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November  2003

Volume 24

What's New ?

Marketing Your Site

Grins

Santa's Workshop Mailbox 

Santa's Elves made an online mailbox for kids and others who are young at heart. Visit the mail box with your children or grandchildren and help them fill out the mail form. 

The mailbox requests the age, gender, and first name of the child but it doesn't keep any information online. The information provided is used strictly to help with the return email. This makes the mailbox extremely safe for any age to use.

The child is asked to fill out a Christmas Gift Wish List and other bits of information none of which is saved online. 

Santa uses a little Christmas magic to send an email response to the person that fills out the form. The email can be printed and is even signed by Santa himself. 

Santa's Workshop Mailbox 
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Links

 

Quick Home
The PPP Design Community Portal
Don't forget to stop by and submit your site to the special sites section, or place a classified ad.

Santa's Workshop Mailbox 
Fill out the mail form and receive an Email from Santa.

Xenu's Link Sleuth 
Free link check program

Site Owner Online Link Checker 
Check the links on your site while online.

Campbell's Soup Click for Cans 
Follow this link and click on your favorite Pro Football teams helmet. Enter the displayed code and a can of soup will be donated by Campbell's Soup to an area Food Pantry. You can do this once each day until the promotion is over.

 

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  Are Your Visitors Sticking Around?

Your web site is a sales tool, much like a brochure or other advertisement. Your sales begin with a headline! Your headline must grab the readers attention and compel them to read further. Once you have their attention your content must prompt them to take further action such as clicking through your site, downloading something or filling out a form. In other words you need to motivate your visitors to take action.

Indecision and uncertainty often lead to frustration which may cause a visitor to leave your site. So it is necessary to remove impediments that may cause a visitor to get off track while visiting your site.

Easy navigation is clearly essential, otherwise a visitor may become lost while trying to find information they are interested in. But look for less obvious distractions, bad or misleading links, ad copy that may be offensive, or a line in  your sales copy that is to much to swallow. Even though these things are inadvertent or accidental they may cause a visitor to leave. 

Look at every element of your site and identify every point that may prove to be a stumbling block for visitors. Have a third party review your site and critique the navigation, and the flow of your sales message.

These tips can improve the effectiveness of your website in creating sales.
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Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) 

 

Xenu's Link Sleuth (TM) is a free program that can check the links on your site to make certain your site navigation is working correctly.

We check all links when your site is placed online but several events can sometimes break a link. External links (Links away from your site) may change which can cause a broken link. Let us know if you find a bad link on your site and we will fix it for free. 

The program is small and very easy to use. You can download it from the link below.

Xenu's Link Sleuth

 

 Cute Quotes

I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. 
But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 
"No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall".
~Eleanor Roosevelt

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending;
and have the two placed as close together as possible.
~George Burns

What would men be without women? 

Scarce, sir ... mighty scarce.
~Mark Twain

I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
~Groucho Marx

Until I was thirteen, I thought my name was 'shut up'.
~Joe Namath

It takes only one drink to get me drunk.
The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
~George Burns

The cardiologist's diet: 
If it tastes good ... spit it out.
~Unknown

A woman drove me to drink ... 
and I hadn't even the courtesy to thank her.
~W.C. Fields

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll become happy;
if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
~Socrates