With Winning Websites, Every Detail Matters

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Do you remember back in the early days of website design when you would go to a web host like GoDaddy, Blue Host, or Host Gator and use pre-made templates to create your website? Things have changed a lot since then.

For one thing, websites today need to be unique. Template-built web pages look like all the other ones that also were built using the same format. For another, they need to be optimized for mobile use because most consumers today are using their phones, not their laptops, to surf the web.

Changes in Attitudes

To be effective, today’s small business websites need to be unique. Every detail maters, from the color schemes to the images you use to the font type and size to the layout. The days of simply plugging in a few details about your business and launching using a premade template are over.

Today’s consumers want dynamic, engaging web pages that not only offer the products and services they are searching for, but do it in an interesting and personalized way. Old-school web design offers only outdated results. To be current, you need the type of web design people expect to see when they surf the web.

Lytron Web Design

At Lytron Web Design, we have been helping small business owners just like you create, launch, and manage effective web pages for more than a decade. We’ve evolved along the way, exchanging the simplicity of the template format to the complexity of the uniquely personalized small business websites of today.

The web pages we build are both mobile-ready and unique. And the tools we use to gather data about both how people use your websites and why they arrived there in the first place allow us to improve your web pages to get better and better results.

Does Your Website Reflect Your Personality?

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Your small business is an extension of you. So the website you use to promote it should be an extension of your own personality.

Your friends, family, and co-workers like you because of the way you are. In the same way, the people who visit your small business website will be attracted to your products or services if the website itself is a reflection of your personality. It doesn’t matter if you are goofy, fun, studious, outgoing, introverted, or industrious, whatever qualities you possess should be evident on your web pages.

Personality Plus

In fact, your website should not only reflect your personality, it should amplify it. The reason most people choose small businesses over big corporations or online giants like Amazon is that they like interacting with people. So when your website presents an almost exaggerated version of yourself, it can attract more customers.

People want to do business with people, not computers, AI, or robots. So when they arrive on your small business website, it should be immediately evident that your small business is owned, operated, and run by real people just like them. That’s why putting your personality into your website is so important.

Lytron Web Design

At Lytron Web Design, we help small business owners just like you develop, launch, and manage personality-driven websites that attract customers. People are actively looking online right now for exactly the kind of products or services you offer. But if you want to connect with them, you need the help of professionals who know how to maximize your personality to promote your business to real people.

You started your business because you believed you had something to offer people they couldn’t get anywhere else. When you inject your unique personality into your website, you are giving people what they want: You!

The Small Business Success Formula

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Team Lytron Fort Lauderdale Web Design 3
Team Lytron Fort Lauderdale Web Design 3

There’s no single path that’s guaranteed to success. But for small business owners, there are some shortcuts that allow you to achieve profitability faster.

In today’s digital-centric business environment, lead generation is critical. Right now, there are literally hundreds if not thousands of real customers with money to spend actively looking for businesses just like yours online. When you can capture their attention before your competitors, you win.

But lead generation is not enough. Once people find your business, you need to build trust relationships so you can transform them from passive visitors into active, loyal long-term customers. And above all, you need to have the digital tools to understand which campaigns are working and which are not.

Secret to Success

Stated simply, the formula for small business success looks something like this:

Effective Web Design + Brand Strategy + Analysis – Lead Generation

If you are missing any of these factors, it’s going to be harder for you to win over prospective customers because your competitors are doing the exact same thing. You need to be able to do it better. And that’s where Lytron Strategic comes into play. Since 2001, we have been helping small business owners just like you hit every point in the small business success formula, then take the leads that are generated and convert them into loyal customers.

Lytron Strategic

Our strategic business specialists can use the latest digital tools and strategies to connect active prospects with your business. Then use branding, reputation management, and digital marketing campaigns to create lasting relationships that benefit the bottom line of your business. At Lytron Strategic, we have the technological tools to attract visitors and the branding expertise to convert them into buyers.

We have a proven track record of success. And we can apply this secret of small business to work for you. Let’s get started.

Define Your Brand Before Somebody Else Does It For You

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Lytron Credibility Visibility

No matter how big or how small, every business has a brand. Your brand is however active or prospective customers view your business. You can decide for yourself what you want that to be. Or you can let other people define your brand for you. The former is preferable to the latter.

That’s because when you define your brand, you can craft it however you want it to be. Do you want people to think of your business as reliable, honest, wholesome, and family-owned? Then it’s up to you to build that reputation through your brand strategy. If you don’t, people might think of your business another way — one that is neither accurate nor appealing.

Brand Strategy

A successful brand strategy begins with having a clear idea of exactly how you want your business to be perceived. It can be developed through marketing, social media, and daily interactions with real-world customers. And while it’s not always possible to control every aspect of how people perceive your business, with a determined and consistent brand strategy you can continually promote your reputation according to your desired outcome.

For example, a brand strategy for a day care center might be based on the concepts of safe, professional, clean, and caring. These core values can then be promoted in every element of the business’s public interactions as well as digital marketing, signage, logos, and more.

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When you allow other people to define your brand for you, it’s out of your control. You may not be happy with the result. And there are thousands of small business that are no longer in the marketplace because they didn’t take steps to define their brand according to their terms.

Lytron Strategic specializes in developing, promoting, and sustaining positive brand images for local small businesses. If you know how you want your business to be perceived, we know how to put that brand reputation in front of your customers.

One Website Isn’t Enough

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Today’s small businesses need to have a website where customers can go to learn more about their products and services. With so much commerce switching to online, not having a business website today isn’t practical.

But for small business owners, a single website isn’t going to be enough to penetrate today’s digital-centric marketplace. Instead, the most effective approach is to have a multi-pronged approach that includes both traditional and mobile websites, social media campaigns, direct message capability, and more. Your competitors are likely already doing these things to capture your customers. So if you hope to maintain your market share — let alone grow it — these are the minimum you need to be doing.

Multi-Platform Campaign

Think about the way you look for the products and services you want. Most likely, you aren’t going to drive around your neighborhood looking for a car mechanic, for example. Instead, you are much more likely to Google “car mechanics near me” on your smart phone or tablet. Or you may rely on word of mouth referrals which you would get — you guessed it — from your friends or contacts on social media.

Your customers do the same thing. Everybody does these days. So in order to remain competitive, your small business needs to have multi-platform campaigns that promote your business where you customers are paying attention: Their phones and other devices.

Lytron Web Design

You might think from our name that we specialize exclusively in designing websites. But our business has evolved along with the marketplace. We now offer multi-platform campaigns that penetrate the digital marketplace for small business owners. We can launch and maintain social media campaigns, produce weekly blog content, and even attract business to your primary and mobile websites.

As the business environment changes, successful small businesses need to adapt. With Lytron Web Design on your side, you can capture a larger market share and build your business, your customer base, and your profits.

Color, Design and Images Should Match Your Branding

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When designing a website for your business — or any media, online or otherwise — the choices you make about what colors to use, the fonts you pick, and especially the images you include are hugely important. Most site visitors arrive with certain expectations about your brand. So if they encounter a website that defies those expectations they are going to be confused and possibly turned off.

Consistency in branding is something even small businesses need to be concerned about these days. That’s because thanks to the internet there is no such thing as small businesses anymore. When you are promoting your products and services online, you can attract global customers just as easily as local ones.

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So keeping your branding consistent through every type of media — physical, digital, print, broadcast, and so on — helps attract new customers, retain existing ones, and continually grow and expand your business.

That means website design is a lot more complicated than it used to be. The days of choosing a pre-existing template and just plugging in your business facts are over. Today’s websites need to match your other media in terms of color, design, images, and content.

Lytron Web Design

It used to be relatively simple to get a small business website up and running. Now there are a lot more considerations to include. But at Lytron Web Design, our team of experienced, knowledgeable web design professionals have the skills and tools to make your business website consistent with the rest of your branding.

The websites we create and maintain for you will add to your brand, not clash with it. They will share color schemes, fonts, images, and more. As a result, your web pages will be more comfortable and familiar to your customers, ensuring they return again and again.

 

Connecting Active Seekers with the Products and Services They Want

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Right now, there are people online actively looking for exactly the type or products or services your business offers. They could be across the street or on the other side of the world. But they’re there. The key to success is finding the fastest, most effective ways to connect those people with your company.

The internet never sleeps. At any given moment, there are billions of people streaming videos, scrolling through social media, or typing in keywords to find solutions to problems — or the products or services they believe will improve their lives. At Lytron Strategic, our job is to find those people who are searching for precisely what your business offers and then get them to choose you over all of your competitors.

Simple Solutions

There are a myriad of ways to “hack” the internet so that searchers find your business before everybody else. Some are as simple as finding the right keywords. Or optimizing your website so it looks more appealing to Google and other search engine algorithms.

Others are more complicated, such as structuring your websites so they are simple to interact with yet offer sophisticated tools that create genuine and lasting emotional bonds with site visitors, keeping them engaged with your business longer and creating loyalty to your brand.

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Big conglomerates have entire office buildings full of people who do nothing but these things all day, every day. But what about small business owners? Most are left to figure it out for themselves. However, the most successful ones recruit the help of small business digital marketing strategists like Lytron Strategic.

Our team of experienced, professional web marketing experts knows how to make connections between active seekers to your products and services. Once they find you, our web design team can create an effective plan to get them to choose your business over all of the others.

Put a Face on Your Business

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People make more genuine connections when they associate a business with an actual person rather than simply a vague concept. When you put a face on your business — putting somebody front and center on your marketing, promotions, and advertising — it can engage people on a personal and emotional level that has a more lasting impact.

Think about your own experience. Don’t you tend to remember commercials or print advertisements that feature one person in particular, be it the owner or founder of the company, a spokesperson for the business, or even simply a model hired to be featured in the marketing?

Face Time

It’s wired into our human psychology to make genuine, emotional connections with people rather than things. We’re naturally social beings. So focusing your marketing on individual people offers a shortcut to positive emotional bonds with prospective customers. To make it easier for people to connect with your business, keep it simple by choosing just one or a few people to be the focal point of your marketing campaigns.

But who should be featured? Somebody with a lot of personal charm and charisma but also a person who seems approachable, open, and friendly. Physical attractiveness is a plus, too, but it doesn’t necessarily have to be somebody who looks like a movie star or who has the body of a professional athlete. Normal people relate better to other everyday people.

Lytron Strategic

At Lytron Strategic, we have plenty of great ideas about how to make your digital marketing more appealing to people actively looking online for businesses just like yours. We can help you choose a face for your business the develop strategies for leading people to your business organically.

When you put a face on your business, people feel more comfortable interacting with it, adding warmth, likeability, and even passion for your products or services.

Make a Habit of Visiting Other Websites

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As a business owner, you want your website to be as inviting and compelling as possible. One of the most effective ways to do that is to frequently visit other business’s websites and see what they are doing. When you see something you like, let us know and we can try to incorporate it into your business website.

Websites are continually evolving. So there is always something new and exciting. Finding out what is getting people’s attention right now and making it a part of your business website is a great way to capture a larger market share and keep people coming back to your business again and again.

Cutting Edge Websites

We get calls, emails, and texts from clients all the time saying, “Have you seen what this website is doing?” or “Have you visited this website yet?” Frequently, our web designers are already familiar with what the website is doing, even if we haven’t visited that specific website yet.

Our web team keeps up with the latest advances in website technology. So we usually can incorporate whatever you find into your website to make it more dynamic, more compelling, and more successful. And if you do happen to show us something we have never seen before, you can rest assured we will reverse engineer it so that we can do the same thing for your business.

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We love hearing from clients who are excited about improving their websites. That’s what we want, too.

At Lytron Web Design, we strive to make your website better, bigger, and more exciting for your visitors using the latest techniques, tricks, and technologies. By frequently visiting other websites to see what’s new, you can find new ways to make your own business more successful. Let’s build a better website together for your business.

Video Adds Dynamic Motion to Websites

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Nowadays, most websites include some sort of video on both their home page and their jump pages. Video adds dynamic motion, drawing the site visitor into your business and instantly engaging them in new and exciting ways.

Until recently, web designers tended to shy away from video because they took so long to load. The fear was that too many visitors would click off after becoming impatient with the loading wait time. But speeds and bandwidth have increased and today videos load instantly in most cases.

Value of Video

A website without video is static, meaning it doesn’t have any motion. People using the web today are accustomed to watching streaming videos so they come to expect some sort of action on your website from the moment they land there. If you don’t have any video on your business website, it can look strange and off-putting for people used to watching videos on their devices all day.

If you can include videos on your website, it’s a good idea to do so. Videos add a whole other dimension to your business website, inviting visitors to step inside and see what it is you have to offer. Videos also give you room to show why your products and services are superior to your competitors and boost your argument that visitors should choose your business over everybody else.

Lytron Web Design

The skilled, experienced web professionals at Lytron Web Design can seamlessly weave video into your business website, improving its effectiveness while strengthening loyalty bonds with your customers. They are simple to include and boost value and aesthetics.

When you include videos on your website, you offer people more reasons to do business with your company. Lytron Web Design can make your business websites more active, more compelling, and more successful with the simple addition of video.