What are the benefits of a small business having a website?

Question

Also, what would a small biz be missing out on without one?

Answer 1

I pay $50 a year for hosting. Buy yourself a copy of Dreamweaver and then learn how to do some minor web design and SEO work. This will be the cheapest and most rewarding advertising you have ever done.

Answer 2

the benefits are higher visibility. The internet is today's phone book. You really should have at least a basic informational site with your business name, address, phone number and what you do (like an ad you would put in the paper). Don't put any info or images that will be outdated in a year if you do not plan on updating the site regularly. Be sure your site includes metadata (keywords that people would use to find your business on an online search).

Answer 3

A website creates a "level playing field" for businesses of different sizes. A website for even a small business has the potential of reaching to customers any where in the cyber world. Whether the business is localized or globalized, the small business can generate additional business via the website. Here are a few tips to improve the visibility of your website:
1) If your product or services can be sold via the web, make sure that you take orders via the website. These orders can be additional to the brick and morter orders.
2) Make sure that web site visitors can order in about three clicks, focus on the web site navigation and make it easy to place orders, accept credit card or other forms of electroic payments.
3) Make sure you submit your website to the search engine.
4) Consider pay-per-click marketing of your website.
5) Provide routine informatin on your website to reduce human time for routine tasks.

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Answer 4

You can reach a broader audience! My husband and I started one for our CB business, and we've had orders from across the country.

The only thing you'd be missing out on is extra money, but look into the costs of one first. I made ours myself, but I couldn't host it, so I had to fine someone to do it. That costs us $180.00 a year. If you don't know how to do a website, it can cost you $40.00/hour and up for someone to do it for you. Then there's the payment processing, shopping cart, etc, that go with it.

There's places where you can go that they'll host and offer you software so you can build your own site, but I learned it's not worth is. Five months of work disappeared into cyberspace when their server crashed. Five long months of 10 hour days, and they lost it. They didn't have a back up like they guaranteed me they would.

Just look into it. You don't have anything to lose by looking.

Answer 5

sales, both online and in person, most people research major purchases these days online first. also it can be a useful tool for the employees to keep up to date, there are tons of uses.

Answer 6

Will assist them putting foot into becoming or growing bigger!!!