Marketing tips and new features to kick start the New Year
Time to take down the lights ...
Now that Christmas is over, don't forget to spend a few minutes updating your home page, template, banners and other Holiday marketing.
... And make room for Valentines Day!
In your IMAGES section you should have a folder for Valentine's Day banners
Valentines Home Page ideas
Valentines Category ideas
NEW: easily designate a new Home Page
We've made it easier to setup your Valentines home page while saving your Holiday home page
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NEW: Interactive Books coming soon!
One of the first big new releases for 2012 will be our new Interactive Books. We're still in working on the prototype but our goal is to release them in the first quarter of this year. We'd love your feedback
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Do you need the Teddy Bear with Personalized Book illustrations?
If we gave you a new refreshed website on the Savi2 platform, we forgot to add the graphics of the Teddy Bear holding the book showing personalized fields. You can download them from this link and add them to your website.
Get the new Teddy Bear illustrations
Here's to a happy and prosperous New Year!
SaviSites team
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
NEW Interactive Books coming soon!
One of the first big new releases for 2012 will be our new Interactive Books. We're still in working on the prototype but our goal is to release them in the first quarter of this year.
We are making these a high priority because of the sales potential we believe they will bring your online business. Let your customers become your best sales people by giving them something fun and interactive to share with their friends.
New features we're trying to include:
- The book will load with sample data, but customer can update fields and preview their own story
- Menu link to view all interactive stories available and switch titles
- Adding a "Buy Now" button on the window
- Adding "Share" features so customer can share their demo socially
- Link to "Create Your Own" if book is opened from a shared link
- Compatibility on all mobile and tablet devices
- Adding a "Buy Now" button on the window
- Adding "Share" features so customer can share their demo socially
- Link to "Create Your Own" if book is opened from a shared link
- Compatibility on all mobile and tablet devices
- Links back to your website so when people share their marketing your business
- Countdown for how long a shared demo will remain active
- If shared book expires, the link will load with sample text and prompt "customize this story"
- Adding "share an online version with friends" link for each product ordered on Thank You page
- Adding "share an online version with friends" link for each product ordered in confirmation email
We will be extensively measuring the traffic and testing different ideas to find which produce the best results. Below are some of the current ideas we plan to test.
- Whether to show full stories or partial stories
- How long to keep a shared demo active (to encourage ordering physical copy)
- Which text and buttons get the highest clicks
- What layouts get the highest "Buy Now" conversions
Stay tuned!!!
How to make a page HOME PAGE
With SaviSites you can easily make any of your pages the Home Page, which allows you to create and save multiple home pages - each with it's own banners, text descriptions, category previews and featured products column.
This means you can swap from one seasonal home page to the next in seconds. It also makes switching between different test layouts a snap.
How to designate a Home Page:
1. Go to Pages table (the checkmark shows the current home page)
2. Open the new page you want to designate
3. Change Home Page to YES
4. SAVE the page
This means you can swap from one seasonal home page to the next in seconds. It also makes switching between different test layouts a snap.
How to designate a Home Page:
1. Go to Pages table (the checkmark shows the current home page)
2. Open the new page you want to designate
3. Change Home Page to YES
4. SAVE the page
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Create-A-Book Teddy Bear Banners
Here are the 4 banners with the Create-A-Book teddy bear holding a book
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Google Plus - how to add to your website
You can now add the Google Plus button to the bar across the top of your website, as well as add the button below the title of any individual page.
1. Go to Settings
2. Click "Google Webmaster Tools"
3. Change "Google Plus" to "YES"
If you also want to manually add the button to a specific page...
1. Follow steps above
2. Open the specific page in your admin
3. Click the HTML button in the description box
4. Paste "{google_plus}" in the top left corner (do not include quotations)
5. Hit UPDATE to close the HTML window and then SAVE the page.
This is how it will appear under the title:
1. Go to Settings
2. Click "Google Webmaster Tools"
3. Change "Google Plus" to "YES"
If you also want to manually add the button to a specific page...
1. Follow steps above
2. Open the specific page in your admin
3. Click the HTML button in the description box
4. Paste "{google_plus}" in the top left corner (do not include quotations)
5. Hit UPDATE to close the HTML window and then SAVE the page.
This is how it will appear under the title:
Place website in "Maintenance Mode"
If you need to disable your website to make further changes, wait for inventory re-orders, etc... you can now take your store "offline" to disable customers from placing a purchase, while giving customers a reason for this status.
Maintenance mode removes the "buy now" buttons from the products and places a customizable notification at the top of your storefront website.
The reason we made this keep your website online but unable to place orders, instead of showing a single page with a "down for maintenance" message, is because it's better for the search engines. You do not want them to think you've disappeared and they drop you from the search results.
IMPORTANT - we do not recommend using this frequently, as shoppers in general will lose patience and shop elsewhere if they're always getting this message when they come to your website.
How to use Maintenance Mode:
1. Go to SETTINGS
2. Select "Store Settings"
3. Change "Site Active" to "Maintenance Mode"
4. Input custom message that appears at the top of your website
5. Save Changes
Maintenance mode removes the "buy now" buttons from the products and places a customizable notification at the top of your storefront website.
The reason we made this keep your website online but unable to place orders, instead of showing a single page with a "down for maintenance" message, is because it's better for the search engines. You do not want them to think you've disappeared and they drop you from the search results.
IMPORTANT - we do not recommend using this frequently, as shoppers in general will lose patience and shop elsewhere if they're always getting this message when they come to your website.
How to use Maintenance Mode:
1. Go to SETTINGS
2. Select "Store Settings"
3. Change "Site Active" to "Maintenance Mode"
4. Input custom message that appears at the top of your website
5. Save Changes
Now posting ALL updates to our social feeds (Big and Small)
Every week we're adding new features and updates that do not make it into our newsletters, but now we're posting real time updates to our social feeds.
Both feeds have the same information so choose the platform you use the most. We highly recommend choosing to follow at least one.
Choose one now and see what's new!
Facebook.com/savisites
Twitter.com/savisites
Both feeds have the same information so choose the platform you use the most. We highly recommend choosing to follow at least one.
Choose one now and see what's new!
Facebook.com/savisites
Twitter.com/savisites