Announcements

With a limited budget and not enough hours in the day, how is any small business owner expected to run their business and spend the suggested 80% of their time on sales and marketing?

Your to-do list keeps growing and you don’t have thousands of dollars to spend on advertising. Your website isn’t producing the leads you’d hoped for and you wonder what else can be done.

You probably already know that Web123 is all about helping small businesses. In fact, it is the #1 reason we do what we do! To help small businesses even more than we already do, we’re teaming up with Small Fish Business Coaching for a very special promotion.
 

Have we mentioned lately how much we love our clients? Seriously, you guys are our raison d’etre! It’s the best feeling in the world when we hear of a small business taking over the #1 spot in Google for a keyword, or that a client’s website has helped them grow their sales exponentially by expanding into a market they might not otherwise reach! But I digress....

One of the most frequent questions we get here at Web123 is, “How do I get traffic to my website?” We usually answer with a conversation about promotion, strategy, targeting -- but it’s a massive topic that doesn’t have a quick and simple fix. This question was repeating itself frequently enough on our support line that we decided it was time to take action and help educate the masses. If that many of our clients were struggling to understand how they can build their businesses by using Facebook and SEO, then it was time to sit them down and get serious about online success strategies.

One of the great things about Web123 are the free upgrades! If you're a Web123 customer you might have already noticed a few changes. Here's a quick rundown of some things which you might see and a bunch of things that are available to switch on... 

The challenge we tackled this week was making your Web123 Shop more social -- getting greater interaction from your visitors and encouraging them to comment and share.

We’re always busily working away behind the scenes here to improve what our clients get, and what they can do with their websites. This week, I’ve got two things to announce - major improvements to the Statistics and Reports in your website, and an upgrade to Webmail. There's plenty more coming soon, so stay tuned.

Major upgrade to your Site Statistics

As we grow, and our clients grow, we’re having to crunch ever more data – and sometimes we hit bottlenecks. Over recent months statistics have run noticeably slower, particularly for clients who get a lot of traffic – so we’ve been working for a while in the background to fix the speed issue and also add extra depth to the information.

It’s long been an ongoing quest of the small business owner to connect customers and products. You open a store, you start a website, you run a promotion. You know your products are great, but how do you make sure they’re seen by the masses?

While there isn’t any silver bullet solution, there is a new tool just launched in Australia that will help you, the small online retailer, make your products known. Introducing: Google Product Search. 

It’s all about helping small business take on the big league.

It’s not every day that a business like ours would undergo such a dramatic change after just nine months. However with a growing list of client needs and the pace of the Internet changing so damn fast, it was an easy decision really.

What the last nine months has taught us (and yes, even we are still learning!) is that building your website is just the first little step. Small Business Web Design is one part of it but It’s how you then ensure you make real profits from it that can sometimes be the hardest part.