How To Use Your Website to Build Trust with your Customer

How To Use Your Website to Build Trust with your Customer

Author: Dorien Morin-van Dam April 23, 2024 Duration: 31:40

Your website is often the first impression a potential client sees. What do they see when they visit, and more importantly, how does it make them feel? In this week's episode, Dorien talks with Ray Mitchell about creating trust with your website, as trust will help you make sales!

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Ray Mitchell is a marketing consultant and the founder of Made for You Media. For over a decade, Ray has helped local businesses and non-profit organizations grow their online presence to get them more business, more donors and more volunteers.

He is a regular speaker at WordCamp events all across the US, where he helps business owners who use WordPress to get more out of the platform and teaches them how to become more effective at promoting themselves and their businesses.

Ray was born in New York City and will always be a New Yorker, but he calls Winston-Salem, North Carolina home. Active in the local community, he is a member of Rotary, sits on a number of non-profit boards, and serves as a Business Mentor at the Small Business Center at the local community college.

Ray's first book, Magical Websites for Coaches, was published in 2023.

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