If you are doing business by selling products online, then the website visitors or say readers are your customers. It is not always possible that you people are buying online and you are earning. A periodic review has to be conducted to check if the purpose is being served or not. Do customers really meet their demands? Just informing them through social networking media and blogs is not enough.
Seven important requirements which your website should meet are:
- Easy to use:Your website should be user friendly. It should be easy to move around and navigate. Customers require everything to be simple and easy to find. Your product details, contact information, company profile etc. should be easily found. The text font size should be readable and the links provided should be keyword rich.
- Content clarity:The content text of your website should be clear and understandable. Details of products, price should be mentioned. There should not be any beating about the bush.
- Reliability:Your website has to have a contact information page will all the correct information in case if the customer wants to reach you. Avoid having free e-mail address (e.g. @gmail). You should have email id with your domain. Third party confirmation like twitter follower or facebook fans also adds to your reliability.
- Individuality and uniqueness:If your site appearance is not good, you will lose customers interest of going through your site and your products. Your site and products should have something different in them. If you are just another site, it is not going to work.
- Customer involvement and participation:You should be easily reachable. You should provide an easy way to have an interaction between you and customer. It will be appreciated if you are highly available. Provide them with as many as possible alternatives.
- Personalization:Every customer expects individual attention. E.g. the emails send for notifications should contain their name. Get information about their individual tastes and offer products suitable to them.
- Security:Customers want to be sure about privacy of details they provide. E.g. for selling merchandise security will be SSL security, if communication is through social media, security will be not disclosing the interactions held.
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