I get emails, phone calls and contact forms all the time from brick and mortar businesses that are curious about getting their business on the web but more often than not they feel spending a couple of thousand dollars for a website just “isn’t in the budget” and that’s really a shame because most of these people don’t realize these days a well built website is the most effective means of attracting new customers.

So I have come up with a set of questions that I ask most potential clients and I really think anyone considering having a website built for them should ask themselves and their friends these questions.

  1. When you are looking for a product, information or services where is the first place you look? Is it the phone book, the newspaper, the TV or is it in fact the internet.
  2. When you search the internet for something how many pages of search results will you wade through before you give up or try other search terms?
  3. When you find a site you think may have what you are looking for how long will you spend looking through it before you move to the next search result?
  4. Does the appearance, layout of the site effect your willingness to do business with the company?
  5. Is the site set up in a manner that makes you feel safe buying from them online?

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Jul
21

I have been debating about a blog for a long time now. While I have my articles section on the site that area is mostly for developers. I thought sharing some tips, tricks, ideas and business thoughts, geared towards site owners and people wanting to get their business online might be in order.

Maybe we can clear up some of the ‘hoodoo voodoo’ mysteries about the web with some short, to the point blogs that are written in a language just about anyone can understand. Hope you stop back often and if you have a question you would like answered here on the blog please feel free to contact me at dave [at] davidcdalton.com and I will do everything I can to try and anser your questions here on the blog.

Who knows, it might be fun and we all just might learn something, myself included.

Dave