How to Reduce Website Project-Risk

For many businesses, website projects can be difficult to plan and manage. Setting up the site can be an expensive journey into the unknown, often leading to very disappointing results.

It is understandable for you to be reluctant to tackle your website problems head on - especially when you have other reliable methods of generating revenue, such as advertising and plus your regular offline marketing and PR campaigns.

But did you know, the key to reducing risk is to make sure you have the right information about your website to make a clear and confident decision. Once you have this information you can act quickly, efficiently and confidently to increase the effectiveness of your website and meet your overall business and marketing plans.

How Working With Customers Significantly Reduces Your Project Risk

The information that needs to feed into you project plan to minimise risk and maximise your ability to confidently implement website changes that boost online sales and lead generation are:

• Identifying what is wrong with your from the customer's perspective that stop you meeting your business goals
• Analysing the ways competitor websites meet your customers' goals more effectively
• Identifing what changes need to be made to meet your goals and your customers goals too
• Creating milestones by analysing the severity and frequency of the problems so the biggest issues can be fixed first to - i.e. find the "quick wins"
• Creating a secondary list of issues that do not need to be fixed immediately - i.e. "nice to haves"

Putting the customer at the core of your website improvement activities gives long-term benefits to your  business.

• It creates a unified sense of purpose and confidence within your business that changes are making real improvements not "tinkering round the edges"
• It stops problems that arise from second guessing how customers need your website to work to do business online with you. This increases your level of understanding in your website strategy and reduces your risk by ensuring any changes made to your website are in your interest, and the interest of your present and future customers.
• Project times are significantly reduced because you avoid having to rework your website to fix customer problems you missed the first time round
• Project costs are reduced as the efficiency and effectiveness of applying your changes improves.
• Only work that directly improves your website for you and your customers ends up in the project plan.
• Traffic generation and sales and marketing campaigns become more effective as you are driving visitors to a website that is good at meeting their needs. Visitors that respond to your campaigns end up a website that is intuitive and easy to use and provides them with everything they need to make a confident purchase.

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