Free Advertising for Businesses in London
Joe PubClick is a Free Advertising Directory for Businesses in Kent, London and the South East.
The website was launched on the deadline and the response since has been huge. The service is free for businesses looking to advertise and promote. The added features include a free link to their website and social networking accounts such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Many businesses are signing up on a daily basis to make the most of this free opportunity to grab free exposure on the web. Businesses from the London area are signing up for their free advertising. These include tradesman and professionals – Joe PubClick is for everyone! – What can you offer Joe? visit http://www.joepubclick.co.uk and create your free advert – it only takes a few minutes. You can also choose your own colour and upload your logo!
Creative Venom realise that launching a website can be a mammoth task. We have therefore written a few hints and tips to help you get your Kent website live.
You have spent ages preparing your website, your resources are low and the clock is ticking. Do not despair, keep some fundamental things in mind and you can ensure a trouble -free website launch.
Creative Venom design and develop websites in Kent and are now going to share with you some of their most recent experiences…
1. Have scalable web server resources
Regardless of your predicted traffic it’s never a bad idea to host your website on a server that will scale—they’re tremendously affordable and you pay only for what you use. Creative Venom will recommend a solution for your specific needs. For example an E-commerce trader will demand a different specification from the server than say a brochure-ware website. Call Kent website designers today on +44 1227 265 641 to get the ball rolling. Don’t risk having your website plummet and your launch day blown due to a poorly equipped web server.
2. Get all of your social media accounts in advance
Social networking is integral to a website’s marketing and profile building, especially in the early days of a website launch. Don’t wait until the last minute to sign up and set up your social network accounts on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and any other site that you’re planning to engage in. This guarantees that your preferred account name will be available before you become known and gives your visitors additional ways to communicate with as soon as they arrive at your website. Creative Venom can assist you in the synergy of your social media and networking accounts by automating your website and your accounts. This way every time your website publishes new content, the same content will be shared with your social networking accounts.
3. Have content ready to publish for a minimum of 30 days
The first stages of a website design Kent is compact with numerous tasks. One time-efficient task you can do is to have content ready to publish so that you can follow up your launch with useful and persuasive content. This also frees you up for the many other activities involved in this stage of your website’s development – do as much in advance as possible. Creative Venom, website design Kent will help you priorities these tasks and give you the best possible start.
4. Start talking about the upcoming launch to build anticipation and maximise early promotion
Let people know that there’s an event that’s going to occur to help create some hype. If you want to keep the details undisclosed to the public—that’s fine—you can still let people know that something on some date is going to happen. Creative Venom recently launched a useful website for small business. The aim was to give them a free platform to advertise and promote their business from. Businesses can write a description about their activities and link to their website. There are various other functions and advantages to registering on the site, but not all these were given away straight away. Slowly but surely hints were given (mainly through the social media that raised anticipation) and a greater launch resulted. This type of subtle hinting can pique the interests of your long-time supporters and fans. And those are the people that count the most when your website launches.
5. Plan your tasks for at least a month after the site launch
The worst question to have after a site launch is, “Now what?” You need a clear goal and direction on how you intend to follow through your site’s launch. If you’ve planned for a big site launch, don’t let the initial interest fizzle out by not having a plan. Before you launch, you should know exactly how you want to proceed right after. Call Kent website designers today on +44 1227 265 641
6. Triple-check the technical details before going live
Measure twice, cut once. Better yet, measure thrice. Making certain that your early visitors will have the best experience possible when first arriving at your site means that everything needs to be working correctly.
Check to make sure that all hyperlinks work. Make ultra-sure that contact forms, email accounts, commenting systems, and all the other things that your users will interface with, is working properly.
7. Launch on schedule
Whether you’ve announced your launch date or not, you should release your website to the public when you say you’re going to. This forces you to stay on point and work towards a goal. What can cripple and delay a website launch is the attitude of “It’ll be ready when it’s ready.”
When you’re nearing launch day and you think you won’t have the site fully completed, launch anyway (as long as it’s presentable and usable).
Websites aren’t like conventional consumer products—you can update and upgrade them any time you want.
8. Contact your friends and family about the site launch
The first thing to do after a site has launched is to contact your friends and family. Let them know that you’ve launched the site so that they can be the first to see it.
It doesn’t matter how big your list of friends and family is, they should be the first to know about your site’s launch.
9. Provide easy ways of contacting you
When you first launch a site, you have to give visitors ways to communicate with you easily. Your initial visitors are early adopters, and as such, they’ll be critical and will help you find things that might be wrong with the site, as well as suggest ways you can improve the site for future users. Call Kent website designers today on +44 1227 265 641
10. Provide your users with a glimpse of what’s to come
One of the most important things you can do when you launch a site is to show your initial users that there’s more to come. You do not want them to think that it is pointless revisiting – give them reason to!
Prior to launch you are just guessing what your users want. When live, let them be the judge, listen and give them what they want. A good way to start this off is to install Google Analytics and monitor which areas of your Website Kent are the most popular. If this remains a trend then give them more or think of ways of making the area more, useful, fun, interactive or informative. Call Kent website designers today on +44 1227 265 641
Provide hints that your Website Kent intends to grow. Let your users know what it is you plan to launch next - but don’t necessarily give away everything…
