Private Chef Website Design Case Study
Chef Leon C. Brunson
The main objective is to redesign Chef Leon's website to automate the leads, make the website easy to manage, improve usability and user experience, and ultimately improve conversions.
Meet Chef Leon
Chef Leon is a young and talented chef in Tallahassee, FL. He has a bigger-than-life character and loves using his passion for culinary arts to help the people in his community. He is quickly becoming one of the most highly sought-after chefs in the Florida Panhandle, especially after being featured as one of the contestants in Hulu's show, The Secret Chef.
The challenges the website was facing.
The old website was not working as it should, losing many opportunities to convert visitors into clients. In addition, it did not represent Chef Leon's brand as a talented and charismatic chef who cared to improve his community.
Not informative
Many potential customers do not find most of the information on the website before booking a consultation.
Mixed quality leads
The website's leads are a mixture of prospects only looking for general information and motivated buyers.
Hard to manage
Managing and updating the website's content is complicated, especially when running a business with a small team.
Time-consuming
Setting up call appointments with leads is time-consuming and involves back-and-forth emails to coordinate our available times and dates.
The journey to implementing strategies.
The process of solving Chef Leon's website challenges involved in-depth research and analysis of factors that affect his goals, for example, his ideal clients and their needs and objections, his local competitors and his competitive edge, and his business environment and opportunities.
Key strategies we implemented.
The primary goal is to improve conversion, but the leading solution consists of smaller strategies that work together seamlessly.
Improve user experience
Understanding users, their objections, and their goals allows us to design the website's interface, content, accessibility, and usability to improve the user's experience on all media devices.
Build brand & trust
Sharing Chef Leon's story, his personal beliefs and values, and his accomplishments and testimonials from others who worked with him helps build trust and credibility in his abilities and professionalism.
Automate lead generations
Integrating a scheduling application allows users to schedule their consultation with Chef Leon without needing back-and-forth emails about their availabilities. It cut down the hassle and time of appointment scheduling.
Optimize online visibility
Using appropriate and strategic keywords and SEO (search engine optimization) principles optimizes the website's search engine visibility to more users.
Improve content structure
Organizing the content and information structure into a hierarchy based on the AIDA (Awareness, Interest, Desire, and Action) principle will help increase interest and desire, ultimately driving conversion.
Identify opportunities
Exploring the market and analyzing user needs allows us to identify opportunities to provide our target customers with more value and improve their experiences.
Project Results
Overall, the new website did its job streamlining Chef Leon's traffic and establishing trust early on for users who don't know about his brand.
We measured two pieces of data: the results after the launch of the new website and the data after HULU's cooking competition show, Secret Chef, which featured Chef Leon.
The results show that the website significantly increased lead generation, website traffic, and conversion rate, and the show magnified the increase.
The website also allowed users to schedule consultation appointments, closing 80% of the sales calls.
Chef Leon's catering business is now fully booked three months in advance.
Lead-to-customer conversion rate
Leads book Chef Leon's service with an 80% success rate in the first eight months. Now, the success rate has dropped to 68.5% only because he's reaching maximum capacity and had to turn down service requests.
Monthly leads increase
The website's average lead generation increased by 1.7 times in the first eight months and jumped 2.7 times after Hulu aired The Secret Chef.
Website traffic increase
The website's average traffic increased by 1.5 times in the first eight months and jumped to 2.9 times after Hulu aired The Secret Chef.
Earl Varona built a website for me that catered to the brand of a chef.
What initially attracted me to using his services were the features on his own website!
His resume, values, and past work were creatively shown, and his website made it clear that his design was not only meant to be aesthetically pleasing but also functional and user experience-based.
I am a private Chef.
When we began building the website, our conversations were slated towards the structure of my business, who would be attempting to contact me, and how.
After our conversations, I was giving an in-depth analysis of my potential users, how to facilitate their journey through the website, and how it would create a clear path for each user.
The attention to detail was great already, but then it came down to design.
When designing the website, Earl helped establish credibility for my brand as well as showcase my story and which services I offered.
It was a substantial improvement from my last website.
While I feel like we built a website together, it really felt like a better avenue to comfortably grow capacity in my business while showcasing my achievements in a stronger manner.
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