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Upgrading your website simply because you think “it’s time” or “there’s a newer version and we want a better website” won’t help your business grow if you don't have a clear objective.
Depending on who you ask within your business, you’ll find you get a whole variety of different objectives people want from a new website.
We want to help you understand the various objectives that your stakeholders may want to achieve from an upgraded CMS so you can directly correlate these goals with business results. Using the SMART model, we’ll guide you to reaching departmental objectives for your new website that will ultimately make your new website (and business) destined for success!
Building a website that means many things to many people...
A successful website can improve awareness, reduce costs, increase sales and facilitate the growth of your organisation. Interview stakeholders (these are usually your Heads of Departments), learn about their needs and how a great website could help them do a great job. We’ve added some common examples for a variety of departments that your organisation may have:
Be SMART....
Setting goals for your website redevelopment could be the difference between your website succeeding or failing.
Your website can’t succeed if you haven’t clearly defined a mission or purpose for its existence. The same can also be said for setting ‘vanity’ goals, they won’t help your new website succeed either. Vanity goals such as increased page views or more visitors don’t always equate to more leads and therefore aren’t successful for your business.
By using the SMART model you are able to set Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Timely goals. Each area of your business will have a different website goal which will help them become a rockstar in their own right.
Those who write down their goals are 42% more likely to achieve them.
To see the rest our website upgrade series, take a look at the links below:
Step 1: Finding out 'Why' the SMART way
Step 2: Identifying your main users and user groups
Step 3: Writing User Stories
Step 4: Documenting Site Features
Step 5: Identifying and adding plugins / modules
Step 6 part 1: Why Benchmarking Helps You Find the Answer
Step 6 part 2: Benchmark Metrics and Tools To Get You Started
Step 7: How to Demo a CMS and Understand Which is Right For You
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