Top 7 Questions to Understand Your Web Dev Customers Better

Suggest your clients the exact services they need for Web Development.

Customer service questionnaires can help your clients better understand their requirements. Your clients can benefit by:

* Focusing on immediate project requirements
* Increased awareness of budgeted time and finances
* Better understanding of project goals
* Setting priorities of essential project features
* Planning for project post-implementation phase

On the other hand, you as a service provider will have a clearer understanding of what your clients want. This will help you to suggest your clients the exact services they need.

Here is a sample questionnaire that we have developed.

1. 1. Website objective:
   (please describe in one sentence)
   
   
2. 2. Among the following features, please rate 1-5 which ones you would want for your site.
   
   (must have=5)
   
   (good to have=4)
   
   (not sure=3)
   
   (maybe later=2)
   
   (never want=1)
   
   Content management system
   
   Discussion board, forums
   E-Commerce, shopping cart, catalog
   Web logs, blogs
   News management
   Banner rotation, ad management
   Calendar, events, planning
   Link management, exchange, directory
   Auction system
   Chat
   Mailing list, newsletter
   Guestbooks
   Image galleries
   Polls, survey
   Others
   
   
3. 3. Who will manage content for your site?
   
   Me and my staff only
   
   Site visitors (comments/postings)
   
   Both me/staff and visitors
   
   
4. 4. How much are you willing to spend per month for server hosting?
   
   Less than $30/month
   
   $30-$100/month
   
   More than $100/month
   
   
5. 5. How many hours are you or your staff willing to spend learning to manage your site
   (how to add pages in the new system, how to moderate users, essential HTML tags, etc)?
   ___ hours total
   
   
6. 6. How man hours per week are you/staff willing to spend for site management
   (adding content, updating site, managing users, etc)?
   ___ hours/week
   
   
7. 7. When do you expect to launch your new site?
   __/__/____(mm/dd/yy)

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Sanjib Ahmad, Freelance Writer and Product Consultant for http://www.marc8.com. You are free to use this article in its entirety as long as you leave all links in place, do not modify the content, and include the resource box listed above.