{"id":223,"date":"2007-10-23T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/officeondemand.ca\/blog\/?p=212"},"modified":"2009-11-13T09:06:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T14:06:12","slug":"why-97-of-website-marketing-doesnt-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/blog\/web-marketing\/search-engines\/why-97-of-website-marketing-doesnt-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Why 97% of Website Marketing Doesn\u2019t Work\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most web sites don&#8217;t successfully generate more than a small trickle of sales. Is yours one of them?<\/p>\n<p>Let me guess. You have a web site and it may be attracting visitors, but it&#8217;s only generating a couple of sales each week, if any. Is the volume of traffic the problem?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that you need visitors in order to convert them to buyers, but even getting thousands of visitors a day won&#8217;t guarantee a single sale. So you turn to your web designer for the answer to the problem. Your web designer should know what to do, right?<\/p>\n<p>No!<\/p>\n<p>Marcia called me from Chicago. Thanks to some top <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/articles22r\/search.html\">search engine positioning<\/a>, her web design firm&#8217;s site gets around four thousand visitors a day. Wow! Even I&#8217;m impressed by that number. With that kind of traffic, Marcia&#8217;s firm should be generating between two and four hundred leads a day and have more business than they can handle.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Marcia what their conversion rate was &#8211; how many leads they generated from their site &#8211; she told me that it was only one lead per month. That&#8217;s only one lead out of 120,000 visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Ouch! With all the interested prospects that stop by their site but never contact them, Marcia&#8217;s firm is losing millions of dollars of potential business a year, and their site was built by some great web designers.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingforsuccessstore.com\/websales.html\">Want results from your site? Find out how to get visitors to your site &#8211; and &#8211; how to convert them to buyers. Use this link &gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Building a website is like building a house. Given enough time and lumber, you could throw up some kind of structure that you might call a house even without any blueprints. Of course, the plumbing might not work and the kitchen might end up on the third floor.<\/p>\n<p>But you wouldn&#8217;t hire a builder to put up your new home without a plan. You&#8217;re smarter than that. The first thing you&#8217;d do is find an architect to draft a plan for your house. Once you&#8217;d worked out a plan that you liked, you&#8217;d find a builder to turn your plan into reality.<\/p>\n<p>Did you ask your web designer to build your site without first giving them a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/marketing-ideas\/plan.html\">marketing plan<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/articles9f\/writing.html\">marketing copy<\/a> they needed to create a winning site? Whoops, you and 97% of web site owners did the same thing and got the same results.<\/p>\n<p>Web designers build sites, but they don&#8217;t create your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketingforsuccess.com\/MFS-websitemarketing.html\">web marketing strategy<\/a> or the master plan to start with. And without a master marketing plan to get prospect&#8217;s to contact you and to convert them to buyers, no matter how much you spend on your site, it won&#8217;t sell your products and services.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not your web designer&#8217;s job to map your <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingforcussessstore.com\/websales.html\">online selling plan<\/a>, they just build sites. If you told your home contractor you wanted an all black granite kitchen, they&#8217;d build it whether it was a good idea or not.<\/p>\n<p>Web designers and carpenters get paid to create what the owners want. 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