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Stan Consulting · Problem

Traffic is arriving. Conversion is not.

A website that does not convert usually has one of three structural problems. The visitor cannot identify what the business does in under five seconds. The site has no single dominant call-to-action per page. Or the architecture routes every visitor through the same unqualified path regardless of intent.

Quick answer

A website that is not converting has a structural problem - not a design problem. Message hierarchy, buyer intent match, CTA placement, trust signals, and mobile layout friction are the recurring causes. Stan Consulting diagnoses the specific structural failure in 72 hours via the $999 Conversion Second Opinion with a written report.

Structural Causes

What actually causes this.

Five-second identification failure

The home hero does not answer "what does this business do, for whom, with what outcome" inside five seconds. The visitor leaves with no retained meaning.

Multiple competing CTAs

Every section offers three or four actions. No section is dominant. The visitor scrolls past decision points without being asked.

One path for all visitors

Cold ad traffic, referral traffic, and returning traffic are all routed through the same home-to-services-to-contact funnel. Each of those audiences needs a different entry.

When a diagnostic is warranted

When to commission the Conversion Second Opinion.

30+

Days the symptom has persisted

If the commercial problem has outlasted a month of in-house investigation, it is structural, not tactical.

72 hr

Turnaround on the report

Written diagnostic and prioritized fix list delivered within seventy-two hours of granted account access.

$999

Engagement fee, one time

If the weekly cost of the problem exceeds $999, the diagnostic is underpriced against the loss it prevents.

The first fix on the prioritized list is the one with the highest commercial impact at the lowest implementation cost. That is the structural judgment the engagement is paying for.

Common Questions

On record.

Is this a redesign problem?

Almost never. A redesign changes the visual layer. The problem is almost always on the message and architecture layer.

What about conversion-rate-optimization tools?

Tools track and test. They do not diagnose which structural change matters first. That is the diagnostic.

How long until conversion recovers?

Message-layer fixes show within a week. Architecture changes show across thirty days as traffic retrains on the new paths.

The Engagement Format

Begin with the diagnosis. Not the proposal.

$999 · 72-hour written diagnostic · No retainer structure · fee is final on submission before work commences

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