So you want to start an online business or you want to use the internet for an exiting offline business? While the decision to do so may stem from many reasons, the internet is a wonderful to conduct business and can be very profitable if you do things the right way.
When you are in the planning stages of staring an internet business, aside from understanding the needs of your market, the first thing you want to take to heart is the way your website is designed. The cookie cutter approach does not work in all instances. You want your site to stand out as unique. This means you will have to learn how to build your own site or farm it out.
Should you turn this over to a professional website developer, be prepared to shell out some big bucks. It can cost anywhere from $1000 for a basic design upwards to $5000 or more. By learning to do it yourself, you can save a lot of money and learn a valuable skill.
There are a lot of benefits in learning basic website design. First, you will always be able to design the layout and core components of your website the way you want it. When you are depending on others to do it for you, you will never get exactly want you want. However, you do have the option to tweak things once you receive the finished product.
When you learn the skills to creating your own site design, this will help later on when you want to make changes. A well developed website will always undergo periodic change to reflect new technologies. If you had to pay a web designer each time you wanted to incorporate a change, it could get costly.
When you are planning the look and fell of your site, always keep in mind that the customer or visitor is the most important thing. The site should not be about you, but about your customers. This means your website will address the needs, wants and desires of the customers by providing answers and solutions that will help them.
When you plan your site around the needs of your customers, they will automatically be attracted to you because you seem to positions yourself as a person who understands their needs. Many new site owners talk too much about themselves and never give much thought to what their visitors are really looking for. This is a big mistake and can costs you in the long run.
Websites that target specific needs, wants and desires of a market or niche with specific solutions always win. When a person comes to your website and sees that you truly understand what they need to accomplish, most often they will reach out to you. This may result in you getting a new lead or making a sale.
When you are in the planning stages of your website, use the AIDA formula to help guide your design, website copy and core action your want your visitor to take. AIDA stands for attention, interest, desire and action and has been proven to work in sales copy and website design for many years. It is the same formula that underwrites the success of high converting sales letters. Follow these tips and the money will follow.
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greetings, I can’t find your contact information but your layout looked off on firefox and IE. Anyways, i just suscribd to your rss.
@Chadburn: Thanks for dropping by and for your comments. The “Contact” page is in the “About” section, probably not a great place for it. I’m hoping to chage themes and change some of the organization around here soon. In what way is the “layout” “off”? Looks ok to me in both FF and MSI+E, but then again. one never knows how it looks on someone else’s screen. is there anything I can fix right off?