Comments on: Top 10 Mistakes Businesses Make Online

By: body moisturiser

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By: TOM

TOM — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:49:08 +0000

This is some great advice. I will only comment on only two of these points to save time and space, lol. I agree that you need a call to action. If you don’t show that you have something to sell…you won’t get any sales! Be subtle about it, but recommend a product and tell the customer to buy it.

By: Web Design Zoo

Web Design Zoo — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:42:33 +0000

Great article! Definitely agree that some sites try and look too cool than necessary. Naviation links are extremely important. There are so many sterling examples out there that make browsing a pleasure, the stark contrast emphases how uncomfortable one feels when surfing a poorly designed and more to the point, a poor planned website.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:20:35 +0000

I also agree that you shouldn’t be cool just to be cool. You need to make your site stand out from the rest, but you need to make it sell. Keep the content relevant and informative. A plain informative website will do better than an ultra cool looking, non-informative website. Add some flavor, but keep it simple.

By: GoogleNemesis

GoogleNemesis — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:36:24 +0000

These are extremely spot-on points.

Time and again, we see great brick and mortar business, going online, and failing miserably at it.

Thankfully, they are able to sustain their presence; this is not on merit of its online value, rather the consolidated awareness of the brand offline.

It seems businesses coming online view the online facet of their operation as an entirely different beast, and they lose of vision of what their business actually is. It is, in fact, a different matter, which warrants employing a multitude of diversified strategies, in order to complement the offline endeavours, but must still remain in line with the mission and vision of the business.

By: Leon Gerrits

Leon Gerrits — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:09:48 +0000

Nice article. The only thing I miss is a way of Online Reputation Management. Companies should be aware of the fact that their employees can influence the reputation of the company. Nevertheless, keep up the good work!

By: emil

emil — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:18:53 +0000

i think that the most two important mistakes are “Cool for the Sake of Cool” and Failing to “Optimize for Search” !

By: Around the Net 3/29/2007 | knupNET

Around the Net 3/29/2007 | knupNET — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 04:48:56 +0000

[...] Top 10 Mistakes businesses make online. [Bill Hartzer] [...]

By: knupNET

knupNET — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:49:19 +0000

Thanks for the great post Bill. Very true points. I run several businesses online and will take some of your points to heart and try to improve in those areas. Thank you!