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Capture Sales Leads and React Effectively

Ask the right questions.

When a new lead is captured through your web site requesting your company’s services it is important to consider how much or how little information you require to know before engaging the potential client. Be sure to ask for vital information up front, it is important to know who their point person or decision maker is for this potential project. Have your sales  lead state what the problem is that they are looking to solve or processes in which the hope to improve upon. Consider capturing with your online forms whether or not they have established a budget and if they have considered a time frame. Inquire to know what their products and services are? You can also learn more about there company by knowing who their immediate industry competitors are. In order to improve the success rate for a complete form submission you should avoid asking questions that might be of a technical nature or irrelevant to their over all needs.

jQuery Hover Menu Tutorial

So you want to learn how to use jQuery to make a hover menu.  Many people do; and more over, there are tons of plugins out there that will easily help one accomplish this.  In this approach, I’d like to guide you through the process of making a small custom animated hover menu from scratch.  Upon completion, you will have a clearer understanding of the jQuery library, and how to use it to create even more complex hover effects.  You will also understand how to insert elements into the DOM and why using a JavaScript libraries’ loading event is superior to using the generic window.onload event.  Please refer to blackarrowsoundonline.com for a working example of this menu. Good Stuff!!  Let’s get started…