Social Media Integration with Website for Business Marketing

Your social media strategy is more than just a Facebook profile or Twitter feed. When executed correctly, social media is a powerful customer engagement engine and web traffic driver. It’s easy to get sucked into the hype and create profiles on every single social site. This is the wrong approach. What you should do instead is to focus on a few key channels where your brand is most likely to reach key customers and prospects.  Social media is about driving traffic whereas the website should be the hub channelizing the users in the right direction. If you use social media to keep your customers or clients apprised of your recent happenings and are actively managing your outlets on a daily or bi-weekly basis, it might be wise to showcase your Twitter feed or Facebook posts directly on your website. Linking out or displaying inactive social media channels will only cripple your online efforts. If you choose to go this route, it is important that you maintain your presence. It is important to be tactful with your social media choices and do your research before blindly forging into unknown territory. If you sell a product or run a full-fledged e-commerce site and you haven’t [...]

NEED FOR CUSTOM WEB DESIGN AS A STRONG MARKETING TOOL

Designing a custom website offers customization, control and performance.  As a business owner we are always looking how to save money and make our business profitable. When it comes to creating an online presence for our business, just like our marketing materials and office’s appearance, our website needs to project a professional image. The more professional looking our business appears, the more creditable it looks. Many business owners don’t really understand the difference between having a custom web design done and using website templates. BENEFITS OF CUSTOM WEB DESIGN: Brand Image Presentation -A custom web design it is created just for an individual’s business. It will incorporate company’s branding. If branding is already established, then that branding will be incorporated into the website. Search engine friendly- By hiring the right web designer, website will be constructed so it is search engine friendly. How the background coding of a website is done will influence SEO. Flexibility- custom web designing is adaptable to the company’s needs. Various custom features can be added to the website based on the requirement of the business. You don’t want to deal with templates or the restrictions they impose Scalability- if you have planned what you want in the future for your website, [...]

Planning for Marketing of Your Enterprise

We at 3-Keys Graphics are looking forward to an exciting new year filled with clients old and new. We can’t wait to get started on this year’s branding and design projects. We’ll innovate, ideate, educate and create. We’ll be the “next big thing”. We’ll go viral! We plan to take the market by storm! First, in order to gain a useful perspective, it’s essential to look back. How has this last year gone for your company? What were your more successful moments? Least successful? Did you land some ideal clients, or at least get a step closer to figuring out who, exactly, your ideal client is? What trends did you notice over the past year? What else needs reviewing for your business? Next, set milestones and goals for this new year, be it calendar or fiscal. You’ve got an idea of what’s working, as well as what needs work. Start with the little things, the goals that are clear-cut and obvious. Set monthly sales and revenue goals for your company. Break these goals down into actual sales targets. Then, let your dreams get a little bigger. Review and refine your overall message and goals. Let these inform your big-picture goals for [...]

Signs Your Website Needs a Facelift

Most of us adopt a simple rule when it comes to maintaining sanity with technology: if it’s not broken, don’t fix it! This is true for our home theater setups, our programmable toothbrushes and definitely for anything related to the internet. However, if you have a website for your business, it may be time to break that time-honored rule. An obsolete website not only makes your business look bad, it may also be losing business to your more tech-savvy competitors. How do you know if this applies to you? Read on for the warning signs that it’s time to update your website. Website Functionality Get new customers. The main reason for having website is to find new customers. If your website isn’t bringing in new business, it may be time for an overhaul. Improve usability. Your site is confusing to navigate and you find yourself repeatedly telling customers how to find the content they want. For every customer you give directions to, countless more just give up and go to your competitor’s site. Speed up load times. Your site started out fine, but you’ve haphazardly added pages, images, and extra features over the years and now its runs slowly. Internet [...]

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