internet. Viral promotions may take the form of video clips, ebooks, brandable software, images, or even text messages. The goal of marketers interested in creating successful viral marketing...
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7 Thinks To Know About Your Merchant Account

When choosing a payment processor, it's important you fully evaluate their rates. Different payment processors suit different merchants - the questions below will help you find one suited to your needs. What are the discount rates? Discount rates are the percentage of transactions that the processor charges you in order to use their service. Rates will vary between processors and will also depend on your average or expected processing volume. What are the transaction rates? The majority of processors will also charge a set fee for each transaction. Usually this between $0.30 and $0.50....
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Top Ten Website Tips to make your business site more effective.

1. Traffic – get them to your site. 2. Conversion – get them to respond Know Your Audience – speak in their jargon, write for 4th graders Keep navigation simple – allow users to easily navigate the site. Response or load time – needs to be quick. Visually highlight “Calls to Action”, ie, phone numbers, buy now, etc. Keep you pages short – try to avoid scrolling, only 10% will scroll. Avoid lots of text - break up long pages with more nav or link options. Allow for scanning – use short sentences, headlines, bullet/numbered lists. Check spelling and grammar â€...
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Designing a Website that Sells

Designing a good sales web site can be the difference between losing a visitor and making a sale. You've got ten seconds to capture a viewer's attention and convince them to stay - that's how long it takes people to decide to keep reading, or move on. Make Your Site User Friendly You need to plan your web site carefully to make it really sell your product: • Have an attention-grabbing headline that tells visitors what they'll gain by staying. It should list some clear, compelling benefits - what they'll learn and what kind of information you'll provide. • Keep your web sit...
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