Sooner or later, you have to have a website for your company. Even if you don’t plan to sell your services or products via the Internet, a website to represent your company is way more important than you think.
It flaunts your brand outright to the masses. Broadcasting about the brand gets easier.
So, how do you get the website done? Do you hire a freelancer? Do you hire a web development agency? Or you prefer DIY?
You must read this to get the answer: https://www.bytegrow.com/5-reasons-hiring-web-development-agency-better-freelancer
Whatever it is, the most important question is whether they will be able to cater to the ingredients a professional and rate-conversion website must?
A good website must make your visitors feel connected and intrigued by your services/products. A well-crafted landing page can be a very good chance to direct the visitors to your website.
But if the visitors keep bouncing off your site, Google might never put you in its favorite list and in fact, put you on reverse gear. I’m sure that’s something you’re not looking for. Before Google pulls out its plug for you, let’s see what are the things you must keep in mind to derive the maximum ROI of your business.
Hiring a Web Development Agency is a crucial decision. You have to think big, extra and relevant.
Table of Contents:
1. List of Expectations
2. Examine the Credibility
3. Background check
4. Effective Communication
5. Powerful Portfolio
6. Quality Evaluation
7. Maintenance and Support
1. List of Expectations
Before you hit tons of web development agency with a desire to hire one of them, make sure you have a list of things you’re expecting out of them.
In simple words, first, you need to strategize your own company requirements. The more details you provide to them, the better the website will be.
Nevertheless, if you are totally point blank about the website development and its list of requirements. There is always a project manager or a consultant who will cross-question you to get to know what will work best for your company.
Some agencies have started a mandatory questionnaire form so they acknowledge the actual requirements and present a website that works best for you.
Apart from the client’s website development, the agency also incorporates various digital marketing strategies to promote business online. An expert can only do it appropriately.
2. Examine the Credibility
Ask the truckload of questions! Do all that it takes to satisfy you with the authenticity of the agency. Many agencies just claim hippo-size results and come out to be just a rat.
So it is always recommended to be a smart mouth and do your investigation. Here are a few questions you can ask them
1. A rough estimate of your project.
2. Who is going to be the reporting person who will provide them the weekly report or work progress?
3. Check what are their criteria for getting the revised versions of the website.
4. A time frame in which they finish a general web development work.
5. Ensure they are ready to integrate your ideas and vision along with their expertise.
6. Which technology will they work on and why? For e-commerce development, WordPress is the best CMS.
7. What is the design process?
Also read: https://www.bytegrow.com/top-10-reasons-choose-wordpress-cms-platform
Avoid procrastination and ask these questions to all the web development companies you approach. It will help you compare the quality work and choose the best web agency.
Bytegrow Technologies is one of the reputed agencies in India which has a set of amazing developers and designers that offers ground-breaking websites. You should check their website and blogs to stay updated with the latest trends in web development.
3. Background check
Testimonials are an effective way to do a background check of the agency.
The agency cannot lie about their testimonials.
They are the sole reason a company can establish trust and boost business.
Coming from an unbiased source, clients tend to have more trust in them than the company’s “word of mouth” play.
A check on the work culture is equally important. Imagine the worst scene, you hired an offshore company and they provide you a website that is not even near to your expectations and they raise their hands to revise it. Won’t it leave you all pale and blue?
If possible, walk up to the office in person or double-check online about the location they have put on the Google map.
4. Effective Communication
Communication is the most essential part and can’t be neglected no matter what.
Effective communication will contribute to incorporate the web design as you like.
Whichever organization you choose, make sure they are available to communicate at a decent time and open to your ideas and suggestions.
Apart from this, they must be clear with your target audience and online strategies.
Finding a company is no big deal but a company that tends to put efforts to understand your requirements and report you the progress is a real gem.
The reason I am stressing over this point is that you are going to maintain and update your website in the future and it is always a good idea to give the work to the original company you get the website done with.
Bytegrow Technologies is always available for daily communication to provide daily updates and review the developed features. This process of development ensures that progress is moving in the right direction.
5. Powerful Portfolio
What makes you feel confident about hiring a specific web development agency? A powerful portfolio!
They can’t have a portfolio by accident. The secret of doing amazing work is that it keeps multiplying and the potential clients lie on the agency’s doorsteps automatically.
Whether they have built a website for a top-notch company or for a friend, a relative or a pro-bono, all the experiences have gained them enough website under their belt.
If the company is offering you just a sugar-coated proposal with no portfolio to show, drop it.
A compelling portfolio website will help you decide if their ideas and quality of work sync with your vision of the website.
6. Quality Evaluation
Don’t go crazy if the agency tells you that they offer website development literally on all the technologies, Shopify, WordPress, Magento, Squarespace, Wix, etc. They could be a jack of all trades and masters of none.
Stating the above, I’m not saying a company cannot be good at all but if the quality of the end-product is not amazing, is it even worth it?
Here are some points to check the quality of the website:
1. The website must be responsive compulsorily if you are looking forward to a good amount of incoming traffic. According to a study in the US, over 1/3 of the adults use mobile to check out a web app.
2. Check the broken images.
3. Test the speed of the website.
4. Cross-browser compatibility and different platform support.
7. Maintenance and Support
Last but not least; learn about the company’s approach as it will affect your future work with them.
Ask the company if they provide on-going maintenance and support. If yes, what are their charges?
You sure don’t want to end up giving up your hard-earned money just for the updates and maintenance of the website.
Bytegrow Technologies provides free maintenance of 3 months including tutorials, small updates, issues fixes and monthly backups of the site. Isn’t that amazing?
It would be wise to get involved in the design process to get what you want in the first go.
This would avoid having a new deadline or having an extra budget.
It’s a good idea to let your original web company handle your maintenance so make a smart decision on your hunt of a web development service provider.
Final Thoughts
Reliable technology is a must while choosing to the onboard Internet with your company or starting up directly as an online store.
Hire the right team, and it will be your best investment, trust me.
If you want to hire us for a great website building, you can contact us and our team would be happy to brainstorm about your ideas and start a new relationship with you.
