About 45% of businesses do not have a website. Additionally, 80% of website owners don’t keep their websites up-to-date. Don't waste your time, be better than your competitors.
To
stay competitive, you need to provide not only high-quality
services, but your website must be perfect. Unfortunately, a large number of
these websites are poorly designed or come straight from a WordPress template -
this is not how you can stand out or get ahead.
First
impression matters. Online impressions are first impressions. Just take a look
on your website and ask yourself: Do i want to buy something from them? Do i
need to stay here or to continue searching?
What’s
about visualization? Strong visuals and a clean, organized design lend
legitimacy to a website. These elements can also help establish trust in your
brand, which is especially important if your website is trying to convert a
sale.
Clean
& well-structured design is equal to quality of your projects. It is not a
secret! Importance of information, mobile-friendly design, easy to understand
calls-to-action - the main things that will give you more customers.
Also,
Effective feedback has benefits for the giver, the receiver, and the wider organization.
So,
why do we need to have a personal website/website for business?
It makes you money
Every
second business owner mentioned, that amount of leads you have daily depends on
how marketing works on your website. Even with a short, but right description
you can have UP TO 50x leads daily just because of the heading.
Awareness of your brand
The
algorythm is pretty simple: the more people learn about your brand, the more
people start to trust you; the more people trust you, the more leads and recommendations you get
.
Customer service
improvement
Offering
a quick response to a customer service on your
website with any regularly asked questions, is a great way to avoid paying
labour costs and phone bills. Also you need to provide a feedback section to
understand if your customer is super happy or not.
Sources:
- 1. https://profitpress.com/articles/why-half-small-businesse-no-website/
- 2. https://www.lyfemarketing.com/blog/importance-of-a-website/
- 3. https://www.facebook.com/devhance/
- Do you have business? If not, do you want to set up a new one?
- What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
- What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
Comments
I think that nowadays most people who do freelancing, blogging or any other online activity related to creating content or giving some kind of service tend to think of themselves as entrepreneurs and try to make people perceive them as a brand. So I don't think that creating a personal brand will help you to stay out of the crowd (if that's why you want).
Yes, business should have a website, because these days it's one of the best ways to create awareness about your brand. But most business these days do not focus much attention on their websites rather they spend more time updating feeds on social media. Most people do not browse the internet that much today. Many of us spend 90% of our time online scrolling throw Facebook or Instagram, so it makes more sense for businesses to promote themselves on those platforms.
Believe me or not but taking into consideration our workshop, that whole personal branding is a peace of shit. People sometimes even forgot to take care about business but only about brand. My dad started business by being a good mechanic and after many years we have few mechanics working for us and we don’t have to care about brand or website too much. People simply know that our service have high quality and they recommend us when someone is asking.
Of course it depends on the area where your business is but remember to care about being loyal, honest and do your best. Later you can think about website. Nowadays people have changed this order and they don’t succeed.
No, I don’t have. I am very open to setting up my own business whenever I happen to come up with an idea I find decent.
2. What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
Personal brands help staying out of the crowd. From the customers’ perspective it is very important whether they can feel a personal connection to a brand or not.
3. What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
The more detailed and eye-catching the website is, the more recognition it will gain in potential customers’ eyes. Additionally getting customers interested may very likely result in them sharing it with friends. As we know, recommendation is a best form of marketing these days.
2. I do not think that this would have a strong influence on the fate of this type of business since this is not a product, but a firm that produces other products for clients under other brands.
3. Definitely, it's good to have a website for your business. This has many advantages, for example, actual company news, a convenient contact form for clients, a list of services, a description of the company and much more. Additionally, visiting websites, the client can easily make a comparison of the firms and choose one that satisfies his needs.
No, I don't have a business yet, but I'm in the process.
2.What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
Personal brand is a very important part of business.Personal brand is a very important part of the business, If you are the owner of the company, your brand becomes an element of the image of the company. The right image will greatly increase the competitiveness of your business projects. Remember Steve Jobs. It is thanks to him that the Apple brand has become so strong.
3. What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
Now is the time that everyone needs a website. The website is the face of any modern company. This is an opportunity to express themselves, to talk about the company, its competitive advantages, its products, services, terms of cooperation.
I do have a business associated with the software development.
What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
I think personal branding is an ongoing process which should result in becoming recognizable in the mind of others. Of course, as long as you stay consistent while managing your brand, then it will be eye-catching for more and more people.
What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
I think yes, we do need a personal website for our business and it is because a growing number of our potential customers are using the internet to look for companies which offer services they need - if we do not have a website, they won't find us (or they will have a limited amount of information about our business from other sites).
I believe that you should not only be visible on the market, but also run your website at a high level. For example, I recently ordered the transport of tiles by a courier company. The website was quite nice, but it was impossible to call the given phone number, which made a very bad impression on me. Website is our business card. In my opinion, you have to allow customers to contact and be able to present their offer to them somewhere. At present, there is no need to spend large financial resources on presentation and marketing. Many companies use the opportunities offered by social media such as Facebook.
Marketing is extremely important in order to get new customers but you should never forget that 20% of your clients make 80% of your income so I would rather focus on making your service as good as possible for your current clients and only then focus on gathering new one. If someone recommend you to their friends it will most likely add new reliable client so focus on it.
I would say that we do need a website but only when our brand is really huge.
Having a good website will make your products better and communicate more closely with the customer, a comprehensive website with enough information to attract the customer, and on the contrary, a bad design website or false or misleading information will cause a loss. Giving customers and may even lead to the failure of that business.
I think anyone can open a website to start a small business.
I do not have a personal brand, so far. I'm not going to create a brand for the sale of goods, I want to provide services. And more specifically to be a person who helps people find objects for work.
I am sure that your personal brand will help to create a product or service, if you do not copy someone else's, but create something of your own.
This is a very relevant topic for me since I decided to save time and create a website - a business card on WIX, but after a while, it seemed to me that this site is not high enough for a site that I want to trust. But since my budget is limited, it’s possible to start with such templates is not a bad option. But to provide services without any site in our time is impossible. Since the site serves as information about the company, there you can see what services are provided, read about the company itself, read reviews of people who have already used the services. In general, the site in our time must have.
I think if your brand creates good product and is well organized and well leaded it will stay out of the crowd. It's really hard to be seen by a customers and you need to make good on many things.
Nowadays almost every business has its own website. It's because when people are looking for something they always go on google and there won't be some campaign literature but company's website. I think if a company is or want to be big and grow even more they should make their own website so people could find them.
I think the personal brand is a good way to be unique and stay out of the crowd.
In my opinion personal websites are important. Especially when we put an effort into the process of creation. The eye-catching sites might interest various of people about our brand/person.
Creating new personal brand is good way to start a business, but, to my mind, if it won`t get a good advertisement and won`t become popular, otherwise it could fail and I might lose all driving force and won`t even think in the direction of opening own business.
As for businesses not owning sites thats a bummer nowadays, time and money resources needed to upkeep a website is minimal and it provides you with broader customer base anytime, there weer many good businesses in my area that went out of business because they weren't "online", as for personal site emm maybe if your profile would benefit from it, like most art designers have one to provide online portfolios.
It depends on the area in which you would like to be noticeable and your current experience. If, for example, you are interested in trading or some kind of service like notary or insurance than ofcource you must have your own name. In IT field it works a bit different. The experience/education is crucial. You can spend hours designing you CV but if you have lack of experience most likely it will take some tome to find a job.
In my opinion, having a web site is a plus. Especially if you know that some people are going to google you.
Do you need website for your business? I'm not sure, I think it depends on type of business and it's life cycle. But it's always nice to have a good website. It's like a good watch, business card or mobile phone. These things could impress your business partners.
I don't understand question about personal brand. Your personal brand is your mind, intelligence, behavioral and charisma. So I'm already have it.
Personal websites are very good idea because people at home can very fast find out what your company offers but in my opinion more needed is very good positioning and actual information in google because people learn the most from „Uncle GOOGLE”.
"Do you have business? If not, do you want to set up a new one?"
No, I don't and I don't want to create any right now, but I do have an open mind about that.
"What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?"
It depend on situation and type of business. If we are leading small grocery shop in petite village, creating own website would be waste of money.
now everything is based on the internet and I think that every company should have its website and I need it.
I think building a strong personal brand is very important, especially in a field of work that requires a lot of competition. Having a recognizable brand helps people to stay out, have influence and find a better job.
I think modern businesses need to have a personal website in order to be successful. I agree with all the points presented in your article.
2. I think that it helps a lot to have a personal brand. It is hard to draw somebody's attention to our products and I think that a personal brand it is step to make it possible.
3. Personal website of our business is necessary. We have to be conscious that without it we are doomed to fail.
2. Never though about opening my own brand, but if I were and had a good idea it would help me. Good idea of business is a key to success. Something creative + good marketing are making business running and earning. Since I have no idea that is different than others I prefer to work in my corpo than risking my money. All I want is just stable, quiet life.
3. In these days? It's obligatory! You don't have your own website or facebook fanpage = you don't exist. That's simple.
- Yes, I do have my own business. It is a one person IT company, I created it to deliver software to under companies.
2. What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
- For me it does not matter, I have a contract with other company so I have a stable job, but I can, for example, create a profile on LinkedIn to promote myself so I can find a better offer from other company.
3. What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
- Yes, we need them if we have something to show. If you have a really good portfolio that you can present or you worked for a well-known company like Google etc. it is a good idea to create your personal website to show to the whole world how good you are.
What about personal branding? In my opinion it is important because it makes you unique. People can remember some special events etc.
I think that personal website for business is necessary. It is the best place for information about your company, new job offers and contact form. To be honest, website is one of factors when I am searching for new job. It should be clean and readable.
Currently I don't, but I'm thinking about starting a company.
What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
I think so, if you starting a business nowadays, people not only look on what you sell, but also on who you are. If they trust you, they will buy what you sell.
What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
I think if cannot find a restaurant or a shop online, and checkout menu and address or book a table before I leave, a probably will go to another place. So presence online today is very important.
2. I think it is very important but how it is done vary from the business you are in. For developers it is good to have some good portfolio, but this can be also presented in many ways, for example on github. But if you are more ambitious and you are trying to sell your own product to a lot of customers, then website is just one of the must have things.
3. I would like to have one in the future. But during time of studies I’m not interested in expanding activity or trying to find new customers so at this point I don’t need it.
I think a personal brand is beneficial and we should care about it. It will help you in setting a company because people will know you and in most cases, humans like to follow other people.
Nowadays when it's so easy to have your business website, I don't see any point against it. Depending on who you are and what you do and what you want you should or don't have to have a website. It's good to have just a site with your first and last name plus a way of how people can reach you. It's enough. With that starts it'll be much easier to start later when you would change your mind about this.
No, but I would love to have - right now I don't have any cool ideas to run. Maybe someday I will find out what is good to make business from it.
What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
I think it's very important, because people often want to know a lot of about you. When you are kind person it is more likely to be remembered by the people, and that will lead them to have a good thoughts about you.
What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
Yes. Nowadays it's a must have for me. When I want to check company it's almost 99% sure that I will check them on the internet, and when they do care about their website I think that it's a sign, that they can handle things professionaly.
No, I don't.
Actually, I want to set up a new one but I didn't make any action yet.
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What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
I think about a personal brand, it's a pretty idea but actually, it depends on the personal contents or services to make the personal brand stand as long at the market.
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What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
In my opinion, it also depends on the personal contents or services but in general, I think any company needs just website just to make trust this business, but nowadays social media must be part of your business for marketing in general.
2. What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?: It is not important for me to stay out of the crowd. Mainly I care about my self-development and self-realization. I think that personal brand can definitely help in it. It makes you feel better when you see progress and see how your brand develops. Then you are more motivated and involved to do more and more.
3. What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?: We have a website on Facebook and an account on Instagram. We don’t have a website but we would like to have it in the nearest future. I think it very important to have a website or fun page for example on Facebook. First of all it helps you reach to the people. It is the best way to advertise your work, because prospective clients can see your projects. Secondly they can find a way to contact with you and recommend your brand to others. So your brand could develop faster. More over, personal website makes first, and sometimes last, impression. It is very important to make clear and organized design which represents your personal brand. All of those examples create presentable and personal concept of the brand.
Unfortunately, I do not have my own business yet, but I have ideas, and I gradually take steps to implement them. So who knows, maybe this is temporary.
What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
Creating a personal brand will surely set you apart from all competitors; a personal brand can increase awareness. But I do not think that its creation is a mandatory part of the business. Although if you provide a service or product that has no analogues in the market, the presence of a brand is mandatory from the point of view of marketing.
What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
Today, many consumers place orders and use services on the Internet. The presence of a web site is an advantage for any business. In addition, the website can provide feedback to consumers. This can help you improve your product.
No, I don't. For now I'm working in companies to gain some experience. But am I thinking about creating one in the future? Of course I do, but as I said - the more experience I get, the more I can make use of it.
2. What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
It depends on what's your business is about. For example, when you're creating some clothing brand, you can make unique, expensive clothes - then you're staying out of the crowd. On the other hand, you can also make some popular clothes like all the other "normal shops", then it doesn't look like staying out of the crowd.
What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
You know, again it depends on what your business is about, but I think it's needed. Our personal website is kind of business card for us.
I do have my own business, but in the legal terms to work for my company - not in the way I run my own company. However, I would love to work for my own and launch some brilliant business - the problem is idea of what services my company should provide.
What do you think about a personal brand? Do you think it will help you to stay out of the crowd?
I don't think I understand this question correctly, is personal brand something which focuses on its customers, treats them and sells some products made specially for their likes and tastes? If yes, I think that kind of company would definitely stay out of the crowd, but it would be so difficult to run it.
What is your opinion about a personal website for your business: do we need it?
I think we do. As you said, nowadays this is the way we make our first impression - crucial factor to gain customer trust. Also, we can put there a lot of useful data for the potential customers, as well as plug analytics tools to track and analyze our customers behavior. This is something very powerful, because it allows us to better understand our customers needs.
2. I think it all depends on a type of business. Usually it is important to establish a well known and widely recognised brand.
3. I think that nowadays well designed website is important for every type of business. Internet is probably the best way to advertise your company and as mentioned in presentation, Internet is the place where companies make their first impression. Presenting your offer in a proper way can sometimes be as important as quality of the offer itself. People have to know that things that you try to sell exist and seem to be a good deal. To sum up, for modern business website is extremely important and companies should always make sure their website is as good as it can be.
Personal brand sounds cool. It will probably help you to stay out of the crowd, but will it help you to be successful if your business? It depends. Generally, it’s tough to build your brand from zero. Even if you are a good businessman and know all ‘rules’ of making successful business it doesn’t give you 100% confidence that your brand will become more popular than the brands that are already in the market.
And about a personal website. I think that the phrase ’successful business’ equals ‘personal website’. It’s one of the best ways of advertising your business and making your client base bigger.