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5 Signs Your Website Needs a Redesign

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Your website is often the first impression that people will get of your brand or business and while revamping it may be a significant time and cost expense, sometimes it’s not something that you can afford to delay. How do you know when it’s time to redesign your website? Read on to find out.

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It Isn’t Mobile Friendly

Mobile matters. At the TechCrunch conference in early 2014, Yahoo! Chief Executive Marissa Mayer told attendees that their mobile users are already up 43% from this time last year and they expect that figure to keep climbing in 2014 to a point where they will potentially outnumber desk top users before the end of the year.

There Is No Social Media Integration

Including links to your social media platforms from your website is the absolute minimum you should be doing. Ideally, you should be making it as easy as possible for people to share your content across Pinterest, Facebook and Twitter. Incorporating social sharing tools enables your customers to help spread the word about your business organically across their digital profiles.

It’s Cumbersome to Update

Do you still have to email off changes to your web design team or allocate half a day just to upload a new special to your website? Websites were never meant to be a static medium and regularly updating your content means that your site visitors have a reason to keep coming back. If you can’t update it yourself or your content management system is hard to use, it may be time to consider and upgrade.

You’re Losing Traffic

Have your website visitors declined in recent years, or do they leave your site quickly after finding it? It may be that your content – or your whole design – needs to be updated. Things that you can immediately do to remedy this is do an audit of your website and remove anything that is obviously out of date – a promotion that expired six months ago or even held last year for example. Regularly updating your website with useful information not only helps with your search engine rankings, but also ensures that there is a purpose for people to visit – and revisit – your website.

You’ve Rebranded

This one might seem a little obvious but there are a surprising number of businesses out there who’ve updated their logo and branding but haven’t transferred the new look to their website. The same look and feel should be consistently applied across all facets of your business – if the website doesn’t match your Facebook page or what people experience when they come into your premises, it can have a negative impact on how they view your brand.

If your website can identify with any of these five warning signs that it might be time to redesign, you should start making plans and enquiries now. A professional audit by an integrated digital agency like Simple can arm you with tips that can help your current site while planning ahead to make sure that you’re maximising your online potential and staying ahead of the competition.

When was the last time your website was revamped?

Mobile casino gaming on the increase

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It’s not so long ago that if you wanted to play casino games online, you’d have to download the software and take up space on your hard drive. But now, of course, with so many online casino sites offering instant play few people bother downloading the casino software. Maybe if you’re a poker player, it’s worth doing, but for most recreational gamblers, the instant play selection is fine.

Now, things are moving on again, and we’re seeing more and more people choosing to play on their mobile rather than on a pc or laptop. This makes sense; we organise most of our lives through the mobile – why not be entertained there too? Of course, mobile gaming apps are nothing new, but it seems that more people are switching to cash games now. Obviously there’s an added level of interest in a game if it can win you a heap of cash!

Even though the number of people playing cash games like roulette, blackjack and slots on their mobiles has increased, that doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re all playing those games on the move. A recent survey into UK mobile gaming by market research group comScore showed that 20 million people played games on their mobile and 6 million of those played on a daily basis. However, nearly two-thirds of those mobile gamers play in their living room, 45% play in bed and around 20% play in the bathroom. This makes a lot of sense when you think part of the reason many people choose to play games is to relax. Sitting in front of your pc doesn’t seem like the most relaxing place to play when you could be playing on the sofa instead.

You’d imagine that the most mobile gaming would take place on a commuter journey, as it would be a great way to while away the time, but only a third of mobile gamers in the UK actually play on the way to and from work. Meanwhile, 27% take a bit of time out at work to play games on their mobile.

The British aren’t alone in their appetite for games on their mobiles. Mobile gaming revenue in the States is predicted to reach USD3 billion by 2016 and it’s anticipated that the global mobile games market will be worth around UDS9 billion by the end of this year.

Added to these stats, Juniper Research has predicted that 64.1bn mobile games will be downloaded onto mobiles or tablets by 2017, triple the amount downloaded in 2012. More and more people will opt to play on their mobiles as game choice widens and functionality of playing on a small screen improves.

At the moment, the most widely available games from online casinos like 32red are those that are best suited to play on a smaller screen. Hence you get a wide choice of slots, as well as some variants of blackjack and roulette. And there are lots of promos available for playing these games on your mobile – every site wants to win over customer loyalty while the market is in its growth phase!

Google will help you out with your online business

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Google has done it again!!

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An amazing service for online business has launched a while ago, that many people know about. This service helps businesses or people looking to start a business for which they can deliver their work online via the internet. It’s called “google helpouts”. It enables people looking to start a business where they can provide a service via video camera or webcam.

For eg a cooking class , a computer repair or support via webcam, a yoga class, a piano teacher teaching student piano via webcam , a corporate training class providing sales training via webcam .

With this service google allows you to charge customers per hour or per lesson or even deliver your service or skills free to online customers who are seeking a skill or lesson.

 

Your online business Delivered via video or webcam and google helpouts

These are the different kind of opportunities for new and existing businesses to expand online. Google provide the business platform including payment processing and software and all you need is a google account , a webcam and a internet connection

Finally, there is a truly profitable way to cash in online with your skills or business acumen – with what you already know. So if you’re a consultant, working from home, or heck just admits it… you’re simply looking for Ways to share your knowledge and get paid…… Then this is your ticket!

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HOW TO APPLY FOR GOOGLE HELP OUTS ?

How to sign up with google helpouts and start teaching people or offering your service

You need a Google+ profile to create a Helpout and also an invitation code. You can request a invitation code for google helpouts. However entry into this service is very strict and limited. All applications are screened by google manually to keep out people that are not suited for this service or can be a risk or liability to this service. In fact there are many people who get rejected due to the strict entry screening for this service . Google also hold a a one on one interview to validate if it’s a genuine business looking to do business online and if that business fits in with the google helpouts criteria.

Luckily there is a service that helps you out with this process to increase your chances of making it through this admission process with a higher chance of you getting your business online with google helpouts to start making money. You can check out this service Here.

First, go to this page at the official Google Helpouts site. Then, underneath the box that says “Enter invitation code,” there’s a smaller button labeled “Request a code.”  Click on it. From there, you’ll be taken to a page that asks you what topic you’d like to teach. Select one from the drop down list and click Submit. [ i highly recommend you check out this service before your apply]

With google help-outs you can Instantly stream your in-studio classes either to a customer or a global audience live and give real-time feedback. This service is also like a teleconference or more like a video conference where you can give lessons to multiple people at a set time making it a multi-conference  teaching lesson. This also enables to multiply your earning potential or making money online.

For what google helpouts are useful

  • Corporate Classes via webcam
  • Cooking classes via webcam
  • Learning guitar via video
  • Learning or teaching ,speaking italian online via online classes
  • Self-computer or gadget repair via webcam
  • How to fix a household problem or issue via webcam
  • Yoga classes or language classes via webcam

This service enables you to Record your classes to create your own video library and subscription plans. It also helps grow your client base with live webcam classes and on-demand videos.

Helpouts is an extension of Hangouts that allow professionals, educators, or those who want to instruct on pretty much any topic to charge money for live training. Helpouts is new and one of the most exciting opportunities in a long time that’s going to help consultants, instructors, infopreneurs and even ordinary folks like YOU to make more money!

For years, people have always asked how they can make money online without:

· -Having their own product

· -Having a list

· -spending many hours setting up and maintaining a website

You don’t need any of the above to get started! Don’t get me wrong having a website with your google help outs account will definitely help , but it is not a necessity. For help with admission for google helpouts check out his video giving details of Google helpouts and go to this link if you want to speed up your admission process with success.