Project Description

Chef_Ahki_Vegan_Recipes_Organic_Natural

 

Chef Ahki is a client who make delicious, organic, vegan recipes. She has written several cook books and appeared on the Wendy Williams show. She is a celebrity chef who cooked for Lenny Kravitz, Bradley Cooper, Curtis Martin, COMMON, Waka Flocka, and Lee Daniels. See below for some of the digital marketing and business strategy work I did for her company:

Finished Tasks:

  • Done: Setup google analytics
  • Done: Log into Insta and see what’s happening
  • Done: Log into Twitter and see what’s happening

Todo – Chef Ahki:

  • Done: Get a higher resolution photo of your book covers. I need to fix the main page ASAP.
  • Done: Spider diagram
  • Done: Add Fulfillment book link
  • Done: Consult biz/automated
  • Done: Add Chef Ahki apron to estore
  • Done: Bandwidth limits go daddy…?
  • Done: New video updates
  • Done: Update booking contact
  • Done: Update bio
  • Done: Show one sheet
  • Done: Update blog change dates
  • Done: Update images
  • Done: Subscription/site comments
  • Done: Constant Contact locked is major issue

Todo – David Durant:

  • Done: Organize notes (30 mins)
  • Done: Update strategy with new notes (30 mins)
  • Done: Write information requests to Chef Ahki
  • Done: Write the case study for Chef Ahki (1hr)
  • Done: Organize all the blogs into the right categories
  • Done: Setup the three pages with all the content and relevant products
    • Done: Put Ahki’s passionate about information as the opening paragraphs for these sections
  • Done: Erase the portfolio content since it’s redundant to the blogs
  • Done: Link up the home pages
  • Done: Put the shopping items in the side bar
  • Done: Finish the slider
  • Done: Finish the contacts page
  • Done: See if Chef Ahki is interested in meeting with the Emory chef to design menus with him
  • Done: Website Changes:
    • Fail: Backup website
    • Done: Desktop and mobile experience:
      • Done: Tweak the website for any issues (2 hrs)
      • Done: Fix logo spacing
      • Done: Reduce number of super large photos
    • Done: Make money:
      • Fail: Erase pages that are distractions or not helping the brand and sales
      • Done: Move the biggest money earners higher up the page
  • Done: Make sure to highlight bookings on the contact page
    • Done: She gets lots of them and she loves to do them
  • Done: Ask the web developer to change the font back to the normal size
    • Done: Reverse the CSS changes if possible

Website (mobile first):

  • Done: General:
    • Done: Need breadcrumbs. Can’t navigate back once I get there
    • Done: Make it a mobile first experience!
      • Done: Lower number of photos and reduce size of current crop
    • Done: Three Top Bar links that lead to different blog experiences
      • Fail: Space them out so mobile users can press them easily
        • Done: Put the blog in the middle and a sidebar for shopping items
      • Done: Space for three pieces of blog content.
        • Done: COOK: Recipes, books, blog, videos,… all things cooking
        • Done: LIVE: Weekly calendar of events (header image), Fibroid elimination & other diseases treatments, services
        • Done: LOOK: hair, clothing, style
        • Done: Position each like an online magazine. Have some content, have some things to purchase
  • Done: Add webinars to her list of activities
  • Done: First page 13 sec load? I greatly improved it by getting rid of a lot of the content. When we first the slider, it’ll load twice as fast. Your whole website is loading faster now that I deleted the footer and some content.
  • Done: Add Garden Fist Image homepage: Send the image if you haven’t sent it already
  • Done: Design issues:
    • Done: Fix colors!
    • Done: Fix fonts
    • Done: Fix spacing
    • Done: Fix borders
  • Done: Footer:
    • Done: Erase Facebook
    • Done: Erase Instagram
    • Done: Erase Shop Books section
    • Done: Erase address (someone mail stuff to you?)
    • Done: Fix mailing list reference
    • Done: Move stay connected stuff to the top bar and add periscope
    • Done: Add my name to the footer… Link to Davidtdurant.com, Business Developer, Consultant
  • Done: Home Page Slider:
    • Done: Only one great photo (lower resolution)
    • Done: Edit Image
    • Done: Title: “Your New Life Starts Today”
    • Done: Subtitle: “…”
    • Done: Move the top money earner to the left side of the page
  • Done: Home Page
    • Done: Erase book orders
    • Done: Erase recipes section
    • Done: Erase latest post
    • Done: Erase latest videos
    • Done: Erase pinterest
    • Done: Erase parallax
    • Done: Erase subscription
    • Done: Erase events
    • Done: Shorten titles for mobile phones
    • Done: Descriptions under each book for SEO and separation in mobile experience
  • Done: Shop (Shop-2): Move all content to the three tabs, then erase
  • Done: Recipes: Move all content to the three tabs, then erase
  • Done: Services: Move all content to the three tabs, then erase
  • Done: Cart
  • Done: About
    • Done: Erase. It’s redundant to the home page once we put the bio on the home page.
    • Done: Set redirects to the home page
  • Done: Individual blogs: Categories and put back into the three pages
  • Done: Checkout
  • Done: Shop: Erase
  • Done: New events: Put on the home page
  • Done: Contact
    • Done: Like skip said, utilize to explain what to contact Chef Ahki about
    • Done: Put all of Chef Ahki’s social media picture buttons on this page
  • Done: Blogs: Move all content to the three tabs, then erase
  • Done: Media/photos: Move all content to individual blogs, then erase
  • Done: Adjust prices of books and e-books to maximize profitability
  • Fail: Try to do a bundled pricing for the e-book and paperback book
  • Done: Fixup all shopping pages
    • Done: Fix Main page
    • Done: Fix All product pages
    • Skip: Add new products for sale
    • Done: Add two products to each blog page below the main content
      • Done: Look at magazine examples for help
  • Done: SEO (2 hrs)
    • Done: Find all the keywords that I should be targeting
    • Done: Fix titles
    • Done: Fix google page description listing content
    • Done: Maybe change titles to Healthy Looking, Healthy Living, Healthy Food
    • Done: Images
    • Done: Run scan of page speed and fix errors to optimize for mobile
    • Done: Optimize page content with keywords
  • Done: Post before pictures on Facebook and share the current link