Archive for January, 2010
Guidelines To Hiring A Web Designer Who Creates Winning Websites
Guidelines To Hiring A Web Designer Who Creates Winning Websites Like Theovernightcashsystem.com
Have you decided it is time to hire a professional web designer like who does the TheOvernightCashSystem.com? Great! This can save you a lot of time and headache. However before you start hiring there is some muchneeded research that needs to be done on the people you are looking at hiring.
You see a professional web designer is a profession that should not be taken lightly. You are hiring someone on to do a job. Just as any employer would do you need to do some background research on this person before you make any decisions.
So what exactly do you need to know about these people? Here is a guideline to go by.
Qualifications
In the world of web design qualifications are worthless to you. Why? Because most web designers get their degree from a part time community college and they really don’t learn enough of have the actual qualifications to design a successful website.
Instead of qualifications look for what is in his/her portfolio. They should have a list of lots of attractive successful websites. This is their way of displaying their skill for you through a portfolio. It is extremely important that you see their skill. If they don’t have a portfolio they probably aren’t very experienced. If this is the case have them do a first draft for you to see their skills before you make any decisions.
A Website Built For Users
Many web designers may be very well skilled in designing dynamic flashy websites but if they aren’t built for the user they are worthless. You know how it is. You have probably come across some of these websites yourself. They are flashy hard to read and don’t navigate well. If you hire one of these web designers you will have wasted your money and time.
You must ask this web designer how many browsers they will test the site on and what the purpose of the site is. They should tell you they are testing the site on as many browsers as they can and that the purpose of the site is to get the visitors interested and intrigued to find out more.
What do they charge?
When finding out how much a web designer charges you need to find out how many designers there are working on this project. They may charge too much if there is a committee of people working on it. You want to look for an individual worker and pay them by the hour.
Looking for the perfect web designer takes some time and patience but if you follow these guidelines you are sure to find someone who will create a great website for you to market with like the TheOvernightCashSystem.com.
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Green Office Expert At Epsom Conference
Green Office Expert At Epsom Conference
High profile sustainable workplace specialist Lara Conaway is taking to the stage at a special event in Surrey aimed at helping businesses go greener and at the same time cut costs.
Lara will be offering advice on creating an energysaving green office’ at the Epsom Energy Management Seminar along with Steven Fowler of Business Link and Steve Davies of Epsom and Ewell Borough Council.
Organised by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council Surrey Chambers of Commerce and the Epsom and Ewell Business Partnership the event takes place on Tuesday March 10 from 6.30pm at Epsom Town Hall.
As sustainability manager at office transformation company Morgan Lovell Lara is a national expert on the subject of costeffective green workplaces.
Recently she was invited to speak at the major sustainability conference Ecobuild held at London Earls Court alongside others including Michael Heseltine Alastair Campbell Michael Portillo Housing Minister Margaret Beckett and the Mayor of London Boris Johnson.
At the Epsom event Lara’s talk entitled Expensive Green Offices and How To Avoid Them’ will draw on her own experiences gained as an influential member of the Morgan Lovell team behind the awardwinning green refurbishment of the company’s 1960s Soho headquarters.
The office located in the type of building that would have previously been considered an environmental writeoff went on to secure a host of national accolades including The Green Business Awards.
It was also the highest scoring office of its type in the UK under the BREEAM assessment which measures environmental performance.
Lara said: “The aims of the seminar at Epsom are to share good practice provide businesses with examples of how they can achieve substantial cost savings through effective energy management and signpost information on available grants.
To find out more about the event please contact Andy Willmott at Surrey Chambers of Commerce on 01372 732568 or by email andy.willmottsurreychambers.co.uk
As ward member for Hersham South Lara is also supporting neighbouring Epsom and Ewell Borough Council with this energysaving initiative as a member of the Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committeewithin Elmbridge Borough Council.
For the future her aim is to hold another event within the Elmbridge Borough to help more businesses save money and energy.
More details about green offices can be found at http://www.morganlovell.co.uk/sustainability/
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Notes to Editors
Located in London Birmingham and the Thames Valley Morgan Lovell is the UK’s leading office interior design fit out and refurbishment specialist. With its own teams of designers surveyors and project managers the company can design and deliver entire projects with the benefit of just one point of contact.
It is part of top UK construction and regeneration group Morgan Sindall plc which operates through five specialist divisions of fit out construction infrastructure services affordable housing and urban regeneration.
Morgan Lovell is a licensed BREEAM Offices Assessment Organisation. This means it is now licensed to measure the sustainability score of an office in order to identify ways companies can reduce high energy usage and waste whilst increasing comfort and satisfaction for users of the building.
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Gorilla Marketing Tactics Part Two
Gorilla Marketing Tactics Part Two
Gorilla Marketing Tactics Part Two
If you havent already read my other article Gorilla Marketing Tactics it might be useful to browse over that as well.
Gorilla Marketing Tactics Part Two will cover marketing through social networks. All of them are free to sign up with at least the ones I use and can be useful to gain business prospects.
Im sure 99 of the people out there have heard of Facebook and Myspace… well these are two of the main tools you can use as part of your social networking. If you already have a Facebook or MySpace profile create a new one for your networking purposes. When youre creating your profiles you do NOT want it to look like a sales pitch this is just going to turn people off. You dont want it to look like youre selling someone. Make your page as personal as possible… put up pictures and videos of yourself participate in discussion groups etc. Essentially do what you would normally do on your regular Facebook or Myspace pages. You will however have a small About Me section which will let people know who you are and what you do for a living Im assuming most of you reading this are in the business of internet marketing and also include your contact information for people who may be interested in joining you. People will be much more inclined to join you if they see that youre a real person with real interests and not just someone whos trying to sell them something.
The difference between your networking profiles and your regular profiles is that youre only or mainly at least going to be adding business prospects as your friends. Join internet marketing groups business groups etc and add whoever you like to your friends list. Again do not try to sell people. Write a short message saying youre just looking to network with similarminded people. So far Ive found that most people are very friendly and definitely interested. One problem with this is that people in these groups are generally looking to do the same thing as you i.e. get people to join their business. Ive added a few people who then just sent me a message telling me to buy something or go to their site which never works. Read the discussion board in the groups and chime in with something useful when you have something to say… its always good to build your credibility. I also add people from groups from other interests I have i.e. movies music etc. These people may never have heard of what you do or may be intrigued by what you do and may want to join you. Let them read your page for themselves though and contact you about joining do not contact them about wanting them to join you. Facebook and MySpace are only two social networking sites that you can use probably the two largest. There are others out there that you can join and do the same thing.
The conclusion of this article deals with Twitter a highly popular new form of social media. The conclusion of “Gorilla Marketing Tactics Part Two” can be read on my blog at mossopblog.com. Also check out my blog archives for more great free internet marketing advice.
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