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5 Reasons Why a Business Should Hire a Web Design Firm to Build their New Website

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A company website.

Every business needs one.

Considering the vast quantity of potential customers you can get by marketing online, you no longer have a choice – you have to have a company website.

But how do you even start? What are the do’s and don’ts? What should you put on your website? Can you do it yourself? Should you?

With that in mind, here are 5 reasons why you should hire a website professional to do all the job for you.

#1 Focus on your business

It doesn’t make sense to create and manage a website project if you are not a web designer. It’s better to focus on your core business itself. It’ll be more efficient and much more effective to hire a professional.

#2 Save time

Time is money right? By using a professional web design firm, you’re saving precious time that could be devoted to what you do best. Capitalize on the expertise of professionals instead of starting from scratch.

 #3 Get professional expert help and get results

There are a lot of things to consider when creating your own web project. By hiring a professional from the start, your website project will include all of the right element. By working with a great web design company, you’ll not only get a great website, you’ll start to see results in your marketing and sales efforts.

 #4 Leverage internet marketing

The internet is the most cost effective solution to put your business in front of thousands of potential customers. Every day, more and more people are coming online. Meaning, more potential customers and eventually getting more sales. In other words, you’ve got to have your business on there!

#5 Get results and a higher return on investment (ROI).

An effective website design can produce massive returns for a long time. It’s more than that. It’s something that reflects your company. It’s something you can and should be proud of. When you work with a professional web developer, you’re putting yourself in a situation to really grow your business.

Your precious time and effort should be spent more wisely. Choosing the right  professional website company will get your business farther than you can imagine.

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Three Basic but Vital Components to a Great Website

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The following is a quick list to three basic but extremely vital components that every business absolutely must have on their website.

The list may seem very basic but it’s very important. And you would be surprised at the number of company websites that don’t have even these simple components in place!

#1 Dynamic Content

Your website must serve as an education tool about your product or service as well as the overall industry you’re in. Your role is to inform your potential customer why you’re the best in the business.

Additionally, you’ve got to demonstrate through your knowledge how you can solve their problem. In other words, you’ve giving them a sample of what you can do for them.

Videos and blogs work great for this. Through videos, you can literally demonstrate your knowledge in action. Blogs work the same way but just in a written form (and visual with images).

#2 Call to Action

Once you’ve informed your website visitors about your business, you must tell them what to do. Again, this may seem basic but you cannot assume that your visitor knows what to do next.

Think about it.

What do you want them to do? Do you want them to call you? Do you want them to fill out a contact form? Send you an email?

Tell them! Have a big red button (or something that works well with your branding colors) in a prominent location on your website that can be seen at all times.

Somewhere in the header or upper right hand corner is usually good.

#3 Contact Information

Closely related to your call to action is having your contact information proudly displayed. The whole goal of your website is to sell your visitors on your business.

Supposing it does its job, you’ve got to make it easy for them to now contact you to buy. Have your phone numbers, emails, and all other contact sources displayed in a very visible location at all times.

Preferably, you’ll have your contact listed somewhere near the top, middle, and bottom of your website.

Also, you should have an entire page dedicated to how to reach you. This can include a map of your location and a contact form.

You should also include all of your various social media profiles. Regardless of your business, you should have at least links to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

You might not personally spend much time there but you never want to limit how a customer with money in hand can contact you.

So that’s it!

Put these three basic but vital pieces in place on your website and watch your business grow!

Of course, if you need assistance with this, we can help!

Contact us today at 415-857-5715 or contact us here.

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Online: The competitive world of being contacted to be contracted!

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Social Rocketship adds Premier Home Repairs Inc. as a new client in Woodinville, Washington.

Ever heard of Premier Home Repairs? Not yet, but you will!  Premier Home Repairs was like thousands of other businesses out there who have had no web exposure or presence.  They were feeling a squeeze in their lead flow and came to us, Social Rocketship, to lighten the economic grip.

First thing first!  “What’s your website look like?” we asked.

“We don’t have a site.” They replied.

Believe it or not this is STILL very typical in today’s market nationwide.   Seattle is a city ahead of the curve in many regards.  Boeing, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, for example, drive the market towards technology.  Most residents looking for work, especially home repairs, will find the information to make the right choice online.

{If a company isn’t online that company will miss countless opportunities.}

In the old days information would be gathered from the town square because that’s where the people were.  Today the internet is the town square.

In the past, Premier Home Repairs consciously tried to stay out of the technology scene.  What they were doing was working.  BUT, it was working less and less as more and more people chose the internet as their primary way to find information about home repairs.

“It was time to make a change,” said Derrin Watson, owner of Premier Home Repairs.  “We were tired of missing out on leads, and we were tired of giving a proposal and then never hearing from the homeowner again.”

This is actually quite common in the home repair industry.  A homeowner will ask for a bid on a selected project.  The contractor will provide a bid and leave the scene feeling like he has got a real shot at landing the job.  What happens next is a vicious cycle all contractors want to avoid.  The homeowner then looks online and there is no information about the contractor, or even worse, bad information.

Is the above mentioned cycle better then not getting the call in the first place?  You decide.  On one hand the contractor has no chance at EVER getting contacted because he’s not online.  No gas burned, no time invested, no money in or out of his pocket.

The second scenario is if a contractor got a lead (let’s say a referral from a friend) and left with a good feeling because of the word of mouth connection.  BUT, then as the homeowner does his own research, he sees another contractor, who also bid the project, with great reviews online everywhere!  In this hypothetical scenario the other contractor has 26 good reviews online, on sites such as Google places, Yelp, and Angie’s List.

Who gets the bid? Is it the word of MOUTH contractor or the word of MOUSE contractor? Think about it.  Which is better; the strong reference from a friend or the endorsement of an entire online community?  It’s 26 vs. 1!

Social Rocketship has now built a website for Premier Home Repairs.  This is the first part of our service.  As soon as the “home base” is established we built online profiles such as Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and more.  Then we set up a content marketing campaign for Premier Home Repairs.  Now they are off and running!

Never heard of Premier Home Repairs before?  Just wait, you will!

~Social Rocketship