Wednesday, October 7, 2009

How To Get A High Quality Website

By Chris Marks

Having a website gives a business several different ways to attract potential new customers and thereby expand the business into new directions. Probably the most obvious advantage of having a high quality website is the ability to catch traffic from search engines and make a good first impression on the viewer. One of the not as obvious advantages is the ability of a website to increase sales and support marketing campaigns like never before. The following are some more advantages that a business will benefit from by having a high quality website.

There are a number of free or low-cost web applications on today's market. These applications can be mixed and matched in a number of ways to create communities, online stores or any number of other features that can not only keep bringing customers back, but will also have them recommending your site to friends and family.

One of the best extra features is a blog. You can get customers more interested in your business by having a blog with unique content that is updated on a regular basis. Since customers can also add their own comments to the blog, you will end up with a fan base and customers who give you feedback on what they would like from your business.

Another tool that is useful along with blogs is forums. These two features are great in forming communities but which is better for you depends mostly on your type of business. You can choose one or even opt for both of them. Forums work better on the broad aspect of your business and serve to generate discussions. Blogs on the other hand are more useful in getting news and unique articles.

A good quality website is superb in attracting online shoppers which you can sell products to or perform a service. It is a great drawing point for customers, especially if a customer does not want to mail in orders or not willing to call. There are shopping cart applications on the site where you buy online. As far as retail businesses go, the days of catalog shopping and staffing expensive call centers. Online shopping can be done by one person or just a small team.

The useful features of a quality website can't be spoken highly enough of. Support tickets can be submitted online versus hanging on the phone and for whatever reason they can chat with a support staff online or by e-mail. Even if you are lacking or have little web development experience, the website can be designed and laid out with maybe a few simple edits. With the recently started 2.0 technology it is even easier to make the web a useful platform where your business website is able to mingle with others in innovative ways.

Although this may all sound complicated for someone who has no experience being a webmaster, many of these functions already exist as high quality and freely available components. These only have to be mixed and matched and you can achieve a good quality and useful website, but often some help from a skilled web developer is necessary to get this done.

Make no mistake that creating a website for your business was a good move. In reality, in today's world of the internet use, it is necessary to have for your business website which in turn will draw more customers for you.

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