This is step one to getting your business on-line. We will assist you in picking and registering a domain name or names. There are some best practices to follow and we can help you, in making the best domain name choice.  Order Your Domain Name(s) Here

If you are considering an on-line store or E-Commerce site there are many things to consider.  Here are just few:

• Whether or not to take credit cards and which ones?
• Whether to accept PayPal?
• Can I & should I do both PayPal and Credit Cards?
• Do I need an SSL Certificate and what is it for?
• Do I need a payment gateway and merchant account?

We can help you make these decisions.  We know about the different rules for how and when to charge the cards and when the transaction should actually run through.  We can help you choose between PayPal, Credit Cards, or both and why one or the other is sometimes better, and why sometimes both might be better.  We can explain to you what a security certificate is and why you might need one, or may want one.  We can tell you about different payment gateways and methods for authorizing and capturing credit card data and why sometimes it is better to use one over the other and why sometimes you have to use one method over the other.

We can offer you very competitive prices on Merchant Accounts, Payment Gateways, and Security Certificates.  We have a plan for just about every price range.  Our advice on these topics is up front, free of charge, and quite extensive.  We want your store to be a success!

Acoustic Visions Multimedia has a proven track record on Search Engine Optimization and we can show you just how well it does work.  What is Search Engine Optimization ?  It is an art and a science that involves getting your site a competitive edge in top search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Others.   Just because you build it does not mean "they" will come.   We are honest and up front about what kind of expectations you can have.  We will do the best we can, but being on the search engines is always not enough.  Working with us, we will give advice beyond the internet in helping you get traffic to your site.   We have the ability to quickly and easily list your site on 6000+ search engines and listings.   We even have our own listing service called Say "No!" to Yellow.

Many times we are asked to investigate why a site is not performing well such as not getting a lot of traffic or sales.  In order to help evaluate this it is important to have good web site statistics which will help diagnose the problem, but we have some other tools to help check out your site.   Some other factors that can lead to poor performance are:

• Slow loading pages and or pictures
• Bad (or no) search optimization (SEO)
• Confusing navigation
• Bad design
• Hard to read pages
• Broken links
• Broken store
• Browser incompatibilities
• Non-secured ordering pages
• Stale content
• Too much flash and animation
• Database problems

We can assist in resolving all of these issues. The two main issues are improper SEO and slow pages. 

While many of your potential clients have high speed connections it is estimated that 40% or more are not broadband customers and still rely on dial-up or something maybe a little faster.  Most phone based browsers are not very fast either. We've been able to go into a site that would take 60 seconds or more to load on a 56k dial-up and make it a 13 second or less site without seeing any noticeable difference in quality or content.  Many of our competitors just don't get this.  They would rather try to build you a print quality site that will take literally minutes to load on a less than broad band connection.  No one is going to wait for that no matter how good it looks.

The other common problem is just overall bad SEO or lack of SEO altogether.  Combined with our skills, best practices, and detailed statistics offered with our hosting plans; we can zero in on some keywords and do some very effective site tune-up for you.

Again, if you choose to use our hosting and our statistics we can see how people navigate through your site and key in on poor performing or broken pages.  This becomes very important on an E-Commerce site, for instance if your checkout page is broken.

Even following the best practices available, there are still some basic things we can suggest to help drive traffic to your site.  We will provide you with some simple and inexpensive marketing ideas to help you sell your site to the World.   A couple of basic suggestions might be putting your web address on your store front window and your letter head.   There are many more ideas we can offer you based on your individual situation.

Beyond that we do have a couple of other marketing contacts that we can refer you to depending on your individual needs and budget.  In at least one case, we did so well that one of our clients had to raise prices to slow down sales!