Small Business Budgets and Modern Website Costs

Posted by jimarmstrong under Online Marketing
From http://www.getbusymedia.com 3580 days ago
Made Hot by: advertglobal on July 25, 2014 11:38 am

Digital whiz Jesse Aaron takes us through the pros and cons of do-it-yourself website tools. Having a website is an essential tool for any small businesses, but as you will soon find out, there are many ways to build a site.

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Written by lyceum
3534 days ago

Thanks for your reply. I will check out the links!

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Written by jwilliams1431
3566 days ago

Another statistic to study in the future might be the number of small businesses still in business after 20 years without a website. I think that would be interesting. In the ClickMinded SEO Training I completed, the topic of building an online reputation was discussed. I wonder what the numbers for small businesses still in business after 20 years without a well-rounded internet presence are going to be.

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Written by lyceum
3567 days ago

Jesse: 20 years sound like a good timeline. It will be easier and easier to create your own content online, and it will become even more affordable to outsource the work on a website in the future. As long as we are going toward a free market place, protecting individual rights.

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Written by lyceum
3570 days ago

Jesse: Thanks for providing the links! I will check them out! When do you think 100 percent of SMB will have a website?

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Written by JesseAaron
3568 days ago

No problem! That's a tough question but I couldn't see the majority - maybe 95%+ - taking more than another 20ish years. From 1994 - present we've seen exponential growth in both small business websites, blogs, and eCommerce, and we keep getting better tools for small businesses to easily create websites without having to know HTML/CSS/JavaScript. 20ish years would just be my intuition guess - how long do you think?

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Written by lyceum
3571 days ago

Jim: Could it really be the case that "55 percent of small businesses do not have websites."? This is a great opportunity for my favorite website and blog template, Squarespace.

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Written by JesseAaron
3534 days ago

Hey Lyceum, I referenced an article from AP (here: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/skip-website-some-small-businesses-still-do) where it cites a 2013 joint report by Google and Ipsos. Matt Cutts, head of the Google webspam team, also mentioned it in a recent post on Google+ (Here: https://plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/dqDiYpRMPPg) - hope that helps!

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Written by JesseAaron
3570 days ago

Hey Lyceum, I tried responding but I don't think I can include links in these comments. Anyway, I was referencing a post that AP circualted, which mentioned a joint report from 2013 between Google & Ipsos. Matt Cutts, the head of Google's webspam team, also posted about it. I'm including the URLs below but they are broken up (just join the http & :)

https : //plus.google.com/+MattCutts/posts/dqDiYpRMPPg

http : //bigstory.ap.org/article/skip-website-some-small-businesses-still-do

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