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Why Planning Is The Most Important Step In Your Website Design Journey

By Sydni Craig-Hart

Young woman feels guilty and sorry for situationYou would think that getting a website that works would be as easy as finding a designer you like, telling them what you want and badabing badaboom you have a client magnet! Unfortunately that’s not the case.

The problem is that most small business owners take a “looks” approach when they start their website design.

They pick the colors, they have a vision for ideas that they want to convey with imagery, and they have some ideas for sweet doohickies that will make it all cutting edge… and that’s it.

What they’re missing is the functionality and strategy that needs to go into their design.

It’s kind of like hiring a contractor to build you your dream house. You tell them the colors, the finishes, the number of rooms, and that you really really want a hot tub in the back. He shows you some pictures of what he’s going to build, you oooh and ahhh, and tada he builds you a house!

But when you move in, things aren’t so ducky. Sure everything looks pretty, but your front door opens into the bedroom, the hallways look more like some kind of maze, and you don’t have enough room for any of your furniture.

In short, it’s just not functional. When visitors come they’ll initially be impressed by the curb appeal, but when they get into the house they won’t know what to do with themselves.

Just like a house, your website needs to have a strategic plan behind it before you build.

Creating that strategic plan can be tough for busy entrepreneurs because even though you understand your customers and have great services, you are probably not a web strategy expert (unless that’s your specialty). And what you think might be logical (just like your contractor thought), actually doesn’t translate into something functional that’s going to bring you results.

So how do you create a winning plan for your website?

On Thursday January 29th at 11am PST / 2pm EST I’ll be hosting a FREE webinar with my friend and colleague Holly Chantal of The Land of Brand® where she’ll be showing us exactly how to plan a website that attracts your ideal prospects and engages them right away.

Register NOW to join us:

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Filed Under: Branding, Marketing Advice, Marketing Coach, Technology Tagged With: Building a Website, Business Website, Planning a Website, small business marketing, Smart Simple Marketing, Sydni Craig-Hart, Website Design



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Sydni Craig-Hart

Is your organization looking to gain market share and deepen loyalty with small businesses, women or minorities? Sydni Craig-Hart is CEO of Smart Simple Marketing and a 4th generation entrepreneur. Since 2006, her team, having worked with over 8,000 small business in 79 different industries, has been helping companies to drive engagement with sought-after, growing market segments. If you want to increase the value of existing-customer spend, recapture marketing investments, grow customer lifetime value or decrease attrition, contact Sydni to discover how her team is doing this for companies like Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and more.

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  1. klageswebdesign says

    August 14, 2015 at 2:42 AM

    The title size is not a set quantity of characters but reasonably limited to the size of the display within the
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