Conversational commerce is making waves in the marketing world but many still aren’t aware of what it is, and just how influential it can be. When you look at the technology around you, you’ll notice that brands like Facebook and Google have found new ways to give you access to information within apps. For example, a long press word selection in Google Chrome cantrigger Google Now and lead to in-app search results related to the word.
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Here at OC Business Websites, our Shopify developer has been raving about the new and improved Shopify platform. We’d like to share the benefits of using Shopify e-commerce software to build your own e-commerce website. While we are proud Shopify developers, you might even be able to be your own Shopify developer!
E-commerce websites rely heavily on user experience; so if the product search, selection, and check-out process isn’t smooth and easy, your prospective customers will turn away. Unfortunately, most business owners don’t know much about web development and often choose e-commerce solutions that lead to bad quality websites.
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A tip for intermediate web developers and web designers hosting multiple websites on the same hosting account.
If done properly, no – not at all. But if done improperly, you might never see these websites on Google, ever.
Those of you who have a web hosting server that allows you to host multiple websites on one primary hosting account using add-on domains may find yourself making a huge mistake that can desecrate your organic search engine rankings. Usually your hosting provider will take care of this upon request (but may charge you for it), but if you are creating multiple add-on domains on your server yourself, then this is up to you to fix, and I have the solution right here.
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Many wonder what the next step is after their small business is up and running. Your beautiful website is ready for the world to view, but unfortunately people won’t flock to it just because you want them to. It is now time to market your website.
Social Media Marketing is a trending marketing approach that is both lucrative and inexpensive, in most cases costing absolutely nothing.
You are about to learn basic techniques to Social Media Marketing; where to begin and what to post about.
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Responsive Web Design is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience; easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors). –Wikipedia
A responsive website is one that responds to the device it is being viewed on. These websites adjust automatically to fit the varying resolutions of all devices, from desktop computers to tablets and cell phones.
This is achieved by using flexible grids and layouts that use an intelligent CSS stylesheet to change the way a website looks based on the user’s preferences. This eliminates the long and expensive process of developing additional layouts of your website to accommodate each device type.