Wednesday 9 July 2014

The Importance Of Communication With Your Web Agency

Few things are more important to modern businesses than having a good website. And unless you have the design skills yourself, you’re likely to need to enlist the services of a web agency.

The obvious advantage of this is that you will benefit hugely from the agency’s skills and knowledge, while reducing your own workload, not just in terms of design but for coding, SEO, copywriting and user-friendliness, so that you have a professional, effective end result that does for your business what you need it to.

Once you’ve chosen the web agency that’s right for you, you will need to establish a strong relationship with them. After all, your business is unique, and so, whatever skills and tricks the agency has up its sleeve, it can only apply them to your organisation, and develop the best solutions for your website, if it understands your business well.

Clearly, the best way to establish this understanding is for communication between the agency and its client to be as transparent as possible.

That means, for example, allowing your website agency to ask as many questions as it needs to, and for you to both spend as much time as it takes asking and answering questions before work begins. Good working relationships don’t necessarily happen overnight!

As a client, you can also help by giving your web agency constructive, useful feedback every step of the way so that things continue to move in the right direction. Along the way, have pre-arranged stage deadlines and milestones where you can review the situation to ensure both sides are still happy.

Equally, while your brief to the agency is not legally binding, it’s nonetheless hugely important to get right. After all, anything that’s not in the brief won’t happen.

You need to supply:

• Crystal-clear details of the content and structure required for your website
• Company background
• Your design criteria
• Clear aims for the website, what you want it to do, and who it is for
• Websites you already like the look of to give a better idea of what you are after
• Details of any Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) elements
• Any text for the site the agency is not creating itself
• Logo and photos required

Finally, of course, you will need to be precise on agreed costs and timescales for completion from the outset. Once again, it all comes down to good communication. 

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