MagicLamp Launches 3 New Sites – Including WooCommerce!

COWBOY CHARCOAL MagicLamp’s site design for Cowboy Charcoal is grilling on all burners. This WordPress site features barbecue photos so real, you can smell the beef! The responsive design introduces you to a readily explorable site. First up is a side scrolling display that sumptuously showcases Cowboy’s Roundup recipe blog, events and products just below … Read more…

New sites for Q2 2016 – Clean Web Designs and WordPress

HEARUSA and HEARCANADA   WordPress once again displays its flexibility in hosting a database-driven site, this time to serve the hearing challenged customer in both the USA and Canada. Through use of Google Maps and integrating the importable data in Microsoft Excel worksheets, MagicLamp has created a responsive, highly functional and updateable resource that can … Read more…

The In’s and Out’s of Digg

Digg.com is a social bookmarking site that allows users to share stories, videos, and digital photos with other users of Digg. It’s a great way to find out what’s happening in the world of technology, politics, science, sports, or just about any topic – particularly obscure stories the main stream news may not be pushing … Read more…

Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website

2626Here is our compiled checklist from the book titled “Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website” by Bruce C. Brown: Ten Steps To A Profitable ECommerce Site List your goals and ideas   Review your products and services   Compare against competition   Determine your target market   Set a budget for your website … Read more…

Customer Follow Up

Summary This article focuses on ways to address new and returning customers to encourage repeat business and loyalty. The ideas presented here are not new, but they are combined in such a way as to allow you to pick and choose which ones are most appropriate for your business, as well as generate ideas of … Read more…

Getting Addresses for Your Email Campaigns

As more and more companies start to explore their marketing options online, one obvious place to start is with e-mail campaigns. The first question is ostensibly “where do we get email addresses?”.Option #1: Your internal database, CRM or customer lists. This is where most businesses will start that have an established business.Option #2: Buy e-mail … Read more…

Why Hit Counters Are Misleading

A client designer recently requested that we put a site counter on one of their customer’s websites. I asked why the customer didn’t just use the web server logs with a web analytics tool to see what the traffic for the site was. The answer was first, no one had access to the raw log … Read more…