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Your Business Needs a Mobile Site – Learn How

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How are you treating your mobile customers?

Recent data from several data tracking companies shows that today one seventh of all web traffic is originating from mobile phones. And make no mistake about it,  this percentage is growing rapidly and will continue to do so. This fact is absolutely huge – and something that you as a business owner will need to take immediate action on.

Don’t believe me? Pick up your mobile phone right now and enter the URL of your company’s website. Now take a hard look at what you see. Not pretty is it? Unless you have a mobile optimized web site, your mobile visitor is looking at absolute garbage. Let’s be blunt – no mobile site, no mobile visitor. It’ s really that simple.

How to get it done.

So what do you do about it? You could hire someone to build a mobile site for you. Most web designers would charge you $500 to a $1000 to provide a simple mobile site – maybe a lot more depending on your needs. It would be money well spent. After all, what value do you place on a customer? Remember – you could be losing over 14% of your site’s visitors. Say you have a thousand visitors a month, that would be almost 150 potential customers that you would lose each month because you haven’t bothered to accommodate them.

If you have no interest in learning now to do this yourself then hiring someone is your best option.

How to do it yourself.

But should you want to learn to do this yourself – it’s not that difficult depending on your needs. One excellent resource that we just picked up is from Jason Fladlien titled WP Mobile Pro. In it Jason provide a really slick WordPress plugin that does the heavy lifting and full video training to help you make the most of your small investment. If interested, just click on the banner below.

Of course, should you be interested, you can also use the knowledge you will gain to build mobile websites for others – which could provide a nice source of income. The choice is yours.

 

Thesis 1.8.2 Released for WordPress

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UPDATE: Thesis is currently at version 1.8.4

Thesis has been upgraded to version 1.8.2 to be fully compatible with WordPress 3.2. If you have upgraded to version 3.2 of WordPress, you need to upgrade to the latest version of Thesis as soon as possible.

Thesis, a great WordPress Theme, and one we use on all of our WordPress blog sites has just gotten even better. Thesis, from Chris Pearson of DIY Themes, has been dramatically improved in both speed and function.

Here’s a partial list of some of the new features and benefits of Thesis 1.7:

  • Improved SEO (search engine optimization) control gives you even more opportunity to tune your posts for maximum search engine targeting. The new improvements allow you to control SEO functions, including robots meta tags,  down to the page level.
  • Setup options can be saved and restored so if you have favorite options you like to set on each of your sites, this new option makes it a snap to setup.
  • Thesis 1.7 features faster page load time due to improved coding and organization.
  • JavaScript libraries included – such as, Add jQuery, Prototype, MooTools, and jQueryUI that makes access to these libraries just a click away.
  • Improved Home page controls give you improved SEO options and granularity of control.
  • Improved hooks for easier coding.
  • Headline filter allows you to control
  • A 301 redirect function for affiliates allows easy linking to your offer page.
  • Great tutorials and an awesome support group are the icing on the cake.

With Thesis you rarely have to touch the underlying code to modify and fine tune your site since the Thesis control panel puts everything at your fingertips. With the new version of Thesis this benefit is even more powerful.

If you build websites in WordPress, you truly owe it to yourself to take a hard look at what Thesis has to offer. I’ve purchased several premium themes over the years, this is the best one out there for my money.

For more information visit the Thesis 1.7 page.