Does my Business Need a Website ?
by Kenneth L. Cluck IIIDoes my
business need a website? Thats a question many people ask.
Well, you see all the time businesses telling you go to some
URL (web address) to find more information, to order products,
or to purchase services. That's a question that business owners
everywhere should ask themselves. The next question is How do I
do this? Well, it may not be as hard or expensive as you may
think.
When someone learns about your business they look at contact
information a lot more than you may think. You own a
professional business and your customers expect you to be
professional. Even if you dont generate revenue from going
online, its still a very good idea. Also, its very easy to
distribute information such as common questions, contact
information, and product information. You dont have to
continuously handle potential customers while they still find
out the information they desire. It only costs $50 to $100 a
year to own and run a website, this may even save you money on
having to talk to customers and save you a lot of time.
Some web hosts (services that hold your website for the public
to see) offer special tools to easily make a website. While
also, most word processing software comes with tools to easily
design and build your website. So you dont even need to know
how to build a website. For a list of web hosting services you
can look at many web host directories, one place I suggest
looking at www.findmywebhost.org to find your web host because
they offer more options to help you with your searches, such as
being able to list web hosts that offer website builders.
Though if you're still not comfortable designing your own
website there are many services that do it for you. The place I
work at is Clearwater Web Solutions at
www.clearwaterwebsolutions.com, they specialize in website
creation, design, and maintenance.
People may ask, why not use a free web hosting service? Well
the answer is very simple. Free web hosts dont offer enough,
and many people dont trust websites hosted on free services as
much as websites that have domain names (a .com .net .org URL)
and are on a paid service because it shows that the business
isn't serious enough about their products or services to spend
money distributing them. Websites that try to look professional
wont if they are put on a free service. Put it on a paid
service and people will trust your business a lot more. Not
only that, but businesses with websites generally do look more
advanced and much more professional.
The owner of Freeminz.com, FindMyWebHost.org, HackMyEmail.com, and HackMyForums.com Kenneth is also a web
developer at Clearwater Web Solutions.
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