I mentioned in my post about starting a business that it is a good idea to set up a website when you first get started. The reason behind this is that you want people to have somewhere to go to get to know a little bit about what you do and who you are.

The first thing you are going to need when setting up a website is a domain name. The domain name is the actually web address that people will identify your website with. The domain for this site, for example, is www.howiwillberich.com. If your company is called Wolf Productions you would want to see if you can get the domain www.wolfproductions.com. If it’s not available, try www.wolfproductions.net. Basically, you will need to try names until you get one that you like and is available. Domain registration is cheap. GoDaddy.com has domains for $9.99 per year for a .com or a .net.

Once you’ve got your domain name registered, you’ve got to get a host. Hosting prices vary all over the place but can actually be found for pretty cheap these days. Since your business is brand new, you probably are not going to be expecting massive amounts of traffic. You probably won’t even need a gigabyte of space but most hosts offer hundreds of gigabytes. This is basically so that they can look better than the competition. This amount of space is unnecessary for a small business website. Here is a list of some inexpensive web hosts that would be perfectly fine for your new small business.

Once you’ve got your domain name and you’ve got the host, it’s time to start putting content on your site. Some things that are good to include in your website are:

  • Give Information about your company. Explain what it is that you do and what makes you better than the competition out there.
  • In some industries it may be beneficial to give a little bit of personal knowledge as well. If you are a family owned company, people like to hear about that. It’s very respectable.
  • Images of the work that you do. If you do powder coating, for instance, you can post some pictures of the more impressive projects that you have worked on.
  • Customer feedback of your company. Take any e-mails that people have sent you and quote them. If you don’t have any, e-mail or call some of the people that you know where happy with your work and ask them for a comment that you can post in the customer feedback section of your site.
  • Contact information. People know what you do, they’ve seen the work you’ve done and they know that you have happy customers. Give them a way to contact you so that they can be your next customer.

And that’s it. For about $58.00 per year you can have your very own website. All that you need to do is promote it and I’ll get to that in a later post.

-M

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