SRS provides major South African retailers with merchandising services. They asked me to design their corporate website to show off their work, and act as an online prospectus for clients and prospects.
I’m doing a lot of website management on the SRS website. The client really wants to make their site a vital resource for their clients and staff, and they’re working hard to add valuable content on a weekly basis.
I’ve been a long-term employee of Consolidated Water Conditioning. When I told my boss that I am leaving in December to return to the UK, I was asked to re-design the CWC website, to make it easy for my replacement to manage.
I decided on a clean design, and opted to keep the site static, as the content is unlikely to change any time soon. The site is built for direct response, so I re-wrote all the content, and linked the major landing pages to our Google Adwords campaign.
The CWC website redesign launched a couple of months ago, but I’ve been holding off mentioning it until I could see some statistics. In the past 2 months, traffic has increased by 47%, and we’ve increased the number of qualified email sales leads generated by 12% in May and then by a massive 67% in June. I’m expecting this to level off by the end of the year to a manageable level.
I haven’t been tracking the number of visitors who decide to phone the company instead of sending an email, but judging by the increase in activity by our internal sales department, there is a marked increase. I think that’s a pretty good going-away gift for Consolidated Water Conditioning.
A few weeks ago, I moved my website from Dreamhost to Media Temple. At the time, Dreamhost didn’t seem to be able to resolve problems with a couple of my WordPress driven sites. Thankfully, it’s all sorted out now. Once again I’m a happy Dreamhost customer, and all is well in the land of cheap website hosting.
Oh, and if you’re wondering why I haven’t posted anything insightful in the past week, it’s because I’m working on a redesign of thinkdave.com (again!)
I’ve also got a couple of very interesting projects on the go, but I’ve yet to confirm with the clients that they’ll let me blog about them. Stay tuned.
Welcome to thinkdave.com, owned and managed by Dave Wilkinson.
I have been building and managing small business websites since 2003. I have an academic marketing background and 9 years experience as a business-to-business marketing manager.
I am a self taught web designer with a passion for helping small business owners grow their businesses online. Read more…
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