Websites For Small Business

If you have gone to the effort to pay for or build your own website you may have overlooked some aspects - interactivity. Making the effort to offer your visitors an incentive to return and interact with your site is fundemental to visitors returning.

1. Offer Subscriptions
By implementing an opt in email subscription is an effective method to deliver your news, upcoming sales, offers or rewards to subscribers. This is a very valuable resource as people who subscribe to your newsletter are qualified leads and potential customers. You need to strike a balance with regular newsletters but not overwhelming your subscribers, you need to focus on offering them something special or rewarding as a subscriber. We can create you a custom subscrption page to your website based on your current design to being building your customer base. Prices start at $150.

2. Discussion Forums
Easily added onto your current website, a discussion forum is a great exchange between you and your visitors. If you offer a specialised product or service you could become a leader in the field where other people come to your forum to find out more information and share ideas. You can toggle most forums to filter posts only approved by your or allow it to be fully open to the public. It usually takes some time to monitor and administer a forum but the rewards are an increase in traffic and more visitors, as well as offering visitors a specific and relevant information source. We can create you a variety of forums for your website from $150.

3. Search Engines
Place a search engine on your site, you can easily place code to include a google search of your domain, if your are using Google Adsense you could also be generating revenue when visitors click on the links generated. Most importantly adding a search engine offers a fast accurate method of finding the information that your visitors are looking for rather than passive text links hidden in pages.

4. Feedback Forms
Very important to receive feedback from your visitors, encourage feedback on every aspect of your site and be responsive! This can either be a customer satisfaction survey, a contact us form, or product rating survey. You can also offer respondants a reward for completing the survey by offering 10% off their next order to reward them for their time. We can develop feedback forms from $50 for your site.

5. Competitions
Everyone wants to win something, offering your visitors or customers to contribute their ideas or work to be judged and a prize rewarded is quite effective and encourages ongoing participation. Make sure you have clear terms and conditions for your give aways and always, always follow through! You could offer competitions through a newsletter or offer an image gallery to ask visitors to submit their artwork. The benefit of this is that you not only encourage participation, but you are also creating new intresting content for your site.