Client Website Development Questionnaire

Your Full Name (required)

Your Email (required)

Your Business Name (required)

Your Business Address (required)

Website address – or desired Domain(s) (required)

1. Tell us about your Company.
Please give us a brief overview of the company, what you do or produce?

2. What is the purpose of this site?
This section should include an overview of what the general purpose and goal of the web site is.
Please check the box that applies to you.
Explain your products and services
Bring in new clients to your business
Provide your customers with information on a certain subject
Deliver news or calendar of events
Create a blog that addresses specific topics or interests
Sell a product or products online
Provide support for current clients

3. Do you have a time frame or deadline to get this site online?
(If you have a specific deadline, please state why.)

4. How much are you willing to spend? (If you don’t have a budget please provide a range that you are willing to invest, or more importantly how much money you want to make from the site in the first year. Please keep in mind that most custom sites for small business will run in the mid-six figures.)

TARGET MARKET

5. Who will visit this site? Describe your potential clients. Young, old, demographics, etc.

6. Why do you believe site visitors should do business with you rather than with a competitor? What problem are you solving for them?

7. What action(s) should the user perform when visiting your site? Please put an X next to the ones that apply to you.
Call you
Fill out a contact form
Fill out a quote form
Sign up for your mailing list
Search for information
Purchase a product(s)

CONTENT

8. What are you offering? Make a list of all the sections/pages you think that you'll need. (Samples below are just an example to get you started)

9.Do you have the written contents and images/photographs prepared for the pages list above?
Yes
No

10. If your answer to question 9 is no, will you need copywriting and photography services?

11. Are you willing to commit time/effort into learning how to use WordPress and edit your site or do you want us to continue to manage your website (update contents)?

12. Is this a site re-design

13. If yes, can you please explain what is working and not working on your current site?

14. Are you going to need?
• Ecommerce (sell products)
• Membership of any kind

15. Are there any additional features that you would like for your site or things that you would like to add in the future? Please be as specific and detailed as possible.

DESIGN

16. People are coming to your new site for the first time. How do you want them to feel about your company?

17. Are there corporate colors, logos, fonts, etc. that should be incorporated?

18. If you do not already have a logo, are you going to need one designed?

19.Is there a specific look and feel that you have in mind

WEBSITES OF YOUR CLOSEST COMPETITION

20.Please include at least 3 links to sites of your competitions. What do you like and don't like about them? What would you like to differently or better?

WEBSITES THAT WE LIKE

21.Along with putting down the site address, please comment on what you like about each site, i.e. the look and feel, functionality, colors, etc. These do not have to have anything to do with your business but could have features you like. Please include at least 3 examples.

MARKETING YOUR SITE

22. How do people find out about your business right now?

23. Have you thought about how you're going to market this site?

24. Do you have any social network accounts setup? (Facebook, Twitter, etc)

25. Do you want links to those accounts on your site?

26. Do you have a mail service account? (Constant Contact, MailChimp, etc.)

27. Will you want to build your mailing list and use it for advertising & newsletters?

28. Will you want printed materials (business cards, catalog, etc.) produced as well?

29. If someone were searching for your product/service, what types of search terms (single words or phrases) might they use? Please list all the possible search terms you can think of.

DOMAIN AND HOSTING

30.Do you already own a domain name(s)?

31. Do you have a hosting account already?

32. If yes, do you have the login/IP, Name server details?

33. If no, what name(s) would you like?

MAINTENANCE

34. Will there be sections that need regular updating? Which ones?

35. Would you like to be able to do most of the updating yourself?

36. If you’re planning on writing a blog do you already have several things written?

37. Do you already write on a regular basis?

38. Are there any features/pages that you don’t need now but may want in the future? Please be as specific and future thinking as possible.

39. Your Remark