I have recently opened a hardware store and my friends and family constantly keep telling me that I need to get a website up quickly.
As someone who doesn’t consider himself to be “tech savvy”, I fail to see the point in having one as I get enough traffic through my “plain” brick-and-mortar storefront.
Some questions for small business owners who already have a website or plan to get one would be:
What is your reasoning for creating your website?
Why not use Amazon, Shopify, or a similar platform?
Was it profitable?

  • MethuselahsCoffee@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    As a few others have mentioned. Simple solution is a google listing with accurate hours, a Facebook page with accurate hours.

    Unless you’re wanting to hire someone to manage a website for you I don’t see a use case here. Source: former web designer.

    Unless you plan on doing e-commerce. In which case you’d need an employee to handle shipping and fulfillment. Modern Point of Sales like Lightspeed manage inventory as well and it integrates with Shopify. EG: You have 5 Ryobi drills in stock. I buy one via your website, your inventory auto updates showing 4 in stock.

    But if online sales are not a concern then I think you’re ok to not have a website.