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Old Apr 9th, 2008, 15:50
MikeHopley MikeHopley is offline
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Re: Getting Customers to come to the site

As others have said, you need to be more purposeful in your design. Do not cross-promote your enterprises unless they are harmonious.

Hot babes are good for some websites, and it's great that you have a hot babe business. But it's really, really unwise to spreadeagle them over your web design site.

Mmm...spreadeagle...
*ahem*

You need a more striking design: based on your own site, people will make superficial judgements about your web design skills.

You need to make it obvious that you are selling web design services -- obvious within seconds, even to an idiot (most people are idiots ).

You need to direct your visitors towards action. You want them to: check out your portfolio; contact you.

Make your portfolio page prominent, so they are drawn into checking out your previous work. Don't show too many websites -- only your best stuff, especially your most visually pleasing designs.

Make your contact page prominent, and encourage people to contact you without commitment.

Be more succinct in your writing. No-one is going to read those big blocks of text, because they don't care enough about your site. You need to explain why you're better, but you don't have many words to do this -- at least, not on the homepage.
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