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Oct 30 / E-commerce Web Designs: Let It Snow(mobile)

by Aaron Weiche

Our latest e-commerce web design projects come in a 2-pack and cater to the snow loving crowd. MotosportsGearUSA.com and SledGearUSA.com feature snowmobile clothing, gear and accessories for the snow and machine enthusiast.

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e-commerce web design website
The Motorsports USA Gear site is the flagship of this e-commerce network of sites.  The initial release of the site only lists snowmobile gear for sale, but will eventually offer ATV, Motocross and more.

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Brand Focused Websites
The other aspect to this site is that we are producing product line focused websites.  The first one we produced is focused on Klim snowmobile clothing and gear.  The main site will feed product information to each of the brand focused websites.

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E-commerce Website Features
These e-commerce sites feature the following:

  • Custom e-commerce design (we also made the site easy to re-skin for the brand focused websites to follow)
  • Product catalog & shopping cart
  • Multiple navigation locations for category, brand & search
  • Product preview & product detail pages
  • HTML sitemap & product sitemap
  • On-page SEO
  • Product options & product codes
  • Authorize.Net merchant account

We’re excited to release these new e-commerce web designs and make winter a little more fun.


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Oct 20 / Drive-By Design

by Aaron Weiche

Five didn’t create the billboard design for S.K.I.N. Medical Spa, but we did design their logo and website. We just thought we would share our work and a great client being shown on a larger scale.

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Oct 16 / Custom Email Marketing Designs

by Aaron Weiche

We thought we would share some of our recent email marketing designs with you. The visual branding and impact is just one reason that professional email marketing campaigns are a fantastic marketing strategy.

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Email Marketing Done Right
Email marketing, when correctly designed, structured and launched is an incredible communication tool.  Monthly or quarterly newsletters, announcements, service features, event invitations, sales, promotions and more are all great messages to utilize email marketing.

You get the benefits of:

  • Custom email designs
  • List building & segmentation tools
  • Best delivery practices
  • Performance analytics on opens, clicks and conversions
  • Consulting & support from our email marketing experts

If you’re organization is interested in the benefits of email marketing, give us a holler, we can help. You can also sign-up for the Five monthly e-letter on our home page.


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Oct 01 / Get More Features, Control & SEO Friendly With A CMS Conversion

by Aaron Weiche

Not every project for Five involves creating a new web design.  Sometimes a company will come to us satisfied with their design, but in need of better technology to run it.  We can convert an existing website to our content management system (CMS) and improve numerous areas.

Streeter Companies, a Maple Grove, MN Commercial Property firm came to us with this situation.  They were satisfied with their current web design, but wanted to be able to change web content themselves, get more traffic from Google and offer more features on the site for users.

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The Website CMS Conversion Provided:

  • Control – Streeter can now add new pages to their website, new property listings, change or add photos and more. Our SMC tool gives them complete control of their website.
  • Features – Streeter’s former website only allowed them to display a PDF and a few details on each property for lease. We upgraded each listing to display photos in a slideshow, interactive Google maps of the location, overview text of the property, auto PDF flyer creation, contact forms and social sharing features.
  • Search Engine Friendly – The move to our CMS upgraded the Streeter website to keyword URLs, HTML & XML sitemaps, semantic content structure and internal linking.  These SEO enhancements are the start to their website earning better trust and rankings from the search engines.

So if your web design is acceptable and you need a better web platform for control and to build upon, give us a shout about converting to our CMS.


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