Saturday 1 March 2014

Top Key notes essential for a Small Business Website Part 2

2 Which CMS will best suite for your business or purpose?
Definitely CMS is most convenient and cheap solution to initiate a business website. Only you need to have a look on your business current situation and your products/services and choose the rightful CMS option available in the market. Most CMS are open source, free and very affordable when considering it for a website platform on which your website will stand.  

 E-Commerce Website

Suppose your main purpose is an ecommerce business, mainly for products i.e. health products, sports products, home decor products, electronics products and others. Then your CMS choice should be an ecommerce structure fulfilling most of your features and functionality available in it. Great benefit of a CMS includes add-ons mostly free or coming with small affordable or cheap price. The low cost add ons helps to cut your bill down, but before choosing a CMS read carefully all the features and functionality available within the CMS. Because it is often found most time claimed features not working properly after being bought. And don’t forget to check whether custom coding allowed or not If you want to make some custom changes through CMS

Some recommended names are like BhaiyaCMS, VirtueMart, Magento, osCommerce and opencart  

 If Joomla !

Joomla is an open source CMS system and is considered very flexible and with a better admin structure. The only drawback is the structure which is limited. You can find a lot of compatible Joomla templates available in market to help to make your website according to your requirement or shooting your business. Main benefit of a Joomla website is that you don’t need to start your website from scratch. While it is easy to install and activate but get a Joomla knowledgeable friend or guy to help you out If you are first-timer as  it may take more than 5 days to understand the Admin area. So to make it a less time consuming  work, a Joomla developer will be great to install and operate you through the process.  

 If Wordpress

Comparing with Joomla, wordpress is a quite simple is admin and readily used for blogging purpose most of the time. It’s core design is made for blog purpose. But mostly it is used for the small business website purpose with 6 to 10 pages. A wordpress website can be plugged in with featured plug ins which are mostly free or in a very cheap price available in market. 


Top Key notes essential for a Small Business Website Part 1

A Website is a prime necessity for shop owners, entrepreneurs, home business owners and to those businessman who used to sell products or give services to other parts of Country apart from local area.
Regardless of passive  marketing criteria, that makes potential clients to reach you through search engines. Even your best approach should be the active marketing materials that really attracts your customers to connect with you.
Even If your product or material got a high demand or actually poses the capacity to capture market or have a heavy demand or no competition. It doesn’t matter, your product and services should have a better description or content which educate customers Why to Buy? More important is your website should contain all your credibility details to pursue client Why Or Why Not to deal with you . Your Background, credentials and valid information give a strong credibility of your reputation and taking this confidence Client may decide to deal with you. Potential customers take credentials and background into consideration before making a deal. So It certainly an obvious reason to put credentials on website with other details to rise the trust label in your client’s mind.
 
Creating a website is very simple, you can find a friend to help or a web developer or coder to help you out on coding a website for you. If you don’t want to invest a lot of money, then you can look for a CMS- Content Management System to initiate your project. CMS system is a pre build  structure of a particular type of website containing related features and functionality. It would be a better option than custom building your website to initialize your start up business.

Below few points definitely going to help you understand what to take care at the initial stage of website before choosing any one to build a website for you

1 What is the purpose of your website?


Take your tablet or lappy and make a list of points necessary for your website. After analyzing various competitors ruling on the same business decide What is the main purpose your business? Who is your potential client? Which is the geographical area you want to target? What product you want to launch? Or What is your goal?
All the above queries will give you a clear cut idea on what your website is going to give you back or How it is going to perform against tough competitors ! Simply forget about the competitors and put valid credentials about you and your product in a proper and presentable way that can engage potential clients. Have a blog within the website so people can understand or get an idea about your product or services.  A step by step planning would make your website liable for a steady growth in future taking your plan into consideration. It doesn’t matter whether you are selling products directly or online. There should be  a proper business plan to make continuous and steady growing of your website.

to be continued…