Website Design
What Is B2B Web Design?
Effective B2B web design is a polished, custom digital platform that integrates your company’s branding and messaging to appeal to your ideal buyer. Business-to-business (or B2B) website design varies from B2C in that it often must appeal to a variety of decision-makers across levels of leadership and vastly different needs.
What You Get with Our B2B Website Designs
Websites your customers want to browse
The B2B web design team focuses on building websites that streamline content and feature efficient navigation—the most content with the least amount of clicks—so your brand message gets across quickly and clearly. The website content needs to be timely and relevant—compelling content that keeps a visitor on your site.
B2B web designs that nurture leads
An effective B2B web design communicates your brand message and entices your visitor to complete a desired action. There needs to be no mystery on why a prospective client should hire your firm over your competition. Our B2B web design team creates clear, compelling, and well-placed calls-to-action to turn website visitors into engaged prospects.
Websites that grow with your business
Our design team ensures your B2B website design is easily scalable so that you can integrate more functionality and content down the road with no issues. For instance, you may add new services, personnel or expand locations. The WordPress CMS makes it simple for a non-technical person to make content changes to the website. Ease of edits on the backend is critical for the future success of your B2B website design.
B2B websites that drive traffic
Your website has little value if no one can find it. Our B2B web design, content strategy and development is executed with the latest SEO best practices in mind so you’re ranking more prominently for target search terms. We identify geo-targeted and industry-specific keyword phrases that help you rank more quickly. Once the website is launched, we drive not only organic traffic but paid, social, etc. We want your B2B website design to not only be beautiful but to also be a gateway to new clients.
B2B website design for speed
Website load time is critical, not only for usability but from a SEO standpoint. At Bop Design, we understand that the cornerstone of an effective B2B website design is page speed. We will develop a website that performs optimally so that visitors stay on the website longer and visit more pages.
A team of experts
A well-planned website requires a team of B2B marketing professionals— brand strategist, web designer, web developer, content strategist, copywriter and SEO expert—in order to reach its full potential. Bop Design employs a team of specialists on all B2B web design projects, creating an effective brand platform to attract and engage ideal prospective clients. Our team has worked on a range of B2B website designs and marketing strategies.
TV Ads Say Websites Are Cheap and Easy, So Why Are Custom B2B Websites Expensive?
You’ve seen the ads, putting together a website is as easy as 1…2…3! All you need to do is add your logo, change the colors, and put in some copy, right?
It’s true that certain website builders, like Wix or Squarespace, enable you to build a website fairly quickly. However, building a custom B2B website design is not so quick (or cheap). Here are a few reasons why those websites advertised on TV are so inexpensive and relatively quick to launch:
1. They Are Customizable Templates, Not Custom Builds
These website building services are template-based. You can choose a template and do various levels of customization, but it’s not a custom B2B website that is designed and built from scratch to meet your needs.
Learn how to determine your B2B website objectives.
2. The Functionality Is Already Set, You Get What You Get
Being that these services make money on volume rather than individual pricing, they are fairly cheap to build. However, along with the minimal cost is minimal functionality. If you want to have custom animation or change how the CTAs function on your website, you are out of luck with a template. You get what you get with the existing functionality.
If you want to have certain features and functionality, your best bet is to work with a B2B website designer and developer who won’t “kinda make the website work,” but who will listen to your needs and make the website function or perform accordingly.
3. You Do All the Heavy Lifting
Just as you can build a house cheap if you do all the construction, you can build a website cheaply if you do all the heavy lifting. That means you have to choose all the images, write all the copy, upload all your resources, position everything on the right pages, implement all the search engine optimization, and more. If want to do all the work yourself, a template website may work for you. However, if you’d like to maintain control without doing all the heavy lifting, you are likely in the market for a custom website design and build.
Why does great web design take so long?
4. You Get What You Pay For, Additional Services Are Additional
The great part, and major drawback, of a template website is that you often get what you pay for, and only what you pay for. It’s important to read up on what is included in the price of the build and what will be extra. Is customer support included or billed at a monthly or hourly fee? Do you need some minor development help? That often costs more and you will be billed every time you ask for revisions. Any additional features or plugins will always cost extra and may be billed a recurring rate. It’s rare that it’s a one-time fee. While you can keep costs to a minimum if you don’t require any assistance, the costs can start to rack up if you want certain levels of customization for your website.
5. You Have Access to Customer Service, Not a Dedicated Team
Many of the template website services advertise that they have 24/7 support –which sounds great. However, it often means that the support is offshored to ensure support is always available, even at midnight in Missouri. It also means that you are emailing or calling into a support center with a rotating staff. If you call or email twice in the same day, chances are you won’t even talk to the same person. They will likely have a ticketing system, but those are only as good as the people entering the notes.
Conversely, custom-built B2B websites are crafted by a dedicated team of 4 – 5 people. The advantage here is that you often only have 2 -3 points of contact and they become familiar with not only your business but with you, personally. There is a level of continuity and responsibility that the call centers just can’t provide.
6. The Ideal Market Is Small, Mom & Pop Shops
If you are that template website builder’s ideal customer, then you should absolutely work with them. They will offer you just the right amount of value for your budget. These types of services are often best for one-person consulting firms and mom and pop shops. Many of your clients will understand that you are a small-scale operation and won’t be put off by a simple, straightforward website that isn’t 100% customized.
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B2B Custom Websites: Totally Worth It If…
B2B custom websites are totally worth the investment if:
- You are looking to create a polished, professional image
- You need to build credibility with prospects, partners, or potential investors
- You are looking to establish your authority in your industry
- You are looking to build a living, breathing resource center
- You are interested in generating qualified leads for your business
There is a slew of other reasons to build a custom B2B website, but these are the main reasons why businesses consider it. For websites, just as in life in general, you get what you pay for. If you pay $50 – $100 for a website, it will look like an inexpensive website. If you invest in a custom web design, you will get a polished digital asset that accurately reflects your company as forward-thinking and established.
The B2B Website Buyer’s Guide
Download the B2B Website Buyer’s Guide to get the tools needed to research, qualify and select the optimal web design agency for your firm’s needs. Learn the questions you need to ask to find the right agency for your website project.
The MEGA Guide to B2B Web Design Best Practices
Whether you are a seasoned B2B marketer looking to make sure you have all your bases covered or a newbie considering a potential website redesign – this is your guide for a successful web design.
Industries We Serve
B2B is a business sector comprised of many different industries. We understand the B2B sales and marketing process and what makes it different—multiple decision makers, longer sales cycle, longer-term partnership, higher-priced sale, etc. We focus solely on the B2B industry—helping companies attract, differentiate and convert. We have extensive experience creating professional B2B web designs for the following industries:
Schedule Your Consultation Today
Ready to discuss acquiring more clients? Do you want your website to be a lead generation tool? Schedule a 30-minute discovery call, so we can learn more about each other and determine if we are a good fit. This is a no obligation consultation. We look forward to hearing from you.
