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Website Mastery

Website Design, Development, and Optimization

Web Design, Development & Optimization

Website Mastery is a comprehensive process that starts with creating a sales-centric website, and then shifts to training your team on how to continuously drive results using it. This results in an easy-to-use website, better educated prospects, and no dependence on (or budget for) an agency to keep your site up-to-date.

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Mary Brown, IMPACT’s Head Website Strategist, walks through everything you need to know about Website Mastery.
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“IMPACT taught us how to be self-sufficient in our digital marketing and website development needs.”
TJ Payne
Marketing Specialist, Ethos Insurance Partners
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“There's been a significant uptick in traffic; our traffic has increased by about 7x from this program.”
Eric Wince
CEO, Coeo Solutions
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“I cannot underestimate the importance of the coaching that we had and continue to have. The process we went through with continual coaching and incremental changes was super helpful.”
Denise Schmitz
Web Strategy Head, Neumann Monson Architects
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“They weren't here to just build a website. IMPACT was seeking to really understand what we needed at the core of our organization and what we do every day.”
Rachel Burnham
VP of Marketing, Skyla Credit Union
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Website Mastery Overview

Companies All Over the World Have Created User-Focused Websites with IMPACT

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Whether service or product-based, B2B or B2C, local, national, or international, we have helped companies of all shapes, sizes, and industries worldwide optimize their websites and learn how to maintain their results in-house.

Completely Frustrated with Your Website’s Results? Feeling Helpless to Fix It? Stop Spinning Your Wheels.

If you’re on this page, you’re likely experiencing a few of the following frustrations:
  • You’ve invested heavily into new websites in the past, but have yet to see the results you were hoping for.

  • Your team lacks the knowledge and expertise to sustain a website's sales and marketing performance over the long term.

  • You want to have more control over what you do with your website, but the way it was designed and built makes it almost impossible for you to make the necessary changes.

  • Your website isn’t keeping up with the wants of today’s modern buyers. The user experience is poor, and because of this, you’re losing serious ground to your competitors.

  • Your traffic and rankings are going down, and you’re not really sure how to fix this.

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IMPACT Breathes New Life Into Your Website and Marketing Team

At IMPACT, we’ve taken a decidedly different approach to helping our clients build websites.

Based on some of the most successful client website case studies in the world, we’ve seen time and time again there are three simple, yet essential, elements of web success.

In a nutshell, you must have the following:

  • A clear framework to follow with your website content strategy and messaging.

  • A website that is easy to change, evolve, and improve — and that still looks incredibly professional and represents your brand.

  • A deep understanding and belief that your website is never done. It should be constantly improved, and you should have that ability in-house, WITHOUT having to call an agency to do it for you every time.

With rare exceptions, few marketing agencies in the world provide all three of these elements.

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Benefits & Expected Outcomes

Visible ROI, More Revenue, and a Better Team

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To get even more granular, as part of our Website Mastery program, you’ll experience:

Clear Messaging

In Website Mastery, your team will learn how to craft the right content and messaging to address your audience’s most important questions and optimize them for search engines. If you’ve ever been unclear about how to write content that will resonate with your users and clarify how you help them, this will now be a thing of the past.

More Conversions

Once people are on your website, you MUST get them in your pipeline. Our strategists will fully optimize your website to generate leads, then train you on how to keep the results long term through variant testing and other conversion rate optimization techniques.

More Sales

When your website is properly leveraged by your team and gives prospects all of the information they need to make smart buying decisions for themselves, your sales cycles will decrease while your closing rates will rise. Along with this, your sales team will now have the ability to get VERY intentional with quality content in the sales process.

A Savvier Team

The end-goal is that your team has an updated, easily editable website that you don’t pay an agency month over month to maintain, update, and optimize. Your team will be trained on how to review reports/data so as to improve your buyer journey, increase qualified leads, and keep your website performing well.

Easy-to-Use Websites

Your team will finally have the knowledge necessary to keep your site optimized, converting, and growing by leveraging a flexible system built on HubSpot or WordPress. We provide you with robust features that can be used to make changes on your website, without the need of a developer (unless you need a brand new module design or functionality).

Freedom

In the end, you’ll have an easy-to-use website, a defined strategy, and a team that knows exactly what to do next. What’s this mean? You’re free. Free to do your best work. Free to reach your potential.

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“We more than doubled our daily traffic within a week of launch. We instantly saw that number increase, and it hasn't gone back down.”
TJ Payne
Marketing Specialist, Ethos Insurance Partners
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“The outcomes we've seen have been unbelievable. Just a few months after we launched, we saw a big increase in our analytics.”
Denise Schmitz
Web Strategy Head, Neumann Monson Architects
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“It's given us the ability to do a lot more on our own. We can produce our own content and run our own website without the help of a third party.”
Eric Wince
CEO, Coeo
Website Design & Development

You Need a Website That Drives Sales Growth, Not Just Traffic or Leads

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Most people think of their website as something to be updated every few years. In reality, the companies that generate the best results make continuous improvements to their site based on user data, and leverage the site as a key part of their sales process.

The Website Mastery process starts with launching a conversion-optimized website quickly — usually within 4 months — then testing and iterating to drive the best results possible. All while training your team on how to do the same things in-house.

This is for companies that don’t think about their website as a project that they complete then move on from, but instead, constantly iterate and improve. They understand that a well-performing, buyer-focused website needs to have specific features and fundamentals to succeed.

This process teaches your team how to review data in a variety of tools so you can run experiments that can improve your user experience and conversion rates, and ultimately drive more revenue from qualified leads.

This is not “set-it-and-forget-it” website redesign.

What’s Included in a Web Design?

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Website Audit

What pages and content do you currently have? What’s missing? What’s working? What’s not? Web Mastery starts by working with your team to audit the current state of your website and diagnosing what needs to be done to achieve your marketing and sales goals.

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Website Strategy

With your marketing and sales goals in mind, we develop individual strategies for each of the core pages of your website. This includes their messaging, layout, conversion points, videos, and more to help your website be the best sales tool possible.

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Website-Messaging
Website Messaging

Communicating what your business does in a clear, concise, yet compelling way is easier said than done. In Website Mastery, you’ll start with a workshop where your team will learn how to streamline its message using the StoryBrand and They Ask, You Answer frameworks on your website, as well as in articles, video scripts, and more.

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Learning-Center
Learning Center

Producing high-quality content that answers your buyer’s questions on your website instills that you are a trusted authority in your space. At IMPACT, we’ve seen time and time again the most user-friendly and effective way to deliver this information is through what we call a “Learning Center.” Once your website includes a fully optimized and easy-to-navigate learning center to display your articles, videos, etc., you’ll notice a massive uptick with such metrics as time on site, page views, qualified conversations, and more — so long as you’re generating consistent, quality content.

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Agile Design and Development

The quicker we can get your core website launched, the quicker we can start gathering real user data to fine-tune and improve future changes. Once the site is up, we’ll start training your team on how to analyze the website’s performance and guide you in making incremental changes to improve your results.

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Website Health Optimization

Understanding the health of your website is crucial to its long-term success. Not only will you launch an optimized website that’s strategized for search and conversion performance, but we will teach your team to be comfortable and confident in analyzing their own data using tools like HubSpot, Lucky Orange or Hotjar, Semrush, and Google Analytics 4. You’ll focus on reading data, performing tests, and making data-driven decisions based on their findings so you can continuously improve your results over time.

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Web Design Portfolio

Here’s a sample of companies that have driven incredible success through their websites after going through Website Mastery and Ongoing Optimization.

What Does the Process Look Like?

Talk to an IMPACT Web Strategist (NOT a Salesperson)

Instead of following the pattern of most agencies that start by introducing you to a salesperson, our discovery process starts with an actual IMPACT Web Strategist. They’ll use this time to learn more about the challenges you’re facing, get a pulse on the current state of your organization and website, and go over next steps.

Instead of attempting to “sell” you, our goal here is to truly identify what type of help you need, what such a process would look like, and whether or not IMPACT would be the right fit for your organization. This includes figuring out if a website redesign is actually going to solve the pain you’re experiencing.

We’ll also talk through key decisions and process items such as:

  • What content creation will look like for your team
  • What CMS we’ll be building on (either HubSpot CMS or WordPress)
  • Who is going to “own” the site in-house for the long term
  • What special functionality you may need

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Strategy, Design, and Development

Once an agreement is in place, build-out begins with a discovery session where the strategist will review your current site and marketing efforts to understand such factors as:

  • Current content (what we need to keep, and what we need to redo)
  • Pages that drive the most traffic/engagement
  • The most important touch points for the user
  • Gaps in our user journey that need to be addressed

This discovery will inform your new site architecture, which is the bones of your site.

Once this is set, you'll move into design and page strategy, where we see what the site will look and feel like — both from an aesthetic point of view and a user flow standpoint.

The focus during the design process is to create a visually appealing site that is optimized for speed and ease-of-use for your team.

Launch and Training

We don’t drag our feet when it comes to launching your website. We’ll work to get core website pages up and running first, then start gathering data to perfect them and build out the rest. During this time, we’ll also start training your team on how to make updates to your website using your custom modules. Then after launch, you’ll learn how to analyze and interpret your website analytics so you can keep improving on your own.

Website Optimization

It’s Not Enough to Launch a Strategic Website — You Have To Optimize It

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Most agencies build out your website and then you’re left to your own devices…until you come back and do it again because the results didn’t stay consistent.

The Importance of Ongoing Optimization

Your website really is a living, breathing thing that, if left on its own, won’t grow to reach its full potential. That’s where ongoing optimization and improvement comes in.
These activities help your business take your new site and keep it performing at its best for years to come. Through Website Mastery optimization, your team will learn how to do this in the most efficient way possible.

What's Included with Website Mastery Optimization?

Audit
Audit

In Web Mastery optimization, we work with your team to audit the current state of your website and diagnose what needs to be done to achieve your marketing and sales goals. We’ll take into account what you’d like to maintain, as well as knowledge of your industry, audience, goals, search engine optimization, and conversions to determine next steps.

Strategy
Strategy

With your marketing and sales goals in mind, we develop individual strategies for each of the core pages of your website. This includes their messaging, design, conversion points, videos, and more to help your website be the best sales tool possible.

Website-Updates
Website Updates

The quicker we can get your changes launched, the quicker we can start gathering real user data to fine tune and improve in the future. Once the changes and tests are live, we’ll start training your team on how to analyze the website’s performance and use the data to inform decisions in the future.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

Of course, there are other sources of traffic like social media and referrals, but with most people starting their purchasing journey with a web search, optimizing your website and content for search engines can't be neglected. By the end of your Mastery program, we’ll have taught you everything you need to know to outrank competitors, including keyword research, optimizing headers, writing compelling meta descriptions, managing technical SEO, creating pillar content, and more.

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Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

Once you’ve got the traffic, you need to turn that traffic into opportunities. Your team will learn the ins and outs of conversion rate optimization, including behavioral data analysis, multivariate (A/B testing) in HubSpot, and how to view the data to make the best decisions for your users.

Analytics
Analytics

In our training, your team will learn to not only be comfortable, but also confident in analyzing your specific data using tools like HubSpot, Hotjar and Lucky Orange, Google Search Console and Analytics, and more.

Is It Right for You?

How Do I Know If Website Design and Optimization Is Right for Me?

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At IMPACT, we understand our services aren’t for everyone. In fact, our Website Mastery and Optimization offerings may not be a good fit for you.
To clarify this important decision, consider the following:
You're not a good fit for Website Mastery and Optimization if...
  • You feel you already have the perfect website strategy as a business.

  • You don’t believe your website should be constantly updated to drive the best long-term results.

  • You’re generating the trust, traffic, leads, and sales you want, and don’t feel an urgency to improve these metrics.

  • You don’t want a website that is easy for you to change, update, etc. In fact, you’d rather just make a phone call and have an outside company do that for you.

  • You already have designs or strategies created and aren’t interested in feedback or improving them.

  • You’re not interested in making sure your team understands website best practices.

  • You’d rather reach out to an agency to get all your performance metrics than simply be able to find that information yourself.

  • You have no interest in ongoing website optimization and improvements.

We’ve stated the information above because we really do want this decision to be black and white for you. We want you to know if our method aligns with your goals. This way, any time we spend discussing your project will be time well spent, as we’ll all start off on the same page, with the same expectations.
Pricing

How Much Does It Cost to Create a Website With IMPACT?

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How much does a website cost?
At IMPACT, we understand that one of your key considerations with a new website is budget. Because we believe so much in transparency, this should give you a better sense as to what to expect.
Website pricing and ongoing optimization services can vary wildly with respect to costs, as there are many factors that will drive overall budget.
Specifically, here are some of the factors that will affect pricing:
  1. The overall size of your site, and how much content needs to be created, migrated, or optimized.
  2. The knowledge your team has in key areas such as conversion optimization, behavioral data review, and SEO best practices.
  3. Customizations needed for your specific business model or tools that are required for launch.

Typically, “you get what you pay for” with website redesigns.

There’s always a cheaper way to do things when it comes to your website. Unfortunately, that usually leads to additional work needed or lackluster results, because lower costs may come with inexperienced people doing the work or cutting corners to help drive better margins.

We’ve invested in experts who have a track record of driving real website growth and can train your team on how to keep it growing — helping you keep costs down over the long term.

With that in mind, a typical client will invest $50,000 to $120,000+ on the Website Mastery program over 8-12 months. This range includes your initial website strategy, design, and development, as well as your ongoing training and optimization for the 8-12 months you’re with our Website Mastery team. Some invest more, some less, depending on their specific requirements and the scale of their website and operations.

Our programs are tailored to meet the unique needs and budgets of our diverse clients. On average, a typical client invests around $8,500 per month on website optimization with us. Some invest more, some less, depending on their specific requirements and the knowledge of their team.

In addition to the monthly investment, there is a setup fee at the beginning of our engagement. However, it's important to note that this setup fee includes an IMPACT+ for Teams membership. This membership provides access to a comprehensive suite of courses and training tools that our team utilizes during the process and resources on how to scale your website and SEO for the long term.

“We will continue to invest in this program in the future.”

“This has definitely helped our sales process and helped drive more visitors to our site. Our traffic & inbound leads have significantly increased.”

Eric Wince, CEO, Coeo
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“We definitely see a return on value.”

“We had really great training built into the package which eliminated the need to go out and do additional courses and certifications. We were trained on all kinds of different integrations and software.”

TJ Payne, Marketing Specialist, Ethos Insurance Partners
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“Results we have seen have been really tremendous.”

“It has differentiated us in the marketplace and shifted our culture. It was exactly the right thing for us, and we haven't looked back.”

Denise Schmitz, Web Strategy Head, Neumann Monson Architects
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Meet the Website Team

In your journey with us, you'll work with a seasoned web strategist and team fully versed in the challenges you confront daily. They have strategized, designed, and developed hundreds of websites for a wide variety of industries across the globe. Their diverse experience ensures that they won’t just talk the talk, but walk the walk.

Results & Success Stories

Ethos Insurance Gets A New Website That Can Grow Along with the Business

Ethos Insurance Partners is a liability insurance wholesaler.

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Challenge

Ethos Insurance Partners was struggling to be seen as a cutting edge company with a website built more than 15 years ago. Beyond aesthetics, the site didn’t speak to their customers’ needs. It was just a digital billboard. And a flawed one at that.

Solution

Solution

From their first meeting with IMPACT, the Ethos team realized something was different. They were not just having discussions about branding and UX, like they were with other agencies. The IMPACT team was asking questions about marketing and sales strategy. It was clear that both sides understood that a website was not just a marketing project. It needed to be a part of a larger effort that served the customer from beginning to end.

Result

Result

The Ethos team was excited to have an up-to-date new website that doubled their daily traffic within a week of launch. But even more important were the in-house skills they gained. IMPACT trained them to update the site, gather user data, and test messaging and design. Today, the website unites their sales and marketing efforts — and provides visitors with all the information they need to become customers.

Coeo Solutions Gets a New Website and 7Xs Its Traffic

Coeo Solutions is a Chicago-based telecom company.

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Challenge

Coeo Solutions was trying to swim with a weight around its neck. Its old website was clunky and outdated, and the team didn’t have the ability to make updates. In a fast-moving industry like telecommunications, this held up the launch of new offers and content — and the site didn’t give customers the image of a cutting edge company.

Solution

Solution

In the past, Coeo had worked with agencies that did everything behind closed doors. IMPACT was different. The process was collaborative, with design and strategy meetings mixed in with training sessions. The Coeo team met regularly with their IMPACT counterparts to make sure the final site would serve them now and in the future.

Result

Result

Coeo didn’t just get a new site from IMPACT — it got the training to use it. The team no longer needs to reach out to agencies or freelancers to create content, test messaging, or build a landing page. No longer does Coeo have a digital liability that was dragging it down. Coeo’s new site is a traffic- and lead-generating resource that can support new initiatives and reflect a forward-thinking business.

Neumann Monson Architects invests in a customer-centric website and see increase in overall customer base

Neumann Munson in an architecture firm based in Iowa

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Challenge

Architects are used to having their work speak for itself. But Neumann Monson came to realize a website all about the firm’s accomplishments didn’t necessarily resonate with customers. Instead, the website was a digital billboard. Nice to look at, but ineffective at converting visitors.

Solution

After working with IMPACT on content training, Neumann Monson needed a website that would house and display that content, making it easier for visitors to find the site — and the information they were looking for. IMPACT’s web team took the time to really understand the firm’s customers, making sure the new site would serve their needs.

Result

Within a month of the new site launching, Neumann Monson was in disbelief. Not only was the new site faster and cleaner, it was built with the customers in mind, and those customers were coming in droves. The new site (filled with content the Neumann Monson team had created) quickly became a trust-building workhorse that truly reflected the firm.

Opes increases their sales conversion rates by 127%

Opes Partners is a New Zealand-based property investment company.

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Challenge

These meeting will be facilitated by your coach with representatives from your leadership, sales, and marketing teams. This will include an open invitation, predetermined by your coach, based on your organizational current challenges and objectives.

Solution

These meeting will be facilitated by your coach with representatives from your leadership, sales, and marketing teams. This will include an open invitation, predetermined by your coach, based on your organizational current challenges and objectives.

Result

These meeting will be facilitated by your coach with representatives from your leadership, sales, and marketing teams. This will include an open invitation, predetermined by your coach, based on your organizational current challenges and objectives.

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How To Get Started

Take the First Step to Website Mastery

It’s go time. If you feel like you’re ready to take the next step, let’s schedule a call with one of our Web Strategists. This is a very “safe” call, and as mentioned above, there is no hard-selling. Rather, we’ll have a productive conversation and we’ll start to understand you and your business while you get a sense for how we work.

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