Complex Simplicity

August 30th, 2009

I would love to say that our original idea about how our service works is what we have today, it’s not. We kept pushing into our market, asking our clients what they wanted and using the feedback to develop where we are today. There was no way to predict one year ago that our application would work the way it does now. Today I feel like a proud papa. Through the tireless efforts of our engineers and the focused pursuit of perfection by our incubator, we’re now releasing version 2 of our product which enables a HTML style flash over widget on your website.

The idea was to integrate the widget into the website in two ways. First, develop the widget in a way that does not interfere with the layout and design of the site. All our clients have worked hard to design their sites and adding a button, a link, or a banner does not fit within those original concepts. Sometimes, you just don’t want a book now button on your web page. Secondly, we didn’t want the users to leave the web page. At the end of the day, you drove the traffic to your site and you should be able to monetize it without sending your clients to a third party site.

We are happy to introduce the HTML Flash inserted widget. You can see it functioning on the right of this page. Its installation is beyond simple. As you are logged into the admin section, you select get widget and copy paste the code into your site. It works on websites and blogs. It keeps a small appointment button to the right or left of the page that scrolls along with the page.

We’ve also introduced a contact section into the widget for those clients that want to keep their appointments booked privately yet want a clean contact form. Give it a try and don not be shy with your feedback.

Instant money maker: Put a “Book Now” button in your Gmail signature line and get results.

August 18th, 2009

Email is the single most powerful way we have to communicate with our clients. How about getting them to take action now by adding a “Book It Now” button to your Google Mail.  Put it on your signature line and make yourself available to your clients in every correspondence.

Using “Gmail Signatures”, an Add-on to internet browser Firefox, you can now add the “Book Now” button to your signature line.

It’s simple.

1. Go to http://blankcanvasweb.com/pages/id_9/n_gmail_signatures/ and add Gmail Signatures to Firefox.  it’s a quick download.  Once downloaded, restart Firefox and enable the add-on.

2.  Open your Setster account.  Navigate to the “Settting”, “Widgets” tab.  On the Setster button code line, press the green copy button.

3.  Open your gmail account.  Click “Compose Email”, then “Edit Signature”.   The add-on has a tutorial that is helpful for HTML editing.  Once you’ve input your character lines, paste the text from the Setster Widget Code into the box.  Here is what mine looks like:

<font face =”arial”>Edward Lujan<br />

CEO/Founder<br />

Setster.com<br />

(323) XXX -XXXX (o) <br />

(323) XXX -XXXX (c) <br />

<br />

Make an appointment with me now<br />

<br />

<a href=”http://support.setster.com”><img src=”http://beta.setster.com/widget/button.png” border=0 /></a>

That’s it.  Very simple.  Now when you compose an email in your gmail account and choose this signature, it will automatically show up.  When your client clicks on the “Book Now” image, it will open up your very own appointment page.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at www.support.setster.com or, click the “book it now” button below.

The Setster Team.