Just launched a powerful local search engine for people seeking jobs in Oklahoma City.

Redhead has been hard at work developing a series of local job search engine websites. We wanted to build a collection of robust local job search sites to bridge the gap between giant job search sites like Indeed.com & Monster.com, and the small, poorly populated local job boards and job sites.

Our job sites are focused on local areas to give job seekers a more relevant search experience. Job listings are served up from a gigantic database of listings, the same database that feeds jobs to Facebook and LinkedIn. Listings come from over 25,000 online sources of job posts, including national websites, private job boards, and company career websites, so you can be assured that you are getting a ton of local job options from all kinds of online sources.

We will be announcing more sites in the future, but for now, check out www.jobsinokc.net to view the 1000′s of job openings available in and around Oklahoma City.

• Free Shipping coupon code
• Limit use of coupon codes to a certain country, state or zip code
• Limit the number of breadcrumbs displayed at the top of the content area
• Customize the gift certificate template – Yes!!
• Suggestive upsell module
• Category flyout menus
• And lots of other great improvements

BigCommerce, recently recognized as the 3rd fastest growing company in tech-rich Austin, TX, is constantly adding features to help you market better and sell more.

If you are a BigCommerce store owner, you need to schedule this upgrade from within your control panel.  As with all upgrades, sometimes the design template requires a little bit of massage to help everything display as it did before the upgrade.  Should you need assistance with your upgrade, contact Redhead.

Check out a complete list of feature changes here – http://www.bigcommerce.com/ecommerce-blog/newest-build-of-bigcommerce-released/.

BigCommerceDesigner.com is the BigCommerce arm of Redhead Web Development.  BigCommerceDesigner.com was created to showcase our latest design work for stores hosted on the BigCommerce shopping cart.  If you are looking for a web designer who genuinely cares about your business, then give us a call at 417-272-1932.  A fully custom BigCommerce template is a valuable investment and one that could add thousands of $$ in sales for your store.  It should not be left up to web designers who are inexperienced with BigCommerce.

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“It is just gorgeous! I love the logo, fabric texture, photos, and color theme…I love it.”

Contact Redhead today for a free quote.  Tell us your vision for your website, and we will make it happen.  There are virtually no limits to what we can do with the look of your BigCommerce store.  PLUS, if you need help beyond store design, we will boost your search engine rankings and traffic with an effective SEO, marketing, social media  package.

Redhead Web Development is an experienced, professional web design and e-commerce consulting company, specializing in the creation of customized Big Commerce templates.  When we create a Big Commerce template, we go beyond the packages and give you more.  See for yourself:

www.devooliveoil.com

www.agloves.com

www.mountaindaisy.com

www.alysapples.com

www.yukester.com

www.wineaccessoriesstore.com

Have the look you want!  Contact Redhead today to get a quote for your own custom Big Commerce template.

If you don’t yet have your FREE BigCommerce trial store, start one today.  It’s Easy.

Shopping cart providers normally offer their software in one of 2 ways…

Licensed – You can purchase the shopping cart software, download the software to your website host server and allow your host server to “run” the software.  These are often called “licensed” shopping cart solutions, as you purchase and own a license of the software that resides on your server.  By the way, if you hear the words “e-commerce software,” we’re talking about the same thing.  Although, licensed versions of shopping cart software can offer an additional level of html or php code customization, they offer some limitations in terms of upgrades, features, and cost.  Good software provider licenses, like Interspire, typically start at $1,000 or more, and some of them are much higher, like Magento, whose recommended Enterprise software license starts at $12,900 per year.

Hosted – Hosted shopping cart software is different.  Hosted shopping cart software providers like BigCommerce host the software for you on their servers.  Sometimes called SaaS (software as a service), hosted software providers offer you the ability to build your website by logging into a store control panel account you have with the hosting provider.  There are several nice benefits for using hosted vs. licensed shopping cart software.  Version upgrades are often more regular and much, much easier.  Cost is also a very big benefit.  BigCommerce plans start at $24.95 per month, and include many of the deluxe features that you would normally find in the best of the best shopping cart software licensed versions.

BigCommerce, in fact, includes over 400 features that include elements to help you build a great online store and to use the latest social media and mobile marketing tools to build traffic and sales for your store.  BigCommerce stores offer over 96 professionally built BigCommerce templates to make your store look good.  You can offer your customers coupons, gift certificates, wishlist, gift wrapping, account login for rapid checkout.  BigCommerce has a really cool feature called SuperZoom that gives the store visitor the ability zoom way in to your product pics just by hovering their mouse.

With BigCommerce, your customers can buy from their phones.  BigCommerce stores look great on the most commonly used mobile devices, including iPad, iPhone, Blackberry, Droid, and Palm.  And the best part is, you don’t have to purchase a completely separate mobile website system…it’s built right in with BigCommerce.

BigCommerce SEO Features – BigCommerce was developed and optimized by the number 1 SEO expert in the world, Aaron Wall.  The shopping cart includes many do-it-yourself SEO tools that you can use right out of the box.  Search Engine Optimization gives you the best chance of landing on the front page of Google.  If you want to know more about the BigCommerce SEO tools available through your BigCommerce store, click here.  Also, check out the BigCommerce YouTube channel to learn from the many training videos provided by company co-founder and e-commerce expert, Mitchell Harper.

BigCommerce allows you to sell all over the world, with multiple currency support and worldwide shipping provider integration.

Sell on Facebook, eBay, and many other shopping sites all from within your BigCommerce store.  You can even create auctions.

BigCommerce has all of the latest and greatest features that you see on sites like Amazon.  Side panels that include: top sellers, you might also like, mini-cart, newsletter signup, brand tags, most popular products, customers also viewed, add this to your wishlist, 5-star reviews, new products, you recently viewed, compare products.  BigCommerce also has dynamic dropdown search, like Google, social AddThis buttons, Facebook like button.

Do-it-yourself online stores are a reality with BigCommerce.  If you are willing to invest the time to build out your store, you can do everything yourself using easy-to-edit features within your BigCommerce control panel.  Add products, create web pages, upload photos, create discount coupons, process orders.  It’s all very user friendly.  You can even design your store, using drag-and-drop to move panels around, unheard of with other shopping cart software vendors.

Sell wholesale and retail with one BigCommerce store. You can create a professional wholesale e-commerce website using BigCommerce.  Using customer groups within BigCommerce, you have the ability to hide wholesale products from customers who are not in your approve wholesale groups.  Set different pricing structures for different groups of customers.  You even have the ability to set the pricing to “Call for price” or to use your BigCommerce website as a catalog only.

BigCommerce even supports digital download products.  So, if you want to sell an e-book, software download, music download, or any other downloadable product, BigCommerce makes it easy.

The possibilities are endless when starting a store online with BigCommerce.  If you have an idea, an established product, or a store that you want to transfer, contact Redhead Web Development, or start a free trial store right now to take a test drive.

Redhead Web Development is not only an e-commerce consulting firm, but it is also a Certified BigCommerce Reseller, specializing in custom BigCommerce template design, as well as, complete store setup, and ongoing SEO and store marketing.  Here are samples of some of the latest custom BigCommerce template designs by Redhead Web Development.

Redhead Web Development is a Certified Reseller and Design Partner for BigCommerce.  If you need help with online store setup, Big Commerce template customization, BigCommerce SEO, or e-commerce consulting, contact Redhead for more information.

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Why invest in a custom Big Commerce template design?

• You need to keep people on your website – studies show that you have just a few seconds to capture and keep the attention of your website’s visitors.  If you don’t maintain a visitor for more than a few seconds on your website, they are gone!
• You don’t want to lose sales – if your website looks the same as hundreds of others, or if it looks like a cheap template, chances are you’ve lost, and the customer will leave your web store.
• You need to build instant credibility – a good online store design can do this by showing your customer that you are not a cheapskate.  Reasonable logic would conclude that if you take the cheapest route possible with the look of your new store that you might take the cheapest route possible with the quality of your products.  Why do restaurants and retail stores spend 10′s of thousands of $$ to make their store look great?

It all boils down to making more money in the long run from your e-commerce venture.  Better stores mean better sales.

Contact us with your store ideas.  We can develop the Big Commerce design from scratch, or we can take your design and create a Big Commerce template for you.  Call (417) 272-1932 or Contact Us through our website.

Check out the latest BigCommerce design project completed by Redhead.  Yukester.com features trend-setting fashion accessories from around the world.  For this project, the client approached us with a design concept that they had developed in conjunction with Burghdorf Media Group.  Burghdorf supplied Redhead Web Development designers with layouts that included the colors, fonts, and styles that they desired for the Yukester.com web store.

Using a variety of CSS, HTML, and Javascript code, Redhead Web Development translated the design concept into an active BigCommerce template that carried the design elements throughout the store.  Unique performance features of the finished web store include:

• Dropdown menu product drilldown navigation
• Dropdown search box with dynamic search
• Pop up newsletter signup form
• Image only product display
• Transparent menu backgrounds

These are just a few of the customizations that Redhead can make to a BigCommerce store.  Redhead has also created BigCommerce Templates that include:

• Mega dropdown menus – those really nice header menus that “show it all” saving the browser time as they navigate the site
• Custom links in the side columns
• Widgets to display news, customer comments, weather, etc.
• Fade in Fade out slideshows
• Sliding slideshows
• Custom splash pages
• Rotating images
• Social media icon links
• Footer design and layout
• Custom product pages with customized information displays
• Custom view cart pages
• Drill-down search and navigation tools
• Custom product category displays
• and almost anything else you can dream up!

With BigCommerce, there is almost no limit to the design options available when using an experienced, thorough designer.  If you are interested in taking a test drive, you can sign up HERE for a 15-day free trial…no credit card required and no obligation.

Redhead Web Development is a Certified Design Partner for Big Commerce.  If you need help with this or any other Big Commerce customization, BigCommerce SEO, or consulting, contact Redhead for more information.

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This article discusses 10 ways 20 ways that YOU can increase traffic to your BigCommerce online store.  High search engine position, means more traffic which in turn means higher sales.  If you want to get first page Google results, take full advantage of all Big Commerce SEO tools and incorporate some external Search Engine Optimization and marketing strategies to boost your web store’s rankings.

1. 1. FIRST, research what keywords or keyword phrases people are searching to find similar products.  Go to the Google Keyword Tool to see the exact phrases people are using to find products in your market.  The tool can be found here – https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal.  Make a list.  These will be your target keyword phrases.
   2. On each product page in your BigCommerce store, click on Other Details tab, and enter keyword phrases into both the Search Keywords and Meta Keywords fields
   3. Enter descriptive product tags in the Product Tags field, such as: “dog leashes” or “guitar strings”
   4. Enter the product’s name along with a few keyword phrases in the Page Title field – do not exceed 70 characters for your page title.  Make sure the title is readable and makes people want to click on the link.
   5. Enter a description, starting with your targeted keyword phrase in the Meta Description field – use no more 160 characters in your meta description as Google cuts it off beyond this.  Make sure your description is readable and would entice a person to click on your link.
   6. Use keyword phrases within the first sentence of your product descriptions.  Make some of your keywords in the product description bold.  Don’t repeat, repeat, repeat your keywords.  That’s a spammy technique that is looked down upon by the search engines.
   7. Enter Page Title, Meta Keywords, Meta Description, and Search Keywords on each of your BigCommerce store’s Web page and Category page
   8. Fill out image titles and image descriptions where appropriate on category pages,  product pages and web pages
   9. VERY POWERFUL – Start a WordPress blog. This blog can be hosted on a subdomain, such as www.blog.mywebsite.com.  Make posts often.
   10. Write articles and use your keyword phrases near or at the front of the article headline.  Pay for premium placement that includes at least one link to your site.  I like www.free-press-release.com for immediate results
   11. Start a facebook page for your Big Commerce store.  Add a link to your facebook page on your store sidebar or footer
   12. Start a Twitter account for your business.  Add a link to your twitter account on your store sidebar or footer
   13. Save time by linking your blog to your facebook page by using NetworkedBlogs or a similar facebook app
   14. Save time by linking your blog to your Twitter account by using a tool like www.twitterfeed.com
   15. Use the SocialShop application in BigCommerce to add products to your facebook page
   16. Set up your Google Base Product Feed to feed products into Google Product Search
   17. Start a Youtube.com account and begin uploading videos about your products or services.  Use keywords in video titles and descriptions.  Link some of these videos into your Big Commerce product pages
   18. Get as many quality website links coming to your site as possible
   19. Promote, promote, promote – online AND offline!  Don’t forget the value of marketing your business through any creative means possible.  Run ads, tell your friends, tell your colleagues, tell your friends to tell their colleagues.  Be a cheerleader for your brand, for your business.

Also, make sure that your Search Engine Optimization settings are correct in your Store Settings.  Next to Search Engine Friendly URLs, select “Enable if Available” and enter a page title, keywords, and meta description in the appropriate fields.

When starting your online business, there is no magic wand that creates instant traffic to your store.  You must market, you must sell, you must promote your business to be successful.

Redhead Web Development is a Certified Design Partner for Big Commerce.  If you need help with this or any other Big Commerce customization, BigCommerce SEO, or consulting, contact Redhead for more information.