Check out FLASH MOB AMERICA’S new Flash Mob Channel www.youtube.com This is Flash Mob America’s official video of the Michael Jackson flash mob tribute done at Hollywood & Highland July 25, 2009!! We had over 100 dancers show up just a couple hours before showtime to learn the dance!! A group of us taught the dance for an hour and then headed over to the location. I waited for the right moment and gave the sound guy a signal and showtime! The crowd was very surprised and thrilled! Thank you to all the dancers that showed up!! We had an amazing time. And a big thank you to Bounce and Jennie Widegren for inspiring me to do this. Organizer: Conroe Brooks Sound: Gregg Rogen Cameras: Jason Weissbrod Jordan Rennick Andres Baez Jeremiah Kent Alice Carter Jean Luis Contreras Thank you: Dwayne Jones, Staci Lawrence, Jessica Schatz, Casey O’Neill, Rhett Fisher, Adrianne Richards, Ava Comissiong, Kristi Slager, Sara Sanderson, Sevier Crespo, and many more flashmobamerica.com http twitter.com youtube.com
A bounce rate is the rate at which people simply “bounce” off of your website; specifically, your home page. For instance, a person might land on your home page and won’t click further to any other pages.
The impact is obvious. When people bounce off of your site, they don’t spend time or take any action. They don’t subscribe to your email list. They don’t ask for a free session. They don’t buy a product. Quite simply, it’s a waste of your marketing efforts.
The main cause of high bouncing is confusion. Many home pages aren’t clear, aren’t easy to look at or read, and don’t lead visitors to other pages.
A successful home page gets visitors clicking deeper into the website. To do this, the home page needs to ground people and direct them to the next page.
Three things that get visitors engaged are:
1. Pages that download quickly. Slow-loading websites give visitors time to get distracted and/or think your website doesn’t work. It must open up in a few seconds.
2. Professional-looking pages. A professional design says you’re a serious coach. It says a serious effort has been made to help the client; meaning, there’s probably value here. Keep your layout simple. Use easy-to-read fonts; have an easy-to-follow navigation; and use two to three colors that are attractive and appealing.
3. A home page that answers these basic questions: “What is this?”, “Is this for me?”, and “Why should I be here?” Your tagline, website name, home-page copy, and even the choice of words in the navigation can help answer these questions.
Now that your visitor is grounded, he’s ready to continue. Your home page needs to lead the prospect to another page.
The essence of getting people to take action is to know what they want, and what you want. Then devise a next-step plan that’ll help achieve both.
Let’s say you want visitors to sign up for a free session. And, as you know, your visitors have challenges they want to overcome. To get them to move towards this action, you’ll want to lead them onto a page that shows that you understand their situation; that you know where they want to go; that you have a method to do this; and that you’ve helped others like them.
Another example is to invite people to sign up for your email list and grow a relationship, providing helpful information over time.
Whatever the action you want visitors to take, be sure to make that button or link stand out.
The bottom line: confusion and lack of clarity cause visitors to hit the road before exploring your services. Make sure you ground visitors and lead them into your website to build a relationship that ultimately leads them to hiring you as their coach.
Having your own personal website today is a start but that is really the wrong question to ask. If your website will just be viewed by you, or will be used for internal purposes that is one thing. However, if you will use your website to make money then you must be open to a whole host of new ideas and terminology in the website business. In fact the problems really start when you attempt to choose a website designer who will construct the site for you. However, after he has completed the site it is time to see what adjustments you will have to make. And most likely, it will take you several months and even years before you get it to look exactly how you want. Bounce rates will be very important when you get your site up and running.
What is a bounce rate.
A bounce rate basically occurs when a user visits your site. If the user goes onto one of your web pages and then immediately leaves you website, this will contribute to an increased bounce rate. Or if the user continues on to different pages this will lower your bounce rate.
For example say 10 users visit your website. Four of those users immediately leave the web page while six of the users continue on to different pages of the site. Your bounce rate would be 40%.
Some website have extremely high bounce rates while others have lower rates. It can be hard to determine exactly what a good bounce rate is for your particular site. Different bounce rates will exist for different sites across different field of business or whatever industry you are in.
Make sure you are giving users the information they need. If you are selling widgets make sure that the user can easily get to the page where they can choose between them. The more links they have to click on the higher your bounce rate may be.
Also make sure that the user does not have to scroll down to get to the meat of your site. If you can have the important information above the “fold” the user won’t have to scroll down to get the information they need.
Also have all your important contact information on the top left hand or right hand corner of your site. Most people will look in these areas for your site.
Your important links on your webpage should be easy to find. So use colors that stand out. Hopefully this will lead to a great web page for your business
