When my client changed her career, she needed a small business web site to publicize her new home based business. She had trained to be a Dog Groomer and her new dog grooming business would be in competition with lots of other similar business in her local area.
Her husband was also one of my clients and they asked me to help them with marketing the new business by building a unique small business web site for the dog grooming business which they named Dirty Dogs.
What is important with any business web site is that people get to see it otherwise it might as well not be there and any effort will have been wasted.
There are lots of ways to build a website, and I'm sure you will have seen all of the enticing adverts for free website builders, but I recommend that you don't go down that route.
You may be able to create a nice looking site, but unless you really know what you are doing - and forgive me - you probably don't if you are thinking that way in the first place, then these free website builders are no better than having no website. It's not the building of the site, it's the building in the right way that will attract visitors and that means getting the attention of the search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask! which account for over 90% of all searches on the internet.
The reason they asked me to build their new small business web site was because they don't know how to do it and are too busy to learn. They wanted a small site that would showcase their dog grooming services and would only ever be a small site with less than 10 pages. However, if you click any of the links on the inset webpage, you'll see it has to be a bit bigger than just those few pages initially planned. It now includes lots of 'before and after' grooming photos of lots of different breeds of dog. There are several videos too showing Dee, the groomer, taking great care while grooming her doggies.
This is the site I made for them...
If you need a small business web site for your home business, I could do something like this for you too.
But why ask me?
The simple reason why they asked me was because I do know what I'm doing when it comes to making websites that work.
My website www.your-career-change.com - the one you're reading now, is actually very successful and is in the top 1% of all websites on the internet.
I have built this site of mine, which has around 700 pages of content, from scratch using the best tools available and learning every day what makes a web site really work. (BTW if you want a small business web site like mine, it will cost you just $29.99 per month and you can order it here.)
But you may not want to do all the work yourself, or you may not want a website that you can grow as big as mine, and if that is the case, you really are better getting someone to build your small business web site for you and take care of all the things like search engine optimization which make the site visible and 'findable' when someone is looking for your services.
Equally, if you work on a contract or interim management basis, the ideal way to showcase your talents and skills in a more detailed way than your CV is to have your own website on the internet. You can add case studies, assignment details, your fee structure and details of your publications. The problem is if you don't know how to do it or the technical issues would take up too much of your time.
For just £249.00 + VAT I can set you up with a simple, optimized website (with up to 10 pages), to get your business noticed. I will take care everything including registering a unique domain name appropriate to your business, setting up your exclusive email account, hosting (for 1 year) on the internet, search engine optimization and submitting your site to Google, Yahoo and Bing (the most important search engines) so all you have to do create the information and supply any photographs or images you want to use.
Click the button to make your payment and I will be in touch the same day, where possible, to get your new web site under way and winning business for you without delay.
So, if you are changing your career and starting a home based business, or you would like to get a small business web site to showcase an existing business, or you work on an interim management or contract basis, then the cost of having someone who knows what they are doing will work out cheaper than doing it yourself and failing to win any business.
The dog grooming website I made for my client, as above, is also in the top 1% of all websites on the internet and is helping to win new business every week. In fact, they graciously credit me and my small business web site building capabilities as being one of the factors behind their success. They are fully booked every day and clients book weeks in advance.
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