MAINE
FLORIDA
WEBSITE DEsign
Responsive Custom Website Design & Platform
Your website should look as good as the work you provide. When it comes to building your online house, it needs to have a solid foundation. Your custom-designed website from Maine Street Marketing will be your solid online foundation. We work with you hand and hand to develop a responsive site that can be easily viewed on all devices, including smartphones! Copywriting services are available because “Content is King/Queen.” If you are looking to sell your product and services online, we offer e-commerce sites that are credit card enabled.
Once your website is built, it must be hosted on a platform. Our clients have peace of mind knowing that their website platform will stay up with the times and not become outdated. Google's ranking algorithm supports websites that have responsive designs. So much of the traffic on the internet comes from mobile devices that Google switched to mobile-first indexing. That means your website is indexed and ranked on the mobile version. That makes having a responsive website essential. The days of a separate mobile website are over. The websites we build are responsive, making them user-friendly on all devices.
Remember, you are considered “homeless” on the World Wide Web without a website. Yes, some businesses have Facebook and other social media pages; however, you have little control over how those sites are managed. Do not get me wrong; having a presence on social media is essential and can add value to your online experience. You need to have both!
Having MSM build and maintain your website. We are so confident that you will love your website built by us that we don’t make you sign a long-term contract. We want to earn your business every month.
Maine Street Marketing has turned our website from drab to fab. They helped us every step of the way. They stayed on top of us to make sure we gave them the information they needed to complete the website and get it up and running.
Joseph Correia
Website Features
SITE MODIFICATIONS
There is a lot more to having a website than just building it. A website should be kept up to date with current information and photos. Having the wrong hours and information frustrates current clients and new prospects. Your image online is often the first impression of your business, and you want to be sure it is a good one.
SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS
No matter how big or small your business is, a presence on social media is crucial. Our Digital Marketing solution facilitates easily integrating your Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest account into your company's Website. You can link to your social media pages or even embed a Twitter feed on your site. It is a fun and easy way to increase your business' marketability on the world's most popular social media sites. We will provide the widgets for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, and LinkedIn at no extra cost. These icons will match the colors of your website.
testimonials
Reviews say a lot about you and your business they help attract new customers and retain your current ones. Because 97% of people say that reviews factor into their buying decision having testimonials feed into your website is important.
Website Features
Unlimited EMAIL ACCOUNTS
Unlimited Email Accounts each with 2.5 GB of space per email box. This is a web-based email program called WebMail. You can login on any computer. It has the following benefits:
- Rich HTML text formatting & editing tools and a plain-text composition option
- Built-in spelling checker
- Account customization options
- Address book, calendar and day planner
- Search tool for browsing email
- Spam Assassin filtering to minimize unsolicited email
You can also use your email address on these popular programs: Outlook, Thunderbird and Eudora. We will assist you with setting you up on these programs. We can also set up your email on your smartphone or tablet. And with WebMail, you will have more extensive email capabilities, and easier access to your messages through any browser.
One other option is to set up a mail forwarder on an existing email address.
EMBEDDED VIDEOS
Customers place tremendous value in online videos. From video testimonials to product tutorials, there are endless uses for this unique feature. That's why we developed our exclusive Video Widget, which enables you to upload and post videos to your site in minutes! And if you want to have the social sharing capabilities and broad access of a YouTube or Vimeo hosted video, not to worry. We have tools that will allow you to embed those videos on your site as well.
We offer Video production services for an additional charge. We use local videographers that come with years of shooting and editing experience.
CONTACT MANAGERS
Organize and manage contact information for all of your customers, suppliers, and business associates. Once you have established a customer database, you can create and launch targeted e-newsletters that announce new product releases, upcoming sales, or any other special events and promotions. This is part of your Back Office, one stop where you can manage multiple things with your business
Website Features
Unlimited SITE TRAFFIC
Many providers set limits on the number of hits your site is able to receive. We don't penalize our clients for becoming successful. You can be confident that your site will handle increased traffic at no added cost.
EMAIL CAMPAIGNS
Use our professional looking Email Templates, available in different styles for seasonal newsletters, business announcements, special events and promotions, birthdays, and many popular holidays to interact with the right customers at the right times. You can leverage these Email Templates to easily create and administer your own custom marketing campaigns targeting the specific groups of recipients that you choose.
CUSTOMER RELATIONS MGT. TOOLS
This is a combination of tools that make working with your customer more efficiently. Using the Contact Manager you can keep track of your clients and prospects. It includes an address book, calendar and day planner. You can also schedule appointments on your calendar. Newsletters are a great way to stay in touch with customers, especially if you rely on repeat business. Best of all, you can access this from any computer or tablet.
RESPONSIVE SITE DESIGNS
Our Responsive websites automatically adjust their usability and width for a PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone. The result is that there is no longer a need to create separate sites for PCs, laptops, tablets, and smartphones. A single site can be created, enhanced and updated. Concerns about keeping PC and mobile sites updated and looking consistent are eliminated. Instead, you can spend your time focusing on your business. Search engine optimization concerns related to maintaining multiple websites for PCs and mobile devices are also eliminated. It is just one more way we will help your business rank high on search results from websites like Google.
Our Responsive websites look better and are more functional than ever. Many great-looking Responsive Website design options are available. Also, the eCommerce pages on our Responsive websites are automatically responsive too! Our Web designers have spent countless hours researching the web's most successful sites in order to develop effective, professional website layouts and designs. Our user-friendly platform makes it easy for you to choose from a myriad of options whenever you want to change the look and feel of your site.
Website Features
FREE SOFTWARE UPGRADES
Our team of software engineers are constantly adding new features to our proprietary solution. As our valued client, you will always receive access to our newest tools - at no additional cost! Some of the most recent upgrades have been increasing the size of the email box from 1 GB to 2.5 GB. As of December of 2016, we have added a full suite of special animated effects to give your site some extra attention. This is an important feature in that the web is always changing and your site needs to stay current. Our Platform keeps you current.
SEO TOOLS
We provide within the platform the tools to help optimize your website. Tools like heading tags, image descriptions, and meta tags are easy to use. Once the site is built, we will produce a site map for the search engines. This works hand in hand with Visibility & Metrics. There are other areas that can help you be seen better on search engines. Keep in mind, Search Engine Optimization is an ongoing process not a "set it and forget it."
eCOMMERCE
Sell Your Products Online! Have Your Customers Pay Their Bill on Your Website!
You can create a distinctive product catalog, complete with a virtual shopping cart, merchant account access, advanced pricing features, payment options, order processing tools and customized shipping, handling and tax rules. Display thousands of products with a full range of options, including multi-image support, product categories and descriptions, pan and zoom image features, customer-generated wish lists and review capabilities, price rules and discounts and even side-by-side product comparisons!
Multiple Billing Options -- Process credit card payments online in real time, and have orders automatically sent via email. Regardless of which payment and billing options you enable on your website, you can be confident that all of your transactions are safe and secure on our SSL-encrypted network.
Downloadable and Virtual Products -- Even if you do not sell physical products, our Digital Marketing solution gives you the power to increase your business' profitability. You can use our revolutionary virtual product tools to sell downloadable products like MP3s or eBooks directly through your site!
We now have the ability to have your customers pay their bill on your website. They set up an account one time and then pay the bill. Returning customers just need to login into their account to pay a bill.
Website Features
VISIBILITY METRICS
Get Found & Measure Your Success
It does not matter how impressive your website is if customers are not able to find it. Our site promotion capabilities help you gain exposure on the web by guiding you through the optimization and search engine submission process.
Site Statistics -- With our solution, it is easy to evaluate the effectiveness of your Web marketing efforts. Find out which search engines generate the most traffic to your site, which keywords result in the most hits, how many hits your site has received, which pages your visitors viewed and much more! In addition to our own statistics engine, if you require additional visibility into the efficacy of your website, you can place Google Analytics on your site as well.
APPT RESERVATION TOOLS
We did not forget about the service industries. With our Digital Marketing solution, businesses like restaurants and salons can enable customers to schedule reservations or appointments directly through their site. It does not get any more easy or convenient than that!
BLOGS
Use our simple, straightforward tools to seamlessly integrate content from your Blogger or WordPress accounts into your website. You can keep customers and site visitors in the loop about industry news, upcoming store events, or any other updates that your audience will appreciate.
PHOTO GALLERIES
No matter what industry you are in, a website that features rich images will appeal to visitors and enhance your business' credibility. Our photo gallery tools allow you to create a comprehensive image portfolio. Whether your gallery showcases completed projects or provides a virtual tour of your brick-and-mortar location, you'll love how effortlessly you can add, edit, and publish a collection of photos.
SECURE HOSTING
Your website will be hosted at our ultra-secure server facility with tiered, high-performance Dell PowerEdge servers powered by Intel Xeon processing technology. Your website traffic will be load balanced across clustered and fault tolerant Dell servers, Cisco networking devices and Network Appliance storage systems.
Our servers are located in Las Vegas NV and in facilities that are protected from fires, floods, earthquakes, power outages, and other disasters - natural or otherwise. A few of the measures we take at our secure facility include: Remotely-monitored video surveillance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, hand-scanning authorization sensors using biometric recognition for clearance, server racks reinforced against seismic anomalies and scientifically exact bracing that adjoins our server racks and the caging environment to a below-floor channel, Dual-Layer Firewall Protection -- Our network is protected by a dual-layer firewall security system using Cisco ASA firewalls, thus making it virtually impossible for hackers or unauthorized users to compromise the integrity of your website.