Keep Visitors on Your Website Longer with these 9 Engagement Tips
For most small businesses your website is the first contact potential customers have when they want to learn more about you, your business, your products or services. The question is: Do they stay on your site or do they leave as soon as they land? Here are 9 Tips to encourage visitor engagement and drive them to your cash register.
by Herb Lawrence, Arkansas State University Small Business and Technology Development Center…Engaging Entrepreneurs from the Delta to the Ozarks
You took the time to create a website or have one developed for you to try to connect with potential customers because you know they are searching online to find information. You want to show off how great your business is and why they should want to connect with you… but how effective is your website? Many times, without even realizing it, we are discouraging visitors from staying on our site because of the way it is designed!
Do you want to increase the amount of time visitors stay on your site and get them more engaged? Here are 9 helpful tips from our friend Eric Spellmann with Spellmann and Associates that can significantly improve visitor experience (and put them in your sales funnel).
Watch this short video then:
- Go to your website and see how many of these you are “guilty” of,

- Check out the easy tips to improve your website’s visitor engagement, and…
- Make plans to attend our Website Design and Marketing Workshop in Batesville, AR Thursday, August 16th. (details after the video).
Want to spend a little extra time looking at these tips? Then check out the power point of our video at our Slideshare site.
Now it is time to get more insight into what it takes to have a really effective website that will grow your visitors engagement and make your presence a marketing powerhouse.
Join the ASU SBTDC for Website Design and Marketing workshop in Batesville on Thursday, August 16th from 1:30-4:30 pm at the Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce. Our speaker will be Steven Trotter with Pleth LLC. Steven has an extensive background in both web design and creating successful online marketing tools. You will come away with tools, tips and techniques you can use to make your website standout for your visitors and get them into your Sales Funnel.
Seating is limited to 18 attendees so grab your chair before they are all gone!
Register with the Batesville Area Chamber of Commerce (870) 793-2378 or contact Mandi Curtwright, Events Coordinator at officemanager@mybatesville.org and get your website humming.
Don’t forget, the ASU Small Business and Technology Development Center also offers free and confidential consulting assistance to small businesses on a variety of marketing topics as well. Want to have a “Website Check Up?” Our consultants, Laura Miller and Robert Bahn can work with you with our free Web Optimization Review. See details below.

