Welcome to Episode 26 of the 90-Day Website Mastery Podcast! Jonny Ross and Pascal Fintoni are back with another engaging episode packed with expert insights and actionable advice for website owners and content creators.
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Chapters:
00:00:16 - Introduction to 90-Day Website Mastery Program
Introduction to the 90-Day Website Mastery Program, including the live broadcast on various platforms, the format of the show, and the segments included in each episode.
00:01:34 -Reclaiming Your Online Space
Discussion on the importance of reclaiming your online space, reflecting on the website experience, and making practical adjustments for online visitors.
00:02:34 - The Importance of Blogging
Insights into the importance of blogging, addressing the feeling of repetition, and the value of blogging for business processes and engagement.
00:04:16 - Understanding the Essence of Blogging
Discussion on the essence of blogging, including the types of content typically found in a blog and the importance of redefining the term 'blog'.
00:05:39 - Content Creation and Repurposing
Exploration of content creation for internal purposes, challenges in content creation, and the concept of upcycling and repurposing content.
00:06:32 - The Evolution of Blogging
Discussion on the evolution of blogging, the shift in content formats, and the importance of adapting to changes in content creation.
00:07:36 - Revitalizing Your Blog
Insights into revitalizing blog content, the impact of dark mode on website design, and the significance of color scheme optimization for accessibility and user experience.
00:11:46 - The Ultimate Website Toolkit, Volume 1
Launch of the Ultimate Website Toolkit, Volume 1, featuring 50 handpicked tools to improve website management and performance.
00:17:20 - Website Engine Room: SpyFu.com
Introduction to SpyFu.com, a tool for analyzing competitors' SEO strategies and refining SEO and pay-per-click campaigns.
00:19:14 - Website Engine Room: Content Outline Generator
Introduction to a content outline generator tool for creating article outlines using AI technology and keyword input.
00:22:07 - Website Call to Action: Color Scheme Optimization
Call to action for color scheme optimization, focusing on accessibility, dark mode, and the impact of color schemes on user experience.
00:25:58 - Website Call to Action: The Ultimate Website Toolkit
Encouragement to download the Ultimate Website Toolkit, Volume 1, and use the tools to address top website action items and challenges.
00:27:09 - Closing Remarks and Future Engagement
Closing remarks, invitation for audience feedback, and anticipation for future episodes and engagement.
It's episode 26. It's the nine-day
Speaker:website mastery program. Welcome. Thanks
Speaker:for being here. Thanks for joining us.
Speaker:Perhaps you're watching live right now.
Speaker:We are live on Facebook. We're live on
Speaker:YouTube. We're live on LinkedIn. Perhaps
Speaker:you're listening to us on the podcast or
Speaker:on the repeat. However you're here,
Speaker:welcome, thanks for being here. As I
Speaker:said, it's episode 26. We wanted to find
Speaker:a way to continue to share more advice
Speaker:and insights about making your website
Speaker:work harder and for you to feel proud
Speaker:about your website again. In each
Speaker:episode, as always, we have 4 segments.
Speaker:We have the You Ask, We Answer, where we
Speaker:take a question submitted from the
Speaker:community. We've got segment 2, which is
Speaker:website stories, where we feature an
Speaker:article or a podcast or something that
Speaker:we've recently seen. The website engine
Speaker:room is our third section where we share
Speaker:an app of our choice. Pascal shares 1, I
Speaker:share 1. Something that's going to make
Speaker:your life easier as a website manager and
Speaker:content creator. And lastly of course, of
Speaker:course we finish with the website call to
Speaker:action. Every piece of content should
Speaker:finish with a call to action. And so our
Speaker:last segment is the website call to
Speaker:action, where we give you 1 change or
Speaker:adjustment that you should be making to
Speaker:your website right now. So let me welcome
Speaker:my co-host, Pascal. You all right?
Speaker:Very well. What an introduction. Well
Speaker:done you to remembering all these things.
Speaker:So yes, we've been working behind the
Speaker:scenes, researching, gathering
Speaker:information that really it's all about
Speaker:reclaiming your online space. And on the
Speaker:website is very, very important when we
Speaker:see what's happening with social media
Speaker:and the weird changes to SEO with AI and
Speaker:so on. It's really a good time now to go
Speaker:back to the website to reflect on the
Speaker:kind of experience you want to provide to
Speaker:your online visitors and make those small
Speaker:practical adjustments.
Speaker:Let's find out what we're going to talk
Speaker:about in You Ask, We Answer.
Speaker:Now, Jonny, I've got a very actually
Speaker:interesting question, 1 that we may have
Speaker:to spend a bit of time today on. I was
Speaker:working with a client, a filmmaker, that
Speaker:are doing great, great things in the
Speaker:north of England, and they basically, we
Speaker:were having a coffee, and this is pretty
Speaker:much the essence of the conversation.
Speaker:They're saying to me I've been running
Speaker:this website of mine and the blog for
Speaker:years now, selling my video production
Speaker:services as well as promoting my own
Speaker:films and I feel like I'm just repeating
Speaker:myself. I feel like I'm just going
Speaker:through the same things over and over
Speaker:again. Am I missing something? And well
Speaker:we've all had that feeling. So to begin
Speaker:with, to my client and to all of you
Speaker:listening, it's exactly the way it feels
Speaker:sadly. That you are the expert, you've
Speaker:got that curse of knowledge, and you feel
Speaker:like you're just repeating the same basic
Speaker:stuff that you don't find particularly
Speaker:challenging, but actually, your audience
Speaker:is gonna find very, very useful and
Speaker:informative, but what say you, Johnny
Speaker:Ross?
Speaker:Well, we've definitely all been there,
Speaker:and you sort of look at, you know,
Speaker:whether you're writing, whether it's
Speaker:podcasting, whether it's video, you
Speaker:always get to that point of oh, should I
Speaker:continue, you know, what's the point, you
Speaker:know, Are people reading, listening, are
Speaker:they engaging? But the answer is as long
Speaker:as it's high quality, as long as the
Speaker:quality is there, as long as it's
Speaker:helpful, you absolutely should be. And
Speaker:there's so many things that blogging can
Speaker:solve with inside the business even it's
Speaker:not just from a marketing point of view
Speaker:there's so many other reasons to blog I
Speaker:mean 1 of the things is just a way of
Speaker:keeping yourself up to date and keeping
Speaker:you in the moment and making you know by
Speaker:producing content you're having to keep
Speaker:up to date, you're having to challenge
Speaker:yourself, you're having to think about
Speaker:things, you're having to think about
Speaker:business processes and how people engage
Speaker:with your products and services. So even
Speaker:just for that reason, there's countless
Speaker:reasons, but I guess in the sort of quick
Speaker:summary is that we all feel like that at
Speaker:some point, but there's lots of reasons
Speaker:why blogging is so important.
Speaker:I like what you've said about, you know,
Speaker:we should allow ourselves to do content
Speaker:creation, which is more for us, for the
Speaker:team, and for internal purposes, you
Speaker:know, almost kind of creating a knowledge
Speaker:bank that others can then use, not always
Speaker:doing something solely for the client.
Speaker:But I wonder, and that's something you
Speaker:and I have tackled in the webinar series
Speaker:when we launched a program, whether the
Speaker:challenge or the solution begins by
Speaker:challenging the term blog, those 4
Speaker:letters that somehow are so meaningful
Speaker:they become meaningless. I mean, if I say
Speaker:blog, what does it conjure up in your
Speaker:mind compared to the person next to you?
Speaker:So I think what we should do is remind
Speaker:everybody that a blog, if you want to use
Speaker:the term still, will have typically 4
Speaker:types of content. So the first 1, which
Speaker:is what you hinted at, would be the
Speaker:industry news. So you are seen and heard
Speaker:being helpful by reporting back the most
Speaker:important news from your industry and
Speaker:that of your customers. And there could
Speaker:be actually 2, you know, assigned to the
Speaker:coin. So that's number 1. The 1 that then
Speaker:comes after that is what people typically
Speaker:do is the practical device, you know, the
Speaker:Q&A. And this is where often people say,
Speaker:well, I've already said that, I already
Speaker:explained it. And we can look at ways in
Speaker:which you can upgrade and upcycle your
Speaker:content. The third 1 is, of course, the
Speaker:free resource or the free downloadable or
Speaker:whichever term you want to use. And then
Speaker:the fourth 1 is, of course, the company
Speaker:updates. I mean, I think it's important
Speaker:for customers to know that your
Speaker:organization is going places and is
Speaker:growing. And I sometimes use simply the
Speaker:mantra of, you know, what have you done?
Speaker:What have you been? Who have you met? You
Speaker:know, as a way to summarize what the
Speaker:company updates can be like, which I know
Speaker:people find a bit awkward, but I can
Speaker:assure you audiences love to know that
Speaker:you're passionate about, you know, what
Speaker:you do and you have interesting stories.
Speaker:So I think blog is the term, but you've
Speaker:got to train your mind to think, oh, that
Speaker:means industry news, practical advice,
Speaker:free downloads, and company updates.
Speaker:Yeah, And it can be in lots of different
Speaker:formats as well can't it? So it doesn't
Speaker:have to be written, it could be audio, it
Speaker:could be video or it could be a mix. So
Speaker:it could be, if I think about it when I
Speaker:first started blogging I saw blogging as
Speaker:the core of my marketing activity and
Speaker:writing a blog would easily turn into 5
Speaker:tweets for Twitter, it would turn into a
Speaker:debate on LinkedIn, it would turn into
Speaker:something for YouTube but I think it's
Speaker:slightly different now and it might be
Speaker:that the content starts as a podcast or
Speaker:starts as a video or starts as a blog,
Speaker:but then, but you know, it can then turn
Speaker:into a blog, it can turn into a podcast.
Speaker:So that's sort of the first connotation
Speaker:that I think is important to bear in mind
Speaker:that people do have negativity around the
Speaker:word blog, especially because Google,
Speaker:must be about 4 or 5 years ago now did
Speaker:demonstrate that it was giving less rank
Speaker:to blogs but that was because people were
Speaker:keyword stuffing blogs and we were using
Speaker:them for the wrong purpose. They were
Speaker:using them purely for an SEO purpose. Now
Speaker:of course there's SEO value there but
Speaker:it's all about helpful and resourceful
Speaker:content and as long as it's helpful, as
Speaker:long as it's resourceful then you're
Speaker:doing a great job and yes it can feel
Speaker:like you're repeating yourself, you know,
Speaker:if you're blogging on a weekly basis
Speaker:perhaps, but it's about looking at some
Speaker:of the content that you've done in the
Speaker:past and actually enhancing it or
Speaker:bringing it back to life or making sure
Speaker:that it's actually still current and up
Speaker:to date. So sometimes it's important that
Speaker:you repeat yourself because you need to
Speaker:actually set it correct for the year that
Speaker:you're in.
Speaker:Yeah, that's interesting. I mean, it's
Speaker:almost like, so I've moved house and
Speaker:we're going through, you know, the
Speaker:reasonably enjoyable job of updating, you
Speaker:know, planning, painting walls. And, and
Speaker:we went to a store to buy the carpets.
Speaker:And As I was listening to the lady
Speaker:looking after us, I was thinking, this
Speaker:poor thing must be answering the same
Speaker:questions with every single client.
Speaker:Because I mean, I know nothing about
Speaker:carpets, Johnny. I mean, I probably last
Speaker:time I had to be concerned about them was
Speaker:that 10 years ago when we had a house
Speaker:near Newcastle. So, and I'm thinking, but
Speaker:that's the job, isn't it, Johnny, that
Speaker:you're the expert, people come to you as
Speaker:a newbie all of the time. So how do you
Speaker:deliver the message in a way that, you
Speaker:know, is enjoyable to you? Do you change
Speaker:format? Do you change storytelling as
Speaker:well? But for me, it's also something we
Speaker:shared in website call to action. Look at
Speaker:your stats, look at the best performing
Speaker:articles and do they need just that
Speaker:element of re-updating. I've seen some
Speaker:clever things where people record in 90
Speaker:second video summary about what the
Speaker:article is about. I've seen people
Speaker:embedding social media reactions. So you
Speaker:can do a lot of things that are not
Speaker:particularly time-consuming to kind of
Speaker:bring that, but that's the job. You have
Speaker:to repeat the basics over and over again.
Speaker:And I would say you know if you are stuck
Speaker:in that feeling like you're repeating
Speaker:yourself and not really you know should
Speaker:you be doing it, it's time to revitalize
Speaker:and it's time to 1 of the best ways to do
Speaker:that is to feed yourself full of ideas
Speaker:and information. So subscribe to
Speaker:competitors, subscribe to industry
Speaker:related news, set up Google alerts,
Speaker:follow people on Instagram on TikTok that
Speaker:are doing similar things to, similar
Speaker:products or services to you. Look at the
Speaker:competition, it's so important because
Speaker:you can so easily get left behind but at
Speaker:the same time, you can learn things and
Speaker:start talking about these things and you
Speaker:can still come across as the expert as
Speaker:long as you own the content that's the
Speaker:most important thing it's owning it and
Speaker:it's putting yourself in the minds of the
Speaker:clients and your customers and thinking
Speaker:what are their problems and how can I
Speaker:solve them And what are the things that I
Speaker:can tell them that are really gonna help
Speaker:them engage and understand that we're the
Speaker:right people? And lastly, that thing
Speaker:about company updates. Well, that's about
Speaker:the personality, isn't it? People buy
Speaker:from people they like, brands they like.
Speaker:And the only way that you can get people
Speaker:to like you is by, well, sorry, 1 of the
Speaker:biggest ways I think by getting people to
Speaker:like you is showing personality. So
Speaker:revitalize and show personality and start
Speaker:engaging more online.
Speaker:Super, I always knew it was gonna be a
Speaker:longer 1, you know, of the you ask, we
Speaker:answer, but it's so important because
Speaker:it's so emotionally charged and really
Speaker:for me the message is if you're feeling
Speaker:that way, it's not equal, I'm doing
Speaker:something wrong. It's literally, it's
Speaker:just the way it is, you know, and take it
Speaker:back to the work that you do, all of you,
Speaker:and when you have a brand new client,
Speaker:you're going through the kind of the
Speaker:onboarding, if you like the term or
Speaker:whatever, it's always the same bit that
Speaker:you have to go through and it makes sense
Speaker:to me that the website activities will
Speaker:give you the impression they are
Speaker:repetitive but it's over to you to make
Speaker:it as enjoyable as possible. I tell you
Speaker:what, it's time to move on to our next
Speaker:segment, website stories.
Speaker:Which I am extremely excited about
Speaker:because I've got a sneak peek of what
Speaker:this 1 is. So let's dive in.
Speaker:Our regular viewers and listeners will
Speaker:know that typically John and I will
Speaker:select 1 article or a podcast episode or
Speaker:video and infographic produced by
Speaker:somebody else and we react and share
Speaker:lessons. But today we have chosen
Speaker:something that John and I have produced
Speaker:ourselves. Is this allowed? Absolutely.
Speaker:We hinted last episode that with number
Speaker:25, it so happens that if you do the
Speaker:maths, particularly when you think about
Speaker:the website engine room, we reached this
Speaker:incredible number of 50, 50 or 50 website
Speaker:apps, tools and tech that can really make
Speaker:a big difference. And we were thinking
Speaker:what would be a helpful, meaningful way
Speaker:to allow you viewers and listeners,
Speaker:particularly our regulars, to have access
Speaker:to this. And we came up with this idea of
Speaker:compiling and condensing all of this into
Speaker:an ebook called The Ultimate Website
Speaker:Toolkit, Volume 1. We have the subtitle
Speaker:of 50, 5, 0, 50 unpicked tools to make
Speaker:you feel proud of your website again. But
Speaker:I'm going to ask Johnny, do you feel
Speaker:proud of publishing this volume 1 of the
Speaker:Ultimate Website Toolkit?
Speaker:I absolutely do. I mean, we've, you know,
Speaker:we're in episode 26, aren't we? We've
Speaker:done previously 25 episodes, which is 2
Speaker:apps per episode, 50 apps. We just felt
Speaker:you know we want to make this like we
Speaker:preach, we practice what we preach, we
Speaker:want to make this helpful, we want to
Speaker:make this resourceful, we want to give
Speaker:you 1 place where you can get access to
Speaker:50 of these tools that we've talked about
Speaker:to ultimately help you start feeling
Speaker:proud of your website again. So I'm
Speaker:really proud of what we've achieved.
Speaker:We've got a, you know Every new piece of
Speaker:content that we create on our 90 day
Speaker:website is, there's an element of fun in
Speaker:there, there's an element of a bit of
Speaker:uniqueness. And it's a really cool
Speaker:journey that we're on in terms of what
Speaker:we're producing. And yeah, I'm really
Speaker:proud of the, the ebook that we've just,
Speaker:just produced. I'm going to share the
Speaker:link on the screen for people that are
Speaker:watching. I'm sure you're going to talk
Speaker:more about it, but I'll bring it up on
Speaker:the screen as well.
Speaker:Yeah, no. And, and so for us, it was the
Speaker:moment of, Fascinating to do some,
Speaker:something that would be qualified as core
Speaker:creation. So for everybody listening,
Speaker:it's interesting to work with a partner
Speaker:and not having to do everything on your
Speaker:own. We kind of shared the work and the
Speaker:reflection and so on. There was some
Speaker:very, very interesting, cool working
Speaker:sessions to make decisions on design
Speaker:layout and so on. There was some very,
Speaker:very interesting, cool working sessions
Speaker:to make decisions on design layout and so
Speaker:on. You know, there was some difficult
Speaker:things sometimes, you know, about which 1
Speaker:do we include, which 1 do we keep to 1
Speaker:side. We did consider whether or not they
Speaker:should be grouped or not. Actually the
Speaker:pleasure is in the pick and mix. So what
Speaker:you'll find all of you is that you're
Speaker:given always 2, 3 options, whether it's
Speaker:about video editing and publishing,
Speaker:whether it's about keyword research,
Speaker:whether it's about website testing,
Speaker:you'll find that we cover all aspects of
Speaker:website management. Now, of course, the
Speaker:intention is not for you to use all 50.
Speaker:That wouldn't be particularly wise, but
Speaker:within the 50 you should find a handful
Speaker:that can make a huge difference now. And
Speaker:I will confirm that all 50 have been
Speaker:tested and it's like got the seal of
Speaker:approval from Johnny and I. So, and we
Speaker:use a vast number of those for sure.
Speaker:Yeah, and if you're listening, The link
Speaker:will be in the show notes, it's the
Speaker:90daymarketingmastery.com forward slash e
Speaker:hyphen book. If you're listening or
Speaker:watching live you've got early access
Speaker:because this is not live on the front of
Speaker:the website, there's no links on the
Speaker:website. To get there, the only way
Speaker:you're gonna get there is by following
Speaker:the link that we have shared with you
Speaker:today. And so as a live listener or a
Speaker:live viewer, you've got early access, of
Speaker:course. And yeah, I mean, we want
Speaker:feedback. What tools have we missed? What
Speaker:tools do you think should be in volume 2?
Speaker:And are there any tools, what do you
Speaker:think of the tools that are in volume 1
Speaker:or the other ones that, you know, you get
Speaker:on really well with other ones that you
Speaker:struggle with, what do you think as well?
Speaker:But yeah, these are tools that as Pascal
Speaker:have said, we personally use or we use
Speaker:with our clients. We've got lots of
Speaker:experience with them. And we just wanted
Speaker:to share it, didn't we?
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely. And there would be some
Speaker:AI tools, but not too many. We didn't
Speaker:want to make it too much of the AI
Speaker:website toolkit, you know, that may come
Speaker:later. And actually, on that very point,
Speaker:you and I are testing regularly AI tools,
Speaker:and they're not all good. You know, there
Speaker:is a small number that I'll mention, but
Speaker:generally, those tools have been around
Speaker:for a number of years and used by you and
Speaker:our clients. So for me, super excited to
Speaker:make the announcement, super excited to
Speaker:give our live users and listeners and
Speaker:probably social media followers a 48
Speaker:hours window to kind of go in, download,
Speaker:consult and get back to us And then it
Speaker:would be public knowledge next week, I
Speaker:would imagine.
Speaker:Very, very exciting indeed. So please do
Speaker:download and let us know and share and
Speaker:tell us what you think. And Meanwhile,
Speaker:we'll carry on working on volume 2. And
Speaker:to do that, we're going to move straight
Speaker:into our next segment. So these are going
Speaker:to be some of the first tools that are
Speaker:going to be in volume 2, because we're on
Speaker:episode 26. So we're going to go into the
Speaker:website engine room.
Speaker:All right, then. So what is your
Speaker:selection for this episode? The 1 app,
Speaker:the 1 solution or kit that can make a
Speaker:difference and make life easier for all
Speaker:of us as website content creators.
Speaker:So this is spyfoo.com is what I'm
Speaker:bringing up for episode 26. It's a tool
Speaker:that allows you to spy on your
Speaker:competitors. Their most profitable
Speaker:keywords, the ads for paid and organic
Speaker:search. It's particularly useful for your
Speaker:competitors SEO strategies, helping you
Speaker:refine your own approach to SEO and
Speaker:pay-per-click campaigns. So it's
Speaker:spyfoo.com. As I said, it allows you to
Speaker:analyze and spy on your competitors.
Speaker:Great little tool. And especially if
Speaker:you've got competitors that just happen
Speaker:to always be there and you're like,
Speaker:they're so annoying. Why are they always
Speaker:there? Well, why not use spyfu.com to see
Speaker:what their SEO strategies are?
Speaker:Yeah, and there are other tools that do
Speaker:that. So just to be clear to our
Speaker:audience, you know, this is accessing in
Speaker:a very, very clever way, public
Speaker:information. You're not breaking any data
Speaker:protection laws or you're not spying for
Speaker:real. This is just publicly available,
Speaker:but spying through gives you that
Speaker:collation feature that's going to save
Speaker:you a mountain of time. So thanks for
Speaker:reminding us of that. So for me, I'm
Speaker:actually, This is a pure accident. I
Speaker:can't be accused to be smarter than I am,
Speaker:but this is actually linking to our
Speaker:discussion in your Ask, We Answer about
Speaker:this idea of motivation, thinking and
Speaker:repeating myself, how do I update,
Speaker:upcycle the content? And I came across a
Speaker:platform that allows you to do a content
Speaker:outline generator using bit of AI auto
Speaker:magic. So I want you to imagine a
Speaker:situation that maybe you're planning your
Speaker:next long form article or podcast or
Speaker:video. You've dropped it down on a piece
Speaker:of paper on your iPad, you know, the
Speaker:outline, you know, you've got an ID, but
Speaker:you've got a feeling, Johnny, that you're
Speaker:missing a couple of things. And you think
Speaker:there's got to be something else. So what
Speaker:you can do is go on the tool produced by
Speaker:SEOreviewtools.com. And I put the link in
Speaker:the show notes, content outline generator
Speaker:separated with hyphen. And literally what
Speaker:you do is put the title of your article
Speaker:that you have in mind, you put a bunch of
Speaker:keywords, you can put information like
Speaker:tone of voice and a few other things, and
Speaker:then ask for the outline. So let's be
Speaker:very, very clear. This will not write the
Speaker:article for you. I don't recommend you
Speaker:should write your own articles, or at
Speaker:least have a first draft. They will give
Speaker:you all the headers and subheaders, and
Speaker:it's really, really powerful. And then
Speaker:you can go, ah, yes, of course, I should
Speaker:have covered that. I forgot to put it in
Speaker:my outline. So it's an assistant to kind
Speaker:of help you improve your own thinking.
Speaker:Now what do you do with the outline? Well
Speaker:it becomes a brief for you, maybe for
Speaker:your colleagues or your suppliers or
Speaker:certainly what you could do is go ahead
Speaker:and write the article, Johnny, and then
Speaker:maybe there's a paragraph or there's a
Speaker:section that is sticky, you know, you're
Speaker:not getting the words you want, then what
Speaker:you can do for sure is copy that
Speaker:particular outline in that paragraph and
Speaker:put it through a platform like ChatGPT,
Speaker:Perplexity, Cloud, and all the others to
Speaker:get an idea of what it's like, but to
Speaker:know a content outline generator to give
Speaker:you more motivated to create information
Speaker:online.
Speaker:Yeah, that definitely feeds well into
Speaker:revitalizing your blog. So thank you for
Speaker:sharing that. You know, we're not on
Speaker:commission with these tools by the way,
Speaker:it would be nice if we were. And there's
Speaker:lots of tools that do lots of similar
Speaker:things, but it's about just finding the
Speaker:tool that works for you. So yeah, it's
Speaker:good that we're highlighting, even if
Speaker:there's a tool that can do the same
Speaker:thing, you might find that it's a lot
Speaker:easier using 1 than the other. So that's
Speaker:why we share some of these and great on
Speaker:the content outline generator. I like
Speaker:that.
Speaker:Yeah, absolutely. And for sure, if people
Speaker:think, you know, I kind of like what it
Speaker:does, but I don't like the way it does
Speaker:it, then always go to that website called
Speaker:Alternative To, and then punch in the
Speaker:URL, and then people have done a lot of
Speaker:work to find actually secondary and
Speaker:tertiary options. So very, very helpful.
Speaker:As always, it's time for people to do
Speaker:something on their website. We're gonna
Speaker:move on to our final segment, the website
Speaker:call to action. As you know, this is
Speaker:about the 1 change, the 1 adjustment that
Speaker:you can make right now to make your
Speaker:website work harder for you. Johnny, what
Speaker:is your recommendation?
Speaker:Well I am guessing that most website
Speaker:owners need to do this. I talk about
Speaker:search engine optimization a lot. In
Speaker:fact, in our last episode we challenged
Speaker:it and we talked about search experience
Speaker:optimization. So SEO could be search
Speaker:experience optimization. Part of that is
Speaker:your color scheme so my call to action
Speaker:this week is about color scheme
Speaker:optimization and there's 2 key reasons I
Speaker:mentioned this. Of course you can
Speaker:consider it from a brand point of view
Speaker:and your branding and making sure that
Speaker:visually it's connecting with your
Speaker:audience but the 2 big reasons I mention
Speaker:it are accessibility and dark mode. 2 big
Speaker:things that you can't ignore. We've
Speaker:talked about accessibility before and
Speaker:Google has made it abundantly clear that
Speaker:it's wanting to rank websites better or
Speaker:higher should I say, based on the
Speaker:accessibility on their website. So how
Speaker:easy is it to use across different
Speaker:devices? Bearing in mind that there's
Speaker:lots of diverse users and how users use
Speaker:devices, ensuring that content is easy to
Speaker:understand, to read, to listen to, et
Speaker:cetera, et cetera. And so we're talking
Speaker:about the, making sure that colors are
Speaker:easy to see, so that you're not using a
Speaker:dark blue on a light blue background,
Speaker:which just doesn't give you the contrast
Speaker:enough whatsoever. So to ensuring that
Speaker:that contrast works. But the second
Speaker:reason is dark mode. So many devices are
Speaker:now turning automatically into dark mode
Speaker:at certain times of the day. What do your
Speaker:colors look like in dark mode? Because
Speaker:I'm guessing that on a lot of websites
Speaker:out there, well I know, there's no point
Speaker:guessing, they look bloody awful. So it's
Speaker:about thinking about what's going to work
Speaker:on white, what's going to work on black,
Speaker:re-looking at colors to make sure that
Speaker:you've got really good contrasts, but
Speaker:also that they're going to work on
Speaker:different light modes and dark modes. So
Speaker:color scheme optimization is my website
Speaker:call to action for this episode.
Speaker:You know, it's fascinating. Yesterday I
Speaker:had a meeting with our web developers. So
Speaker:they look after a number of clients, but
Speaker:they also look after me. And I thought,
Speaker:you know, it's about time we look at, we
Speaker:talk about my website, and I know about
Speaker:clients' website, and I mean this, you
Speaker:know, with immense affection to all of
Speaker:them, but, and we would have this very
Speaker:conversation about the color scheme. I
Speaker:mean, I've had the same colors for a very
Speaker:long time now, and, you know, I want to
Speaker:move on, but, you know, I want people to
Speaker:understand that the advice from Johnny,
Speaker:sometime with accessibility, it feels
Speaker:gonna be hard, it feels a bit of a chore,
Speaker:feels a bit of a gimmick, but actually
Speaker:when you follow the rules, it improves
Speaker:your designs, in fact, because the color
Speaker:coordination and matching and sometimes
Speaker:contrast work much, much better. But
Speaker:suddenly we, the dark 1 is fascinating
Speaker:because we used to do dark feel like
Speaker:websites in the early 2000s, remember?
Speaker:And
Speaker:then we really
Speaker:went out of fashion. People hated them,
Speaker:but now it's come back. It's fascinating,
Speaker:but I've got a client where we've
Speaker:discovered. We didn't know, but the web
Speaker:design agency are creating, you know,
Speaker:kind of design element within the copy of
Speaker:an article or whatever. And we discovered
Speaker:those big white borders around those
Speaker:graphical elements. And on the dark mode,
Speaker:it looks awful. It looks like a
Speaker:shocking
Speaker:web from the 1990s. It's so true. I've
Speaker:chosen something very practical again for
Speaker:website call to action. And I wanted to
Speaker:link it, this 1 is on purpose to the
Speaker:ultimate website toolkit volume 1. So I
Speaker:want people to look back at their website
Speaker:to do list. If you're a team leader,
Speaker:Don't be mean, just ask people to, you
Speaker:know, into a workshop and so, okay, what
Speaker:is it that we would be wanting to do for
Speaker:a while? There's always been pushed and
Speaker:pushed because of client work and so on.
Speaker:So kind of collate all the to-dos for
Speaker:your website, organize them, you can use
Speaker:traffic light system if you want, and
Speaker:then pick the top 3 actions that are
Speaker:gonna really move the needle, that
Speaker:expression. And the top 3 actions that
Speaker:are gonna really make a difference to
Speaker:your reputation, to the customer
Speaker:experience and so on. And then look at
Speaker:the ultimate website toolkit and see if
Speaker:there is a tool or solution that can help
Speaker:you take action and make progress on
Speaker:those top 3 actions.
Speaker:You couldn't not have that as a call to
Speaker:action. Of course it has to be a call to
Speaker:action. So head over to
Speaker:90daymarketingmastery.com forward slash e
Speaker:hyphen book the link is on the screen
Speaker:it's also going to be in the show notes
Speaker:and of course if you just go to the
Speaker:90daymarketingmastery.com website in a
Speaker:day or 2 it will be on the home page
Speaker:ready for you to click anyway. But yeah
Speaker:download it check out the tools let us
Speaker:know. What a great episode again, we've
Speaker:talked about the key thing here is about
Speaker:blogging, isn't it? So perhaps you've
Speaker:been running a blog and you sort of just
Speaker:feel that you're repeating yourself a bit
Speaker:or you're getting a bit tired, you're
Speaker:getting a bit, you're losing that
Speaker:positivity. Well we're here to tell you
Speaker:that keep at it, keep at it and keep
Speaker:showing off your brand, keep creating
Speaker:personality, keep creating ways for
Speaker:potential clients to connect with you but
Speaker:more importantly think about that
Speaker:resourceful, that helpful content and the
Speaker:4 key pillars that Pascal mentioned in
Speaker:terms of what a blog is all about. This
Speaker:episode has been the launch of our
Speaker:ultimate website toolkit, Volume 150
Speaker:Handpicked Tools to make you feel proud
Speaker:of your website again. We're certainly
Speaker:proud of ours. We're certainly proud of
Speaker:the ebook and we'd love you to download
Speaker:it. Great episode.
Speaker:Yes, absolutely. And thanks again for the
Speaker:recap. So everybody, let us know as well,
Speaker:as we are approaching incredibly, almost
Speaker:the first half of this year, what are
Speaker:your website challenges? What are the
Speaker:things that you wish you understood
Speaker:better? What are the potential obstacles?
Speaker:It could be things that it feels like, as
Speaker:opposed to what it is, because you could
Speaker:really guide us in terms of the content
Speaker:of this podcast. You know, as you
Speaker:mentioned in the intro, we wanted to find
Speaker:a way to extend the impact and usefulness
Speaker:of the webinar series and the launch of
Speaker:the program. Somehow people have allowed
Speaker:us to go up to number 26. It feels like
Speaker:we could carry on, but yeah, let us know.
Speaker:You can contribute to the editorial
Speaker:guidelines.
Speaker:That's all. It's episode 26 of the new
Speaker:podcast series, the audio companion to
Speaker:the 90 day website program. For more
Speaker:information please visit
Speaker:90daymarketingmastery.com. You'll be able
Speaker:to book a discovery call with even myself
Speaker:or Pascal. We'll be back with another
Speaker:episode. In the meantime feel free to
Speaker:send your questions, share your preferred
Speaker:apps and links to your website once
Speaker:you've made the changes we spoke about
Speaker:because we'd love to give you a shout
Speaker:out. But listen, it's bye for now and
Speaker:we'll leave you with a fun video and
Speaker:audio montage whilst you go through your
Speaker:notes and actions and we look forward to
Speaker:hearing all about them and we'll see you
Speaker:on the next episode. Take care. Cheers.
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