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Lessons Learned From A Website Design Gone Wrong



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was talking to my partner      taken. Instead, it highlights     
the other day and he told       four galleries to showcase        
me about a conversation he      example photos taken (which is a  
had recently with a photographer      good thing to do) but forces the  
friend. They were catching up on      customer to search throughout the 
what each other was doing, having     website to fine even the location 
not seen each other in several        of this company, pricing          
years and. After talking about        information, how to schedule an   
what my partner and I were doing,     appointment, etc. In other words, 
she said that he wished she had       all of the things that make the   
known about that as she had a         artist money are extremely        
website recently built to promote     difficult for a potential         
her portrait photography business     customer to find on their         
and would have rather worked with     website.                       
someone that she knew then                                              
picking the lowest priced website     If that was not bad enough, the   
design company out of the phone       website was not designed to be    
book. She asked us to take a look     found by the major search         
at it and let her know what we        engines. In this web site’s       
thought.                              instance, the only way you could  
                                      find this person’s website would  
What I found in reviewing the         be if you knew the company’s      
site is what is common in most        name. This might be fine if you   
artist websites. The website does     already have great name           
not have a clear call to action       recognition in your industry, but 
of what the visitor needs to do.      otherwise the only way that your  
In this particular instance, the      website will be found is through  
goal of the website should be to      online advertising, print         
drive visitors to make                marketing, and word of mouth.     
appointments to get portraits         This really misses the boat to    



all of the free customer leads                                     
that the search engines can bring                                       
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About the Author:

Aaron Guldberg is the owner of Critical Exposure: A company focused on providing artist web site design services, website optimization reviews and marketing solutions to emerging photographers and photography businesses. You can learn more about Critical Exposure and their artist website solutions by visiting their website.

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