Thaidoweb 2008

Does your website offer visitors a quick and easy way to recommend it to a friend? If not, you’re missing out on a potential gold mine of free traffic.
The benefits:

Automated website promotion. You set up the program and your visitors do the work of promoting your website for you.

You receive higher quality visitors. Your visitors will refer people *really interested* in your products or services. These people will be more likely to subscribe to your newsletter, request your free reports, [...]

User-centered design (UCD) is a project approach that puts the intended users of a site at the centre of its design and development. It does this by talking directly to the user at key points in the project to make sure the site will deliver upon their requirements.
The stages are carried out in an iterative fashion, with the cycle being repeated until the project’s usability objectives have been attained. This makes it critical that the participants in these methods accurately [...]

A focus group involves encouraging an invited group of participants to share their thoughts, feelings, attitudes and ideas on certain subject. Organising focus groups within an organisation can also be very useful in getting buy-in to a project from within that company.
When and why to use focus groups
Focus groups are most often used as an input to design.
Advantages of focus groups include:
- Quick, cheap and relatively easy to assemble
- Good for getting rich data in participants’ own [...]

How will visitors interact on your website? Your first response might be that they don’t really need to interact with you, this is not true. It is very important for web users to feel they are making a “connection” with a website rather than just viewing a static display.
The role that your visitors will play depends upon the message and/or product that you are presenting to them. Your visitors may consist of silent guests who are browsing the contents of [...]

Build it and they will come is not always true; you have to form a relationship with the company before you will get quality attendees
or participants for a free service.
The key to a human’s heart is through food. The key to a web surfer is free information and products. Simply offering free information is not enough to bring visitors to your site. The offering has to have substance and also be worthwhile. The web surfer is constantly asking, “What is [...]

As increasing numbers of people search for information on the Internet, it becomes more imperative to have a compelling Website to promote and support your meetings.
Here is my list of “The Seven Most Important Things You can do Online”:
1. Identify all your Online Markets
It’s a common mistake to focus your attention on the obvious target audience for your meetings site – the potential attendees.
But many other types of visitor may find your site, and it’s important to consider whether they’re [...]

What do increasingly more owners of small and medium businesses know about having a Web presence? Enough to know that they need one.
According to a 2000 survey, only 55 percent of small business owners found having a website to be cost-effective. Their optimism showed, however — 65 percent considered the Internet important to the future of their business.
Those 65 percent were right. In a 2005 survey, almost 86 percent of respondents said that their websites were cost-effective. Almost all participants [...]

About competition
The idea of the project came up in autumn 2005 while researching
the new effective methods of promoting web pages in the
internet. Internet marketing itself has been existing for a long
time in the world and has plenty of methods which are already
known and widely used.
However, it has been proved by many researchers that the most
desired effect give innovative and active advertisement methods.
About goals of the project
The main goal of the project is to find out and select the [...]

About competition
The idea of the project came up in autumn 2005 while researching
the new effective methods of promoting web pages in the
internet. Internet marketing itself has been existing for a long
time in the world and has plenty of methods which are already
known and widely used.
However, it has been proved by many researchers that the most
desired effect give innovative and active advertisement methods.
About goals of the project
The main goal of the project is to find out and select the [...]