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Why professional web design is vital

posted on: November 5th, 2009

When you’re trading online, or even if your website is just a brochure for your business, your website acts as your company. It is a reflection of your business practices, your business ethics and generally of you. Therefore, you want your website to come across as being professional, informative, friendly and above all else, easy to use. Despite this, many businesses still believe that they can save money on their web design by enlisting a family friend, student or someone with a computer to do some web development and throw together a website for them. It’s a very cheap solution, can be completed quickly and doesn’t seem to matter one way or the other. Until, that is, you discover the fact that your website isn’t producing any ROI. A cheap web design that has been completed by an inexperienced, amateur web designer may not cost you much in terms of financial outlay, but the lost business and damage to your company’s reputation caused by an inferior website can be extremely costly. If your website is an extension of your business, and an ambassador of your company on the internet, what does your website say about you? Does it say that your business is professional and that your services are first class, or does it say that you shouldn’t be trusted at all? Look at your website from your customer’s point of view. Would you want to use your services? At Click Consult we’re experts at designing successful websites and we know what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t on the internet.

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How in-house SEO can improve your ROI

posted on: October 26th, 2009

There are many reasons why businesses are opting to implement SEO internally. The first and most obvious is that it is cheaper than hiring a full-time SEO professional meaning that their return on investment (ROI) is higher. However, not many businesses can successfully apply their own search engine optimisation campaign. Many business owners automatically assume that their IT department should know search engine optimisation thoroughly and use this tool without problems. Relying on this, however, could be detrimental. You will not only not see a return on investment (ROI) but you will waste a lot of time on trials and errors. To alleviate this problem you can either hire the right in house staff that know enough about search engine optimisation to guarantee you a return on investment (ROI) or you can to outsource SEO service providers to assist your existing IT staff. Will an SEO service decrease your chance of returns? You may think that by making use of an SEO service, your return on investment (ROI) decreases, but this is not true. Sure you will have to pay for the services provided but it is often less cheaper than training your IT department. With less trial and error, you get a return on investment (ROI) much faster. Also, the people you hire to set up the SEO program will only do just that. This often takes very few hours meaning costs of their service is not as high as you think. Your IT department can take over from there.

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