The big question is, does having a live chat facility on your website actually encourage potential clients to ask questions and eventually order? Does it drive some people away by annoying them? When I walk into a retain store and various assistants approach me every 3 minutes asking “can I help you?” it’s just annoying and much more likely to result in me leaving the store prematurely. Does the same apply to an online store assistant? Would people just prefer to be left alone? Personally, if I wanted help I’d ask for it. In an online environment, that is as easy as sending an email. This might be a little cynical but surely one of the reasons people like doing things online is because they don’t have to talk to anybody!

On the other hand, people shopping online, particularly those looking for a service, are impatient. They want immediate answers. I’m very quick to click away from a site if it doesn’t provide the volume of information I need to make a decision. Would I ask a question if I was invited to chat live with a business representative? Maybe. Would you? Would your prospective customers?

If you’re an Aussie online business operator and you’ve tried, or are currently trialling a live chat facility on your site I’d love to hear about your experience. Is it increasing your conversions or is it just annoying the site visitors?

If you’re interesting in checking out the Comm100 live chat facility you’ll find it here. They also offer free hosted forum facilities.

Business blogs are a fabulous tool – but if you don’t have time to write and add the content, your lovely new blog will be wasted! Few business operators do have time to “blog” – they’re busy attending to more mundane business chores. Those who don’t enjoy writing find blogging the worst chore of all – but having good blog content and posting regularly can boost your website traffic and subsequently your business.

Just two blog articles a week, every week, can help to increase traffic to your website and will start to build up the content level of your blog. Don’t like blogging? We do! Don’t have enough ideas for regular blog content? We do!

Try one of our new blog content packages:

Basic e-Commerce Blog Content AU$45 per week*

2 blog posts per week (200-250 words in length). We’ll write them; we’ll upload them – and you won’t have to think about blogging at all!

Premium Business Blog Content AU$99 per week*

2 x 250-400 word posts per week. If you offer services rather than products and/or you prefer more in-depth posts, the Premium Package may be more suitable for you. We’ll upload your posts.

With both the basic and premium packages you can choose to supply topics or keywords, or have our writers choose them. You’ll receive copies of your posts for approval prior to upload.

Book your regular blog content deal now – at the moment we’re offering this service on a limited basis. We’ll endeavour to expand it in the future but for April/May our limit will be 30 clients.

*GST will be added for Australian clients from mid-April.

TO ORDER:

Simply email me to book your place for either the Basic or Premium Blog Content Pack and let me know your preferred payment method. Payment is required in advance, per month, and can be made either by direct deposit or PayPal. An invoice or payment request will be forwarded to you each month prior to commencement of your posts.

If you’re a first time AWA client you’re welcome to trial our service by purchasing just the first week’s posts.

Go on…you know you want to! Outsource your blog content to us now so you can get back to work!

We’ve recently started offering article rewrites but only on our own work – that’s because rewriting a poorly written article written by someone else can take longer than preparing a new original article! Our article rewriters are the same writers who prepare the original articles and that allows us to reduce the overall cost to you because the rewrites are less time consuming.

Check out our triplet article packs that contain two rewrites of each unique article. The cost can average out at just AU$20 for a pack of 60 articles.

Next time you need an article rewriter, speak to us first!

Of course, if you need a short comedy script for a video commercial, speak to me and I’ll come up with something for you!

Well, the New Year approaches. Will we be inundated with orders after all those new year resolutions? Here are two website owner NYR’s for you to consider:

1. In 2010 I will work on my site every day and add more quality content.

2. In 2010 I’ll work on SEO of my site to build traffic and boost my business.

And if it makes you feel any better, they’re my NYR’s too! Happy New Year to all our clients and site visitors from the content writers at Article Writers Australia.