Is your website converting?
Traffic without conversion is simply a content-based website. And if you're not selling ad space or in the affiliate game, this means your website is basically a digital brochure doing absolutely nothing for your organization.
A website that doesn't convert is subject to:
- missed opportunity
- wasted marketing dollars
- and really, much, much more
If you can get your website visitors to take action, that changes organizations perception of what a website can — and should — do.
How different would things be in your business or organization if your website had a higher conversion rate?
a ProtoFuse Proverb
"Never let your campaign write checks that your website can’t cash."
— Avinash Kaushik
The 5 core elements of websites that convert
- Calls-to-action. Of course, this is top of the list. A site-wide call-to-action (most critical to your business, typically an overarching CTA) and a strategic page-by-page call-to-action (e.g. opt-in, download, click-through to a landing page) is a formula that works.
- Valuable Content. Is your website one big sales pitch? Helpful content keeps people hanging around your website longer, which helps earn trust and ultimately improves conversion rate.
- Great UX (User Experience). Earn the trust of your website visitors by having a professional design that is easy-to-understand, loads fast, and eliminates reactions like "What?", or "Where?", and "Umm." (The fancy word for this is cognitive strain)
- Data. Running Google Analytics? Great. Are you making sense of the data? Data is just data without analysis. To know if your site is converting, you need to understand what's going on under the hood.
- Qualified Traffic. Become intrigued by traffic, but get obsessed with quality traffic. This starts with understanding your website-specific user personas and investing in the right marketing channels.
Signs you need better conversion
Do any of these fall on your website's want list?
More Leads, Sales
You need more quality leads & sales.
Tired of garbage leads? Website sales dropping?
"It’s much easier to double your business by doubling your conversion rate than by doubling your traffic", says Jeff Eisenberg.
Your website is your most critical marketing asset. If sales and leads aren’t pointing up, or they’ve simply flat-lined, we can diagnose and fix.
Outsmart Competition
You want to outsmart your competitors.
Either you, or your competitor, is going to engage your potential customer first. There’s a long list of tactics a business can use to outsmart a competitor. But, there’s not a more effective one today than having an engaging, helpful, and conversion-focused website.
Reduce Expenses
You wished your website reduced company expenses.
“Help me, help you”, pleaded Jerry McGuire.
Are you helping your website help you? Solid website usability and automation reduces the money needed for frivolous customer support.
Website Pro
You seek a seasoned website professional, not your neighbor's kid or the local overcharging hip agency.
We've seen many, many websites since 2001. We saw Flash take off, and die. Web 2.0 come and go. Parallax scrolling become all the rage. "Mobilegeddon". Content marketing hit the scene. You name it, we were there.
We're not here to gloat our experience. But, we are (overstating) that focusing on fads, trends, what's currently changing on the Web doesn't create better conversion. Sound website strategy and meticulous website execution does. This is what we believe. This is who we are.
Digital Confidence
You crave digital confidence!
Our websites instill poise and certainty that you can own, operate, and improve a high-powered website in a sea of change we all call the Web. There's nothing wrong with a little swagger. 🙂
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