Written by Andrew Anderson
Co-Founder of LaunchBox Pro

Coke Got It! YEAAAAA. Coke finally got it and changed their website design. Just to preface this post, this is not a slam against Coke by any means. It is just something that can happen to any of us, but Coke did provide a great lesson on how not to do things on your Website and they also show us how you can beat the big companies in almost any niche. So what happened next?

After half a dozen emails, and a bunch of blog posts,they finally got the message.  I am not sure it was because I contacted the nice people at Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway, because I contacted the PR department at Coke or what, but they did finally change it.  They are also going to lose their Darwin Dodo Website Design Award that I gave to them last month as well.  It is a good thing. I am glad that they finally got their Website fixed.

There are some great lessons to learn from this story. Watch the video and you see what I am talking about.

They went from this…

to this…

Don’t you think it looks better?

Think about how you can use the lessons that Coke.com gave us to improve your business. Also, please leave a comment and let us know what you think!

Cheers,

Written by Craig Allan Teich
Co-Founder of LaunchBox Pro

You Will Do Amazing Things with LaunchBox Pro

I’m really starting to get excited about the upcoming launch of LaunchBox Pro.

My excitement is growing because as I use the tools contained in LaunchBox Pro more and more, and I see just how powerful, and at the same time easy, that it is for making awesome professional websites, blogs, sales pages, video opt-in pages, and so many other things that it does, I just can’t wait until other internet marketers, online business owners, and offline businesses that are ready to get their own websites up and running, start using it and see for themselves how much easier, faster and less expensive it has now become to be successful and profitable on the internet. (That might be the longest sentence I’ve ever written.)

The picture above is comprised of three quick screenshots that I just took so I could show just a tiny portion of what LaunchBox Pro can do.

Now You Can Layout the Design of Your Sites in Seconds with Only Your Mouse

The first shot on the left is of the LaunchBox Pro Control Panel that you will find while working easily within WordPress with the LaunchBox Pro Super Theme. You can’t read it there, but the page is showing the Appearance Layout page where you can select from all possible master layout options for the blog portion of your site, should you choose to have a blog on your site. Just some of those choices include Sidebar Right, Sidebar Left, Sidebars Left and Right, Two Sidebars Right, and No Sidebar. Additional options include Total Site Width, Sidebar Widths, Border Widths and Color, as well as Content Margins both Top and Bottom. It really is amazing how much control you have over your entire site design with point-and-click ease.

Create Eye-Catching Video Sales Pages & Video Opt-in Pages Faster than Your Can Read this Blog Post

One of the pivotal moments in my own internet marketing career that inspired me to conceptualize of what has grown into LaunchBox Pro occurred when I needed a video opt-in page created. I hadn’t found a web designer or programmer who I thought was reliable, fast, and fairly priced who could also create the type of professional look that I wanted, so I started Googling around to see if I could find any templates or services that would allow me to put up my own high quality video squeeze pages myself.

You see, I like to do stuff myself. Outsourcing can be great, but sometimes it’s faster and easier to do it yourself. Unfortunately I’m not an expert, or even much of an amateur, when it comes to web programming. I know nothing of PHP or Flash, and only tiny bit more about HTML. And I don’t feel like spending a year learning that stuff. I want to focus on marketing and business building, not a bunch of technical details.

So while searching around for some tool or service that would allow me to make great custom video sales pages quickly, easily and inexpensively all by myself without needing to be an HTML expert, and not finding anything that met my criteria after searching for three days, I decided to start asking some of my friends and partners why there wasn’t something like this. None of them had a good answer. So I decided to dig deeper. I brought together two of the smartest guys I know where it comes to this stuff. I told them what I wanted to be able to do, and we set about creating a tool that met all my needs: fast, easy, inexpensive, professional looking, ultimately customizable with only the smallest amount of instruction for even the most non-technical people.

So one of the coolest things that Profit Platform Pro will do is allow you to make awesome video sales pages, video opt-in pages, or just static video pages with any kind of design and look that you want. It’s super cool, and super easy. If I can do it, so can you. I promise.

But Why Stop There? I Got Greedy & Now You’ll Reap the Benefits

Once we were able to make great video sales pages, I said “This is awesome! Now let’s make it so that this tool allows people to launch, build and manage their entire online empire all from one platform where nearly everything you need to do for online marketing — build websites, standard sales pages, video sales pages, blogs, list building, opt-ins, entire sales sites, affiliate sites, and more — can be done quickly, easily, inexpensively, and without ever having to deal with any more of the frustrating, time consuming and expensive website design outsourcing process for as long as you live. And that’s just what we’ve done.

The third screenshot (click on the image to see it bigger) is of the control panel page where you style your navigation bar. There are literally millions of combinations that can be used to create the exact look you want, whether you’re business is yoga or technology, nutrition or garden supplies, sporting goods or video games, wedding favors or dating secrets. And you will do it all with point-and-click, drop-down menus, color pickers, or even upload your own custom images in seconds. Like everything in Profit Platform Pro, it’s so darn easy even I can do it.

LaunchBox Pro is so powerful it’s scary, but so easy it makes setting the clock on your VCR seem like rocket science.

We are launching soon, so to get the updates and some cool valuable trainings that we’ll be offering just now for free, give us your email in the box at the top of the sidebar.

Profit is about to get a lot easier.

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I’d love to hear your comments or questions.

Cheers, Craig
Catch me on Twitter . . . @CraigTeich

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P.S. How I Made this Cool Image with Cover Action Pro

The top image of this post of the three screenshots was made using Photoshop and Cover Action Pro, which is a fantastic product that I love and highly recommend. The whole process took me less than 10 minutes. You can check it out here: Cover Action Pro.