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Announcing Our 1,000 Business Card Promotional

1,000 Free Business Cards with Purchase of Website Standard Package.

Good until January 31st, 2012

Promotional does not include Graphic Design fees or services.

What Makes a Good Website?

Components of a Successful Website

What does a successful website look like? We're not talking about the design or layout, but rather the structure. What sort of components do "good" websites share?

We separate these components into the Visible and the Invisible. In other words, what the casual visitor sees, and what is going on behind the scenes, or under the hood.

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Joomla! Joins Another List of Winners

EContent Award

EContent today published their EContent 100 List of Companies that Matter Most in the Digital Content Industry. You can see us right here under Open Source Matters along with other notable open source friends like Drupal and Wordpress. The EContent 100 winners will be honored at the Buying & Selling eContent Conference next April 5-6 in Scottsdale, AZ.

There are a variety of categories: classification & taxonomy; collaboration; content commerce; content creation, production, & digital publishing; content delivery; content management; content security; fee-based info services; intranets & portals; mobile content; search engines & technologies; and social media.

EContent said, "We are proud of this list and of the companies on it. Members of the EContent 100 List are the companies empowering the content that fuels business today. We hope that our readers find the list as valuable as we did the process of creating it." The Joomla Project is honored to be recognized as a high-calibre business solution.

 

Which is the fastest browser?

Interesting Web Facts

25 things that may surprise you

  1. People are more likely to look at banners that appear at the top of a page
  2. Viewers spend more time looking at images that contain more than one face
  3. People tend to click more often when specifically invited
  4. People tend to click on text links that are embedded in content more often than graphical images and banner advertisements
  5. Users are more likely to search for ?used Lexus? rather than ?pre-owned Lexus?
  6. Most people can't remember more than seven things at once
  7. Research shows that web readers scan pages before they read anything, meaning they may scan right past your article if it doesn't jump out at them
  8. External links enhance the credibility of a site
  9. Most buyers complete their purchase-related search engine research two or more weeks before they buy
  10. Pop-up ads generate a click-through 13 times that of the standard 468 x 60 pixels banner and a conversion rate more than 14 times better
  11. Extremely colorful and obvious banners tend to be ignored by users
  12. Ads offering product discounts and coupons are more attractive to users than those offering chances to win merchandise, cash, points towards purchases, or airline miles
  13. Seventy-eight percent of click-throughs from Google listings to e-commerce Web sites come from Google?s editorial or algorithmic search results
  14. Click-throughs from Overture paid listings convert better and generate higher revenues than those from Google?s paid search listings
  15. A number one listing gets three times the click-through rate of a number two listing
  16. Users are less likely to fill out a form if it has more than 10 questions
  17. People are more likely to read a headline that is followed by a blurb
  18. Seventy percent of Spanish-speaking users are more likely to read news and current events online, compared to 51 percent of non-Spanish speaking users
  19. The top five search terms of all time are: Pam Anderson, Dragonball, Pokemon, Britney Spears, and WWE
  20. The three-click rule states that any page in a site should be accessible in three clicks
  21. The 7 ? rule states that a user should never be presented with more than five to nine choices at any given point in the site
  22. The average user will click 12 times before leaving a site
  23. Saturdays and Wednesdays are the most popular day of the week to surf the Web
  24. Only 11 percent of email newsletters were read thoroughly
  25. Twenty percent of Americans admit to buying products from spam

Top 5 Drawbacks of Joomla!

When it comes to CMS solutions, some things are just plain obvious - here are five ways Joomla! falls down again and again:

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1. You can?t recognize a good Joomla! Web site.

Professional Web developers who create CMS solutions using Joomla have no regard for the standard templates that are available and inevitably create sites that are totally unrecognizable as a Joomla! Web site. The origination software can only be determined after digging in the source code. Very original!

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Global Presence Is Riding The Wave: Social Media Marketing

Global Presence helps companies use social media to engage with their customers, prospects, and partners in ways that have never before been possible.

It's called Social Media Marketing, and it's making a profound impact on marketing strategies for organizations of all sizes.

Social Media Marketing is augmenting, enhancing, and, in some companies, replacing "old" forms of marketing. It's radically different from traditional forms of marketing in a few fundamental and dramatic ways.

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Did You Know?

An amazing video demonstrating how far behind we are as Americans with our understanding of the world and technology. I find that many businesses who should be adapting to this new world are actually resisting and hurting themselves. As the competition streamlines their business and takes better control of their leads and client data with a good CRM (Content Relationship Management) tool like salesforce.com, or a CSM (Content System Management) tool like Joomla.org many resistant companies won't be able to compete. The competition ROI (Return On Investment) will be greater, because they will have less overhead managing data and better SEM (Search Engine Marketing) presence. When people want information or are looking for a products and services the first thing they do is "GOOGLE IT". Face it traditional methods (non web based applications & promotional means: newspapers, microsoft outlook, etc) are fading away and are incapable of handling the large capacity of data and marketing a growing company needs. Watch the video. It will give insight into the "root" reasons for our delayed responses to the changing technological world.

Our Privelage To Help

Dear Friends,

 

Global Presence operates with the belief that God loves "all" people and has called humans to utilize their skills and resources to do likewise.


Firstly, all non-profits with 501c3 status that hire Global Presence receive a 15% discount on all projects. Secondly, we seek to take on twice a year pro-bono projects that will help two worthy organizations with their online website needs. If your in need of assistance please email us your story and organization information to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .? Lastly, a percentage of all incomes received from our clients are donated towards socially conscious organizations like: World Vision, UNICEF, FREE THE SLAVES, & CHURCHES that are laboring to transform marginalized urban communities.

Therefore, we want to say "THANK YOU" for doing business with us or referring potential clients to us. You are allowing money to circulate through us and eventually back to you with rewards that money can't buy! Again, THANK YOU!


Sincerely, Jack Hakimian
Owner,Consultant & Designer
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