Reasons for Getting a Website for your Business

If your business is not on the Internet, and people are using the Internet to look for the services or products that you have, they're not going to find you. They will find your competitors instead.

Millions of people use the Internet every month. Even if you don't.

Perhaps the Internet has never interested you, or you're not computer literate, but what about the millions who are interested in using the Internet and who are computer literate? Don't you want your business to be exposed to these people too?

People use the Internet for so many different things:

• staying up to date with friends and old friends on Facebook
• watching videos on Youtube
• research for school projects or student studies
• making money online
• searching for the service or product that they need

To be seen, be visible

Whether a visitor to your website got there by:

• using the Internet and searching for information about a service or product they need, and finding a good natural search result
• using the Internet and searching for information about a service or product they need, and finding a page that links through to your website
• using the Internet and searching for information about a service or product they need, and finding an advert that links through to your website
• typing your website address into their browser bar after seeing the website address on your business card, in your brochure, in a printed ad, on your car, or writing it down when you told them what your website address was

how does having a website actually help your business when a visitor is now on your website, reading the information you have there?

• save time - instead of speaking to you over the phone or even in person, and then deciding not to use your services or products, a potential client or customer can get the same information, if not better and more detailed information, on your website - be contacted by the people who are more likely to go through with using your services or buying your products
• targetted - your "advert" is in front of those looking for what you do or sell, and is not lost amongst other adverts advertising other products or services
• an attractive "shop" or "office" - even though you have a good service or product, you could be working from your bathroom at home, but you can make your website as attractive as you like
• testimonials and awards - display or mention them on your website - how many people get to speak to your previous clients or customers? How many get to see the walls of your office or if they do, notice what is on your walls? On your website you can show people your experience and reputation, right in front of their faces

Is it? Perhaps a once-off design price and some money spent on a Search Engine Optimization service is a bit more expensive than your usual advertising in any given month, but the key word is once-off .

A good website design with good Search Engine Optimization, coupled with some effort on your part at providing visitors to your site with detailed information and attractive photos doesn't have to be the kind of advertising that you need to spend money on each month.

Once you're set up with a website, the only costs are yearly domain registration renewals, and yearly hosting renewals, and possibly paying a website designer to make updates to your site once or twice a year to reflect new prices or news.

There's even a cheaper option for a website that will still be your own website: A WordPress site - a wordpress.org site

A free-theme WordPress site of your own just needs yearly domain registration and yearly hosting renewals - you also get to choose your own free theme from over 1 000 free WordPress themes, and you get to add your own content instead of having to pay a website designer to do it for you

Congratulations, but don't you want to try making more money? Getting more work may mean that you need more staff to help you. So what? Jobs are scarce - help the unemployed by hiring them. Spoil your family more, or give the extra money to charities and organizations that need the money more than you do.

Save time, save money, make more money, and even, perhaps, help the world. Get a website.