Make It Personal

Written by Jeff Colburn


One problem with websites is that they're very anonymous. A prospective client comes to your site, not knowing whom you are or what kind of businessperson you are. Atrepparttar same time you're asking them to buy your products or services, believe what you say in articles and possible to give you their credit card number. That requires a lot of trust, and you need to build that trust.

There are several easy ways to build this trust. First, you should put a biography or yourself or your company ontorepparttar 132631 site. You can make it a personal or professional bio. On my site I use a personal biography. It tells:  Where I graduated from college  What my major was  My past careers  Sports and hobbies I've been involved with  My current interests  And my experience relating torepparttar 132632 products, services and topics of my site

For a more professional bio talk aboutrepparttar 132633 history of your business. Here are some ofrepparttar 132634 questions you can answer.  When and where did your business start?  Why did you startrepparttar 132635 business?  If you have an office or manufacturing site, where is it?  What qualifies you to run this business?  Who arerepparttar 132636 other key employees ofrepparttar 132637 business?

Keeping Your Site Current

Written by Jeff Colburn


It's imperative that your website's information be current. This can prevent you from many problems with your clients.

If you have anything on your site that's date sensitive, such as a sale, promotion, coupon or similar items that have expiration dates, then remove them when they expire. I had a friend who used her website to advertise a sale she was having at her store. The ad filled one entire page. Well, about six months afterrepparttar sale had ended I went to her site and foundrepparttar 132629 sale still listed. She did have an expiration date, which was a good idea, but also caused some problems.

By leaving this expired ad up it caused some problems with a few clients. Some people came to her store expectingrepparttar 132630 discount mentioned inrepparttar 132631 ad, and became upset when they found outrepparttar 132632 sale was over. Some people became so upset that she gave themrepparttar 132633 discount anyway.

While this solvedrepparttar 132634 immediate problem, she still had unhappy customers. These customers no doubt told all their friends aboutrepparttar 132635 unprofessional wayrepparttar 132636 store was run. There's no way to prove it, but I'm sure she lost sales from these unhappy customers spreading their unfortunate experience. Also, you have people coming in that when they findrepparttar 132637 sale has ended feel cheated, stupid (Jeez, I didn't noticerepparttar 132638 expiration date), embarrassed, and all around unhappy. They then try to funnel all of these negative emotions ontorepparttar 132639 storeowner, or whoever happens to be behindrepparttar 132640 counter. Now you haverepparttar 132641 owner and employees feeling unhappy. It goes on and on. All becauserepparttar 132642 owner didn't removerepparttar 132643 page or update it with something like, "I want to thank everyone who maderepparttar 132644 sale such a success. Keep checking back to see when our next sale will happen."

Making a simple change torepparttar 132645 one page like this would have prevented all ofrepparttar 132646 misunderstandings, made everyone happy and increased site traffic as people kept going back torepparttar 132647 sales page to see whenrepparttar 132648 next sale would be.

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