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It's a Mesh: merging web, mobile and traditional marketing

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The one thing you must do this year...

Posted by Lisa Kipps-Brown
Lisa Kipps-Brown
Lisa Kipps-Brown founded Glerin in 1996, has been a web developer since 1995, and is bilingual in Spanish.In 1...
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on 19 January 2011 in Design

If your website doesn't have a mobile version, you must correct that!  Too many sites either display poorly on mobile devices, or even worse, don't display at all.  Recently I tried to visit a site on my iPhone, but it opened up to a blank white page; when I got back to the office I browsed to the site on my laptop and found that it's built entirely on Flash.  That results in nothing to display on the iPhone!

Luckily, when I initially tried to visit the site I wasn't looking to buy or researching a company I may want to do business with; if that had been the case, they would have had a lost sale.

Obviously, before you have a mobile version of your website you must have a website in the first place, and I don't mean a page or two that you put up and leave forever.  This is your face to the world, to every potential customer out there, and you should prioritize your website just as you do your other types of marketing - if not more.  You wouldn't think of putting an ad in the paper with information about last Fall's special event, would you?  Why would you want to leave that type of information on your website?  All it does is telegraph to people that you don't take it seriously, and it may just make them not take you as seriously.  Every day we see many companies that spend thousands on traditional marketing that may or may not be rewarding, but they're not willing to put the same emphasis on their website.

As the internet matures and as our population gets younger, more and more people will use the internet exclusively for shopping, reading, news, you name it.  Make sure you're ready.  After all, it was just back in 1977 that  the President of Digital Equipment Corporation said,  "There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home."  I'll bet you have a computer in your home, and I'll bet 1977 doesn't seem that long ago!

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Lisa Kipps-Brown founded Glerin in 1996, has been a web developer since 1995, and is bilingual in Spanish.

In 1997, before e-commerce software was widely available, she developed an online store for Mauch's Sailboat Guide that resulted in the Guide being sold to customers on every continent in the world except Antarctica. These books were also some of the first independently published books to be sold on Amazon.com. In 1999, to begin moving the guide from a print to digital medium, she developed a searchable web database of thousands of sailboat model specs that served as an adjunct to the guide.

Lisa provides a unique combination of experience in both business and design and development. She holds an Accounting degree from Virginia Tech, was a member of the Board of Directors of the Industrial Development Authority of Halifax County for 4 ½ years and served as Secretary/Treasurer for 3 of those. She was on the founding committee for the Riverstone Energy Center and Modeling & Simulation Center of Excellence. A founding board member of The Virginia Coalition, she has been a member of the Technology Committee for the Halifax County Chamber of Commerce, the Economic Development Committee for the Town of Halifax, the Southern Piedmont Technology Council, the Rural Broadband Technology Council, and the Last Mile Fiber Optic Initiative for Halifax.

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