Clarify The End Goal In Your Website

You’re implementing traffic-building strategies, but what about your website content? Is it clear? Will first-time visitors get your main message—the chief way they’ll benefit from your products or services? If they do, they may bookmark your site and return AND refer their friends and colleagues. Remember, developing high-quality content is key to enticing visitors to return again and again.

Why it’s important to clarify the end goal—the top benefit for the reader


What if Santa Claus only checked his list once? Imagine all the disappointed kids who wouldn’t get toys for Christmas.

Now think about the folks who visit your website for the first time. Imagine if they don’t grasp the top benefit that you want your website to convey. What would these folks miss?

Your first-time visitors may not clearly understand the products or services you offer and—more important—how your products or services can meet their needs. You may have successfully attracted these visitors to your website, but they may quickly exit if they don’t immediately understand how your products or services can help them.

Clarifying the end goal in websites is a common oversight

Recently, I helped several clients polish their website copy and other documents they wrote. All were well written, but they shared a common oversight: None had clearly set forth the top benefit—the “end goal” for the reader.

Remember, your reader is asking, “How will your business’ products or services help me?” Therefore, your website (and articles and blog entries) must clarify the end goal. Heck, it should shout the end goal! You can proclaim it in headlines, introductions, conclusions, and calls to action.

How to clarify the end goal

Review your website copy and ask yourself this question: “When my customers use my products or services, what is the TOP benefit they achieve?” For example, you could help them make a change in their life or business, but to what end? What is the end goal?

For example, in my business I help entrepreneurs and small-business owners create hardworking websites and marketing strategies that build traffic and build their lists. Ok. “To what end?” To broaden their reputation as an expert, create multiple streams of income including passive income, and significantly increase their income.

Clarifying the end goal for 3 client projects

1. A healthcare consulting group’s website:

By: Patrice Rhoades-Baum

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If you own a business, your website is your most powerful marketing and sales tool. Marketing consultant and copywriter Patrice Rhoades-Baum teams with entrepreneurs and small-business owners to make their websites DELIVER: clients, income, credibility, results, and success. A Colorado resident and avid outdoorswoman, Patrice is renowned for her down-to-earth website strategies. Visit www.WebsitesDeliver.com for a free audio workshop: “10 Strategies to Make Your Website Deliver!”

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