Because your business matters

This post might just might get me ostracized since many of the online marketers I know are sensitive about their vocation.  I like a challenge and I look forward to the comments.  Here goes!

I've never met a marketer who didn't claim to have the answer for a client's lack of sales.  These folks "preach" about how important good SEO is and how social media will end their search for the ever elusive client.  We've also heard the importance behind a good adwords campaign and the use of keywords.  And I can't forget that we've also got to include the HIU.  You know what an HIU is right?  The human interface unit. 

Here's my take on the situation.  Good SEO, SEM, SMM or any other acronym is not going to bring you more clients nor will the right keywords.  And social media is just a fancy way of saying networking so you can forget about it delivering paying clients with any continuity unless your first examine your business systems and practices.

Take an average website for instance.  The site will have a home page, maybe a product/service page, most certainly an about us page and the required contact us page.  Sound familiar.  If that's all it took to get new clients online, then everyone would be rich now because everyone has these things.  So why isn't it working out?

Why is it that most websites can count on one hand how many new visitors they get every day and can use that same hand to count the number of new clients they get every month?  The answer lies in the lack of an organized business system.  So let's talk about that for a moment to really stir the pot.

Can you describe to me in a succinct, easy to grasp manner, your sales process when that elusive original site visitor shows up at your website?  If you can answer this question and better yet, if you can implement your website with the answer to this question guiding your every decision, then you and only then will your online business thrive.

So, let's get a little controversial here for a moment.  Who's fault is it?  Of course it's the web marketer's fault!  Shame on them!  Instead of focusing on tactics that don't always work, they would create more success stories if they offered a strategy designed to make the website a part of a client's selling process instead of a fancy online business card.