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11 May 2016

Don’t Lose Customers Through A Faulty Contact Form

So much effort is allocated on moulding a website and marketing it correctly that sometimes – one of the most important yet simple of your website pages can be overlooked. The contact form for many websites is the gateway for new customers expressing interest, the device that captures leads and seeds new business. It is useful for handling complaints as well or sorting out a range of customer issues. If the contact form page does not work, you lose twice. Once on not having the message from the interested party and secondly on suffering a damaged reputation in an instant. People judge websites harshly for faults, they reflect the business competence. It’s a very easy thing to overlook but has potential consequences to your company.

Bad Form For Your Reputation

If you have ever used a contact form with fields to fill in and had no response then it’s likely it made you feel there was no one manning the other end, or the business did not care. If it’s obviously broken then this is equally bad, as it draws attention to the technical fault.

Testing is so important. Make sure you test the contact form page, even better – get friends to test it and feedback to you. Do this at regular intervals in case a fault develops, or at least check if you suddenly have no enquiries, which may be at odds with your usual pattern of interaction.

Always Make Contact Possible

It is a good idea to have a back-up way of getting in touch, if not a phone number then an email address so that all is not lost if someone really does want to get into contact. It’s a good idea to make a pledge on the contact form to respond within a time bracket – say 48 hours, so people know there is an issue if it takes longer. Otherwise, they may hang on for your response for a week or month, building resentment. Whilst the contact form page is not the page that necessarily represents your branding – it certainly needs to function and it is not a page to forget about once it has been created.

If you would like any advice on how to build and market a website, contact the team at Varn.

Article by: Tom, CEO of Varn More articles by Tom

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