Tres Amigos World Imports is a multi-channel retailer of Mexican and Rustic Furniture and Accessories.  They came to Blue Acorn in mid 2008 with the desire to improve the sales of their BV Commerce website.   Previous to contacting us, they had been working with a provider that had handled their needs adequately, but just weren’t able to deliver the results that Tres Amigos desired.  Keith Kramer, President at Tres Amigos, was looking for an eCommerce partner that had the expertise, and the desire to work with them on growing the revenue generated from the website.

Blue Acorn and Tres Amigos set course to develop and execute a plan for growth.  And by combining their knowledge and skillsets, they launched the newly improved website in July of 2008.  Almost immediately, the impact was felt.

To date, Blue Acorn has continued in growing the revenue generated from Tres Amgios through design, custom development, SEO, Conversion Optimization, Video, and eMail Marketing to the point that we continue to realize almost 100% gains over the previous year.  Through our continued cooperation, Blue Acorn and Tres Amigos strive to continue that growth trend despite the current macro-economic climate.  So what’s next for Tres Amigos?  An even better design based on a re-architecture, more incorporation of product videos, and enhanced features to BV Commerce to enable a better shopping experience for their users.  When asked about how successful this partnership has been for Tres Amigos, Keith had this to say

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eCommerce Services

• eCommerce Design
• BV Commerce Development
• eCommerce SEO
• Conversion Optimization
• eMail Marketing
• Analytics Management

SafePetProducts.com is an online retailer of pet products that focus on safety, and humane solutions for animals.  They approached Blue Acorn in September of 2008 in search of a partner that could help them migrate their existing eCommerce website onto the Magento Commerce platform, help them define a new brand, and improve their organic search ranking.

We put together a creative design that focused on the animals and created an intuitive user interface that eliminated friction in the shopping  process.  What resulted was a Magento website that fostered sales in a competitive market.  To date, SafePetProducts.com boasts a conversion rate well above average (4.5%) coupled with extremely low bounce and exit rates.  All signs that the customers are comfortable with the brand, enjoy the products, and find the website easy to use and shop.

eCommerce Services

• Magento Commerce Design
• Magento Commerce Development
• SEO (WIP)

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jb and me sells women’s designer clothing both in their store location in Holland Michigan, and also on their newly developed website at jbandme.com.  jb and me (yes, that’s supposed to be lowercase) contacted Blue Acorn in July of 2008 with the goal of improving their existing eCommerce site.

The team at jb and me set forth on a plan with Blue Acorn to drastically improve their web presence in an effort to increase revenue, and put them in a better position against well established online competitors.  Together, we decided to move forward on the Magento Commerce platform, which aligned with their requirements and website goals.  In addition, we provided consultation in numerous areas of online operations, from marketing, to SEO, and custom development for functionality not existing in the out of box platform.  What we put together was a robust web presence, built on a Magento Commerce instance with customizations aimed to improve the user experience, that now generates organic web traffic and does a better job at converting visitors into buyers.

Since re-launching, and with our SEO efforts, jbandme.com has manged to dramatically improve its search engine positioning for a number of key phrases.  In fact, their top 10 placement for relevant keyphrases increased 400%.  We look forward to continuing our relationship with jb and me as we collaborate on ideas and methods to continue growing the revenue generated from their website.

The group at jb and me is very friendly, and social. We recommend you follow them on twitter @shopjbandme (with special discounts for followers) and subscribe to their style blog.
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Magento Custom Features

• SEO optimized
• Javascript sliding shopping cart
• Overridden image handling
• Image switching upon changing of configurable options
• Sliding filtering options
• WordPress new products integration

eCommerce Services

• eCommerce Design
• Magento Commerce Development
• SEO
• WordPress Blog Development

OmniVue Business Solutions is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner specializing in providing implementation and consulting services, support, and hosting for the Microsoft Dynamics line of products. They are considered the “Go-to” organization for Hosting Microsoft Dynamics Applications due to their reputation in the industry and their proven success at pioneering offering these products in a hosted environment.

Not too long ago, OmniVue invested in a website that brought together powerful imagery built around their marketing messages. While the website looked good visually, it brought virtually no value to the organization because it simply did not generate any return on the investment they made. For a company like OmniVue, their website is a marketing tool – with the main purpose of attracting new clients. However, the website generated virtually no leads nor could they attribute any sales originating from the website.

We see a lot of companies in the same situation, either they’ve had the same website for years, or have a nice-looking design built by a web developer with little knowledge of building a website around the needs of the client and looking at the numerous factors involved in making a website like this successful. OmniVue engaged with Blue Acorn to improve the performance of their website.

The ultimate goal? Turn their website into a lead generation machine.

What did it take to accomplish these goals?

Site redesign: OmniVue Business Solutions wanted to continue along the same theme and look and feel of the existing site. So, we kept the design changes to a minimum, but did redevelop the site around a CSS based design for increased usability, optimized page load times, content management, and organized for more SEO related content.

SEO: The biggest problem with their website is that they had virtually no website visitors. The previous site design left little room for content, had arbitrary page titles, and numerous issues that prevented it from performing well in search engines. Our first step in improving their website presence was to perform a robust keyword analysis to define exactly which keywords we wanted to focus our SEO efforts on. We were then able to leverage our new design to integrate valuable content into each of the pages. This involved redeveloping the content for the entire website as well as training OmniVue’s Marketing Director on fundamentals of writing for the search engines. Along with a variety of other SEO tactics revolving around the original keyword research, we were able to take OmniVue’s website from nonexistent in the Search Engines, to top placement for many of the targeted keyphrases within weeks.

Conversion: Now that we were able to generate traffic to the website, we wanted to direct the appropriate traffic to the “Contact Us” Page. By driving people to this page and designing this page around making it quick and easy for the user to maximize the number of leads generated from this form, we were able to increase the amount of leads generated on their website by over 400%.

Performance: What happens all too often with many organizations is that this is where their efforts stop. However, one of the most important aspects in closing leads and starting your sales process revolves around how quickly you respond to these web generated leads. We’ve made sure there’s a business process in place that all Web generated Leads are responded to, in person, within one business day, if not within minutes or hours. Because OmniVue Business Solutions utilizes Microsoft Dynamics CRM for their sales team, we were able to integrate that web form directly into their Microsoft Dynamics CRM to automatically create Leads in their customer relationship management software. This allowed instant visibility into those Leads, as well as historical tracking of all the events associated with that lead – eventually ending up in the sales process and pipeline. As these Leads progress through the sales process and actually close as won or lost, we are able to look back historically and track the success rate of these website Leads, and even determine exactly what website referral (Google organic, Google PPC, Live, Yahoo!, etc) actually brought in the most revenue. We then leverage this intelligence to modify and tweak the online marketing strategy around the most successful Lead acquisition methods.

Analytics: To complete the 360 degree picture of this lead generation machine, we also implemented analytics software to help gauge search engine performance, PPC campaign performance, and goal conversion metrics so that we are able to track our results over time, and modify our strategies accordingly.

The efforts involved in transforming OmniVue’s website took it from a poorly performing marketing tool to a profitable Lead generation machine that brings in numerous (targeted) Leads weekly, and has already paid for itself in only a few weeks in ROI from the deals closed from Leads generated on the web. There’s still room for growth and improvement on the website that we continue to work with OmniVue on truly maximizing the value through more advanced features. A true success story and a great example of how a website should truly be leveraged in a B2B Services industry.