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January 9, 2012 at 3:38 am #1079809Up::0
We’ve seen online stores working in with bricks and mortar stores come a lot closer together the last couple of years. We’ve launched a large amount of eCommerce sites and the ones that do really well offer not only the advantage of convenience/price to online consumers but the additional service extras expected in store (layby, wish lists, pick up from store, check availability etc)
A lot of customers want to check you out online before coming in and finding something’s out of stock or that you no longer carry it anymore or even just to find alternatives and educate themselves on what they’re wanting to buy.
If you embrace the crossover between the two mediums it’ll definitely pay off in the future especially when retailers are being pushed for every inch of extra service they can offer.
January 9, 2012 at 1:45 am #1078187Up::0$40 – wouldn’t cover the cost of a half decent paper stock to print on! Question I would ask immediately is – do you have to pick up the print? Shipping costs alone would be circa $20 which leaves $20 for paper, ink, press time, printers wages etc etc…
We’ve just finished setting up an online ordering system for all our print and design work up at http://www.altaimageprint.com.au – We’re trying to be as competitive as possible on print prices with fixed price on design.
Hopefully it will help you make some comparisons on current market rates, I’ve obviously got a vested interest in this but seriously $40 sounds too good to be true…
January 9, 2012 at 1:36 am #1082471Up::0As long as text and images are supplied then we’d always go in with a fixed price quote so customers know going in the full costs, Single side of A4 is between 1-2 hours with revisions and alterations to concept. We recently set up a sister arm of our business at http://www.altaimageprint.com.au so people can get fixed price design and print quotes and order directly on line, so far it’s gone down really well with our existing clients.
January 9, 2012 at 1:36 am #1082606Up::0As long as text and images are supplied then we’d always go in with a fixed price quote so customers know going in the full costs, Single side of A4 is between 1-2 hours with revisions and alterations to concept. We recently set up a sister arm of our business at http://www.altaimageprint.com.au so people can get fixed price design and print quotes and order directly on line, so far it’s gone down really well with our existing clients.
December 12, 2011 at 7:14 am #1079238Up::0Definitely National – as it goes we’re doing work still for clients in the US and Europe which is always good but what we’d really like is to offer something more for our ‘local’ Australian clientele.
Based in Melbourne now so I’m thinking it’s something that we really should have been offering for a while now but as usual these things always get left to last. So while we’ve got the Christmas break coming up it seems like an ideal time to implement it.
I’ve just had a call back half hour ago or so from one of the providers I’ve enquired to but I’m still not convinced by some of the fees.
As for conversions – I guess we’ll see what the uptake is with the new number if we can get it into play before January
March 18, 2011 at 5:36 am #1056033Up::0We’ve got a few on YouTube too – not a great amount of hits but always another avenue for a bit of link juice!
March 18, 2011 at 3:04 am #1056177Up::0I’d like to say mine is more of a throne than a chair but i’d be lying!
Anyway, back on topic – get one of these foot stool chair things, they look strange as can be and you’ll probably feel a bit weird at first semi-kneeling all day. When I had a bad back they we’re ace, really good, you can only sit up straight on them so it’s a win – win as far as back pain goes!
Here’s a link to what they look like, not seen one yet in Officeworks or the like but when I do…
http://www.naturalliving.co.uk/acatalog/kneeling_chairs.html
March 12, 2011 at 11:14 pm #1055731Up::0It is when you have two under 4 in the house! Irony is it happened on the day they released the iPad2 Specs, my brother was less than impressed to see the press release of that on the news!!
March 12, 2011 at 9:49 pm #1055729Up::0I don’t think using this is going to help anyone in the right light.
On a similar note of how technology can fail in the wrong hands….
My brother in the UK received a call on his doorstep at 4am the other morning from two assumptive and overly protective parents arguing with him that his “Son had stolen their mobile phone” Anyway, long story short, his son is 4 years old so easily proven this wasn’t the case as he’s not allowed out to parties on his own. What it turned out was the problem was a little locator app for the iPhone that didn’t work very well and just gave people with very little information (and education no doubt) the ability to go and terrorise half a neighbourhood on an assumption that what technology had told them was the bible truth!
March 12, 2011 at 9:41 pm #1055739Up::0I still think Google is a fantastic place to market – usually better than conventional offline campaigns as you’re going directly to your target audience.
It’s not a leaflet drop where you hope someone at that point is looking for your service and you’re “In the right place at the right time” etc – With Google if you’re clever enough you can be the result that people have just searched for.
I’m sure if you make it to No.1 then you’ll find a way to handle the extra calls
March 10, 2011 at 1:21 pm #1054366Up::0If you take the content out of context Mr Penguin it relates poorly – I also said at the end of that short sentence….
Unless your brand is constantly in someones face like Nike or Apple then it is rarely going to be that memorable – we all remember marketing school with the “5 hits til your famous” adage of repeat, repeat, repeat!
March 9, 2011 at 2:52 am #1054518Up::0I just had a call from “Census” at first I thought it was something to do with the national census but turns out – it’s Yellow Pages!!
I was told that they’d get me to the top of Google by putting me in Yellow Pages and that their marketing guy should have a long chat to talk about direction and other marketing they could do for me – running some adword campaigns etc etc, the whole time we’re talking i’m looking through the forums here scrambling to find this post, I knew I’d read something about this somewhere!!
After the preposterous “go to the top of Google” claim I politely declined and got back to going about my otherwise happy day!
It’s a shame though as I know for a fact that I lost an adwords campaign build and monitor to these guys a few weeks ago but didn’t realise why or just how. I offer thorough campaigns, well managed and personalised. I guess what I should say is “top of Google”.
I’m still sticking with my ‘honesty is the best policy’ way of operating and just hoping karma still works!
March 4, 2011 at 11:04 pm #1054363Up::0I think the problem here is you’ve jumped into a forum that has engaged other designers! This brings not only a vested interest into the argument but the age old – “It’s ok, but I would have….”
Everyone would have done it differently, I certainly would drop the oval surround though – it just contains it a little.
As for the comment from The Penguin regarding the ute comment – what ute’s do you make note to remember when driving around town?!?! Unless your brand is constantly in someones face like Nike or Apple then it is rarely going to be that memorable – we all remember marketing school with the “5 hits til your famous” adage of repeat, repeat, repeat!
My only concern would be is if you’re asking opinions because you’re unsure of the design still then get it reworked – this has got to last you and the last thing you want is a logo that you’re just ‘meh’ about – this has to sell your company and the brand you build behind it, you need to love it!
March 3, 2011 at 10:42 am #1054808February 28, 2011 at 10:32 am #1054476Up::0A good solid Centos LAMP installation should be what you’re after here me thinks! What version of Ubuntu are you running? Older versions still have more support than the latest incarnations and tend to be a bit more stable – good choice though Ubuntu rules!
Surely if these are just WordPress site’s you’re moving though you’d be doing it all in one hit and just relinking the database that you have moved into your new servers MySQL Database? No need for all the install.php configs at that point I’d assume?
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