You should start your project well before you go into the phase of actually getting it developed. There are THOUSANDS of websites out there in your field, if not MILLIONS, an unplanned website is not going to be successful. Ultimately a website is a sales tool

Your website on some level or another is trying to convince people to do, buy, or think something.

• Convince them of an ideal, or thought
• Sell a service
• A product
• Convince them your site is worth visiting (Ads & Links)

And with this strategy...

"If you fail to plan... you plan to fail"

So how do you do make sure your website is a successful sales tool?

First and for-most you have to figure out what your website is selling

After you figure out what your website is selling, you can begin thinking of how to market it. As I mentioned earlier, a web page that simply spews information about your company is going to be ho-hum unless you are in the most exciting of industries, in which case you probably don't need a website.

Usually my first step is to decide if the site needs to be found by people searching on search engines. This seems odd, because almost all people want traffic from search engines... However not all sites have content people would search for. For example, the famous tuckermax.com, very few people are going to stumble upon the site searching for "Funny drunk stories" (or whatever would pull the site up). It is more word of mouth. If you are going to focus on search engine traffic, start planning the following

1. The #1 Key phrase that you want search engines to refer to your site
2. Secondary keywords that are also important
3. Start to write and massage your copy
4. Start including the key phrase and wo
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   Your website on some level or another is trying to convince people to do, buy, or think something.

   • Convince them of an ideal, or thought
   • Sell a service
   • A product
   • Convince them your site is worth visiting (Ads & Links)

   And with this strategy...

   "If you fail to plan... you plan to fail"

   So how do you do make sure your website is a successful sales tool?

   First and for-most you have to figure out what your website is selling

   After you figure out what your website is selling, you can begin thinking of how to market it. As I mentioned earlier, a web page that simply spews information about your company is going to be ho-hum unless you are in the most exciting of industries, in which case you probably don't need a website.

   Usually my first step is to decide if the site needs to be found by people searching on search engines. This seems odd, because almost all people want traffic from search engines... However not all sites have content people would search for. For example, the famous tuckermax.com, very few people are going to stumble upon the site searching for "Funny drunk stories" (or whatever would pull the site up). It is more word of mouth. If you are going to focus on search engine traffic, start planning the following

   1. The #1 Key phrase that you want search engines to refer to your site
   2. Secondary keywords that are also important
   3. Start to write and massage your copy
   4. Start including the key phrase and w
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      One of the most important places to ensure that change management situations go correctly will be at the regional management level and with those managers who are overseeing the corporate outlets for a large area. Often when the regional manager leaves, moves to another position or trades with another regional manager we find that all the information that they know about goes
      w do you do make sure your website is a successful sales tool?

      First and for-most you have to figure out what your website is selling

      After you figure out what your website is selling, you can begin thinking of how to market it. As I mentioned earlier, a web page that simply spews information about your company is going to be ho-hum unless you are in the most exciting of industries, in which case you probably don't need a website.

      Usually my first step is to decide if the site needs to be found by people searching on search engines. This seems odd, because almost all people want traffic from search engines... However not all sites have content people would search for. For example, the famous tuckermax.com, very few people are going to stumble upon the site searching for "Funny drunk stories" (or whatever would pull the site up). It is more word of mouth. If you are going to focus on search engine traffic, start planning the following

      1. The #1 Key phrase that you want search engines to refer to your site
      2. Secondary keywords that are also important
      3. Start to write and massage your copy
      4. Start including the key phrase and w
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         which case you probably don't need a website.

         Usually my first step is to decide if the site needs to be found by people searching on search engines. This seems odd, because almost all people want traffic from search engines... However not all sites have content people would search for. For example, the famous tuckermax.com, very few people are going to stumble upon the site searching for "Funny drunk stories" (or whatever would pull the site up). It is more word of mouth. If you are going to focus on search engine traffic, start planning the following

         1. The #1 Key phrase that you want search engines to refer to your site
         2. Secondary keywords that are also important
         3. Start to write and massage your copy
         4. Start including the key phrase and w
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            Busy business executives like yourself don’t have time to pick up the phone book or yellow pages to find products and services that you need for your business. You want sales reps to call YOU! Being on the receiving end of cold calls makes your valuable time more productive. After all, picking up the phone book to find what you are looking for takes a few minutes; receiving a
            "Funny drunk stories" (or whatever would pull the site up). It is more word of mouth. If you are going to focus on search engine traffic, start planning the following
            1. The #1 Key phrase that you want search engines to refer to your site
            2. Secondary keywords that are also important
            3. Start to write and massage your copy
            4. Start including the key phrase and words into the copy, with out it sounding wordy

            After Search Engines... Decide what your webpage is going to offer

            Think about all the webpages YOU go to. What do they offer? Again I doubt you would visit joesplumbing.com on a regular biases if it just described his hours and phone number.

            How-ever, if joesplumbing.com offered weekly tips on how to solve small plumbing problems... you might go there quite often.

            Some may think that this would actually hurt his business, but I disagree greatly. Those who are actively searching for free plumbing solutions will find it on someone's website, if not Joe's. Through posting these tips, he is already establishing himself as an expert. Further, if the plumbing tips don't solve the users problem, who will they most likely call? Who would they recommend to others?

            In most cases, that's right... Joe.

            So use your knowledge and skills, the more you help people and give them reason to visit your site, the more customers and traffic you will get.