![]() ![]() So when they do finally talk themselves into it, they are ready to make that investment now, not 3 weeks or 3 months from now when your site promises to be up and running. They are worried are going to choose the wrong style, the wrong platform, or-their worst nightmare-get taken advantage of by a stranger on the internet claiming to be an expert. Your clients are doing the same thing when it comes to having their website built. Web designers aren’t the only ones who tend to ‘procrasti-plan’ in their business… REASON #2: If they can’t book now, they probably aren’t coming back …this is your sign to throw your hat in the ring, launch before you feel ready, and put your website to work for you now, not 3 months from now. So if you’ve secretly been hiding behind a ‘coming soon’ page because you worry your site isn’t perfect, or that your business will not take off the minute you hit publish… ![]() Your business and brand is going to be constantly evolving as you learn who it is you love working with and you start tweaking your site to appeal specifically to that persoN. what’s not working if you never put it to the test. Your website can’t do diddly squat for you if no one ever sees it.Īnd you can’t measure what’s working in your design vs. If this is you, then there are two things I want you to know about your website, and really about design in general: So rather than using our next work session to add in all those last little finishing touches so we can hit launch like we planned, we get stuck revisiting the same pages and sections over and overing, analyzing and second-guessing every background photo, button, and bit of text. What was perfect last night (and had us so excited we stayed up until 3AM working it) is suddenly all wrong this morning. So why is this so common? As designers, we have this idea of perfection in our minds, and we won’t hit publish until our design matches…but ‘ perfect’ is a moving target. If this is you, I want you to know you’re not alone, and that I’m not here to poke fun. ![]() I make a mental note to check back later to see the finished design because now I’m intrigued and I have to know how it ends.ģ weeks later what do I find? A ‘coming soon’ page.ģ months? Nope. So yah, if I come across a new designer’s link, you can bet I’m searching it!īut do you know what I find more often than not when I land on a new web designers domain? You guessed it. You can have hundreds or even thousands of people essentially trying to sell the same thing, but their all managing to do it in a totally unique-to-them way. Not to be judge-y or weird or anything…simply because I love seeing all the creativity out there. ![]() Ok, so I don’t know about you, but I love to snoop around people’s sites. REASON #1: A ‘ coming soon’ page makes it easy to put off launching If you did a search, you’d have no trouble finding thousands of articles and blog posts outlining why every website needs a ‘coming soon’ page, and all the best practices for building one.īut in today’s video, I’ll be sharing a few reason why it might actually be time that web designers break up with this rule, and what to do instead!Ĥ reasons to ditch the ‘coming soon’ page as a web designer How long has your site been ‘under construction’ for? Rather read all about it? Here’s what we chatted about in the video…īe honest, if I visited your website TODAY, would I find a ‘coming soon’ or ‘ under construction’ page? Prefer to watch? Here’s tHAT VIDEO FOR YA!įree Training! 4 Simple Steps To DOUBLE Your Site Sales ![]()
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