{"id":175,"date":"2012-03-15T17:15:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T23:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bubblemedia2.wpengine.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2013-09-04T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T16:40:26","slug":"website-looks-great-whats-wrong-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"My Website Looks Great, What\u2019s Wrong With That?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing wrong with a great looking website if that\u2019s all you want. But most local businesses also want their website to make the phone ring and generate sales. A great looking website doesn\u2019t, by itself, achieve these goals.<\/p>\n<p>A website is the transition from marketing to sales\u00a0&#8211; where advertising stops and customer acquisition begins.<\/p>\n<p>When done right, a website takes the interest generated from a Google search, a direct visit or link from local advertising and turns that interest into a phone call or an email lead. When done wrong, a website is just one more rabbit trail a customer goes down before they buy from a competitor.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s some quick rules of thumbs to use to see if your website is achieving the right goals?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Would you direct someone you meet at a party to your website for more information? Do you trust it to close the deal?<\/li>\n<li>Has someone filled out the lead capture form on your website in the last month?<\/li>\n<li>Has someone called the phone number on your website?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If the answers to any of these are no, then your website may be attractive but not doing its job. There is a solution to this problem. BubbleLife Media routinely turns great looking websites into great looking websites that generate results.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Want Your Website to Generate Sales?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in turning your website into a great performing website, give us a call.\u00a0 Our affordable and sales-focused solutions are ideal for maximizing results and minimizing costs. We promise we&#8217;ll make it easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is nothing wrong with a great looking website if that\u2019s all you want. But most local businesses also want their website to make the phone ring and generate sales. A great looking website doesn\u2019t, by itself, achieve these goals. A website is the transition from marketing to sales\u00a0&#8211; where advertising stops and customer acquisition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-websites"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}