Every Business Needs A Website
August 17, 2008 Posted by Al Castle
trackback
Categories: Marketing, Puter Stuff, Web Design & Dev, gnash-teeth
Tags: Business Websites, getting online, its not the 70s anymore, the pain
I’m incredibly tense, my shoulder feels like its trying to secede from my body. So here I am searching for massage places in Whatcom County. There’s a ton of smaller businesses (no doubt one person operations), that have no website. At this point I just want to find who’s open on a Sunday, price and driving distance are not concerns right now. I’ve already called a few places, had to listen to their stupid answer machines for a few minutes until they get to the part about what days and hours they’re open. Completely and utterly a waste of my time. Bastards.
Their website only needs a few pieces of information and then I wouldn’t be more tense.
- Hours of operation.
- Address
- Phone number
- Name of business
- Misc fluff - rates, credentials, pictures, blah blah.
A domain can be purchased for about $10 at godaddy.com Bluehost can provide web hosting for $6.95/month. Almost any word processor can save as HTML. Hell write it in plain text for all I care. You publish in the phone book so why not online? Trade a massage for help from one of the geeks or friends, or a family member if you’re too cheap.
Sigh. I’m seriously tense.
Comments»
Poem, help him out already….it is just a back rub.
Just about every business does need a website and your post is right on. In many cases, the problem lies in that small businesses don’t even know where to begin.