CO2Meter.com. This client wanted to sell indoor air quality products online. The goal was pure e-commerce. Over the last 6 months, through a combination of trade shows and targeted Google Adwords, sales have risen 1,500%. In addition, if you Goggle"CO2 Meter" you'll see this web site ranks in the top few positions on the first page.
Wallbusters.com. These clients needed a basic web site to introduce a new product into the marketplace. I focused on giving it a fresh look and feel, making it easy to use, and providing a strong foundation on which to grow sales.
JDPhotoImaging.com. I served as the liason between the client who was looking for a complete website redesign, and the company contracted to actually design the web site. In addition, I wrote 100% of the content for the site, created the blog, and write all articles for both the blog and the monthly newsletter.
RunyanLakeEast.com. This client was looking for a site to showcase a new housing development. The entire site - from graphics to copy - was designed to evoke a combination of an exclusive, yet family friendly lifestyle.
Westlandcamping.com. This client was looking for a way to integrate constantly changing inventory of RV's entered into a 3rd party application with their web site. That way, they only needed to add new products once, cutting the work in half. In addition, they wanted the site to reflect a "family" image. If you go to Google and type "camper westland mi" you can see we've been able to build natural page rank by content without adwords or an "tricks" some web designers use.
RVGene.com. This client was looking for an easy-to-use site for RV dealerships to download and print the most commonly requested product information, alleviating the need to fax forms. I'm convinced the internet is poised to disrupt RV sales over the next year the same way it has changed the way we purchase cars.
PalaminoSales.com. This client was not only looking for a way to keep all his RV product information and literature online, but was also interested in a way to communicate with his customers. I set up this template to be used by the entire sales team, then purchased individual web domains for each of the salespeople so that they could each have a branded, custom Wordpress blog that linked back to all the product documentation.
SundaeCorp.com. With nothing more than an hour-long interview with the client I was able to generate this site. Although it's small, it gave the client a valid web presence and a place to send potential customers.
FOGEraser.com This ongoing project was designed to promote a product, and to educate readers about the importance of solving the problem. I seperated the website into two parts: FOGScience.com is focused on describing the problem, and FOGEraser.com is focused on offering the solution. The client spent very little money on the site, and was taught how to update it on their own.
GGMech.com. This client wanted a new web site he could easily update himself rather than relying on someone else. We set him up on to a simple CMS package - the rest is up to him.
How I spent the last decade. Purchased by Kodak, ProShots was the original software designed to allow Wedding and Portrait Photographers to use digital images to sell their work and place orders on line. In my opinion ProShots is the granddaddy of all disruptive applications.
If you're a small business person surfing the web, chances are you already have a web site. Some very nice local company built it for you for a few hundred dollars, and you were understandably proud when you first saw it on line. You showed your friends and family, printed the web site URL on all your business cards, and waited confidently for the Internet to grow your business.
Other businesses were making money with their web sites (the trade pubs all said so) -- just not yours. For a year or two you waited. Maybe you even paid that nice local company a few more dollars to jazz up your site with a flashy banner or an on line coupon.
So you got frustrated and quit paying attention to your web site. When someone brings up the subject, you get frustrated. You feel mad. You feel ripped off. Still, whenever you're surfing the web late at night you get the nagging feeling that your great product or service is being held back by not participating in the new economy being generated by the Internet.
The problem is that the nice local company is in the business of selling web sites, not building your business. They build on line Yellow Page ads. Cute, but not very effective.
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Thanks for reading this. I hope to hear from you soon.
Mark Lemon
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