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Martin Malden

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What My Customers Are Saying:


Don Andrew, Owner, Follow Me Slim:

"...I just wanted to thank you for your assistance in getting my blog up and running. I am delighted with the outcome.

Not only did you deliver on time exactly what we discussed before the project began, but I found you exceedingly pleasant to work with and thoroughly professional from start to finish.."


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David Goldstein, COO EMTEK Group:

"...Martin has the unique combination of true operational experience and the broad exposure of having successfully worked on a wide range of consultancy projects.."

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Al Beebe, Principal at PRTM:

"...He is a true industry expert, intelligent, and -- most importantly -- a great team player. Martin is a pleasure to work with..."

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Eric Buckley, IT Director, Wellness Travel Company

"...Martin provided a valuable service in helping us get our Web Sites positioned well on the Internet. But he also went that extra step to make our Management Staff understand how and why, and in simple terms..."

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  • Expand Your Business Relationship With Your Existing Customers
  • Let New Customers Find You Easily
  • Publicise Events and Special Offers
  • Provide a Cost-Effective Channel For Managing Your Customers

The Internet is a mature and powerful medium - and a highly cost-effective way of growing your business!


It's also the way business will be done in the future. But don't take my word for it...

moneyIn an interview on BBC World broadcast on 2nd January, 2008, the Managing Director of world-famous, 300-year-old British luxury food store, Fortnum and Mason, forecast that within 5 years the value of business they will be doing online will overtake the value of business done off-line.

And they've been in business for 300 years!

Broadband everywhere and access via both mobile and fixed devices means that people can find whatever they want, whenever they want it.

This presents you with enormous opportunities:

  • Make Your Business Easy To Find - Any Time, Any Where
  • Tell Your Current and Future Customers About Special Offers or Special Events You're Planning
  • Open a Conversation With Your Customers and Expand Your Business Relationship
  • Run Competitions and Quizzes and Market To Them Regularly

And Do All This Automatically, 24 X 7, With Virtually No Human Intervention!

How can you do this? Through an effective online presence!


moneyThere are countless web design studios that will create beautiful, state of the art designs using the very latest technology.

And you'll pay for the privilege.

But it's also been proven time and again that the flashiest websites using the latest technology do not necessarily generate extra revenue.

To generate extra revenue you need to:

  • Be Easy To Find Online
  • Have a site that loads quickly
  • Have a site that gives your visitors the information they want without being distracting
  • Let Your Visitors Find The Information They're Looking For, Quickly and Easily
  • Let Your Visitors Buy Your Products and Services Online - Securely and Easily

Who Is Abledragon Marketing and How Can It Help?


Best Family VacationsAbledragon Marketing is based in Hong Kong. It's owned and run by me - Martin Malden - and I use it to market my own online businesses, which I've been doing successfully for the past 2 years.

Because I'm marketing and promoting my own businesses, I'm operating day-to-day at the sharp end of Internet Marketing - doing business online.

This means that I'm always totally up to date with trends and developments in the best way to improve the effectiveness of my own websites. I have to be, or my own businesses would die!

The benefit to you is that I will be able to bring intimate, practical and up-to-the-minute knowledge of the latest promotional techniques to your website and your promotion strategy at the same time as I do mine.


Being able to adjust your marketing and promotion strategy in real time is critical, because the Internet moves so quickly.

What Can I Do for You?


I will undertake your web design project from start to finish - giving you a totally one-stop-shop service.

Here are the services I can provide for you:

  • Finding and registering the best possible name for your website
  • Setting up and maintaining a hosting service from which to operate your website
  • Designing your website:

  • Page design and layout
  • Copywriting
  • Enabling customers to buy from you online - easily and securely
  • Capturing names and email addresses so you can carry out automated follow up marketing
  • Optimising your site for the search engines so the search engines can find you easily
  • Integrating a blog so you can create a dialogue with your customers
  • Testing your site in different browsers to ensure it always renders consistently
  • Optimising your site so it loads quickly

  • Providing customer database management
  • Providing an automated email system so you can communicate with your customers whenever you want - whether or not you're in the office
  • Enabling email to SMS and bulk SMS capabilities to give you more options for contacting your customers
  • Maintaining and updating your website
  • Keeping your blog software current
  • Creating and maintaining blog system and database backups
  • Tracking and reporting traffic to your site
  • Advising on a marketing and promotion strategy

If there's anything else you need all you have to do is ask!

My Approach


I offer site designs which load quickly, are search engine friendly and standards compliant. I use minimal Scripts, Flash, DHTML and other technologies that the search engines can't read.

long time to loadMany people have Scripts and Flash turned off in their browsers for additional security and because they slow down the page-load times.

So having a Flash-based menu, for example, may look great to someone with everything turned on and a warp speed connection.

But it would be seriously frustrating for someone who, because their connection is not so fast (or for any other reason), has turned off Flash.

They wouldn't even be able to see your menu until they clicked the button to enable Flash for the page!

I also use commercially available functionality wherever possible - for example, if you paypal logowant a shopping cart I would integrate PayPal because it's quick, simple and the security, already world class, is constantly being upgraded. Google Checkout is another.

This approach enables me to provide you with good functionality, quickly and at low cost.

Finally - what I'm not able to do myself is complex integration with your back-end systems. For those requirements I rely on partner companies - people that I've known and worked with for some years.

In those cases I would pass their costs straight through to you with no mark-up - which, again, all helps to keep the costs down.

Sample Websites:


Here are some samples of websites I've built:

    


   


All these are small sites - 2 - 15 pages, which is normally sufficient for the needs of a small business. However, the number of pages is not a restriction - you can have as many pages as you need!

Where lead capture is provided I will maintain your customer database, processing new subscriptions and unsubscribes and scheduling mailings etc.

Contact Me


If you'd like to discuss how creating an effective online presence can grow your business please get in touch:

Call me on +852 9238 9998

Or...

Email Me

And, for some more information...

Check out my blog: click here.