You have a great product and you just know that if you could get it onto the market, it is going to fly off the shelves, literally. It could be a beauty product, furniture or even your artwork that you would like to sell.
Here is why you would want to a website: regardless of whether you have a store front, advertise in the phone book, magazines or newspapers, your product is will have exposure limited to the passers by, or readers of those media. What you should do is to expand your market from 'local' to 'international', to reach millions of people all over the world. The best thing is that it is so easy to do - via the world wide web. If you don't have a website you are short-changing yourself and losing prospective clients or customers.
Your future customers expect to be able to find you online, and for many people you might as well be invisible if you can't be found with a search engine. Not having a website is like, in the last century, not bothering to get listed in the phone book.
However, the daunting task of creating a website may be overwhelming, we're not all computer geeks playing around with HTML and although there are websites out there offering 'free' webpages, they are usually only one page, very basic, or complicated and time consuming.
Web designers are downright expensive. You could pay anything from $3000, and still not be sure how good they are. Should you want to change anything (and you should, often) you will have to pay for this to be done.
The alternative is to find a user friendly webpage building programme and there are a few real gems around. The best ones are not only quick and easy to use, but also fun. Wouldn't it be great to be able to build your own website, and be online in a day? Can it really be that easy?
You can be as creative as you choose by adding your own particular design or use a template, but you should choose a website building program that allows you the freedom to design a page exactly how you want it, to be able to add to it later and have complete control over it.
These days, whether your business is large or small, it needs to have an internet presence. Your customers are bypassing the yellow pages and newspapers in favour for the internet when looking for a product or service - and you should be there to greet them!
