So you think trendy online social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are great ways to make connections, keep up with the latest gossip and generally pass the time away?

Reid Carr sees them as opportunities for companies to build their income and bottom line. And, he can prove it with creative campaigns his team has developed for clients that include Cricket Wireless, Sempra Energy, the restaurants Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes, and others.

Red Door’s mission is to help established companies leverage their brand on-line, build additional revenue, add business and retain customers. “Every company is on their own path toward e-business,” Reid believes. “We are here to facilitate that process.”

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…But for an online store or an informational company site, it’s not that simple, says Reid Carr, whose clients include Overstock.com and Intuit (NASDAQ:INTU). Given the site’s bounce rate, which shows that nearly a third of all visitors leave after only one page view, Carr expected an average number of page views of six or fewer. The fact that the average is 7.75 “suggests that people can’t find what they’re looking for,” he says.

To figure out how to simplify and improve the site’s navigation, Carr recommends that the company engage in “A/B testing,” whereby it serves test pages to a sample group and tracks how they perform in comparison with the current site, to see what tweaks reduce the page-count totals.

Red Door routinely excecutes mutlivariate (A/B) testing for clients like Cricket.

In addition, Reid was recently profiled in local San Diego business publication, Biz San Diego as the “Entrepreneur of the Week,” discussing Red Door and the secrets to a successful marketing campaign online.

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