Do You Need A Business Website?
The answer is a resounding YES!
Just imagine having a member of your team promoting your products 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.
Here are just a few of the benefits to having a website:
- a website will take payments while you sleep…
- a website will work on bank holidays, school holidays, public holidays and won’t need a day off…
- a website will NOT cost much money to set up and maintain…
- a website can answer your customer’s questions without you ever having to pick up the phone or answer an email…
- a website will (when done correctly) increase your profits and returning customers…
- a website can help you build long-lasting relationships with prospects and customers…
- and much more…
You don’t need much to get started. You don’t even have to pay a professional design team as you can have optimised sites created on the fly using specially designed software.
What you will need:
- A domain name – this will be what people type in to find your website. You can purchase a domain for next-to-nothing from GoDaddy.com. If possible purchase a .com and a .co.uk (if you are in the UK) and redirect the .com to your .co.uk URL.
- A hosting account – this will be where you host your newly designed website. I highly recommend Host Monster for the simple reason they have great customer support and CPanel in the admin area (I’ll cover CPanel in a future post but you really need a hosting provider that uses CPanel).
- A website design software. X Site Pro allows you to design websites on the fly that are totally customisable. Don’t pay for over-the-top content management systems when you can do it all yourself using X Site Pro. Visit the site and watch the video to see if the software is the best fit for you (it doesn’t cost much in comparison to the CMS systems being promoted by website design companies. X Site Pro can is as easy to edit as a Word document.
- Another essential must is to get an account with a dedicated email service provider. You can visit iContact and sign-up to receive a free mini-course all about email marketing. Briefly, you need an ESP so you can put opt-in forms on your website to capture the names and email addresses of your prospects and customers. This will allow you to build relationships through newsletters, updates, tips etc, and you’ll easily increase your profits with a successful email campaign.
You’ll find plenty of step-by-step information on the websites mentioned above making it easy for you to get started. The only thing you’ll need to know once you’ve got your website online is how to market your business for constant streams of visitors so bookmark us to keep up-to-date with the latest Internet marketing news.
Be sure to get your website online as this is certainly one way of ensuring your business is adapting to current trends. You’ll be amazed how easy it is to get going.
To your online success,
Karl Foxley
Nice article explaining the importance of business website.
Thanks.