Comments on: Speaking ill of the dead: All About You Bridal Galleria closes its doors http://weddingmarketing.net/2008/11/22/speaking-ill-of-the-dead-all-about-you-bridal-galleria-closes-its-doors/ Wedding and bridal marketing, selling to the bride Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:07:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=1669 By: Mary http://weddingmarketing.net/2008/11/22/speaking-ill-of-the-dead-all-about-you-bridal-galleria-closes-its-doors/comment-page-1/#comment-273 Mary Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:26:18 +0000 http://weddingmarketing.net/blog/?p=1635#comment-273 The AAYBG in-store customer service was also about a two. The owners aren't nice, they are actually very rude along with some of their staff members. It would just be morally wrong to close without giving the brides their dresses. The AAYBG in-store customer service was also about a two. The owners aren’t nice, they are actually very rude along with some of their staff members. It would just be morally wrong to close without giving the brides their dresses.

]]> By: Laurie Morgan http://weddingmarketing.net/2008/11/22/speaking-ill-of-the-dead-all-about-you-bridal-galleria-closes-its-doors/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Laurie Morgan Fri, 02 Jan 2009 20:55:24 +0000 http://weddingmarketing.net/blog/?p=1635#comment-270 Interesting post. I like Website Grader, too. One caveat I would offer, though - a site can have a high grade without being well-designed to sell visitors. The grade primarily indicates how well the site does in maximizing search engine friendliness. That's great for getting traffic to come to the site, but doesn't tell you much about how they react when they get there ... and, it sounds like AAY would have a very hard time keeping brides engaged even if they improved their search engine friendliness! It's really important for wedding vendors to start understanding traffic patterns on their site, developing ways to gather contacts, learn the sources of their traffic, etc. For vendors whose hosts don't provide good analysis tools, l like a free tool called Web Log Expert (http://www.weblogexpert.com). The "lite" version is free! Interesting post. I like Website Grader, too. One caveat I would offer, though – a site can have a high grade without being well-designed to sell visitors. The grade primarily indicates how well the site does in maximizing search engine friendliness. That’s great for getting traffic to come to the site, but doesn’t tell you much about how they react when they get there … and, it sounds like AAY would have a very hard time keeping brides engaged even if they improved their search engine friendliness! It’s really important for wedding vendors to start understanding traffic patterns on their site, developing ways to gather contacts, learn the sources of their traffic, etc.

For vendors whose hosts don’t provide good analysis tools, l like a free tool called Web Log Expert (http://www.weblogexpert.com). The “lite” version is free!

]]> By: Will this be you? | TheWeddingMarketingBlog.com http://weddingmarketing.net/2008/11/22/speaking-ill-of-the-dead-all-about-you-bridal-galleria-closes-its-doors/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Will this be you? | TheWeddingMarketingBlog.com Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:21:54 +0000 http://weddingmarketing.net/blog/?p=1635#comment-271 [...] Speaking ill of the dead: All About You Bridal Galleria closes its doors [...] [...] Speaking ill of the dead: All About You Bridal Galleria closes its doors [...]

]]> By: Jolyn http://weddingmarketing.net/2008/11/22/speaking-ill-of-the-dead-all-about-you-bridal-galleria-closes-its-doors/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Jolyn Sun, 23 Nov 2008 03:12:37 +0000 http://weddingmarketing.net/blog/?p=1635#comment-272 I LOVE the website grader reports - it was easy to get my website scores up from 30 to over 70...any many of my collegues found it didn't take much to get over 40 points...it's the least anyone can do to take simple steps at improving their website. I LOVE the website grader reports – it was easy to get my website scores up from 30 to over 70…any many of my collegues found it didn’t take much to get over 40 points…it’s the least anyone can do to take simple steps at improving their website.

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