The Captain Coder Podcast Marisa VanSkiver, Captain Coder

For a business like yours, your website is your storefront, pitch, and even the gateway to building trust with potential clients.

I’ve been building websites for decades, but distilling an entire business into just a few pages is hard.

You want your potential customers to be able to learn enough about your business that they know who they might be working with, make it easy for them to reach out and start a relationship, and get steady new traffic from Google.

How can you possibly organize all of that information?

In this guide, we’ll dive into the six essential website pages you need to craft a compelling online presence. We'll explore how each page contributes to attracting, educating, and converting leads, ultimately turning website visitors into loyal customers.

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Imagine a website that perfectly integrates with your marketing strategy and drives more leads. Does that feel impossible?

It can be hard, especially when today’s trend seems to be cookie-cutter themes and everyone’s websites look the same.

But what your website looks like matters. According to Stanford University, 75% of people judge a company's credibility based on its website's design.

Do you want to risk your reputation and sales because you took a shortcut with a popular template?

I didn’t think so.

Ditch the theme everyone else is using. A custom WordPress website is an investment that delivers significant ROI through improved SEO, web accessibility, flexibility, security, and a unique brand experience.

In this post, we’ll cover:
The ROI of a custom WordPress website
How its advanced security protects your brand and customers
And the power of a unique online presence


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AI has made it easy to add some personalization to our marketing, be more efficient (which is great when you’re a one-person team), and create content far more quickly than we might have been used to.

But how do we use AI and still keep that human touch?

I’m not sure there will ever be a day that our use of AI doesn’t need oversight. After all, it’s only as good as the people training it. That can lead to biases, misunderstandings, and false information (or as Chat GPT calls them, “hallucinations.”)

Let’s break down how you can use AI to make your life easier but use it responsibly.

MENTIONED RESOURCES:
Google Gemini
Surfer SEO
RankIQ
Brand Voice Chat GPT Process




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Can everyone use your website and the content you create, or are you excluding up to 27% of your audience?

When you focus on creating content that all people can access, regardless of their abilities, you’re working to improve your web accessibility. On the flip side, when you don’t follow some basic best practices, you’re not just excluding potential customers; you’re putting your business at legal risk.

Just a chilling fact for you - there were thousands of lawsuits filed against website owners last year for accessibility issues.

How can you improve your web accessibility and ensure your content is user-friendly every time (and get that lawsuit target off your back)?

The sad reality is that it’s a pretty simple process to make vast improvements to your website accessibility, and yet it gets neglected far too often.

Let’s break down five steps you should take when creating content for your website.

MENTIONED RESOURCES:
AHrefs ALT Text Tool
Wordcounter.net
Grammarly
WebAim’s free contrast checker
Captions App
Rev.com
Pave PDF 


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Have you heard this lately: “We need more leads.” 
In marketing, we often focus on getting new leads and customers into your business, but what about the leads you already have? It’s time to think about boosting your customer retention and bringing them back over and over again.
Keeping happy customers is the best way to grow a business. Repeat customers spend an average of 67% more than new customers and it’s five times more expensive to get new customers than it is to retain the ones we have.
So why aren’t we taking care of our customers and selling them more?
Let’s break down five strategies you can implement in your business to cultivate customer loyalty.
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Have you been asking yourself whether or not you’re cut out for entrepreneurship? Fun fact - everyone is cut out for it - if they want to be.
I know that choosing to run your own business is not the easiest decision. Honestly, I think being a small business owner is one of the hardest things any of us could choose to do. But if you have a solid vision for your business and what entrepreneurship will look like to you, it becomes a whole lot easier.
In this episode, Liz Wolfe and I are unpacking everything you need to keep in mind when you’re running your new business.

You’ll learn:
Her own unusual journey into entrepreneurshipWhat most new entrepreneurs get wrongThe four entrepreneur personality typesWhere new entrepreneurs should startLiz’s system for new entrepreneurs Why visioning worksHow to start on your own
MENTIONED RESOURCES:
Liz’s CEO Personality Quiz - https://lizwolfecoaching.com/resources/quiz/
Brendon Burchard The Millionaire Messenger - https://www.amazon.com/Millionaire-Messenger-Difference-Fortune-Sharing/dp/1451665997/
Mrs. Space Cadet video - https://www.tiktok.com/@mrs.space.cadet/video/7339671823715503406 




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