When a consumer visits your website you only have a few seconds to capture attention and interest. If your website fails to hook them and they leave your website, they may never come back! This could potentially cause you to loose prospects, lose customers, and lose profits.

Here are five things to remember when creating or upgrading your business website to make sure you present your business professionally and credibly, and make a great first impression:

• Just as you need to dress appropriately for a business meeting and put your best foot forward, your business website needs to also put its best foot forward with a clean, polished, professional appearance.
• You wouldn’t neglect your office and let it become an unorganized mess, so don’t let your website become an unorganized disaster either. Keep images in one place, audios in another, documents in another, and use a consistent naming convention to everything is easy to find and streamlined.
• When you are talking about your products and services, you need to be clear about your message and you need to keep it simple. Your website works the same way, so make your website content clear, concise, and simple.
• Just like the time you tried to convince your friend to go to a conference with you, your website should compel your visitor to take action.
• When you meet a new contact in person you give them your business card to make it easy for your audience to contact you. You need to approach your website the same way and make sure that when a visitor comes to your site, your contact information is easy to find.