I own a couple businesses, and one which is a niche construction business is taking off. As in it is growing so fast I may need to actually hire full time employees… which I also dread.
Yesterday, I received two phone calls and both asked if I had a website. To keep costs down, I have not had a website built, but I guess that needs to change. On the other businesses, the websites are built but no one looks at them from the monthly emails I get on who has been to my site. Now, people are looking for this business.
For those who understand, I’m in that growing stage where I need to spend money to grow, but I don’t want to risk the spending in case something may happen. Websites, needing to upgrade my business apps, ordering large amounts of supplies and employees.
I guess I’m just taken aback by how odd people have been due to a lack of websites when I have never had anyone really look before. Which now I’m up at the witching hour doing estimates, invoices, and now checking on at least a static website maker.
I have heard of GitHub, but does anyone recommend any other static website making types? Any help would be appreciated.
Having a website is good practice but you shouldn’t fear the costs. I work in marketing, my agency does web design (Not a promotion, OP isn’t my target customer I work with SaaS startups) and yes you can pay a crap ton for a site, but you really don’t need to.
If you’re happy to do it yourself, Wix and Squarespace are extremely cheap and easy to use and provide most of the functionality a small business could need.
If you want something a little more custom you can pay someone between 2-500 to get a good Wordpress setup, and hosting will be fairly cheap (Hundo a year maybe)
This doesn’t need to be expensive, scary or complicated. Chances are the site you want needs to be nothing more than a digital brochure. Some people’s site’s are basically just digital business cards.
No panic my friend, this is a very easy problem to fix.