It can be frustrating when your website doesn't convert visitors to customers, especially around a specific service or location. Instead of a whole new website, you can have a highly focused microsite that is designed to focus your message and produce better outcomes.
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You shouldn’t have to get a whole new website that may suffer from the same issues as the old one when it comes to creating new leads and customers. A microsite can launch in 6 weeks, and focus on the product, service, location or niche where you want to grow. With a microsite you can focus both the message and the customer experience so they get all their questions answered, and understand all the reasons why they should say yes (without having to wade through an entire website).
A microsite is a powerful tool used by many large brands to boost the impact of their message or products, focus on a specific location, or to support customer service. It is now available for every business and nonprofit that wants to leap ahead quickly with one or a system of microsites.
Microsites are a tactic used by large companies who know effective marketing. They know that they need to deliver targeted and powerful messages to a specific audience if they want a strong response. Small and medium-sized businesses can use the same strategy when we provide a microsite built on the HubSpot CMS.
Take Adobe's microsite, for example, mycreativetype.com.
A targeted website with limited pages that focuses your message and customer offers for a specific product, service, location or audience.
Like Fritolay's direct-to-consumer site snacks.com.
Not only do you need to answer all of your prospect’s questions, but you also need your microsite to be fully operational and equipped with the tools to convert visitors to customers.
The microsite you deploy should have built-in SEO, tracking, conversion tools, and link directly to customer lead records with automatic nurturing.
We’ll deliver a microsite that is fully-equipped and has the power to consistently get the job done with HubSpot CMS.
Find out how a microsite can boost your marketing.
We start with your Brand Story and the unique value that you provide and then tailor the experience for the specific customers you want to win.
A microsite connects with the unique audience you want to reach by using powerful visuals and a message that speaks to your audience. With a beautiful design and smart features, your marketing job becomes faster and easier. Your microsite can have it all - beauty, effective lead generation, & the full suite of tools.
You’ll create a powerful first impression and make the case all the way to “yes”.
Learn moreBoth digital ads and search results rely upon the visitor finding exactly what they were searching for when they clicked. With a microsite, your visitors won’t be disappointed, and you’ll deliver more than just a single landing page by answering their questions, and presenting the options plus offers they will want to purchase.
Get better search results and stronger ad performance with a Story Collaborative microsite.
Microsites help educate customers and deliver more qualified leads, and improve effectiveness of both digital ads and marketing.
Learn moreIf you are relying upon the microsite to address multiple audiences or diverse services or a large list of products, then it may not be a good fit. However, you can launch multiple microsites, or develop a shop microsite to address broader needs.
If you need a website that is more than five to seven pages, then a microsite may not be a good fit. You may want to consider starting with a launchpad website that is designed for future growth.
We believe that your Brand Story is best managed by your own team. An authentic Brand Story is drawn from the expertise of your staff and the experiences of your customers. If you want to empower your staff in the use of an easy-to-manage microsite as they promote, sell, make updates and track progress, then a microsite may be a good fit. We recommend training along with the microsite. If you’d rather have everything done by an outside team, then this approach may not be a good fit for you.
A Story Collaborative microsite ranges in cost from $12,000 to $20,00 depending on how much custom development is included, the type of integrations and graphics, plus what can be secured from an existing website. Payment options are available.
Microsite support includes M-F quick response support for server and operational issues, a pre-launch test, a 7 day-check-up and a 30-day check up. Online training is provided for staff along with two one-hour coaching sessions. Additional support is available through our Growth Driven Design program or by request.
The microsite process includes:
Hubspot’s CMS Hub will include all the tools for SEO, tracking, CRM, response options, CDN, live chat, chat bots, smart forms, A/B testing and smart forms.
The microsite will begin converting leads as soon as it is launched, but the number of leads depends upon two big factors: 1) how much traffic is directed toward the microsite from your existing website, local SEO, and advertising. The combination of these three sources gives you control of the speed of growth and takes visitors to a microsite that they are much more likely to convert on. Ask the team at Story Collaborative for a traffic estimate during your discussion with them; 2) the lead conversion will improve over time if the microsite is optimized on a regular basis. Story Collaborative optimizes using a growth-driven approach that makes changes based upon data. We will train your team to make updates and offer additional optimization using this approach.
There are a number of alternatives to a Story Collaborative microsite built on the HubSpot CMS. These include the use of open-source WordPress, services like Mailchimp, or a variety of low cost website builders like Wix. There are four big things to take into consideration when you select how to deploy one or more microsites:
The microsite is built on a system that allows you to have as many similar or distinct microsites as you need. You can use templates to stay on brand and quickly address location-specific, product-specific, audience or service-specific needs with multiple microsites that all share the same powerful CRM, A/B testing, follow-up and many of features.
If you'd like to learn more about planning for a web build, read our Pain-Free Guide to Your Next Website Redesign. This guide is packed with step-by-step advice and additional articles.