How Does it Work for Business Websites – Choices
How Does It Work?
What type of business website do you want? There are two ways you can get on the Internet, one is free and the other is a little more.
- The Free Option: There are a wide range of needs for people desiring websites. If you are interested in just blogging informally to your friends, family and anyone else who happens by, then a free website would most likely be a good choice for you. A free website is also good to post family albums or to to use as a pulpit to voice your opinions to the world. However keep in mind that when you use a free website you will get a website on another companies site with their domain name (yourdomain.theirdomain.com). For example you may have mywebsite.wordpress.com. You cannot have http://www.joesbakery.com or dominospizzachicago.com. You will also be limited as to the types of features you can have, you will not be able to sell products (ecommerce) and no custom emails (joe@joesbakery.com). However free will be all some people will need. Depending on your needs and whether you have personal or business objectives this may or may not work for you. Remember that nothing is free. Someone is paying for your free website and, even though they are not charging for the website, they usually are using other ways to earn income, such as putting advertising on your website. You also never know when the company will go out of business as did one of the more popular free blogging platforms, Vox.com. They closed up. Perhaps they ran out of funds and yoursite.vox.com is gone forever.
- The Low Cost Option: If you’re serious about building a strong business online then you will benefit most with your own domain name (www.mywebsite.com) and this option provides that. If you are going online in the search for financial freedom, if you have a current business that is only offline (a store front or another offline business) or if you have an online business now that is not working then you would benefit from your own domain name and website builder software that can grow with you. Once you register yourdomain.com its yours forever and you can move it from host to host. However your customers will never lose you wherever your host your site. Kind of like a cell phone that keeps its number wherever you live, even overseas! You will also be able to sell products using ecommerce (take credit cards) and you choose from thousands of customization options. The good news is that you can have all this for less than $100 per year, including ecommerce capabilities. That’s per year, not per month.
If you’re looking a free website click here for directions to set up your free website at WordPress.com.
But if you want a website to sell products, take reservations, build email lists and many other options then please read on.
1. What do I get with the Low Cost Version:
You get to choose from thousands of designs for small and large businesses. Here are some examples of websites you will be able to build with our system:
Restaurant Website Real Estate Website Blog Magazine Website
Most of these graphic templates are Free and some cost a small amount.
You can also easily add many different feature plugins to your site. Here is a sampling of just a few:
- Keep comment spam to a minimum with this plugin
- Put your sites find-ability on steroids with the Search Engine SEO plugin
- A contact us form that takes all of 30 seconds to install
- Explode your sites traffic with this plugin that enables visitors to email, tweet and post your content and special deals to social networks
- This plugin makes it a cinch to put videos on your site
- Don’t forget to back up your website-this plugin does it automatically every week for you.
- A plugin that automatically post’s your content and specials to Facebook and Twitter
- …and thousands more, most of them for free
2. Free vs Low Cost Comparison
Here is a chart showing the differences between the Free and Low Cost Website Options:
| OPTION A - FREE | OPTION B - "Low Cost" | |
|---|---|---|
| Features | WordPress.com | Your Own Host |
| Domain Name | Not Available | FREE with Hosting |
| Domain Name Style | yoursite.wordpress.com | www.yoursite.com |
| Graphic Design | 110 choices | over 1,000 choices |
| Statistics | WP Stats | Google Analytics |
| Other Peoples Ads | Displayed on your site | None |
| Storage | 3gb | Unlimited |
| Akisment Spam Protection | YES | YES |
| Email Address | NO | Unlimited Custom Addresses |
| SEO Optimized Permalinks | NO | YES |
| Contact Form | NO | YES |
| Automatic Database Backup | NO | YES |
| Customizable SEO settings | NO | YES |
| Able to sell ads | NO | YES |
| Redirection Capability | NO | YES |
| PDF print capability | NO | YES |
| Post to Twitter | NO | YES |
| ReTweet your posts | NO | YES |
| Integrate with Facebook | NO | YES |
| Featured Photo Gallery | NO | YES |
| 24 HOUR PHONE TECH SUPPORT | NO | YES |
| Cost | 0 | $6.95 per month |
3. How do I Get Started?
Just click the link below and we will show you how to sign up for your hosting, pick your graphic design and install your site.
If you sign up today, we’re also going to provide you with a Free Copy of the $34.95 book from Internet Expert, James Martell, Online Success for Non-Techies, which will teach you all you need to know to build a traffic generating website and to help you start making money online as soon as possible.
Choose the plan you like best from the choices below:
OPTION 1: Get a Free Domain ($15 value) by paying for the entire year up front ($83.40) – translates to $6.95 per month.
Click Here to Get Started for $6.95 per month with a free domain name.
OPTION 2: Pay Monthly, your first month is $.01, no free domain – monthly cost is $8.95 per month. If you already have a domain name you can use it here at no additional cost!