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5 Key points for your business website

12/27/202405/15/2013 by scmarketing

Business Tips from Smart Cow

You should look at your online business in the same way you look at a physical presence for a business.

Just as a physical shop needs a good foundation and architectural designs, a website also needs to be built with a good foundation and structure.

You can create a website quickly these days, and it will probably look nice and appear to do the job you want. But as with almost everything in this world, you get what you pay for. If a website or a stall is sold at a bargain price, there is probably a reason for it. The real store may be in the wrong location, may not be set up properly, have never been marketed, and therefore has poor trading. Similarly, if you do not invest in the initial infrastructure of your website, although it may look nice, it will not be found by potential customers searching for your services.

Here are five key points that a business owner must be aware of when reviewing their business website. The list could go on and on, but these are some of the key points you should be aware of.

If you’re unsure about any of these, contact your current web developer or give us a call at Smart Cow Marketing on 020 3137 1826 or email us at saymoo@smart-cow.com.

Below are our top five tips with links to the associated articles that provide more detail to help you and your business.

Sitemaps: Why your website needs a Sitemap – Sitemaps give search engines an understanding of the layout of your site, making it easy for them to help web browsers find your content.
URL Structure: Why the URL name and structure is important to the success of your site – Properly naming pages and structuring the site gives search engines the best chance to help your business.
Bot Accessibility: What is bot accessibility and how it affects how your site is seen by search engines – Ensure that none of your hard work goes to waste and that search engines can find the content within your site.
Unique Content: Why you need unique website content and what happens if you don’t – Always make sure your content is unique and relevant to your target audience. Using other people’s content is not true to the values of your business and will be marked harshly by search engines.
Server Response Codes: What are server response codes and why are they important – Make sure that errors are managed appropriately so that even if a visitor has a bad experience, it can be recovered easily.

Don’t forget to visit the full articles for each of these top tips, and we would love to hear your comments on the top tips needed when building a website.

Happy online marketing from all of Smart Cow.

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If you need a helping hand with your digital marketing strategy, get in touch with us at Smart Cow Digital Marketing. We are a Croydon Web Design Agency providing expert advice on how to conduct an effective digital marketing campaign!

Services we offer include web design and development, SEO, Pay Per Click (PPC), social media management, and CRM and marketing automation.

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Creating personas

12/22/202404/10/2013 by scmarketing

We have talked before when starting an online marketing campaign about the importance of creating a buyer persona. This provides you or your marketing team with a representation of who your target audience is. This is based on either data you have acquired or through creating a fictitious character of your ideal client(s).

These personas bring to life an individual that you are marketing to and so can make the campaigns more personal and realistic as opposed to just using marketing jargon that is inappropriate and not targeted. Just as much as you will use different language in talking to friends and relatives, business partners, people in authority, new clients, existing clients etc. You will need to adapt your marketing campaign appropriately.

You may feel that you get the majority of your business by going through personal assistance (gatekeepers) rather than going direct to the managing director, therefore you should think about their goals and motivators and words your marketing campaign appropriately.

Goals

For your fictional persona identify a couple of goals they may have personally such as growing the business, getting a promotion, looking good in front of the boss.

Challenges

Now imagine what challenges they may present you that your product or service may be able to assist them with, also looking at the challenges such as budget and timescales. With these identified you can then create a list of ways that you may be able to help your potential client.

Where possible, collect real quotes from clients that most resemble this made up persona that relates to your product and service which helps build a conversation in your own mind is how best to promote your services to them. Look at what their common objections may be and write these down, capturing these now will allow you to present a case that compels them to use your product.

Marketing message

Once you have built this personality and can picture them in your mind you’re ready to build your marketing message. Just a few words of what you can do to help your potential client.

Elevator pitch

Then expand on this and create the so-called elevator pitch. Create one or two sentences that would sell your services to client as if you were stuck in an elevator from the first to the 10th floor and this is your only opportunity to sell yourself to them. By the time you get to the 10th floor they must have enough information to say yes.

Summary

Create a persona, or many personas to bring to life your potential clients. As awkward as this may seem the first couple of times it is key to ensure that you have a personal message that will be warmly accepted as opposed to a cold marketing message that will be ignored.

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If you need a helping hand with your digital marketing strategy, get in touch with us at Smart Cow Digital Marketing for expert advice on how to conduct an effective digital marketing campaign!

Services we offer include web design and development, SEO, Pay Per Click (PPC), social media management through to CRM and marketing automation.

Community Purchasing Power – helping your community

12/22/202408/21/2012 by scmarketing

Smart Cow Marketing is a sales and marketing company based in South London.

Welcome to community purchasing power into the Smart Cow family. We were recently approached by a fellow web development company (Paramount digital marketing) to look into an inquiry they had, which has led us to delivering a new website for Community Purchasing Power.

What is CPP

Community Purchasing Power (CPP) is the brain child of Joss and Kate Bolton. Like most families they were feeling the squeeze and were looking at ways to reduce costs.

So, they felt that they could provide a more social responsible service to providing lower cost utilities through the power of group purchasing.

What did we do?

Well, it was a real pleasure working with the Bolton’s on this website as they have a good clear vision of what they wanted and a sound business model.

After going through several different options for the design we decided the current white and green reflected the business the best. We also spent a lot of effort in building a clean animation in HTML5 on the front page with various faces flying in from all angles (we will talk about HTML5 later).

Other features

Central to this website is the ability to capture details and take this to the utility providers to gain the bulk discount, which we duly delivered as well as blog and newsletter options. Also delivered is the social media channels of Facebook and twitter.

Our work is coming to a close here and now the hard work of promoting the business follows. So, good luck to CCP as the better it works the better off we will all be.

P.S. Out of interest one of the first parts of the brief was “no cartoons” so we tried to stick to this, however managed to present one option with the cartoon figure you see. This was really liked and a 180 degree change on having a cartoon figure and we think it works really well. Just another point to say how great it is when people are so open minded to new ideas.

We hope that this article is of use, feel free to forward it to whoever may find it useful.

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If you are looking to develop your business and gain more cliental, get in touch with our digital marketing team for a free consultation where we review your challenges and help you execute your goals.

Hilary Judge – Chartered Management Accountant in Croydon

12/22/202408/09/2012 by scmarketing

New Website for HilaryJudge.co.uk

Smart Cow Marketing, the Croydon based web development and online marketing company.

We are proud to announce the we have delivered a new website to a very lovely client Hilary Judge.

Requirements

Hilary came to Smart Cow Marketing after attending one of our seminars on online marketing.
She runs a successful accountancy firm and has a real personal touch with their clients. However, until now did not have a web presence.
Hilary came to Smart Cow to discuss what she wanted and what we could deliver.

Getting noticed

Obviously, you would like a website to be noticed and there is a lot of competition online for services such as accountancy in the Croydon area.
We applied locality related SEO well as starting the process to get Google places set up.

But most of all, through pictures provided by Hillary we ensured that we kept the local feel.

A nice touch

To add to the website and make it a bit special we created a HTML5 animated banner at the top of the page. I’m sure that you will agree that it looks great. More about the benefits of using HTML5 to come in later blogs

We hope that this article is of use, feel free to forward it to whoever may find it useful. Please also visit the hilaryjudge website and if you need any accounting services please pay them a visit.