Small Business Websites

If you’ve ever said things like:

• I wish I could update my own website, or
• I hate having to pay to have changes made to my website, or
• I wish I had a dynamic professional website like my bigger competitors!

Stick around a minute, because I’ve got the answer for you!

To be successful in today’s fast moving marketplace you really need to have a professional online presence! Only a few years ago, it was necessary for a business to have lots of information in print, and when someone wanted to know more about your company, you would put the information in a manila envelope and mail it to them. This could be a slow, cumbersome process, and there was nothing inexpensive or easy about keeping your print inventory current with brochures, catalogs, and service manuals and well, you name it.

Today your clients and prospects want instant information, and with the Internet, that’s become possible, your website is your instant brochure, catalog, support center and possibly online store. Just a few years ago, websites were pretty much static, flat, online brochures. But today that’s just not enough! Your website needs to be a complete content management system that dynamically interacts with visitors and is easy to update and inexpensive to setup and manage.

What’s the best solution for your small business?

Here are 4 reasons why:

Reason No. 1. WordPress is Free!

It’s an open source platform, which means it’s available to anyone who wants to use it, for free! You may be asking yourself, can it be any good if it’s free? I think the answer to that question is in who’s using it! How about fortune five hundred companies like:

• Honda
• Onstar
• Ford Motor Company
• Samsung
• GE
• American Express
• Coca-Cola
• Xerox
• GM

Just to mention a Few!

Reason No. 2. WordPress Is Extremely User Friendly.

You don’t have to know anything about programming to use WordPress to update build, manage or update your website. If you can use Microsoft Word or any similar word processing software you can build professional looking pages with content, images, video, forms and more!

Reason No. 3. WordPress is Search Engines Friendly!

As a matter of fact Google loves WordPress! The way the code is written in WordPress helps it to organize content in such a way that it’s easy for the search engines to find and catalog.

Reason No. 4. WordPress Offers Endless Options!

This is huge! Functionality is the key to a dynamic website. In the WordPress world there are literally thousands of add-on software tools called plugins that you can use in your website. From forms, video, graphics, email marketing to eCommerce the possibilities are endless. And 80 to 90% of plugins are free!