by Ben Johnson
Different people may have different ways of answering this question that how a perfect business website can be defined. Is it a website that is helping you make a living from home? Is it a website that is not only helping you, but also helping dozens of your employees earn bread and butter? There is no need to debate here. However, one thing is for sure that you have to have a realistic plan when you launch your website.
What do I mean by realistic plan? If you are launching your small business, then in the beginning you should focus on establishing it and making enough money to make a living. Once you achieve this, you should move on and grow your business even further. So, we can say that a perfect business website grows smoothly.
Now, there should be some characteristics of a perfect business website that will actually make it perfect and help you make a living from home or your personal office. Without powerful characteristics, your website won’t perform well.
So, let’s discuss what these characteristics are that will make your website a perfect business website:
Your Website Must Be Visually Appealing:
How will people determine your taste for quality? Well, they will check out your website and conclude whether you are a true professional or not. Your website represents you. Your website tells your audience why you should be chosen over your competitors. Your website tells your market you believe in providing quality information, products or services. However, to achieve all this, you need to have a visually appealing website.
Your Website Must Present All the Benefits Concisely:
Your market won’t buy from you if they don’t know why they should buy from you. Thus, you must write benefit-oriented content to convert visitors into customers. You should clearly discuss the benefits that your products and services offer. You should also explain what unique quality you have and why your business is perfect for them. It’s advisable to hire a professional copywriter to write your web copy, because it’s the content that converts.
Your Website Must Be User-Friendly:
Your website navigation either retains your visitors or makes them go away. If your visitors are unable to acquire the desired information easily, then they won’t waste their time on your website, they will go straight to one of your competitors. Website navigation is one of the most vital elements of successful websites. Also, it should be similar on all pages.
Your Website Must Engage Your Visitors:
Communicate with your visitors instead of providing information in dry manner. You won’t be able to engage your visitors and make them stay on your website if you don’t write compelling content. Talk to your visitors and tell them what they should do.
So…These are just some of the elements you must consider when you design your website to make it a perfect business website. Each element plays a powerful role and you can’t afford to neglect them.
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Ben Johnson is the Alliance Manager at Logoinn, a custom logo design company. He writes about the effect of design on marketing and brand identity and helps small businesses find design solutions for effective marketing.
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June 29th, 2010 at 4:50 PM
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July 1st, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I think that a good website should be clean and simple to navigate and should ideally offer the user as much information as possible without being overly technical from the start. With our website we give brief product descriptions and support that info with more detailed technical information which the user can access if he/she wants to.
We also tweaked the order process to make the process less convoluted and more user friendly.
July 8th, 2010 at 5:02 AM
Thanks Aaron for liking the post, I will recommend that you to keep visiting this Blog, as Linda provided us such a wonderful platform to share our thoughts and experiences so we can learn more from here.
@ B Yes you are right, the website has to be visitor friendly but it depends that what you are offering, there are many trends to be followed depending on the different industries, but I would say a perfect business website has to be user friendly and simple in use, easy step to checkout if you are selling anything.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:00 AM
These tips are great – they are the building blocks of a successful site. How often do you visit websites just to click straight out again because they are either too cluttered and visually unappealing, or because you can’t find your way around? Thanks for this information.
July 25th, 2010 at 5:31 PM
I find it’s all important that your site has a clear goal other than to inform customers. We build sites everyday for clients ranging from bakery chefs, to local politicians and the most success comes when we outline the goal before designing the site. Whether goal be to direct as many people to our social networks, or capture some contact information. These are the decisions that generate more sales, not just nice colors and clean design.