Internet is no more an alien thing and there are more internet-enabled devices present in the world today than the total world population and every John & Jane knows where to shop the things they need, read something interesting or book travel or movie tickets.
Over the past few years many new web technologies have been introduced, many website components have evolved making it easier for brands to attract a decent audience. These components help the visitors understand your content more quickly, scale your business and make the necessary decisions to use your services. Using these components can definitely bring your business to life. Following is a list of the components that I believe to be crucial for all small or large scale business/digital agency websites.
Cost Estimation Form:
If you run a web hosting business or you sell customized gadgets/apparels online, you must have a cost estimation tool to easily sell your customized services & products using unique eye-catching cost calculator forms. Your customers can get an accurate estimate of the final cost of your products/services and more importantly they can customize their orders as per their budgets/requirements which gives you more grip over your customers. See my homepage for live preview.
Interactive Maps:
If you have a website for your industry, shopping mall or college, you must have an interactive map installed with built-in interactive pins/markers with rich content and actions to help the visitors explore the infrastructure of your industry/shopping mall. The interactive map embedded on a college website can help new students to get acquainted with college premises, infrastructure, resource centers, etc.
With these custom interactive maps, you can highlight number of landmarks or locations on your website with customizable pins, icons and various actions, and with deeplinking, every location can provide useful information to the users.
360 Virtual Tours:
Every day, smart business owners choose online property marketing solutions to showcase their hotel services or real estate listings and accelerate sales. The use of such technology enables the seller to create a highly competitive means of presenting his/her properties to the potential buyers.
360º virtual tours are interactive and offer your web visitors unparalleled access to your location or business without ever leaving your website whilst boosting your web visitor retention and sales or bookings.
Calls To Action (CTA):
Calls to action are popup modals / buttons / statements that encourage visitors to take a specific action on your website that benefits you. A CTA can be used to spur users to take any step: download a file, fill out a survey form, buy a product, or even just click through to another page or post. Other CTA encourage visitors to get in touch with you to schedule a consultation or request estimates.
The above components are just some of the many things you can add to your website to make it more effective and user friendly and improve the quality of your business. I will keep adding more interesting stuff to the list, so watch this space folks!