Small Business Web Design has become the newest me too, how to, no-clue, voodoo on the internet today.

Your website is your calling card, your face, your store front to the world.

Do you want some high school kid that has never run a lemonade stand or gotten over a C+ on a term paper to determine the profitability of your business by building your website for you?

A professoinal website expands your marketplace beyond “Joe and Millie’s 5 & Dime in the old Piggly Wiggly shopping center” to the global stage.

You wouldn’t produce your own television show or erect and paint your own bill board on the side of the interstate so why are you duct-taping and finger-painting and corner-cutting your own website that, unlike the local billboard, is viewable BY THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF PLANET EARTH?

“But Wes,” I can hear you rumbling to your computer screen,…

• “GoDaddy gives me a free 5-page site with their Website Tonight.”
• “Vista Print gives me a free website for 30 days and then an unlimited site for just $19.97 per month.”
• “Jimbdo gives me a free website if I use their domain or I can use my own URL if I host with them for $60 a year.”
• “My son is pretty savvy on the internet. I’ll just have him build me a site.”
• “I’m pretty handy with international relations so I’ll just find a dude in Pakistan to build my site for cheap. Besides, I have a spell-checker and grammar-checker on my PC to fix any mistakes he makes.”
• “Content is over-rated. People won’t read all of this stuff. All I need is a little ‘brochure website’ so people know how to contact me. (Everyone contacts me, anyways, because I’m so swell and wonderful and I have no competition and business is just so immaculate I may actually stop advertising altogether.’”)

To which I reply,

• “Krispy Kreme gives a free doughnut when the “Hot Now” sign is on to lure you in, get you on a sugar high so you’ll spend more than you should.”
• “Vineyards give $5 wine tastings to lure you in, get you drunk and have you spend more than you should.”
• “Denny’s has ‘Kids Eat Free’ to lure you in,…”

You get the point.

No longer are you competing with the machine shop three blocks north and oneblock east.

To succeed in the always-on, inter-connected, no B.S., web-enabled, social media-driven, Web 2.0 world dominated by savvy prospects looking for the best value your website better:

• Get you noticed.
• Capture the interest of your prospects.
• Answer their questions.
• Instill confidence in your ability to solve their issues.
• Educate them.
• Entice them enough to volunteer their contact information so you can build a list.
• Take their order.
• Automate follow up sales and upsell offers.
• Automate your marketing.

To find out what it will take to get your website out-ranking, out-informing and out-selling your competitors in 30-days or less please contact me now via my “Contact Wes” tab on the top right, the “Click to Chat With Me” blue button a below the “7 Deadly Sins of Selling” order form or simply call me at 714.369.8004 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 714.369.8004 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 714.369.8004 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.

If you’re a researcher and would like to know more about how I view websites and their structure and functions and capabilities please read on.