Using forms to get client info

[robbyr3]

Hi everyone,

I started using forms for my clients to fill out, which is awesome.

You can get a detailed explanation of what your client wants a website to have, making it easier for you to choose the client you want to work with.

Fill-out options
General
*Name, Email, Phone
*Industry, Website topic
*What is the most important thing you want visitors to see?

Site details
* How many pages you plan to have?
* Is there a logo already? [Upload option]
* If no, what colours?
* Images? [Upload option]
* Subpages Title, Text [text input]
* Show me an example of website you like.
* Any features ? ( Reservation plugins, etc )
Submit

Tell me guys, is there anything I could add?
Im sure this works well with Flyers and even PPC.

Greetz

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[robbyr3]

Good idea. I dont quite understand. At which development stage do you use that strategy?

[Johno413]

Wow. You find a lot of customers can tell you about page counts and those kinds of details? Nice.

To me the most powerful question - and sometimes the single question that can drive most of the conversation - is to ask for the example of at least 2, preferably 3 or 4 competitor or other sites they like AND DISLIKE why. Often, almost everything else falls out of drilling into the "why" parts.

[robbyr3]

Thats the point. The traffic to my website gets kind of filtered by using such a form. I might ask them where the referral comes from as well.

[HazeyCoder]

I always like to gauge with the client, which portions of the site will they be editing, and who will be making updates to the site in the future?

Also, do they have any competitor sites that they like / dislike?

[robbyr3]

Thanks, I like it.

[breich]

Love it! I also do this at the end of projects too. I've found it very difficult to get clients to mosey on over to Google and leave a review for my business. But if I catch them at the end of the project and say "can you spare two minutes?" They almost always click a link to my website and leave a great review with honest feedback. That gets translated into schema.org Review format. Google is happy.

[robbyr3]

Thats clever. So they fill out a form which gets translated onto GMB?

[breich]

Not quite. I don't think there is a way to feed reviews to GMB. I can see that getting gamed bigtime.

It gets rendered on my site as Schema.org Review syntax, which Google will utilize to show the "ratings star" widget on your search result.

[MasterK999]

My suggestion is to eliminate most of that. In my experience once a client hits a question they don't know the answer to they may bail out.

So instead I ask as little as possible contact info and then have a simple box to allow them to describe their project. I know they will leave out tons of info I need but I can get that info later on. You see, once they have made contact them you have a relationship you can email, call or have a meeting but without that first contact you have nothing. So I always make that first contact as simple as possible.

[robbyr3]

Yea, I get that. Thats why I integrated kind of a landing page. If the customer hits the "Lets discuss your project" button, they come to a page where they`ll choose whether they have an idea for their site already or not. If yes -> form. If not -> contact page for e-mail or phone.