Field of Dreams. Your website is like any other resource you employ; it takes time, money and development in order to stay productive and income generating for your business. Several areas we look at, first, when evaluating a website include appearance, functionality, alignment with business and its customers, intuitive function and content. When someone goes to your site, you have less than 10 seconds to keep them there. Next, we go deeper, and look at things like page titles, keywords, metatags, content and finally, search engine submittal. These items speak to how internet browsers will find you. If all of these are properly aligned, search engine spiders will begin “crawling” your site to see if your site will be of value to its browsers. The combination of these elements, in addition to ongoing monitoring of where people go on your site and what they do, then making the appropriate changes on the site to increase the number of users who turn into customers is called “website conversion.” This is where you start to see a return on your website investment (ROWI). While you might feel that it is not important, or the “top priority” for your company, consider this: would you allow an employee that you hired to sit idly at their desk each day? Would you purchase a car or a boat that you could not drive? In many situations: maybe. But what if you could invest in that person or that car or that boat, and increase your capabilities or pleasure exponentially? As we move into the 21st century, we will be looking at new ways to do business. Many barriers to entry emerging businesses have had are being crushed. New technologies and internet capabilities are allowing smaller companies compete, successfully, with the major ones! By taking their businesses online, small business owners are no longer necessarily ‘squeezed out’ by the big retailer down the street.

Business Catalyst Masterclass

To give back to the small business community, we have developed the Business Catalyst Program to help you retrench, move your company forward, and bridge the gap from where you are today to where you want to go. We still have a few spots left for the catalyst program. Register through this link, then once we review your application, we’ll let you know if your business qualifies for it.  ]]>