What’s the difference between a good looking sales person and a good looking website?

Nothing really, because looks count for little when a customers is deciding whether or not they’ll buy from you. Marketing isn’t a beauty contest, it’s a contest to win the hearts and minds of customers.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying a good looking website isn’t important, because it is. After all, good looking people find it easy to get people’s attention and a good looking websites the same; it can buy you a few seconds of interest, but after that if the message on your page doesn’t grab them, if it doesn’t offer something interesting, intelligent or meaningful, people loose interest fast… after all, the promise of finding exactly what they’re looking for somewhere else could be just 1 click away…

So here’s a big mistake I commonly see made.

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Want to know a fate worse than death…cold calling for a living!

How’s this for a picture of hell. You stuck in a phone room being forced to make unsolicited phone calls to people who don’t care about you or your business – for eternity!

Sounds bad doesn’t it, and yet that is some peoples lives every day.

If you’d prefer to never make a cold call again and still have plenty of business, you should read the rest of this article…

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It’s conventional wisdom in today’s highly connected world that your business must have a website to succeed’! But is that really true?

The short answer is ‘only if it helps you get sales’.

I’ve consulted with hundreds of businesses about web design,and in all those consulting meetings I’ve never met a business owner who didn’t want their website to get them sales.

So why then don’t all websites sell? Why do so many of them sit on the internet gathering little more than cyber dust, with hardly anyone ever visiting them, and even less buying from them?

The answer is simple, it’s because most web designers know nothing about marketing and selling, so they have no idea about how to build you a web design that sells!

You can’t be serious, (I heard someone say) how can this be true?

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