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Excerpt: (C O A C H) Could your website stand to sell more, get more sign ups, and more visitors? Would you like your marketing campaign to generate more sales? Of course! A majority of my clients have this problem. Their website/landing page/product pages aren’t converting. Can better copywriting help boost sales? Well, yes, but not always. You can have the greatest products and services on earth with a beautiful website and the best copy money can buy, but if your landing page sucks, you’re not going to sell anything. This doesn’t just happen with sales either. Signing up for a newsletter, subscribing…

Getting More From Your Online Content: Landing Page Design Tips is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: So, I awoke to a flurry of activity yesterday (delicious home page, numerous Tweets in my stream) around one of smashing magazine’s alarmist post entitled “The death of the blog post”. The article showcased a few graphic designers from around the web, who had designed completely custom, graphic heavy designs for each post. They are magazine like in style, and leave the visitor with the wow factor.  I’d seen this myself, and I’m a big fan of Gregory Wood and Dustin Curtis work. As per usual the design community jumped up and down with excitement with war crys such as: “Holy shit!…

The blog post isn’t dead. is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Chances are we have never met because I seldom go to seminars and other SEO networking events, forums or discussion. I was thrilled to be given a chance to work with so many talented copy writers, bloggers, innovative web developers, Social Media consultants and marketers! I’m a Napoleon Hill disciple and Think and Grow Rich is like a bible to me. I have not had a Matermind Group lately so the CloudMixer group is filling a void I’ve felt for a time.  My philosophy on life is simple: What the mind of man can conceive and believe, It can achieve. Napoleon Hill~ Think…

Terry Van Horne, Internet Marketing Master, Social Media Consultant and Cloudmixer Author is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Today Google announced the release of Google Commerce Search. Ordinarily I yawn and move along but for whatever reason I decided to read this closely. When the news broke on Twitter I thought it was just an improvement to the Search API and with that there was still the issue of getting the site fully indexed. A few hours later I got a chance and had a gander at the video below. Watch it because it gives you a great overview of the Google Commerce API at work! I have been managing and optimizing Feeds for 4 or 5 years. I was early to…

Google Commerce Search or Just Gbase Monetized! is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas

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Excerpt: Catering for Accessibility is something which should be at the forefront of every web developers and designers mind. It is all of our responsibility to ensure the experience we provide on the web is as trouble free for ALL users. Prior to going live, take a look at some of these tools and run your site through them to see how it performs from an accessibility perspective. Colour Tools Colourblind Web Page test URL: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ This invaluable tool allows you to run your live site through a series of colour blind “filters” – highlighting any problematic areas before you are too far into your…

11 tools to improve your sites accessibility. is a post from: Cloud Mixer - Mixing New Media Ideas