Build and manage your own website
Having a business website is an important part of your online presence. Your website:
- An element of your business identity
- Allows you to talk to your customers and allow them to search for your services
- You will be allowed to sell products and provide services online.
1: Get the domain name and address
It is necessary to settle on a decent domain name. Affects:
- Easy to find your online site
- Earn customer confidence in your website
- Maintain your site's reputation
2: Set up an email address that matches your domain name
You can use free email services for your business, however, one abuse matches your domain name (and business), and creates a lot of bad impressions.
For example, your email in the domain name can appear as info@mybusiness.com rather than mybusiness@gmail.com.
A service provider that records your domain name, or your internet hosting company, can provide a free email service or adopt it as a paid add-on.
3: Find a web hosting company
For your website to be printed and accessible online, it will be hosted by an online hosting company. These companies offer you a safe home on their server to store all the contents of your website.
You can host your website with a domain company itself, or you can choose a unique host if this better meets your business desire.
The monthly fee for web hosting can vary depending on the size of the website and how you get visits.
4: Design your own website
When inventing your website, assume the following:
- The data you wish to provide to your customers
- What do you want them to try to do on your site
- Inquiries they will have
- The order they're going to make.
Build the site to make it easy for them to search for the items they need on the site.
A well-designed and user-friendly website can help your business stand out.
Usually, you need a dedicated page for each product that varies or a basic service you provide.
5: Build your own website
When deciding how to create your website, think about how it is maintained and how easily it is configured. You can make regular changes to the content on your website, for example:
- Change ads and add sales information and special offers
- Update contact information
- Changes in prices, goods, and services
- Updating opening times, for example, for public holidays
Building your website may be a homemade project (DIY) or do it for me (DIFM). You will be able to create your business website by:
- Recruitment of Model-Based Website Builder (DIY)
- Use CMS to make custom NetSuite (DIY or DIFM)
- Appoint a web developer familiar with DIFM.
Considering the advantages and disadvantages of each choice can help you decide which one suits you best.
6: Add and manage your website content
Website content writing
Drafting on your website provides customers with knowledge to understand your business, what you offer and how to access it.
People read differently online, thereby make sure the content is easy to read and understand. To try to do this:
- Put information from the most important to the least important
- Use simple language
- Make sure you have easy access to content
- Use clear addresses
- Make the paragraphs short and easy to read.
Manage and update content
It's important to keep your website content up to date.
New website content, such as events, sales, and promotions for seasonal products, also:
- Helps keep your customers interested and engaged
- Supports your ranking on search results pages.
7: Publish your website
Once your website is ready, it must be published so that your customers can access the site using a domain name.
The publication will take one or two days. Consider this if you have scheduled the launch of your website to coincide with other opening activities.