Better Practice ResourcesHow To Do Better WebsitesB2B Website Features: must-haves and nice-to-havesA client recently asked for some input on what B2B Website features and functionality she should be incorporating into her company’s new B2B website. She also asked for a few examples of B2B websites we think are doing things right. These are great questions, and we hear them quite a bit from clients and prospects. So in the interest of sharing with a wider audience, we’ve posted our reply here.
Fortunately, thanks to some of the tools available these days, it’s a bit easier to scope out B2B website features and functionality for a great site. With a content management system, marketing automation system, and analytics tools, you’ll get most of the functionality you need.
Some capabilities will be critical:
Once you have those elements in place, the nice-to-haves are about ease of use, customization capabilities, and level of sophistication.
For example, you might want multiple user accounts for website content changes, and levels of approval and editorial control. You might want the marketing database tool to have a rich graphics interface with drag-and-drop functionality, customizable reports, and fancy charts and graphs. You might want automated synchronization of data between your marketing database and the salesforce automation or CRM system. More sophisticated marketing teams might also want features like automated marketing triggers based on sales and finance data that is stored in other systems.
Other nice-to-have B2B Website features would be around interactivity. Features like social media sharing of content, live chat with customer service agents, discussion forums, comment threads, and reviews can all improve engagement with site visitors.
As for good B2B sites, there are lots out there. Here are a few good examples that do quite a bit of what I mentioned above:
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