I’ve taken my guest post from www.famousbloggers.net entitled, 43 Blogger Tips – What you should do after installing WordPress and created a series of Blogging Guide videos.
This is the 8th video in my new blogging guide series and I show you how you can increase makje it easy for your customers to make contact with you.
The previous videos in the Blogging Guide video series can be found here:
Blogging Guide: Blogger tips 1 – 4 (video)
Blogging Guide: Blogger tips 5, 6 and 30 (video 2)
Blogging Guide: Google analytics tutorial
Blogging Guide : How To Write An About Page
Blogging Guide: The Pages Google Expect To See
Andrew is a website builder and helps small businesses with their on-line presence…so they can grow their customer list and increase sales. That’s it! That’s what we do each and every day.
Excellent tips Andrew. I really like your “New Visitors” link and for some reason I hadn’t caught that before until this video. I think I might steal that one.
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Thanks Mike. Yeah – go ahead and steal it.
I also use the redirect comments plugin to direct people to it after they have added their first comment.
How’s the contest going?
Andrew
contest is going fine. tomorrow is last day to enter. i think there’s about 25 people that have followed the directions and did both the comment and subscribed to the group.
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Mike,
Did the contest match what you expected to gain from it?
Andrew
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I really thought I’d get a few more entries but all in all not bad. I’ll have a post about it in the next couple of days.
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Excellent video. Curious what screencasting program or service you are using?
I’m not sure how I missed this, but we do not have a contact page on our blog! We have one on our static website, but not our blog. I guess I’ve always assumed folks would use the link in the blog entry, or start searching for a property. Kind of a stupid oversight, actually. I will have one up within a day or so.
Also, are you using any kind of lead capture and/or management with the contact form?
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Colleen,
I use Camtasia to make the screen recordings.
You can use http://camstudio.org/ which is free.
My conctact form is just that – nothing else.
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew. I did install a contact form, thanks to your blog entry! I ended up using the plugin Contact Form 7 and placed the code in a text widget in my sidebar. This way, each post has a way for a visitor to contact me. 🙂 I’m considering purchasing Camtasia, btw. I’ve been using screenr.com but the 5 minute limitation has been a bit of a hurdle in a few cases.
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Colleen
Why not try Camstudio first as it is free.
Andrew
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Hmm, probably because I tend to put the cart before the horse! 😀 Good idea. I’ll try it.
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I like it. This way people really have an easy time to contact you and can do it from the most important parts from your site.
Availability definately increases the blog trust.
I was using the same kinda look for my contact page but since I added a picture to it the number of people who contact me increased 😀
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Hi Alex,
Never thought of adding a photo – I have now:
https://www.webuildyourblog.com/contact-2/
Thanks for the idea.
Andrew
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Did I ask before what plugin that was that redirects to another page?
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Dennis
You referring to the comment redirect plugin?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-redirect/
Andrew
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Ah yes, thanks again buddy. 🙂
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Interesting and very helpful video Andrew, love it! I need to revise my contact page ASAP 😀
BTW I think you’ll put resume of the video for your limited speed visitors 😉
Thanks for sharing.
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Latief,
Yeah – I was thinking about that this morning – the transcript!
Andrew
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That will be great, let me know when you finish it 😉
.-= Latief@AnotherBlogger´s last blog ..How To Targeting Local Search? =-.
FYI – You missed the “s” in questions on the form. 😉
Nice photo.
.-= Dennis Edell @ Direct Sales Marketing´s last blog ..UPDATED: Aweber Affiliate Link Contest! – This Is It!! =-.
I saw – thanks, Dennis.
That’s what happens when my wife doesn’t check my work!
Andrew
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