Considering building, or re-building, your business website, or possibly want to make yourself aware of what is involved?
Reference
- How Traditional & Digital Marketing Agency Skills Help Business Profit series available on our blog
- Continuing with the current series
- Part 1 – Introduction
- Part 2 – Business Model & Industry Analysis
- Part 3 – Bounce Rate (slightly out of sequence, but addressed in the article)
- Part 4 – Market Dynamics
Resuming with Part 5 – Objectives
Defining clear objectives and goals for your website is crucial for ensuring its success and maximizing its value. Here are some steps to help you establish clear goals and determine what you want visitors to do on your website:
- Identify Your Business Goals: Start by understanding your overall business objectives. What are you trying to achieve as a company? This could be increasing revenue, expanding your customer base, improving customer satisfaction, or something else.
- Define Specific Website Goals: Based on your business goals, determine what specific objectives your website should help you achieve. Some common website goals include:
- Generating Leads: If lead generation is a primary goal, your website should focus on collecting visitor information through forms, subscriptions, or downloads.
- How you motivate and reassure your website users to provide this information is critical to the success of this endeavour
- Enabling Sales: This could be implemented in the context of driving sales through a click-only, click-and-brick, or brick only sales fulfilment channel
- If you want to sell products or services through your website (either as click only or as one of the channels in the click-and-brick sales channel approaches), ensure that it’s e-commerce-ready with a user-friendly shopping and checkout process.
- If you want to sell products in a click-and-brick or brick-only approach then the nature, structure and management of the engagement can be very specific to the industry your business is in – which is beyond the scope of this particular article.
- Providing Information: If your goal is to educate your audience, make sure your website offers valuable, easily accessible content.
- You may want to combine this with lead generation
- Building Brand Awareness: If building brand awareness is crucial, then the extent of the awareness needs to be carefully defined, as well as direct subsequent implementation direction, including amongst others all or a selection of the following:
- Creating a visually appealing and consistent brand presence throughout your website, and across all collateral
- Using images and copy to correctly position your business and offerings within the market place
- Communicate value proposition
- Differentiate your business and offering from competitors (direct, indirect, and other forms of substitutes
- Servicing Clients: If your website is meant to support existing clients, consider offering a customer portal, support resources, or self-service options.
- Security, privacy, timeliness and efficiency are some of the more important issues to address here.
- Generating Leads: If lead generation is a primary goal, your website should focus on collecting visitor information through forms, subscriptions, or downloads.
- Set Measurable Objectives: Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound).
- For example, instead of just saying you want to “increase leads,” set a specific target, such as “collect 100 new leads per month.”
- User Actions and Behavior: Think about what actions you want visitors to take on your website. These could include:
- Filling out a contact form
- Making a purchase
- Subscribing to a newsletter
- Sharing content on social media
- Requesting a demo or quote
- Signing up for an account
- Spending a certain amount of time on your site
- Visitor Journey: Map out the desired visitor journey on your website.
- Consider the path you want visitors to follow to achieve your goals. This can help in designing the user experience and navigation.
- Calls to Action (CTAs): Incorporate clear and compelling CTAs on your website to guide visitors toward the desired actions.
- Make sure these CTAs are prominently displayed and encourage user engagement.
- Testing and Optimization: Regularly monitor your website’s performance and gather data on how visitors are interacting with it.
- Use analytics tools to assess whether you’re meeting your objectives, and be prepared to make adjustments based on the results.
- Feedback and Iteration: Encourage feedback from your website’s users and clients.
- Continuous improvement is essential in achieving and maintaining your website’s objectives, and relevance for your target audience.
By clearly defining your website’s goals and the actions you want website visitors to take, you can design and optimise your website to meet those objectives, ensuring that it provides maximum value for your business.
How does your business move forward from here?
- Q&A
- Is the above in place for your business success, as provided for internally and/or via external implementation partners?
- If not, what are the risks to your business?
- If so, whether partially or in totality, what opportunities are there to sustain your business? And grow your business ?
- Implementation partners are in place, but is there strategic direction?
- If not, how will the component parts collectively pursue and deliver on what is required by your business?
- If so, who owns and who manages the strategy? Where does the understanding sit?
- Is the above in place for your business success, as provided for internally and/or via external implementation partners?
We are honest and transparent as to why we have put out this article. Yes it should be an asset to the industry and customers of our industry, but we also need to do business for many of the same reasons you do. So here is our ask.
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- All founders have been in marketing, branding, business management and digital online communication since the mid 1990’s
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Well, that was Part 5. There will be more to follow.
Access other series’ via our blog, as well as the balance of articles and posts access 3G’s other posts. Likewise you are welcome to reach out to us should you want to engage directly with us on this.
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