Short Summary:

Our expertise lies in building cost effective pay-per-click search engine advertising campaigns. We work with online merchant partners using paid and organic search engine marketing, Websites, Blogs and Email marketing.

We also cater for a select group of businesses looking to increase the performance of their pay-per-click search engine advertising & marketing campaigns.

Our target audience will be affiliate network managers. Critical to our success will be our image. It’s a competitive world out there but we thrive on volatility and competition. Our website must stand out. It must be an out of the box design concept. We thus need a high quality design that will appeal to our target audience.

"All contest entrants should create a home page design "BUT"  
We will give "special" consideration to those who go above and beyond by providing a sub page.

 **NO CODING REQUIRED""

Purpose of the site:

This is a pre-sales/pre-approval site. stormim’s application for approval to a particular affiliate program will be largely based on a) affiliate managers impression of our site and b) content.It’s therefore critical that you deliver on the design element. Our site needs to “practice what it preaches” - If it is lacking in any area it will jeopardise our pending application.

Design Style:We need a Web 2.0 professional looking site that will

appeal to affiliate managers.

The design should reflect what we will offer them as a client.

Here is the winning contestants logo created at 99designs:http://99designs.com/contests/13993/designers/77202#entry-84

http://www.imagebam.com/image/07de2818751715

Here are some examples of sites we like:

Please don't copy design - use it as inspiration for your own original design.We're only providing this as a reference/inspiration. (In order of preference)

1.             http://na.blackberry.com/eng/devices/blackberrystorm/2.             http://www.jellyfish.co.uk/3.             http://ooober.com/4.             http://www.greenlightsearch.com/5.             http://www.bluecubeinteractive.com/6.             http://globalizer.com/index.html
Colour Schemes:

Soft, neutral background colour. White and grayscale fade, or similar. See Logo. Blues and/or other corporate/professional colors (nothing too loud)

Colour/Font schemes we like. See examples:
1. http://eu.blackberry.com/eng/devices/blackberrystorm/?navId=H0,C381

2. http://www.apple.com/iphone/

3. http://www.earthlink.com/

1.  HOME PAGE:

Logo on top left. Can forward Logo files at your request. 
Can you create a homepage graphic/design that is in line with the theme of our logo for the front page? (Maybe the logo icon – “tornado/twister”) - Example:

If you choose to use photos please use www.istockphoto.com

1.             http://www.jellyfish.co.uk/

2.        http://ooober.com/

3.        http://www.greenlightsearch.com/

4.        http://www.earthlink.com/

Home Page Content:

“Affiliate Managers” 

a)        “above the fold”

b)        Affiliate Managers  - Will be a sub heading on front page. Must be first text to be read. Just before text message to affiliate managers.

c)        Simple, creative larger font. Must subtly grab attention of affiliate manager.

**Front Page Sales Text/ Tagline** (Likely, top of page in Global navigation bar)

d.             “Internet Marketing & Pay-Per-Click Internet Advertising Experts.”

“Specialising in Internet marketing & pay-per-click search engine advertising campaigns”.

2. GLOBAL NAVIGATION: 

Home | Affiliate Marketing | Pay Per Click (PPC) | About Us  | Contact Us 

a)       Either far top left or right 

b)       Simple clean font separated by simple lines as above.

3. FOOTER NAVIGATION: 

| Contact Us | Privacy | Site Map           Copyright Stormim 2008

Search engine logos in footer (far right) - similiar to http://www.jellyfish.co.uk/

a)      Again simple font. 

4. EMAIL REQUEST ICON: 

      
  a) “above the fold”

  b)   Slick but subtle web 2.0 contact us text link/button, likely after/near the affiliate 

         manager text. 

5. CONTENT:

Depending on your choice on home page design, please see an example of the text that will be used.See text at the end of this page.Please use this content in design:

a.            About Stormim 

b.            Affiliate Managers  

c.            Affiliate Marketing 

d.            Pay Per Click (PPC)

               ******See the above content at the end of this page*****

8. PROJECT SITEMAP:

Basic Sitemap containing the following pages:

1. Home Page
2. Affiliate Marketing
3. PPC Search Engine Consulting
4. About stormim

5. Contact us
6. Privacy Policy

9. PROJECT WIREFRAME:

Please be creative and use the following site examples for inspiration:

a.            http://www.jellyfish.co.uk/

b.            http://ooober.com/

c.             http://www.greenlightsearch.com/

Contest Notes/Questions/Comments:

All contest entrants should create both a home page design and one sub page design. We will give special consideration to those who go above and beyond by providing a design for all pages.

We will give feedback to all entries with 3-5 star ratings. Unfortunately we are not interested in entries that we rate with 2 stars or less.

If we have missed anything in this description that you feel is important or our description is restricting your creative flare please drop us an email.  We will be checking the discussion thread on a regular basis while the contest is happening.

All the best on the contest. We look forward to seeing your work!

Future Opportunities:

Even if you don't win this contest we are still interested in quality designers for future projects. We will exchange contact information with 4 and 5 star entrants for the potential to work on future projects.

Regards,
Alvin

***BELOW IS IDEA OF THE CONTENT TO BE PUBLISHED ON SITE""

1.         About us
stormim is focused on helping grow the businesses of our affiliate marketing partners.

Our primary expertise is in building and launching effective pay-per-click (PPC) search engine keyword marketing campaigns. stormim applies "super affiliate" strategies to the affiliate programs we participate in.

For our consulting clients, stormim has built and launched effective PPC search engine keyword advertising campaigns, helped re-design websites to generate increased organic search engine traffic and higher conversion rates, deployed search engine keyword conversion tracking tools, and optimized keyword bidding prices to maximize ROI goals.

2.             Affiliate Managers  

With our expertise in building cost effective search engine keyword marketing campaigns, we have chosen to work with top tier networks.

Affiliate Managers - we promote our merchant partners using paid and organic search engine marketing, Websites, and Blogs.

Although we run pay-per-click search advertising campaigns for companies all over the world, stormim’s offices are located in central London, United Kingdom.

3.             Affiliate Marketing 

Our primary focus is using our pay-per-click search engine advertising expertise and financial resources to promote our partners’ affiliate programs.

Partnering with stormim:

We have become focused on growing and continuing to expand on existing relationships with merchants that have a history of high conversions and fast payments.
We are very selective when choosing to work with new advertisers and typically look for companies who are willing to provide design resources to develop landing pages, and are flexible on their keyword bidding policies in order to craft a test that will quickly determine if continuing to work with stormim is right for our partners as well as help us determine if spending the time and resources to build out a large scale search engine marketing campaign is worth our time and resources.

Please contact us if you wish to discuss a particular affiliate program that we should be marketing.

4.         Pay Per Click (PPC)

Search engine marketing is quite possibly the most targeted and effective form of advertising that will come around in our lifetime, yet many companies do a very poor job of leveraging this massive opportunity. A recent study from Piper Jaffray & Co highlights just how effective search engine marketing is compared to other forms of direct response marketing. On a cost per lead basis search engine marketing beat direct mail by over 2100% and Yellow Pages by over 144%.  

Our clients typically find stormim after they have dabbled in search engine marketing and are looking to move to the next level. Our expertise is helping these companies do deep keyword research to increase their search engine keyword portfolio from 10-50 words to 10,000 – 500,000 targeted keyword phrases and implementing these phrases across the various pay-per-click search engine advertising platforms.
As a secondary service our clients often ask us for advice and help improving their organic or free search engine listings (search engine optimization or SEO). We work with these clients to either give specific advice that they can take to their web design team to improve their rankings in the search engines and in other cases we will bring in a web design team to totally rebuild a site to be more search engine friendly.
Please fell free to contact us if you think we may be able to help.

5.         Site Map

As we continue to grow and add more pages and related internet marketing sites, we will list them here in our site map.

List of stormim Pages:

1. Home Page
2. Affiliate Marketing
3. PPC Search Engine Consulting
4. About us

5. Contact us
6. Privacy Policy