5P Web Design and Marketing Guide
Build it and they will come… Ya Right! What if all you had to do to start your own online business was to find some free online web design software, put together a few lines of text and some images, fine tune the layout a little and sit back and watch your cash flow machine (your website) bringing you in mountains of cash every month? I’m sure that if this were the case that it would certainly make your decision about getting a website a much easier one. So ask yourself, “How can I get my website now and still have enough money left over for marketing”?
It’s very simple really, don’t spend all your marketing dollars on website design! Create a plan for your website and take developmental steps that ensures you can gradually build your website as you need to and spend the rest on marketing and advertising. This is the way we do business and why you’ll find it’s a fast, easy and a very low cost way to Get Your Website Now!
Create a one of a kind and proven PLAN that sells, build a killer online PRESENCE with content that builds link popularity, develop your PROPERTY for deadly effective website sales and PROMOTE your website with absolutely essential traffic-building marketing tactics so you can re-invest the PROFITS back into your website!
Good web design doesn’t have to be expensive but it should have these 5 essential steps for effective results. Below is our reference guide that you should follow to help you in the process to Get Your Website Now.
5P WEB DESIGN and MARKETING GUIDE
- Create a PLAN – Brainstorm and write down every conceivable idea you have about what you want your website to do based on your existing business plan. Search for ideas Now!
- Build a PRESENCE - Get Your Website “Presence” Now by putting these ideas in motion using our standard Website Review. Get Your Website “Review” Now!
- Develop your PROPERTY – Here we put your ideas in full motion and actually develop your website and marketing initiatives. You should have control over the process, totally! Your intranet is ready! Username & Password
- PROMOTE your website – By developing winning marketing and promotional strategies you can start to create the proper marketing approach to reach your market and make more sales. Never under-estimate your competition!
- Dump your PROFITS back into your site – As a website owner you should always continue developing your website by recognizing new marketing trends within your niche and working hard to capitalize on them.
Though the guide above seems fairly simple it does take time to plan everything out and put it into action. Below goes a little further into what can make website development so much fun
Step 1 – Get Your Website “PLAN” Now!
In short, keep things simple and write down every possible idea that you can think of. If you need some ideas go to a good search engine like Google, Yahoo or MSN and do a search using keywords that relate to your business model. As an example, if you are in the furniture business type in keywords like “furniture sales, furniture ideas, furniture websites, furniture events” and then use any ideas that you like as a guide.
In developing web design ideas for a web designer, consider the structure of your site as compared to the content. Colors, graphics, style and look all come to mind. We take final creative liberties around your ideas then its up to you to create the content that people will want to read!
Step 2 – Get Your Website “PRESENCE” Now!
Building a presence online take that most amount of time since it involves putting your whole business plan out on the table and organizing your thoughts then taking massive action to put it all together. This is where all the work happens.
Website layout, color schemes, content management will all play an important part in building your presence online.
Step 3 – Get Your Website “PROPERTY” Now!
When you talk about your property you can think of it as a piece of Real Estate property. With a piece of vacant land you can then start building your home.
With that in mind the hosting and domain name will be the most critical combination that will ensure your property is stable. With poor hosting your domain cannot exist and with a bad domain you won’t get the results you want with regards to search results.
Visit Godaddy and do some searches with keywords you think might work. Choose it well! Finally website hosting gets you online. We use Gator Host for all our website hosting needs. Go check them out.
At this point you should have a clear idea where your going because your website should be ready to be online now. Make sure though you have considered monetizing your website and have looked at the marketing site of things.
Step 4 – Get Your Website “PROMOTIONS” Now!
Sustained marketing, frequency in information updates, link popularity campaigns and constant content development will help you achieve success and profits. Consider these marketing options – Google Adsense and Google Adword, writing articles, newsletters, landing pages, blogs, banner ads, affiliate marketing and the list goes on. Creating website traffic, building your list and converting those people who are coming to your website into sales.
Internet marketing is not the same as offline marketing and takes a different approach. That’s why its important learn the basics and then eventually take over the marketing aspects of your business.
Step 5 – Get Your Website “PROFITS” Now!
Once you have really fine tuned your website marketing and are comfortable with your plan, then hopefully you are seeing some success. Budget some profits into new ways of marketing. Never become comfortable with always doing the same thing. Change things up, test other marketing opportunities continue to be at the forefront of new and innovative marketing ideas. This will cost money, so taking some profits and investing will be essential to your success.
Also, by this time a few years have probably passed and you might want to consider a new design for your website. A new look might be in your plans, so please consider it when you think its the right time.
Become your websites own internet marketing professional, invest in yourself and build relationships online with others. This is the key to a successful online business.
On a final note, remember keep things simple but work hard!
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