There’s no doubt that business, on a global scale, has fallen to the internet’s clout. Every day, more businesses keep registering their presence online. As a result, it’s now officially a join-them-if-you-can’t-beat-them situation, and businesses that stay too long on the sidelines may lose out almost immediately.
Even old businesses are establishing their presence online. Not because they’ve lost customers, but because a business’s essential part is generating leads and getting sales – more sales. To do that, businesses need to hop on whatever medium is de rigueur at a particular time.
However, it’s not enough to put your business online. Productivity is the watchword here, and your online business needs to be just that. To do that, you need to focus on your branding and ensure it’s good enough to generate leads and bring in sales. Unfortunately, if you’re not willing to put in the work, this isn’t for you. And if you feel this isn’t for you, you may want to quit the business altogether. Making your website productive will demand its pound of flesh in terms of time and financial resources.
Therefore, it’s important that your site is filled with quality content. Beyond that, you’d also need search engine optimization (SEO) and an A-grade website design that’ll give your site a professional look it needs to give your business a lift.
How design can generate leads.
What is web design? If you guessed ‘the design of a website’…well, you guessed right. But that’s not what we’re looking for here now, is it? So, we’ll go into the details so you can understand better and know why you need the services of a professional web designer to set up your business website if, and only if, you can’t do it yourself.
Just as you have elements or components that make up the interior décor or the external structure of a building, there are also elements or components that account for the structure and aesthetic of a website. In web design, these elements or components are called codes. So when you go to a website and like how it’s structured and looks, keep it in the back of your mind that everything you see is all codes.
Now, the difference between good and subpar websites is the people in charge of manipulating these codes. So here’s a quick question. Why is the Empire State Building more breathtaking than an ordinary apartment? Aren’t they all made out of the same materials? The difference in both buildings is the professionalism behind their creation and how these materials were manipulated to achieve the final outcome. Get the point I’m driving at now?
Design as a function of a lead generation objective.
Your website can give you…well, not all the leads and sales you want, but it can give you more than enough. A good design can help you generate leads because the design functions as a funnel towards the objective whether that is a phone call or a form submission or some other form of opportunity for interaction. Some businesses now only have an online presence, and they’re doing exceptionally well. That’s how good the internet is. Its ability at self-sustenance is almost unparalleled. All you need to do is tap into it.
Seeing how crucial your website is to your business’s online presence, it’s important that you put enough thought into your site’s design. How it looks will determine its productivity. You might miss out on potential clients in the same way you’ll ditch a scrappy website for one with quality content and experience.
Still, web design is more than just color and experience. Don’t get me wrong, they’re important, but if you don’t find a way to make them count for something, they’re useless. So how do you make those count for something, you might ask? The answer is rather simple. Branding.
Your business brand is what sets it apart from a league of other companies out there. You might not be giving clients a whole new invention per se, but how you define your product or service, the idea, and the vision you stand for will go a long way to determine your business’s success.
So, your web design’s aesthetics and structure must reflect your business brand. That way, your website becomes an accurate statement of your vision; rest assured, with that out there, your business will be able to generate leads and rake in tons of sales.
