Must Have Web Site Features
Just don’t focus on the home page, keywords and
titles.
The first step to sales when customers visit your site to see
the products they were looking for. Of course, search engine
optimization and better rankings can’t keep your customer on
your site or make them buy. The customer having visited your
site, now ensure that he gets interested in your products or
services and stays around. Motivate him to buy the product by
providing clear and unambiguous information. Thus if you happen
to sell more than one product or service, provide all necessary
information about this, may be by keeping the
information
at a different page. By providing suitable and easily
visible links, the customer can navigate to these pages
and get the details.
Understanding Your Target Customer
If you design a website you think will attract clients, but you
don’t really know who your customers are and what they want to
buy, it is unlikely you make much money. Website business is an
extension or replacement for a standard storefront. You can
send email to your existing clients and ask them to complete a
survey or even while they are browsing on your website. Ask
them about their choices. Why do they like your products? Do
you discount prices or offer coupons? Are your prices
consistently lower than others? Is your shipping price cheaper?
Do you respond faster to client questions? Are your product
descriptions better? Your return policies and guarantees better
than your competitor’s? To know your customer you can check
credit card records or ask your customer to complete a simple
contact form with name, address, age, gender, etc. when they
purchase a product.
Does your website give enough contact information?
When you sell from a website, your customer can buy your
products 24 hrs a day and also your customers may be from other
states that are thousands of miles away.
Always provide contact information, preferably on every page of
your website, complete with mailing address, telephone number
and an email address that reaches you. People may need to
contact you about sales, general information or technical
problems on your site. Also have your email forwarded to
another email address if you do not check your website mailbox
often. When customer wants to buy online provide enough options
like credit card, PayPal or other online payment
service.
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