Website Dvelopment
If you're like most marketing-savy companies - you consider your website "the hub" of your marketing strategy. After all, it's where the majority of people go to find out about you. That's why all direct mail, e-mail, print and media points interested parties to your company website.
Yet a recent
MarketingSherpa research report (July 2009) found that only about 43% of companies make changes to their website "efficiently and on schedule", 18%capture the leads and integrate it into their Customer Relationship Management system and only 18% measure its effectiveness. Those aren't very good statistics if the website is a strategic component of your marketing strategy!
I suspect that contributing to the above is that updating a website and integrating it into various systems such as " e-mail marketing, CRM, blogs etc. has historically been either difficult and/or very expensive.
What if you had a website where you could :
- Make changes to your website as easily as you can make changes to Microsoft Word?
- Have an Integrated customer database that grows as customers inquire or interact with your website?
- Easily set up e-mail campaigns that can be target towards specific market segments?
- Build communities using forums, blogs and collect customer comments on any type of content ?
- Have automatically generated and sophisticated ready-to-go reporting, that doesn't require any coding ?
- Have multiple photo galleries if required?
- Upgrade the site at any time to include a shopping cart or e-commerce functionality at any time?
...and that's just a start! This is more that a website - it's an online business and/or marketing system!
However all this is a moot point if your site doesn't convert visitors to customers. That requires working with a company that understands and implements conversion oriented websites that focus on the user experience resulting in:
- longer "stays on site" / lower bounce rate
- Improved feature use
- Better User performance
- Higher response rates
If your website is not the hub of your marketing strategy or you're just not happy with your current situation, call or contact us us for a free consultation!