jim coe's Well Made Webs
That's right. You don't want a web site...
You want an online business.
Building your good-looking eCommerce web site is just the beginning.
Web success requires a web site that looks great - AND SELLS GREAT.
That means it has to be built to be marketed and integrated with an ongoing custom online marketing campaign.
Don't waste your time and money on just another pretty web site!
If you do, you'll probably either fail or have to hire a marketing expert to re-build it.
Realize that most web designers/developers can build you a pretty site, but they have a superficial understanding of web marketing, at best.
Web marketing has to be carefully built into your site from the beginning - then expertly extended through an ad campaign that uses a scientific approach, accurately measuring results and continually improving the return on your web investment.
Online marketing is too important to leave to site designers!
I can be your Marketer AND designer/developer - a ONE-MAN “TEAM”
To show you what I mean, here is a bit about my experience:
- GRAPHICS [art degree, taught at San Francisco Art Institute, 3D artist]
- PC GEEK [built my first computer in 1976, 18 years as a PC consultant]
- CSS and HTML web code expert [over 20 sites built or renovated]
- WEBMASTER [managing sites, domains and web hosting since 1996]
- MARKETING expert [building marketing and eCommerce specific sites]
Want to see my 3D modeled scenes and fine art photos?
Please check out my portfolio and services and consider building and marketing a serious business tool, not just another pretty web site.
I encourage you to inquire, using the form to your right.
These are the best-of-breed products and services i've found.
[disclosure] i get a small, but welcome, sales commission if you purchase one of these using my links on this page - and thanks so much to those that do so!
Shopping Carts for your web site
Test drive a smart shopping cart system for 30 days for $3.95.
Not only an excellent shopping cart, but a complete marketing, email and affiliate sales system! And it interfaces easily to major catalog and instant credit card authorization systems, including PayPal.
Shopping carts are complex beasts, so none are 100% perfect, but I'm impressed by the way this service constantly innovates and improves. I'd say they're almost perfect - and a nice group too.
Some visitors prefer shopping with PayPal, others like a regular shopping cart. Wise merchants give visitors both options.
An Excellent Web Site Hosting Service
I've used a half-dozen hosting services since 1996. The best were good for a while, but soon proved that "Nothing spoils like success".
BlueHost.com was great when they started and they just keep getting better! After signing up when my old service's upgrades ruined my WordPress blogs, I see why people rave about their fast and super friendly 24/7 technical support.
BlueHost gave me excellent help in getting my damaged blogs working on their service - even though my WordPress blog program was not their responsibility in any way, and even though I had zero problems with their hosting! This is exactly when many other hosting service support staff would point at WordPress as the culprit and refuse to help, since it's not their program, not part of their service, and since I was having no issues with their hosting.
I've had decades of experience getting and giving phone support and I've never had better support!
A high powered BlueHost UNIX style shared hosting account (the best and industry standard type) costs only $6.95 per month (when paid by the year for $83.40). Like all other web hosts, BlueHost may charge additional small fees if you park domains, add additional domains (1st one is free), etc.
I discovered BlueHost by searching the most repudible review sites. Notice that BlueHost are in the top 10 ratings position at these review sites:
http://www.upperhost.com/http://www.web-hosting-top.com/
http://webhostinggeeks.com/
Easy Real-Time Web Site Traffic Metrics
A Fine Email Marketing Service
