Fuerza Pilates is growing, and growing fast. They needed a fresh look and increased functionality to keep pace with their multiplying locations. Fuerza— meaning “strength” in Spanish—must come across as strong and sexy to successfully attract clientele in the upscale California communities that these pilates studios call home.
Owners Cyndee Grace Savoy and her daughter Amy Marie Williamson are the embodiment of enviable sophistication and sass. Serial entrepreneurs, they possess vision, enthusiasm and street-smarts. Our goal in the design and development was for their website to evoke the same feelings from viewers as the two women themselves do in real life. Utilizing stock photography, Adobe Flash, Adobe After Effects and custom extensions, we created an animated banner that gets noticed!
All the Queen’s Men provided an elegant, easy to use yet scalable back-end content management system that allows site administrators live control of the site elements. Back-end functionality includes:
In the competitive California fitness and wellness markets, being discovered can be one of the toughest aspects of business. But in the six short months since the fuerzapilates.com redesign, Fuerza Pilates has been found by prospective customers through 263 unique keyword search terms. Of course, many of these search terms are used repeatedly—such as “Pilates San Diego”. But the more general “workout classes in Petaluma” is also driving visitors to the site. The more, the merrier when it comes to search, right? Read on for the answer.
For the most part—yes, more is merrier when it comes to website traffic. However, if the traffic isn’t converting—in some way generating revenue—more doesn’t get us anywhere. With Fuerza, now that we know the site is being found, we’re moving into a new phase of the project. We’ll be setting up goals in Google Analytics to track the behavior of site visitors. We’ll incentivize visitors to let us know how the site is working for them, to understand if the site delivers what it promises in the mind of the searcher. We’ll adjust and test, adjust and test—that’s the name of the game.
Fuerza Pilates has been especially pleased with the professional web services delivered by All the Queen’s Men. In fact, the owners have been so delighted with our execution they have contracted us to complete additional projects for their other companies.