Redline Minds
Austin, Texas
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Austin, Texas
(7)
Redline Minds is Austin, only eCommerce focused agency. Our partners have a combined 30 years of experience building, managing, and marketing online stores and multi-channel businesses. Our extensive and diverse experience allows us to build better stores with a keen eye for user experience and detail.
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7 customer reviews
Kathy Woods Schenck
Redline Minds REALLY knows what they are doing when it comes to eCommerce!
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LoadUp Vape Supply
Very good at what they do. We will continue working with them.
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Brian Smith
I have been working with Lori and Dante at Redline Minds for over a year. After a disastrous migration from Yahoo to BigCommerce, our organic traffic was trending downward along with our sales. The developer that did the migration did not know what they were doing. We needed help and quickly!Lori and Dante redesigned our site at a very reasonable price. Lori's years of expertise in ecommerce come in extremely handy as she makes recommendations that improve our business without costing us an arm and a leg. We have been working with Redline Minds on SEO for several months and have seen our traffic steadily increasing, along with our conversion rates.Redline Minds is more than a developer for us, they are a trusted partner in our business. They understand the challenges of running a small business better than any developer I've worked with over our 16 years in business. More...
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Greg Jones
All are very sharp people! They know what they are doing!
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Justin Harvey
Dante and his team are top notch, they are fast and very capable in the realm of web development and SEO optimization! I would highly recommend Redline Minds! Thank you!
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Dennis C.
I own an ecommerce biz around the $1mil/yr revenue mark. I've been working with Lori to increase my site's conversion rate optimization by engaging in increased marketing through email newsletters, data analysis, and an overall site audit to figure out where we're doing great and where we could improve. I've never seen anyone dive as deep into the data like Lori has! What a refreshing concept - someone who actually is using data to make the proper decisions! Most people will just *guess* and take action, but action without data is a mess waiting to happen!We've seen tens of thousands of dollars in new revenue come in that wasn't there before, all thanks to Lori! I highly suggest you give Lori a chance to show off her outstanding ability to assess the reality of your business without getting caught up in the dream.Thanks Lori! More...
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thearbortx
Last year we combined several businesses into one website under our new organizational name, Arbor Behavioral Healthcare. We needed a new site
. We also needed to improve our visibility as a quick search for addiction services in Austin didn't show our website.
Dante and Lori offered to redo our website even though we're not an ecommerce company. The results have been well beyond anything we expected. The site looks great and has far more information than it offered before. We had an immediate, large jump in traffic upon launch. Our SEO visibility has been slowly improving since then.
They are driving traffic to our website via social media and continuing to promote our new blog content. It turned out that the hundreds of articles we'd paid for years ago were holding us back. They have since been replaced by much better content.
In summary, we're happy with the results we've seen and highly recommend this talented duo.
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What makes a great website?
A great website offers a great user experience. It needs to work fast and impeccably on mobile. It conveys your unique value proposition (the why should I buy these products, from you, today). It looks professional and trustworthy from top to bottom. Attention has been paid to every detail to ensure your company's site is professional and trustworthy. It should be easy for the store owner or management team to manage in-house. Lastly it must be reliable. There is a lot of garbage shopping carts out there, and lots of developers who know they'll get ongoing work by recommending them. We don't work that way. You should love your store, as should your customers.
What questions might you ask a client when starting a new project?
In addition to the basics - do you have a current site, and have you built out a specification defining your needs, we will want to know your goals. Yes, we know that "more sales" is the big picture, but what is your vision for your company? Will you eventually want to sell on multiple channels (including options like ebay, Amazon, etc.)? Do you have existing software that needs to integrate with your store like a POS (point of sale) or ERP? Who are your biggest competitors? Which stores do you consider inspiration for your new design? What is your inventory and order fulfillment flow? If you're dropshipping, do you have at least a 30% margin when offering competitive pricing?
These are just a few questions we'll ask to develop a full understanding of your business, your market, and your requirements. We need all this to build a quote, as well as design a new site that will easily adapt to your changing needs and growth.
What do you love most about your job?
I'm half nerd and half creative. The nerd half loves solving problems and finding solutions. This is also why we focus on details. We see what others do wrong and work hard to prevent the same mistakes.
I also love collaborating with small and medium (up to $300 mil) to develop strategic plans for marketing and SEO that work. In the process, many learn more about what they can personally (or their team) do to grow faster.
Lastly, we love seeing companies grow and succeed. We take to heart that our clients come to us to achieve success and we're personally invested in that success.
What inspired you to start your own business?
I've been in online marketing and building successful websites since 1999. I love the work as I must keep learning new things to stay on top. At my last place of employment, I found myself working with an amazingly talented graphic designer and programmer. Together we took a new ecommerce channel from zero to more than $1mil per month in five months time. As we saw the parent company struggling, we knew we needed to go out on our own and consult.
We both really enjoy being able to pick and choose great clients, work with growing firms, and collaborate together to product amazing stores and successful marketing campaigns. Having the option to work from home when we feel like it doesn't hurt either!
Why should our clients choose you?
Our clients choose Redline Minds because they want it done correctly the first time.
While we aren't the cheapest (we are by no means on the expensive side either), we deliver better value than most of our competitors.
We're also honest. If we can't help you we will tell you. If you have busy stopping issues, we'll tell you that too - before we ever sign a contract or accept a dime.
We're transparent. We will keep you up to date and answer your questions.
We're in it to establish long term relationships and gain referral business. We can't do that without happy clients!
E-Commerce Store Design
We build reliable, professional and trustworthy online stores that are designed from a marketer's viewpoint. In other words, we don't just slap together a store. We build stores that convert visitors into customers.
E-Commerce Technology Planning
It takes more than a shopping cart to run an online business. While many carts offer basic services, stores quickly outgrow these or they find that they don't meet their needs. We'll not only help you make better choices for business software including:
- inventory/warehouse/order management
- fulfillment
- product reviews and user generated content
- email marketing
- ERP integration
- reporting and analysis
- customer support and live chat
- multi-channel inventory syncing
- multi-store management
We can also install it, work to configure custom solutions and advise when you should add third-party technology solutions as you grow.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
We are unique in our SEO offerings. To begin with, we offer all three "legs" of SEO - technical, is your site set up correctly, site content, and white hat inbound link acquisition. This gives us the ability to ensure all efforts work together for best results.
We also "do" SEO much differently than most firms. We've found a uniquely efficient approach that delivers results faster and better for your money. We call it "Agile SEO" because we plan your campaigns every month to ensure a competitive advantage for your site.
One of our unusual offering is A/B testing for meta titles and descriptions. While these elements do not directly impact rank, the better written they are, the higher the click through rate. Higher CTRs are a signal to Google of relevancy. Thus this can also help improve your page rankings.
Our team of writers are all college-educated, American English fluent.
Conversion Optimization (CRO)
We start by looking for the obvious and recommending (we can implement if you need us to) site changes. If you have enough traffic, we will then embark on A/B testing to see what else we can do to improve your conversion rates and grow faster.
Online Marketing - Advertising, Email Marketing, Content Marketing, and Social Media Management
We offer expert services for nearly all forms of online marketing. Plans are customized to meet your needs and, like everything we do, we are holistic in our approach. For example, a great blog article needs images for social media promotion, and inbound links to drive more SEO traffic.
Email marketing can include automation and auto-responders. We'll work with you or your team to coordinate efforts, for better quality and to save you money. For example, you may want to write all your own content. We'll help you choose the best keywords to enhance your SEO and provide a template to ensure a great article that works for SEO too. Then we'll edit for style, accuracy and SEO. Together we'll decide how to publicize or distribute your content.
Marketing services are offered in packages that are unique to your needs and start at $1000 mo.
