How should your website do its job?

We’ve defined the job of your credit union website (see this post for a refresher), and that’s a great first step to creating a stellar site. But you won’t get very far if you stop there. Next we need to dig into how your website should successfully do its job. To make it simple, we’ve broken it down into six simple things your website should be doing in order to convince people to choose your credit union.

1. Make a good impression

Your website is often a person’s first impression of your credit union. First impressions make a big impact, and people don’t trust credit unions with ugly websites. It’s as simple as that. In fact, Vistaprint conducted a surveyand found that 42% of consumers are very unlikely to buy from a poorly designed website.

Here at BloomCU, we focus on helping credit unions wireframe, style tile, and design simple, modern websites. Here are some of our favorite examples:

 

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