Webmasters: The importance of feedback in improving your sales, site and software.

The importance of feedback in improving your sales, site and software.

Written by Michael Wall

Customer feedback A while back I received an email from a potential customer suggesting that he liked a piece of membership software that I sell. Over repparttar

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next few days he sent me numerous emails with suggestions for features that I might want to include in a new update. I was only to happy to get to work on his suggestions after all they could only make for a better product, more customers and a bigger profit. He was also a very experienced web developer with over 10 years experience so to ignore his advice would be foolish.

A couple of months down repparttar 131697 line and sales soared. His extensive feedback had proved a godsend and showed exactly why feedback is so important. It helped me provide better software and dramatically increased my online sales. Tapping into repparttar 131698 knowledge of an experienced web developer will always provide dividends. Even less experienced developers and general visitors can give you valuable advice and a new perspective.

Website blind When you build a website you can sometimes get so focused on repparttar 131699 site that even after your testing and quality assurance you can overlook errors and typos. Getting an outsider to proof read your copy is always a good idea.

Negative feedback Negative feedback should spur you on provided it is constructive rather than abusive. You will always get repparttar 131700 guy who cruises round sites just ditching everything in sight. Ignore repparttar 131701 abuse and don't be rattled though always take on board feedback provided it is constructive.

Use a Poll Although not every visitor will provide you with such as a wealth of feedback as was repparttar 131702 case above there are plenty of ways to actively encourage your visitors and they aren’t that complicated or costly to implement. A poll is a good way to garnish feedback. I realised after a while that I could use my poll as a way to assist me in planning new site adjustments and to find out what areas of repparttar 131703 site my visitors felt needed to be changed or updated. Polls that I have asked on my site include “Should I use Worldpay as well as PayPal for a payment option?” and “Should I include a member’s forum”. I acted on my forum results as repparttar 131704 majority of site visitors wanted a forum and decided not to use Worldpay for repparttar 131705 time being as my visitors seemed happy enough to use PayPal to buy my software. If you would like to have more information and not just a straight poll you could use a poll that allows your visitors to add comments as well. I created a Poll system (Poll Pro) that not only allows repparttar 131706 site administrator to post polls but also to allow visitors to vote and offer comments as well. It’s a nice feature and highly beneficial. Think about your poll carefully and what exactly you want to know, questions that help or improve your site or help you learn some demographics of your visitors are preferable. Acting on repparttar 131707 poll outcome will show regular visitors that you are listening to their opinions.

Launch of Amara Flash Menu Maker

Written by Amara Software

Amara Flash Menu Maker is a new software package that makes it easy for users to create animated Flash buttons and menus for websites. Amara Flash Menu Maker provides offline creation of impressive and professional Flash buttons and entire navigation menus, including sub-menus.

Amara Flash Menu Maker offers exceptional Flash buttons with animated effects. Users can create their personalized buttons and menus by simply changing repparttar settings of repparttar 131695 templates, such as colors, text, sound effects, hyperlinks and company slogan, and repparttar 131696 buttons can easily be made to match repparttar 131697 style and color scheme of any website. Users' settings are automatically saved in Amara Flash Menu Maker and repparttar 131698 updating of a design is simple. About 99% of web users worldwide are able to view Flash elements nowadays. Although more and more websites use Flash, still very few people know how to create Flash animations. Amara Flash Menu Maker will help people who want to make an impact with their website to draw and impress visitors. Users don't need any programming, design or Flash skills to be able to create a website menu with Amara Flash Menu Maker

Amara Flash Menu Maker is compatible with all HTML editors and Macromedia Flash, so it's easy to incorporate repparttar 131699 buttons into websites or Flash projects. File sizes are kept extremely low, just 7 to 9KB for an entire navigation menu including sub-menus.

These are some of Amara Flash Menu Maker's unique features:

1) Button size adjusts automatically to length of text.

2) Menu bar can be made scrollable, i.e. an unlimited number of buttons can be used in repparttar 131700 menu or sub-menu.

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