According to the Harvard Business Review, companies that contacted potential customers within an hour of receiving a query were nearly seven times more likely to qualify the lead as those that contacted the customer an hour later — and more than 60 times as likely as companies that waited 24 hours or longer.

Despite these findings, 63 percent of companies failed to respond in that “Golden Hour”. Twenty-four percent waited more than a day, and 23 percent didn’t respond at all. (From http://www.websitemagazine.com) Wow, what a great finding. Do you realize how important your contact form is? How does your contact form perform? We can help you receive real-time query via your phone or email.

Video is a big part of many online marketing campaigns. However, reaching a global audience with video can be difficult, largely because of language barriers in crucial markets. So, what's the solution?

"Subtitles are a very effective way to broaden your Web audience by conveying the business' marketing message in multiple languages," says Stephen McCluskey, CEO of Vzaar, a video platform company that specializes in providing service to e-commerce sites. Upon recognizing the potential value of including multi-language subtitles on a company's video content, Vzaar got to work on developing a way to introduce them into its platform, thus enabling e-commerce and online marketers to easily target videos to consumers around the world.

Web marketers are still trying to discover the most effective methods for mobile advertising. Now, there is evidence suggesting that the future of mobile marketing may lie in rich media ad units.

According to research completed in September 2011, rich media ad units dominated standard media in terms of click-through rates (CTRs), the primary method of measuring user engagement with mobile ads.

What do you expect from your website, only a web presentation or even more? Do you even have set expecations between yourself and your webmaster or web designer?

Some websites appear dull and they just sit there waiting for people to see them. The only result of these website is wasting money in renewing their services, and bring no monetary output at all. Have you ever thought a website that works as your second salesperson to generate positive cash flow for your business?

Today, we implemented a new function to our blog system and new submission forms that integrate with VTiger CRM. Now everybody can subscribe to our blog by just entering your email address and then clicking the subscribe button. That's it! Seemingly simple, this is actually a custom module created for the Lyftin Bloggie component in Joomla 1.5. While all blogs should have this, Lyftin does not come with it so we had to create it...

Form #1 you should have on your website:
A way to subscribe for updates to a blog, articles or news. You should ask for an email address at minimum.