5 Tools Every Business Needs to Create an Amazing Website

5 Tools Every Business Needs to Create an Amazing Website written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing Your website is the heart of your online marketing efforts. Every other tactic that you undertake should drive visitors back to your website. It’s the one corner of the internet that is all your own. It’s where you can share your brand story in the way that best represents who you are and what you…

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The 21 Psychological Elements that Power Effective Web Design (Part 3)

(This article was originally published in the MarketingExperiments email newsletter.) What if you were eating at your favorite restaurant and a stranger sitting at the next table over strikes up a conversation with you; FIVE minutes later, he has invited you to vacation with his family in a cabin in the Ozarks? Odd. That’s probably what you’d be thinking. I mean, really, you hardly know this person. Our instincts tell us that, first, some rapport needs to…

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Weekend Favs August 10

Weekend Favs August 10 written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week. I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you to check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from an online source or one that I took out…

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The 21 Psychological Elements that Power Effective Web Design (Part 2)

(This article was originally published in the MarketingExperiments email newsletter.) Before you begin a web design project, here are three crucial questions to ask : Is your website a disorganized set of voices (modules) talking at the same time, or does it have a linear flow? Do your pages have a different personality from the primary driver of your company’s success, or are they contributing toward that distinct personality? Is your website speaking AT your customers or…

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