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Website Showcase: Purchasing Agents to the Caribbean

orangesnowman — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:20:12 +0000

WJ Purchasing Agents are responsible at some level for buying or approving the acquisition of goods and services needed by the company. The position responsibilities may be the same as that of a buyer or purchasing agent, or may include wider supervisory or managerial responsibilities. A Purchasing Manager may oversee the acquisition of materials needed for production, general supplies for offices and facilities, equipment, or construction contracts. A Purchasing Manager often supervises purchasing agents and buyers, but in small companies the Purchasing Manager may also be the purchasing agent or buyer. The term Purchasing Manager is also known as “Procurement Manager”.

Procurementis the acquisition of goods and/or services. It is favorable that the goods/services are appropriate and that they are procured at the best possible cost to meet the needs of the purchaser in terms of quality and quantity, time, and location. Corporations and public bodies often define processes intended to promote fair and open competition for their business while minimizing exposure to fraud and collusion.Almost all purchasing decisions include factors such as delivery and handling, marginal benefit, and price fluctuations. Procurement generally involves making buying decisions under conditions of scarcity. If good data is available, it is good practice to make use of economic analysis methods such as cost-benefit analysis or cost-utility analysis. An important distinction is made between analyses without risk and those with risk. Where risk is involved, either in the costs or the benefits, the concept of expected value may be employed.

Based on the consumption purposes of the acquired goods and services, procurement activities are often split into two distinct categories. The first category being direct, production-related procurement and the second being indirect, non-production-related procurement.Direct procurement occurs in manufacturing settings only. It encompasses all items that are part of finished products, such as raw material, components and parts. Direct procurement, which is the focus in supply chain management, directly affects the production process of manufacturing firms. In contrast, indirect procurement activities concern “operating resources” that a company purchases to enable its operations. It comprises a wide variety of goods and services, from standardized low value items like office supplies and machine lubricants to complex and costly products and services like heavy equipment and consulting services.

Web Site Design Showcase: Charlie's Worms Fishing Lures

orangesnowman — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:41:35 +0000

Charlie’s Worms was made popular by Charlie Infinger of Clewiston, FL some 20 yrs ago. Charlie had a great mind and passion for bass fishing from which Charlie’s Worms was born.

Orange Snowman has created an e-commerce website/blog for Charlie’s Worms. Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce, eCommerce or e-comm, refers to the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. However, the term may refer to more than just buying and selling products online. It also includes the entire online process of developing, marketing, selling, delivering, servicing and paying for products and services. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage. The use of commerce is conducted in this way, spurring and drawing on innovations in electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, Internet marketing, online transaction processing, inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at one point in the transaction’s life-cycle, although it may encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail, mobile devices and telephones as well.

Our shopping cart is an Ajax e-commerce platforms, which offers the performance and flexibility you need, with no hassles at all. it is well designed and provides a smooth experience for store owners and end users alike. Our cart provides a lightning-fast interface, drag and drop functionality, and ease of integration.

Sign up with our shopping cart, and immediately after you paste three simple lines of HTML into your website’s source code, your site will have full online selling capabilities. The code will render a web store inside your existing pages, using AJAX. Use the Shopping Cart’s Control Panel to add your products and to manage the settings of your online store. All changes will be reflected on your website right away.

Does your company need and effective e-commerce solution? If the answer is yes, please give us a call 772-497-6696

Website design for car racing teams & support

orangesnowman — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:08:41 +0000

Having a professional web site designed by Orange Snowman is a great way for racing teams to attract and add visibility to sponsors. A web site is there for all your racing fans 24/7 and not just when you are in the race track. Links on your website pointing to your sponsors provides exposure, new leads and customers. A web site by Orange Snowmman with it’s social media connectivity is a must in businesses fast business environment. Marketing your racing team online can widen your brand’s exposure and bring in new fans.

About EuroAmerican Engineering: Since 1979, we have been involved in the racing arena at the top level. Acquiring experience and know-how, designing racing engines, engine management and data acquisition systems in support of top level racing teams worldwide has been our mission. Like a fine-tuned piece of machinery, EuroAmerican Engineering relies on the synergy of top-quality components to function at the highest possible level.

Web Site Design Showcase: Airflow AC Repair

orangesnowman — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:51:39 +0000

Need a cool website? How about one that is also #1 in Google! Stop wasting your money in the Yellow Pages or traditional advertising. Orange Snowman can get you better more relevant leads. Call us for a free consultation.

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Judge the Orange Snowman by the fruit it bears!

Web Site Design Showcase: MyStuartDentist.com

orangesnowman — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:03:51 +0000

Orange Snowman is proud to launch MyStuartDentist.com. Hope you like the name! Dr. Willis is a first class dentist in Stuart, FL. We are looking forward to seeing his site in the very top of Google. The search terms we are targetting:

If you need a website that get’s the phone to ring, give us a call 772-487-6696

Top 50 Websites of 2009

orangesnowman — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 02:41:40 +0000

Time and CNN’s list is as follows

Flickr The site I use the most

California Coastline

Delicious Tasty

Metafilter

popurls

Twitter yes

Skype ok

Boing Boing aha

Academic Earth

OpenTable

Google

YouTube ok

Wolfram|Alpha boring

Hulu cool

Vimeo yes

Fora TV nice

Amazon ok

Netflix yeah

Wikipedia huh

Facebook yeah

Pandora and Last.fm very cool

Yelp ok

BabyNameWizard.com’s NameVoyager

Issuu nice

Photosynth intriging

Web site design common mistakes

orangesnowman — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:55:39 +0000

Page Title is toot long
A page title is the text shown at the top of your browser window. It is also the title of a page as shown in Google search results. Page titles tell visitors what a page is about. Search engines and browsers may cut off your page title if it is too long. In most cases, it is good to keep your page title below 70 characters long. From a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) perspective, it is good to keep your page titles concise. If your page title is too long, it will dilute the importance of each term in the title. This might prevent you from ranking well on any of the words in your page title. To fix, come up with a concise but keyword-rich description of your page that is under 70 characters long. Make that your page title.
Meta Description is too long
Meta descriptions are important for drawing in visitors from search. The meta description is the text under a page title in search results. Like page titles, meta descriptions will get cut off and replaced by “…” if they are too long. to fix, come up with a meta description of your page that adds detail to your page title, but remains under 150 characters long.
The Page Title is not Targeting Realistic Keywords
A key factor in search engine ranking is how closely the title of a page matches the user’s search terms. The page title should not be written like an advertisement. Users are not likely to search for the “#1″ casino game publisher. Avoid unnecessary descriptive words like this, because users don’t actually search for them. Additionally, their company name should not be the start of their page title. The first few words in a page title are the most influential in search engine results. Your want people that don’t know about your brand to be able to find you, so using more genreal industry keywords is important. To fix, think about (or look at using analytics) the words that users might searching to find you. Adjust your page title to remain readable, but match these words more closely.
Page Keywords Are the Same in all pages
Each page on your website is a new opportunity to get found online. You don’t want to waste all these opportunities by reusing the same page titles or internal page keywords. Diversify your keywords. Think what each page has to offer uniquely, and target keywords based on that.
Domain Name Set to Expire Soon
Search engines favor websites that are not set to expire for a long time. Having your domain name registered for the next few years shows committment, and means your website is less likely to be spammy.
Images Have No ALT Text
Search engines do not “read” images. They scan primarily for text. Fortunately with the ALT tag, you can associate text with an image. ALT text does not have as much influence on the page keywords as actual text on the page, but is still worth having. Assign ALT text to a pictures whenever possible by adding something like the following to your HTML.
No CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are not only a good way to ensure that your website has consistent design, they also help your SEO. Many websites still have layout-related information in their HTML. Since HTML is the language that search engines understand best, make sure your HTML is as concise as possisble. This ensures that search engines extract the most relevant keywords and other information from your pages. To fix, put your layout-related code into CSS, and take it out of your HTML.
Conversion Form Too Lengthy
Conversion forms are crucial for converting traffic into leads. However, more traffic will be willing to become a lead if your form is done right. Do they really need the address information for a person in addition to their email addresses? As a site visitor, I don’t understand this. Would they actually send me snail mail? I’ll bet they’re better off communicating with leads via email for now, and requesting a home address only when they need to deliver something to them. Limit the content of your forms to only the information you need.
Too little (or Too Much) Text
Search engines read text better than anything else. So, it’s important to have text on your web page. Knowing this, some people cram as much text as possible into a page. As a result, search engines then struggle to extract the relevant text. Make sure your page is readable and contains the keywords you are targeting. However, don’t add unimportant text just to have more of it.
Not Using Analytics
Even after you’ve created interesting content on your website, optimized, and converted traffic into leads, your work is not done! If you want your website to be all it can be, you should analyze your results, and refine your SEO strategy accordingly.