Houston’s Internet Developer and Marketing Professional
Since 1997, Steven Carr has been one of the leaders in the Internet domain development and marketing business in the Houston area.
“There are five (5) key steps to success on the Internet. They are:
1. Having good, updated and unique content
2. The right design and branding of your web presence
3. A good “Online” reputation
4. Good cross links with other sites both in the same field and geography
5. Web Video of who, what, where and why your company should be one to do business with
Additionally, there are three (3) key areas of web development that must be considered to optimize your website’s productivity and ROI:
1. Website Design and Functionality
2. Conversion Rates
3. Search Engine Optimization, Placement and Promotion.”
Website Design and Functionality
Design is the most obvious of all areas of web development, but usability is sometimes forgotten in the excitement of layout, splash animations and flashy graphics. Steven’s designs are easy-to-use, easy-to-navigate websites built with the user in mind. Clean, professional search engine friendly website designs are the goal.
Conversion Rates
You can generate traffic to your website through advertising and marketing, but is it working for you? Is it making you money? Do you know what your conversion rate is? Do you know how to measure it?
Search Engine Optimization, Placement and Website Branding
Through the use of related content, Meta Tags, Heading tags, links and other techniques, Steven’s team can position your site to climb in ranking on the major websites. By managing online advertising campaigns on sites that are highly ranked, they can not only increase traffic but increase relevance by managing your campaign on a monthly basis.
Personal Service
Steven also provides his clients with direct access and personal consultation on a regular basis. An advocate of teaching one to fish, rather than giving a fish, he educates his customers on the process and allows them to participate at any level they desire.
He can instruct your team on how to update your website, change promotional information, alter sales or specials, use your email account(s) effectively, add and remove pictures/videos, and much more.
Steven’s Online History and Success
With a background in computers, technical and Real Estate sales, Steven recognized domain names were the Real Estate of the new millennium.
As one of the original investors in Clearsail Communications and serving as their VP of Operations, Steven realized the value and potential of generic “.com” domain names for future business marketing application.
Having initially purchased thousands of domain names in 97-98, He began monitoring “generic” traffic to the domains, ie… Internet users typing in the actual domain name vs. using a search engine. Since then, his collection of domains has increased as the traffic to this type of domain has grown with the exponential growth of the Internet.
In 2000, Steven retired to pursue growth in the “Job Board” industry.
HoustonJOBS.com was the first flagship site, followed by SeattleJOBS, PhoenixJOBS.com, AustinJOBS.com, ChicagoJOBS.com, PittsburghJOBS.com and many others. In recent years, he has sold most of the job boards outside of Texas and focused on the Houston and Austin markets.
Today, he and his wife Manon work to develop new domains and manage those developed. HoustonSecurity.com, CityofHouston.com, HoustonRestaurants.com and other “Houston” based sites that offer advertising opportunities to reach thousands of potential customers each day.
In July of 2011, Carr rolled out AmericanDomainLeasing.com Developed to allow small startup web development access to good generic domains through leasing prior to purchase which saves upfront capital for hiring and development.
