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The 5 Biggest Mistakes Almost All Web Designers Make -- And Why These Mistakes Could Cost YOU A Fortune!Jason Mangrum Huge Mistake #1: Creating a Website with Flash -- Did you know in a recent study, top internet marketers discovered that having a website created with Flash, actually DECREASED the response from prospects and customers by as much as three-hundred-and-seventy percent Heres why: Your prospects and customers are most likely visiting your website using all types of different computers, connection speeds and internet configuration settings... What may look GREAT to one visitor, may not even appear for another! You could very easily have shelled out hundreds or even thousands of dollars to have a website created using the Flash technology, only to find out that some of your visitors will never see it! not to mention the loading times can cause your visitor to close your site, never to return again. Huge Mistake #2: The "Internet Catalog" Approach -- You see this everywhere. Good, honest and hardworking businessmen and women get online to sell their products or services, and have a site created for them that contains a link to just about everything they offer on one page. Their thinking goes along the lines of, "...well, I dont want to leave anyone out. If they come to my site, I want to make sure I have what theyre looking for..." -- This way of thinking could not be further from the truth. Heres why: Theres an ancient rule that goes back to the very beginning of direct-marketing on the internet, taught by the richest, most legendary and well-respected internet marketers of all time... "When you give your prospects too many choices, they become confused and arent sure what to do next. Confused people never buy anything." Huge Mistake #3: Optimizing Your Sales Site for the Search Engines -- Youll see this taught in nearly every "internet marketing" course, manual or eBook out there... "You must optimize every page of your website for the search engines!" -- In fact, this false teaching is accepted as gospel truth so often, that most web designers will offer to do this for you at no, or little extra cost... What they DONT understand is that certain words and phrases must be either re-worded to make it "keyword rich" or taken out completely, just to be looked upon highly by the mighty search engines -- and this could KILL your sales, literally overnight. Heres why: When you or a hired web designer optimize your SALES page i.e. any web page designed to sell your products and services to get a higher listing in the search engines, youre going to have to sacrifice the pulling-power of your sales copy i.e. written sales material just to get those higher listings. Sure, this can bring you more traffic -- but what good is all the traffic in the world, if your visitors arrive at your website and arent compelled enough to read why they should order your product For years, it has been taught that you should always try to find a "balance" of SEO Search-Engine-Optimization mixed with promotional copy designed to sell your products and services... WRONG AGAIN! -- The truth is that you should NEVER optimize your sales page for the Search Engines. Instead, you should create tiny "entry pages" for each keyword related to your product or service, highly optimized for the Search Engines and have them link to your main sales site! we can show you exactly how to do this quickly and easily and get *massive* targeted traffic from the Search Engines - without ever *touching* your sales site! Huge Mistake #4: Having a "Graphics-Based" Website -- Sure, graphics can certainly help us to visualize a particular situation or circumstance, product or service... But did you know that having a graphically-driven website can actually DISTRACT your visitor away from your sales message After all, your sales message or "web copy" is THE #1 most important factor in a website that makes money. If your visitors are paying more attention to your "professional graphics" than your sales message... youve just lost another sale. Heres why: Youve got approximately seven seconds from the time your visitor arrives at your site, to the time they decide whether to buy your product, get more information or LEAVE. If youve got a graphically-intensive website, your website will most likely still be loading past your seven-second time limit. Thats a "customer-killer" in and of itself - however, the real reason lies within the fact that the bigger, brighter and more beautiful your graphics are, the more they will distract your visitor from your sales message. And if your visitor is distracted even for one second, it could mean the difference between getting a sale, and losing a customer. Huge Mistake #5: Designing a Website with ZERO Marketing Experience -- Most web designers have no idea how to make money on the internet, with anything other than their design services. Its not their fault - they simply have no or very little marketing and sales experience. After all, theyre just website designers... However, having your website designed by someone with ZERO internet marketing experience is like buying a street-car without an engine... it wont go anywhere, and itll just waste your time and money! For more information on how to have your website designed or re-designed by a well-known expert in the field of direct-response internet marketing, go here: http://www.ImmWebDesign.com
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