Making a Website Work For You

posted by Steven Moore
Aug 12

Competitive Difference

You sell yourself as a professional.  Your customers expect you to be able to advise them on what you can do for them, and why your services compare favorably to those provided by your competitors.  What is your difference?  What separates you from other businesses in your field?  You know that you provide quality services and products in a marketplace full of people who do what you do, but you do it better than they do.  Right?  Of course.

You know it.  Your current customers know it.  You provide value for what you do.  Are your prices lower than your competition and is that how you seek to separate yourself?  Or do you take pride in what you sell, what you make and what you deliver?  You know that you have a competitive edge, but you need for your prospects to know it, too.

A Better Mousetrap

Marketing is the way that you take your competitive edge to your prospects.  Marketing is how you draw them in.   Marketing leads you to making money by persuading your customers that they gain an advantage by choosing your company to fill their needs.  With solid marketing, you create the impression that you are serious about what you do to make your customers’ lives and work better.  

Your prospects have identified a need and they are looking for the best value in a solution provider.  If they have mice, they want an effective mousetrap.  They want to a better mousetrap, but unless they know that yours is a better mousetrap they won’t be beating a path to your door.  You need to let them know.

Marketing isn’t as easy in the 21st century as it was in the past.  The Yellow Pages once sufficed and provided businesses with a single-stop place to find a good business quickly.  The marketing world has changed, and changed quickly.  Your competitors are using online tools to present themselves.  Even if your business provides better services, you aren’t marketing effectively if they don’t know about you.

“Kind of In Business.”

So, you need to have a website.  The important thing to know is that you need to have a website that not only looks professional and reflects your own approach to your business, you need to have one that people can easily find when they are looking for your services.  Stevcn Moore Design services fills both needs.  We aren’t cheap because we provide what you really need, and that is a website that works for you.

Briefly consider the impression that you give to your prospects if you use a website that “kind of works.”  If you have a friend that does website design on the side, fine.  You can probably save some money on it and just get out on the web because you think you need to.  And you can leave it at that, and go back to work.  That is, if you have any to do.  A cheap website built by a friend, or a an acquaintance or a cheap company that low bids all the other companies, is a great way to tell your prospects that you are “kind of in business.”

Our prices are reasonable.  Our services provide value, and so we only quote the fees and pricing reflecting value.  We build websites that work.  We want you to be too busy filling your customers needs.

Steven Moore Designs sites market your business in the 21st Century.  Let us help you build your business, your customer base and let us help you build your success.

Contact us.  Contract with us.  Be successful.

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The World of Websites

posted by Steven Moore
Aug 5

There are billions of websites available on the internet and on mobile apps. New technologies for presenting your business are being developed and advancing the attractiveness of internet marketing far beyond the original vision of the pioneers of the web. Business owners are competing to find the edge that leads prospects to investigate their services.

Whether you are a sole proprietor working on your own, a small business with a storefront, an artist, writer or musician who wants people to buy your work; whether a non-profit, a church, temple or mosque seeking seekers or even a government entity, you need to present yourself on the web.

Is it good enough to just have a website, good enough just to “be on the web?” The clear answer is no. There are many factors to consider when developing your internet presence. The major key to success on the internet is to have a professional design and build your site. Ask yourself: Would you have a plumber fix your car? Even if the plumber knows a little about cars and works on cars occasionally, it takes dedication and focus to take advantage of the technology and research that goes into building websites that work for you.

Okay, so the plumber idea is silly. Another option, one that will save you a great deal of money, is to build your own site. But do you have the time or money to invest in gaining all the information, access to studies and technology needed to succeed on the Internet? If you did, you would be in the Internet business, and not in your own business.

Merely launching a site is not going to assure web marketing success. It will be a dull needle in a haystack without a professional on your side in the design and launch of your site.

In the following articles we’ll discuss what it means to include a website in your marketing plan.

  •  What are the considerations?
  •  What is needed to get found?
  •  Most importantly, how does your website turn prospects into customers?
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