You do need a website

 Regardless of the type of real world business you might have; from the corner bakery to a carpet cleaning business, you need a website.

My business start-up guides go into some detail on how they can be an asset to any service type business but they also can serve a 'brick and morar' storefont as well.

If you are in business now and don't have a web site representing that business, you are missing the boat.  Don' wait any longer!

Honestly speaking, every single week I get feedback from readers of my business guides and they repeated admit that they haven't gotten around to creating a web site for one reason or another.  This can be a costly mistake.

 

What does building a website require?

Most newbie's only think of the act of opening a Frontpage editor program and building a html website.  But in reality, there is a lot more involved beyond the fun stuff.

First you purchase a domain name and then you will require a host which is a company who has servers or computers on the internet 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.  So you will have to find a host who is affordable, reliable and dependable.  You can spend months researching details or you can consider the information on this page. 

Once your select a host, you will have to build a web site on your computer and then upload that site to the web host through FTP or Frontpage or a similar editor with appropriate uploading functions. 

Once the web site is on the internet, you then have to submit the site to search engines.  Unlike opening a store in the middle of town on a busy street, if your site is not easily found in the popular search engines, you'll never get any traffic.  Search engine optimization (SEO) is a science of its own.  You can spend months studying techniques and skills needed to achieve good listings or you can pay for professional SEO.  This can be very costly.  You will find SEO is included in the SBI site package.  Actually the SBI program includes hosting and SEO instruction in the price.

As you can appreciate, this calls for various skills and work that can take a good deal of time.  If you understand the importance of getting a web site to represent your new business but prefer putting your limited time into the actual business itself, then go here.  This was created due to reader feedback.