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    Owning a website for your business is not useless, you can benefit from your website. Internet Technology is the trend in the WORLD. People will search in the computer over the internet to find the products/services/ or anything. Let's say the customer nearby at the market and can't find any product on what he's looking for. He will find the company through the internet and purchase a product and get a delivery to his home. For the business owner, if you have a website make sure you have a good SEO Specialist to market your website or to increase your website ranking in the search engine and increase the website traffic. if your website is listed in the top, you will have more visitors or customers to buy in your store instead of going to your office to buy a product.

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    Quote Originally Posted by takingyouforward View Post
    For the business owner, if you have a website make sure you have a good SEO Specialist to market your website or to increase your website ranking in the search engine and increase the website traffic. if your website is listed in the top, you will have more visitors or customers to buy in your store instead of going to your office to buy a product.
    Welcome takingyouforward, I had to google where Mandaue City is. Philipines that shows how small the global village is. My own thoughts are get your website working first before you worry about SEO. I see many websites where there is no call to action, or it is convoluted to find out a price or info on a product.
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    The problem I forsee when you have a host as your developer is that unscrupulous small guys (like big guys) will neglect you when they get bigger (busier) and then if you wish to migrate they make it impossible for you.
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    Not to sure the suggestion is that webs are a waste of time/money, just under the right conditions they are.

    Ours was our savior! We had the misfortune of having to start a new business in the middle of recession with 0 cash flow or injection. The only way to get out was via a website. Hugely dangerous situation to be in! That website managed to get business under way with NO other form of advertising, no flyers, no online campaigns...

    The way i see it, with the seo improvements, it just gets better, which it does... would really have to bugger things up somehow now to go backwards.
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    Hi Wynn

    That’s a fair response, and in most cases I'm sure it’s true. The 2 factors about starting a 'website' online before the marketing begins are hosting and website design.

    A host only really needs to get you to sign up. Once you’re paying a monthly fee they can pretty much only give you advice or support. There is no real extra income from you unless they try to make you upgrade for whatever reason. That’s why it’s beneficial for big hosts to break up packages and you get charged ridiculous fees.

    A website designer / developer on the other hand will help you setup the website and every time you need to do an upgrade or make changes the website designer will help you know what methods can be used and will be paid each time he dedicates time in helping you.

    That’s another reason it’s a great idea to do your hosting and design at the same place. Your website designer doesn’t need to argue with your host about changes that can be made and the process to making your precious website work will be much smoother.

    You can’t stop a company from growing but if you sell ‘your cake’ where you’re making it gets to the shelf faster, fresher and has the opportunity to have a better response. Simply by knowing that future business depends on good service will keep your website hosting a good experience.

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    Yes. It's that Chathead

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    Website Waste of Money

    Good Article

    A website will be a waste of time when the person do not do his research and strategic planning....It's like a chain reaction every component fit into each other....

    Beginners could rather start by a free blog or a squidoo lens...and then when ready start, a website and link the two to each other ...and the profit is double !
    Backlinks & experience building up...

    Thanks
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    great article. pointed out real good discussion. cheers to the ts.

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