Lucky8 needs some help

[Fivespddisco]

I have been getting a few phone calls lately asking “What the ******k is going on?” So, I thought I would take some time to talk about the new direction of L8.
The short version is we want L8 to be your one stop shopping source for all of your Land Rover off road gear. Over the last few months, we have been getting deals with some of the best names in the industry like KAM, Mantec and RoverTym but we are still far from our goal and we need your help.

First off, I know the website needs an update. The goal is for it to work like this: Lets say you want a set of cones. When you search for cones, it will not just show you the Lucky8 cones, it will list all of them. So you will be able to see cones from all of the manufacturers like:
Equipe
Qt
RTE
TerrafirMa
Etc
Etc
With this in mind, what are your likes and dislikes about our website? What do we need to change?

Secondly, I don’t know every product out there, and I don’t know all the manufacturers. The question I have for you is what are we missing?

One last note…

Chris Ray or (Mud Ruts from internet fame) has joined the L8 family and will be in charge of Sale Specials, Club and Group buys, Surfing the web, and most of all, filling Rover Dogs water bowl.
I look forward to your posts or you can email me directly at Justin@Lucky8LLC.com

 

[alexcivick]

Looking forward to seeing the new changes, I'll try to see if i can come up with suggestions.............

 

[alexcivick]

.............whoah! just went back and looked at the site. Looks GREAT!!:victory: With all the new options available from different manufacturers it really feels like a "one stop shop". Good Job. Looking forward to purchasing from the site soon.

 

[R_Lefebvre]

I was surfing there a week or two ago. The website seems to work fine, I could find what you had to offer no problem. It could be a little "slicker" though. I think when you click a part, have a bigger spread pop up with more photos, and more info. You know, give more details on function, discuss the pros and cons, talk about installation. Some of your photos are "stock photos", and not very good. Set up a little studio type setup where you can get some high quality photos of the parts.

Your prices are right, and you have the product, you just need to make your website the go-to place for people to get info. If people on forums discussing parts start linking to your pages because of the content or photos, you've got it made.

All that being said, I sent you an email the other week to Lucky8sales@gmail.com. Does that work anymore?

 

[Fivespddisco]

I was surfing there a week or two ago. The website seems to work fine, I could find what you had to offer no problem. It could be a little "slicker" though. I think when you click a part, have a bigger spread pop up with more photos, and more info. You know, give more details on function, discuss the pros and cons, talk about installation. Some of your photos are "stock photos", and not very good. Set up a little studio type setup where you can get some high quality photos of the parts.

Your prices are right, and you have the product, you just need to make your website the go-to place for people to get info. If people on forums discussing parts start linking to your pages because of the content or photos, you've got it made.

All that being said, I sent you an email the other week to Lucky8sales@gmail.com. Does that work anymore?

Thank you for your advice. Please resend the email if you could, sometimes my emails of in the spam box

 

[Antichrist]

I didn't drill down too much, but the main page is way to busy and graphics intensive.
Graphics should be kept mimimal unless the customer wants to see more detail.
A web site's main page should be kept short and sweet, so the customer doesn't have to scroll very far, if at all, to see what's there.
Configure your web server to cache certain graphics, most noticebly the ones that are accessed most frequently. After being up and running a while you can look at your logs to see what others would be good to cache.

As far as eCommerce sites go, McMaster Carr has the best one I've ever seen or used, bar none. I've seen very few that have ever come even close.

 

[benlittle]

Your website isn't bad... I don't like how the product numers are the hyperlinks though...

I personally like the EE website though for a few reasons, one in particular. Pictures. Each and every product has multiple large pictures. I mean, it's not that we don't all know what most of this **** looks like but the pictures kinda draw me to it. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

 

[05LR3AZ]

Your website isn't bad... I don't like how the product numers are the hyperlinks though...

I personally like the EE website though for a few reasons, one in particular. Pictures. Each and every product has multiple large pictures. I mean, it's not that we don't all know what most of this **** looks like but the pictures kinda draw me to it. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

X2

I like to see pictures also. The EE site isn't complex at all but has tons of info and pics. I personally find that important when researching a purchase.

 

[Antichrist]

Just to be clear, I'm not saying photos are a bad thing, I do like to see what I'm buying, at least for some things. Making all photos a mandatory load, however, is poor web design for an eCommerce site. Thumbnails that link to a higher res photo is fine. Or better yet, the product detail link having the photos (like is done on the product detail pages now).

The EE web site is decent, but it loads fast, so it compensates for the graphics intensive pages. I don't know if that's because it's running on a much faster server, or if it caches all the images, or both.

 

[Gt3454]

Love the site. Tons of information easily sortable. Good job

 

[revor]

Don't make me do it Justin!!!

 

[crusader]

The site is looking pretty good to me! In fact, I can't help but like any site where you can order a Bowler Wildcat online!:clapsmile

 

[Fivespddisco]

I didn't drill down too much, but the main page is way to busy and graphics intensive.
Graphics should be kept mimimal unless the customer wants to see more detail.
A web site's main page should be kept short and sweet, so the customer doesn't have to scroll very far, if at all, to see what's there.
Configure your web server to cache certain graphics, most noticebly the ones that are accessed most frequently. After being up and running a while you can look at your logs to see what others would be good to cache.

As far as eCommerce sites go, McMaster Carr has the best one I've ever seen or used, bar none. I've seen very few that have ever come even close.

Thank you for the in put I will head over to Mcmaster and see what we can learn

 

[Fivespddisco]

Your website isn't bad... I don't like how the product numers are the hyperlinks though...

I personally like the EE website though for a few reasons, one in particular. Pictures. Each and every product has multiple large pictures. I mean, it's not that we don't all know what most of this **** looks like but the pictures kinda draw me to it. I dunno, maybe it's just me.

Thank you and i will add your vote to make it flow like EE site

 

[Fivespddisco]

X2

I like to see pictures also. The EE site isn't complex at all but has tons of info and pics. I personally find that important when researching a purchase.

EE X 57
Thank you :iagree: