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Creating a Plan for Your New Small Business Website
Watch Video: Creating a Plan for Your New Small Business WebsiteFailing to plan is planning to fail. If you’re going to create a new website for your business, you first need to plan it out so that you’re successful. Planning, however, can seem like a daunting task. There are a lot of things to think about and getting started can feel overwhelming. So in today’s…
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Creating Content for Your New Business Website
Watch Video: Creating Content for Your New Business WebsiteContent is the most important part of your website — not the design, not the fancy animations and not the tech stack underneath. The content is what’s going to help people who come to your website become clients and customers for your business. So yeah, it’s an extremely important part of the process. But it…
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What You Need Before You Build a New Website
Watch Video: What You Need Before You Build a New WebsiteSo at this point we know we need to create a new website and now we’ve figured out what platform we’re going to use to build this new website. Now it’s time to figure out what we need for this new site. This is a crucial step because taking time now to start to plan…
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Your Best Options for Creating a New Website
Watch Video: Your Best Options for Creating a New WebsiteWhen it comes to creating a new website for your business, there are a lot of great options to build it. You have super simple things like Facebook Marketplace and Etsy. There’s always Wix and Squarespace, which the commercials tell you make it easy to create a website in minutes. There’s Shopify, which allows you…
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Why you should use WordPress for your new website
Watch Video: Why you should use WordPress for your new websiteYou have a lot of great options for creating your new website these days. There’s Wix, Squarespace, Shopify and so many more options to pick. But might I suggest using WordPress? WordPress powers over 40 percent of the internet these days, and for good reasons. It’s an open source content management system, which means you…
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Why Websites Cost So Much (and how to lower that cost)
Watch Video: Why Websites Cost So Much (and how to lower that cost)One reason you might be hesitant to create a new website for your business is the cost of a website. Yes, creating a custom website is expensive. The going rate these days seems to be around $5,000. But that price is for a custom website. There are good reasons for that price, and there are…
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Why Your Business Needs to Have a Website
Watch Video: Why Your Business Needs to Have a WebsiteYou need to have a website. Whether you have a business or if you’re a freelancer or even if you’re not, you need to have a website. A website is place that you can call your home online. You can do whatever you want. You can get found more easily in Google searches. You can…
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What is a website?
Watch Video: What is a website?So what is a website, anyway? No seriously, what exactly is a website. Sure, there’s the super simple answer. It’s just a collection of HTML files on a server and a domain name pointing to that server. But in reality, a website that’s going to help your business grow is so much more than that.…
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So you want to create a new website?
Watch Video: So you want to create a new website?So you want to create a website for yourself or your business? That’s great. But creating a successful website that’s going to help your business is a challenge. You have to plan it out, figure out a budget, determine if you’re going to create the website yourself, finding someone to build the website, actually creating…
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WordPress Full Site Editing for Small Businesses
Watch Video: WordPress Full Site Editing for Small BusinessesFull Site Editing is starting to make its way into WordPress core, and you might have some questions about what it means for your website. So today let’s take a look at what full site editing actually is, what it means for your website, take a little bit of a live demo of it and…
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Determining if your business needs a new website
Watch Video: Determining if your business needs a new websiteYou currently might think that your website needs a new website. But does it really? While obviously if you don’t have a website, the answer is pretty easy: you need one. But if you already have one, then the answer might not be as obvious. And this decision can save you time, money and headaches…
