Choosing a Web Design Company For Your Business

"Beware Of The Small Business Website Design Sting"

If you are thinking about either having a website created for your business or you are thinking of changing your website because you are not getting traffic this article is for you.

If you have visions of using that website to drive targeted traffic to your website because you need more sales this article is for you.

I don’t expect to win any friends with this post. If fact I expect to be slated for what I am about to share with you, but what you are about to discover is the truth.

I’m on the side of "The customer" because before we set up flipsem.com, many years back I used to be “The Customer”!

The scam

If you are a business with a website and no traffic then this could have happened to you. In fact, I am aware of companies who have spent £1000’s on websites and have been victim of this. I can only think of one word for this and that’s a scam, designed only to line the pockets of those who either know they are scamming, or worse those that don‘t.

Either way you "the customer" are not the priority!

Be honest with yourself

No matter how much you love the look of your website be honest with yourself did you just want a pretty box on a screen or did you want a maketing tool that works?

How many of you reading this post have had a website designed and it sits there with no traffic and no sales.

Were you promised traffic? Were you promised sales? Where you promised a dramatic up-turn in business once your website was been built? Maybe you didn’t ask what you could expect, and maybe you should have been told.

Did you sit there month after month wondering why you have not received what you were promised?

Did you contact your agency and then were given an answer that either you were unhappy with or that you did not understand so you gave up?

Shameful practices

This is a very common and shameful practice amongst many website designers not to tell it’s customer that if they have a website built without SEO or without a continuous spend on advertising then they could just be wasting their money.

If the customer knows that without some kind of traffic driving mechanism their website is unlikely to attract visitors. If they still decide to go ahead then that is their choice, taking that choice away is what I find unforgivable.

There is more...

The next scam is the web designers and SEO companies that promise you traffic and deliver pretty much only one thing THE INVOICE! Or worse, they get your website banned from the search engines.

As in any industry, there are good companies, bad companies and damned dangerous ones for your business.

As the customer, it's your job is to know what you are buying and that means getting educated fast, before you either waste your companies’ money or destroy your chances for good.

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