The Question Is “What Can My Website Do For Me”

I find that question is not always addressed even among those who build websites professionally!

I communicate to creatives on adapting adopting and integration new media and emerging technology into their art and business! Communication is a two way process I speak and I get feed back! So my web pages are built for communications! Talk To me…

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I am not yet ready to communicate with thousands, I enjoy one on one interaction… however we do a lot of exploration and so we have an open ploicy for posting! You never know who may need an answer!

www.demarketplace.com is our gateway site and so It frames many of our active, dormant and concept installs! We teach, we experiment we explore! We find anawers ( most of the times) In Teaching what does not works is just as important as what does… so we keep both! We do not currently support advertising as a format we will eventually but for now, not necessarily a business model that is needed or encouraged! frankly advertising changes the tone and authenticity of the what the artist presents!

We’ve simplify the description so that ist is easily remembered. The layout applies to “As I See IT” My personnal blog in the project! At the very top of the page is the RSS button next to the page’s address click on that will allow you to Syndicate this blogs content. That means you’ll get the latest news via the Rss reader of your choice! there is a lot more you can do with an Rss feed! S

If you need your website to market for you or keep your customers updated You NEED an RSS .

Add this to your site.. This is an audio player of my blogs post… it is a standard male voice but since it is about who you service, I understand that many of the artist use their hands. and while their eyes may be occupied they are quite comfortable listening! It is auto generated from RSS feed of the listen button at the beginning of the post!

The Tweet This button… I’m actually trying to get the artist online most of them are not on twitter! but this allows visitors to share it with twitter follows again if marketing is your goal this is a visual reminder and call to action!

Get It via Mobile QR Codes… many in our communities use public computers and most have web enabled mobile phones… This simplifies the book marking process! Most phones are being shipped with QR Code readers or you can download them.

The listen button I use Odeo the only drawback I hate the generic male voice! At least give me a choice of male or female!

Email or Print post:- These two are used a lot on my site the email will email the entire post to yourself or a friend… remember this is a teaching tool and generally the readers are low tech so a print out is something they relate to!

I’ve started adding my current email signature to my post I like a two way conversation! Since the viewers are usually people i know this works! they point to my social network pages. let me warn you though I am usually too busy to be online regularly.

Yet I post frequently

Auto post to Facebook Oh so it seems I import my post automatically via notes on Facebook using my the RSS feed! The RSS fees also powers my newsletter which can be subscribed to via the sign up box to the right!

I can allow a diffusion of my numbers, my user is my primary concern! If advertising were a primary goal then I’d have to ensure that I did not diffuse the stats, an advertiser would be looking at! I’d also be much more careful with those stats, Post more regularly and focus what I post!

Now the comment form is more a style option right now! My users would read the post and call or send an email or comment in Facebook! I’m trying to get feedback but in the community I serve comment is culturally a direct endeavor.

Which leaves trackback. The Trackback Url in wordpress allows someone to comment to your post by making a post on their own Blog! Unfortunately it can be a gateway for spammers!

At the top of the page are the Category headings clicking on each would pull up all the post under that topic! The very bottom of the page are the links to static pages! On the site about DeMarketplace is the highest queried search term!

The look I speak to with artist and creative , mainly women, mainly black… culturally color, and a bit of flash is expected, many opt for flash and video but I can simply add these to any post using html!

Strangely the web site often serves as a virtual office! So forms, even a sketch center was needed!

I don’t sell a product directly on this blog, as more artist prepare to opt for online sales we explore and will next year be showcasing shome of the solutions we found!

So what can your website do for you…

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