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Making Your Website Tablet Ready
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Tablet sales are sweeping the country. Best Buy has confirmed that since the iPad came out, laptop PC sales have dropped by over 40%. Over 15 million iPads have already been sold, with many more to come in the future. If you want to stay ahead of the curve, getting your website tablet ready is now a necessity.
Here’s how to get your website tablet ready.
Make Your Buttons Larger
Buttons that are easy to click can be very hard to press on with a finger. Remember that a mouse pointer is only a few pixels wide, but someone who needs to click on something with their finger is often much less precise.
Small buttons are frustrating for tablet users. Enlarge the buttons on your site so it’s easier for tablet users to use.
Use CSS to Make Your Width Fluid
Rather than using a fixed width, which looks very strange on the tablet, go for a fluid width CSS layout.
This allows the CSS to adapt the page width to whatever device is displaying it. If it’s on a large screen laptop PC, it’ll expand its width. If it’s on the small width iPad, the CSS will shrink the width down without distorting the website.
On WordPress? Get the OnSwipe Plug-In
If your site is hosted on WordPress, then get the OnSwipe plug-in to make your site tablet friendly.
OnSwipe is a plug-in already used by 18 million blogs, with integration features that make it easy for tablet users to view and use the website.
Cut the Flash
Unfortunately, Apple has decided not to support Flash on both iPads and iPhones. If you have a flash-based website or a website that has Flash incorporated in it, chances are your website won’t display properly on the tablet.
Flash has traditionally been quite a slow media and has had other disadvantages as well, such as not being able to be spidered by search engines. If you want to be tablet friendly, now might be the time to cut the Flash from your site.
Test It!
Finally, get an iPad and test out your new website version. What’s the user experience like? What do you like and what do you find frustrating?
Make any changes you need to make, then have a few friends and associates test it out on the iPad as well. Continue this process of refinement until you’re happy with your new, tablet-friendly website.
NAMS Becomes Online Business University
Posted by: | CommentsMany readers have heard me talk about NAMS, the BEST internet education there is.
Get ready for BIG news – NAMS just got 10 TIMES better. And even more affordable!
With all the pieces of this training now, there is no way to describe it other than “Online Business University”.
Here’s the NAMS story:
There have been four sessions of NAMS as a weekend educational workshop. Now the founder, David Perdew, has realized there’s an even better way to help even more people: make the learning ongoing with accountability and continued access to the brilliant minds of the trainers.
Here’s the new package:
3 day virtual workshop on January 14th to 16th
More live training events the following week
Webinar recordings of all the workshop sessions
Instructor training sessions from January to August
Accountability groups
Workshop homework and tasks with Instructor follow-up
Internet Marketing Guidebook
Audios from all previous NAMS events (150 hours of recordings)
2 or more types of online business software
AND….
Attendance at the NAMS6 Live Workshop in Atlanta on August 18-21st!!!
Here’s the amazing price:
$297 through December 31, 2010 ONLY
That’s a bargain price for ONE weekend of this type of info – you’ll get lots more.
With the New Year, you can expect the price to increase in $100 increments.
Act now so you get the best price. You will be sorry if you wait!
This is a wonderful and powerful change. What I see repeatedly with business owners is that they learn something, but fail to implement. This format will walk you through implementation with support and continued information with webinars, workshops, assignments and instruction for a full 6 months. I love this!
All for one price – including the opportunity in August to meet LIVE with your instructors. You’ll get clarification of tough points, ask your detailed questions, learn even more and have a chance to plan for your next steps. This is business building at its best.
I hope you decide to expand your business through this powerful education. Did I mention there are 5 levels of training in Atlanta so you will get the information that is right for YOUR business? I’ll be there learning right alongside you and looking forward to meeting you in person in August. Don’t miss out on this opportunity – grab your ticket to NAMS now.
Align, Expand Succeed: Coming Into 100% Alignment
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Aligning with your highest self and living a conscious life is much like losing weight… the last little bit can be the hardest. Why is that?
When it comes to living a conscious life, the last 10% of “waking up” can be the most challenging because it’s that 10% where your deepest, most sneaky and self-sabatoging patterns and deepest wounds come to the surface for purification and healing. When you are 90% conscious/90% aligned with the truth of who you are, you can still get away with a lot of stuff. You can pretend you don’t see something that you know isn’t right. You can let your ego take you for a ride and believe it’s really your highest self speaking (when it’s not). You can convince yourself you are doing “good enough” and don’t have to excavate the last 10% because everything is OK… but it’s not really, is it?
How do I know? Because it’s been my personal experience. I lived at 90% consciousness and let it be “enough” for many years… I jokingly call myself the “unconscious” conscious entrepreneur because 10% of me was asleep and is in the process of waking up now.
But, the last 10% of seeing what you need to see about yourself and how you live your life, make your choices, and show up in the world is the BEST! It can be scary, but it’s the last 10% that also bring the most freedom, fulfillment, joy, and ease to your life. It’s well worth the effort to do bring yourself from 90% to 100% alignment… the final 10% changes everything!
Christine Kloser is the publisher and is a contributing author to Align, Expand and Succeed; Shifting the Paradigm of Entrepreneurial Success. This “just released” book is based on the premise that the world is changing at a very rapid pace. We are starting to see that cooperation brings better results than old style competition. It’s a new era and we need to work together to create success for everyone, not just for a few.
This book features dozens of conscious entrepreneurs who share their wisdom, expertise, stories, lessons and insights about the new and exciting shifts that are happening for entrepreneurs worldwide.
This book is designed to raise the vibration of the planet like never before. Get your copy of Align, Expand and Succeed and enjoy an abundance of gifts with your purchase, but only if you get the book today! Plus as a bonus for purchasing Align, Expand and Succeed, you can download my special never-released-before workbook, transcript and .mp3 titled, Your Guide to Conquering The Fear of Marketing.
6 Seats Left for Facebook 4 Biz: Ready, Set, Go!
Posted by: | CommentsHurry! Facebook 4 Biz: Ready, Set, Go! starts this Thursday, October 14th and there are ONLY 6 seats left!
Here’s what you’ve been looking for…
Clear, accurate information on how to market YOUR business on Facebook!
Learn now and get going with results!
Those 500 million Facebook members include YOUR potential customers. They are looking for products and services like yours. NOW is the time to learn the effective ways to use Facebook as a marketing tool for your business.
Facebook 4 Biz: Ready, Set, Go is exactly what you need to walk you step by step through how to start and manage a powerful presence on Facebook. Five plus hours of webinar instruction will demonstrate each of the important elements. A bonus hour of questions and answers will make sure that YOU understand!
In a brief 4 week period you’ll learn:
- 5 business tools of Facebook.
- All about Profiles, Pages, Groups, News Feed, Friends, Fans, Community Pages.
- Step by step instructions for setting up a business page and customizing it.
- Ways to address privacy issues and how to separate personal and business information.
- Developing a Facebook marketing strategy to anchor your activity there.
- How to utilize the viral aspects of Facebook for maximum business exposure.
- Details of tagging, ads, search, importing your blog, events and so much more!
Here are the class details…
Dates: October 14, 21 and 28 and bonus call on November 4, 2010
Times: 4:00-5:30pm ET
Format: Webinar
Cost: Over 5 hours of instruction and Q & A for $149
Facebook 4 Biz is for you, whether you are brand new to Facebook marketing or just haven’t had the results you need with what you have done to date. Get rolling to success with the most powerful online marketing tool of all – Facebook. Know for sure what works and what does not!
Don’t hesitate! The class begins very soon so register NOW!
Get More Sales By Making The Order Process Easy
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I recommend 1ShoppingCart
Having a good checkout process can be the difference between making a sale and not. You’ve done all that work to get the customer to click the order button. So the last thing you want to do is have an unsecure page that causes them not to trust you and leave.
On the internet, security is very important to customers. If they don’t feel like they can trust you site, they won’t buy.
And the other variable is clarity. If the shopping cart has too many steps involved, they will also leave. Customers are not willing to jump through a lot of hoops to buy your product. You want to make everything as easy as possible. Here are a few tips to improve your security and ease of use:
1. Have a single page checkout system
One of the main reasons this works is that it’s quick. All the customer has to do is provide their contact and payment information, click the order button, and then get the product.
Most single page systems can be completed in under 60 seconds. The faster they can finish the order, the less chance there is of them changing their mind.
A lot of sites have discovered that single page systems result in quite a few more sales. Some businesses have experienced spikes of more than fifty percent in conversions from incorporating a one-page system. So this is not just conjecture. That’s not to say it definitely will work, but it’s worth testing.
2. Make the shopping cart clear
Be sure the page has big and readable font, and marks all the fields clearly so the customer knows exactly what to type in.
3. Use testimonials
Putting testimonials on the checkout page often boosts conversions. It shows your prospect that others have bought from you and had a good experience. You can never have too many testimonials.
4. Emphasize security
Right alongside the email address, you might want to contain a link that states something to the effect that “you take their privacy seriously”. Then link to your privacy policy.
Also, have the final order button say something about a “secure order”. This is the moment of truth, and you want to be sure they don’t back out because your site is not secure.
If you can make your shopping cart user friendly and secure, people will buy from you. This is one of the simplest and easiest ways to increase your profits.
