New Brisbane Website Build

Ben Minos, from Australian Kettlebell Instructor, is a gun personal trainer and experienced small business owner in the fitness industry with a great track record for helping his clients get results. He needed a professional web presence to promote his Kettlebell Instructor Course and take payments online.

Key web design features:

• Online payments via Paypal – Ben can accept payments online from anyone interested in becoming a Kettlebell instructor – whilst Paypal does have a small transaction fee, everyone knows, and trusts Paypal nowadays and allows Ben to accept credit card methods online without the hassle and expense of setting up a merchant account with his bank
• Content management system built in WordPress – easy to use system that enables Ben to upload photos to his gallery, edit text and lot’s of other features inbuilt – in short: wordpress is one of the most popular website systems in the world for good reason
• Clean, fast and simple design – visitors find this style of website very easy to use and can find the information they want, quickly and easily
• Facebook integration – facebook business page is setup to “feed” directly into the website – allows interested prospects to “follow” the AKI (Australian Kettlebell Instructor) website updates via their facebook page – and seriously, who isn’t on facebook these days
• Google analytics reporting system – powerful reporting and measuring system than enables Ben to see who’s visiting his site and what content, or pages, interest them the most – and perhaps most importantly, how many web visitors actually “Buy” via the Paypal button

We’ll be looking to build a mobile-friendly version of the AKI website in the not too distant future as mobile web visits are increasing at a very high rate.

This video, from one of the most respected guys at Google, is now 2 years old, but these principles still apply today.

PS – for NEW site owners: when he says: “Google usually finds your site in 3 days…” – keep in mind that this means if you type the name of website into Google, you’ll probably get found within this period – this DOESN’T mean you’ll get found for your main keywords in this time. Depending on how competitive your key-phrase is (i.e. at the time of writing, “house painters sydney” returned no less that 77,500 results! Obviously to get your site placing in the top 20 [first 2 pages], is going to take TIME AND WORK. Perhaps many months depending on how busy you are adding content and trying to get links to your site.

Did you know that you can check your business email (and send replies) from the web without having to use your home computer or Outlook?

Great if you’re out on the run To do this – simply:

• goto: http://www.yourwebsiteaddress.com.au/webmail (for example if your web address is www.joesplumbing.com.au it would be: http://www.joesplumbing.com.au/webmail)
• enter your username and password (username will be your full email address e.g. joe@joesplumbing.com.au and your password will have been sent to you when we first setup your email account)
• click “Horde” at the left
• click “login”
• now click “mail” at the menu on the left to see any email
• you can send using this system as well

For more info see video at top right (best viewed by enlarging – after clicking the play button, click again to enlarge)

Ok so you’ve just been sent some details about your new email address (associated with your business website) and you’re not sure how to add the email address to outlook. Just follow these steps or view the video at right (for best viewing, click the enlarge arrows and select HD version):

Note: this applies to the most commonly used email program, outlook 2003 (process should be similar for other versions of outlook)

• Open outlook and go to the “tools” menu and select “email accounts”
• Tick “add new email account”
• Tick “POP3″
• Enter the details we’ve given you in the appropriate fields (NOTE: the username and password fields have to be EXACT or they won’t work – if youre copying and pasting the details make sure you don’t copy in any SPACES)
• NOTE: your “outgoing mail server” will be same as your existing email address (i.e. bigpond, optusnet or whatever internet service provider you’re using) – to find out just click “tools” > “email accounts” > “view or change existing email account” > then click the account, and have a look at what’s in the “outgoing mail server” field – use that info for your new email account
• Click “test account settings” – you should get all green ticks if you’ve got it right