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Greetings All,

I hope this post finds everyone blessed and in good health.

When you have time please view my website www.inspirestudents.org and let me know your thoughts and suggestions on how to make it more marketable and get the traffic to the site as well as buyers

 

 

Hello,

Without going into too much review I noticed that the site had some "jittery" issues when rolling over the cards on the home page. Also on the "Our Company" page you have a couple typos. First sentence under History, I think "motived" should be "motivated"? And under Graphic Design the last sentence should have "started" instead of "stated".

Try titling your pages other than "Welcome to Inspirationpostcards.com" with a little more descriptive phrase that utilizes your keywords. Also make sure you have description tags in your pages to help with search engines.

Other than that I site is clear, concise and to the point. Easy to navigate and see what samples you have to order.

Now start looking for places to link to or advertise inexpensively on.

Good luck!


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Justin Runyard
Graphic & Multimedia Design
www.jrunyard.com
justin@jrunyard.com

It seems like there`s not enough about what those are or how it works, at first glance.

And the giant popup is a little ... alarming?

If you are selling postcards, use your copy to sell postcards.
If you`re promoting youth empowerment, do that.
You`re somewhere between right now ... and it comes across on the site.

If` I`m going to buy a postcard to send it or have it sent to a student, I`d like to browse the various examples. I didn`t see anything like that on this site.

I also thought there was a visual disconnect between the background photo, and the "in your face" blue content area. It`s not terrible or bad, but it was disturbing.

Overall, I didn`t see any compelling reason to want to learn how to send an inspiring postcard to some student. I had no feel for the age of the student, and no sense of a connection between sending a postcard and why the student might want one.

Thank you all so much for your comments and words of wisdom.  I will be working on the site and will have some major changes within the next week.  Please re-visit and let me know what you think.  Thanks again

Hey, just feel free to come back here and update us with a post ... that way we will be reminded to go back and see it!

Good luck!

Okay, some changes have been made to my site please view it and let me know what you think about the new changes.  www.inspirestudents.org 

I did not see your first site, so this is a fresh viewpoint.

First NEVER EVER use yellow text.  It`s almost impossible to read.  Also, your background scales rather badly, it`s too big and it makes difficult reading of the text that overlaps it.

The "statistics" mean nothing to me and I don`t see the relevance to the idea of sending an inspirational message.  Unless the disadvantaged students are your only target market, but that would be limiting your scope.  Quite severely.

I don`t care for the Google logo, or the whole paragraph describing the Google credit card processing.  Maybe that`s just me, but I don`t care who processes your credit cards.  I just expect you to stand behind all transactions.

The last paragraph is a major turn-off.  In fact, if I were considering your service, that rather verbose non-delivery guarantee would stop me cold.  Why in the world would you run "out of stock"?   Order more stock before it becomes a problem.

I can see some potential here.  I can think of other times that I would like to go online to order a card to be sent on short notice.



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Steve Mann
Internet Videographer
MannMade Digital Video
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hi,

my first impression is that it is hard to read with the colors. The text ovet the graphics is very hard to read. At first glance i had no idea what it was about. Maybe if you added pictures on the home page about what you are trying to sell, it will help keep peoples attention.

best wishes,

aaron

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Aaron Burnett Owner of We Work You Play

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