Internet Marketing Comments

" I depend on my web site to be my primary source for potential clients, so it is important that my web site searches well.

Most of my potential clients who are looking for a photographer, want one close to their home. Deb set up my website so when someone searches using a local city name my site comes up at the top of the search results list. People looking for a local photographer are going to see me first, rather than a photographer hundreds of miles away.

I started asking those who find me on the web what they searched on. Everyone of them said the words "dog photography Dallas" in some order. My clients comment about how easy it was to find me. This is all due to Deb's skill at designing the web site to do well with the search engines. She stays on top of the changes in search technology and makes recommendations for the web site to keep my ranking high in the search engines. After all, if a potential client can't find you, then what's the point of having a commercial web site?

Deb is responsive in other ways. We worked well together all through the design process. Updates are done promptly and there is no problem with me making regular changes to keep my web site fresh. All through the process, she's sharing her expertise on web design, making suggestions on how to turn my ideas and vision into reality on the web.

I'm so pleased with Deb's work that we are about to start work together on new web sites I'm putting up. Wanting to hire Deb to do additional web sites for me is the highest compliment I could pay to her work!"

Margaret Bryant, Bryant Photography
www.bryantdogphotography.com

"The amazing thing about the internet is that I have never met nor actually spoken to Deb Fugitt yet her capabilities have transformed the profile of my online specialist magazine 'Underwater Photography" beyond recognition.

Her experience and expertise in web design and marketing is really impressive but what is more so is the feeling that she is always thinking of ways to improve, thinking up new ideas and and suggesting future projects without me even having to ask.

For me, her added interest in travel and underwater photography is a real bonus but I get the impression she gets behind any project 110% whatever its subject content.

I apologise if my praises of her capabilities seem to be a bit over the top but, believe it or not, I have actually had to tone them down. If you are looking for a web site designer/marketeer, look no further."

Peter Rowlands, PR Productions, UK
www.whywedive.com

"Just a line to express appreciation for how fast and how far the UWP website has come in such a short time. Every time I visit there seems to be another useful and attractive feature - always easily understood and applied. "

That's no accident - that's a great team at work.

Michael K Hill, UwP Reader

"Actually, I just want to compliment you on this attractive website! It is easy to use, logically designed, very beautiful, lucid, and helpful. I've given Annabel my business based on what I learned on the site. Nice work. It's hard to make a truly beautiful site that is also effective, and you've done a great job.

Your design skills combine beauty and logic and I wish more of my students's did!"

Mary McCombie,
Art History Professor (History of photography, architecture and industrial design) and on the CORAL board of directors.

about: www.aquamarinediving.com

"Our marketing has done a complete about face since Deb Fugitt and City Seahorse came riding onto the scene. Our advertising budget has dropped 60% from personal appearances and magazine ads to our website. We convert 30-40% of our e-mail requests into bookings because our site tells them what we offer and they e-mail for it. The best thing is the site can be, and is, upgraded any time something neat or nice happens. No waiting for the "next issue". Working with Deb Fugitt is the BEST thing we have done in our 14 years in business. I now wonder what I've been doing the last 12 years?? Forget magazine ads. I've tried them all! Interestingly enough, people that book through travel agents and not us still refer to our website as to why they came down. Wow!"

Bill Tewes,
Owner of Dive St. Vincent (no longer a client)

"What I CAN do however that you might appreciate is to tell you how much I admire everything I see of yours: your photography, the writings/articles, and web sites that you put together for various destinations. Absolutely top shelf work in every regard, and certainly some of the very best out there, period!"

Dave Allen,
Expert Amatuer Photographer & World Traveller

"The Irian site is one of the best I've seen in the industry.

The text? The text is very well written and is in perfect bite-size snippits; totally lacking typical marketing BS. The design and flow is excellent and I like the icons.... they're authentic native artwork?

And, on top of the site being so good, it looks like a fabulous destination."

Chris Crumley,
Photographer, Earthwater Stock, Co-Chair of the ASMP Underwater Speciality Group

about: www.iriandiving.com