Why WordPress is the Best Choice for Small Business Owners
September 3rd, 2010. By Kim Novak Proctor | Published under 10 items or less . 4 Comments.
Why WordPress is the Best Choice for Small Business Owners
I love WordPress, and other small business owners and marketers should love it, too. Over the past few years,WordPress has become my web design platform of choice.
Why? Simply because a WordPress website can do everything an old-fashioned website can do, and about 100 times more.
10 Reasons Why WordPress is the Best
Here are ten excellent reasons why WordPress is the Best platform for web design, blogging, social media — whatever. If you are looking for a website, you should choose a WordPress as your publishing platform, period:
- Easy to use – If you can operate Microsoft Word, you can probably use WordPress.
- Flexible – WordPress themes can be easy to modify, and hundreds of plugins and widgets make it easy to customize your website/blog.
- Full-fledged content management system — although it’s thought of as a blogging platform, it’s really so much more.
- No software required – Do you have a mini laptop and wireless connection? Blog from the airport in between planes.
- Design it once and forget it — and you can blog to your heart’s content for years without ever going out of style.
- Easily add an e-commerce – it’s easy to accept credit cards via Google Checkout, Paypal, or accept credit cards via Authorize.net
- Completely customize your site – start with a theme like Hybrid or Flexibility and modify the theme so it’s uniquely yours.
- Achieve top search engine visiblity — optimize it for search engines and get your prospects to call you when they have a need.
- Get social / learn more about your customers and prospects – because a blog is designed to be more interactive than a static website, and can integrate with Linked-in, Facebook, and Twitter.
- Trick it out – with Hundreds and hundreds of plugins to customize the functionality of your website/blog so that it fits your unique needs! Plugins are truly one of the reasons Why WordPress is the Best.
These are 10 excellent reasons why WordPress is the best. Probably best of all — it’s cheaper, easier to implement, and easier to maintain.
Ready to make the switch to WordPress? Contact me today and I’ll show you why WordPress is the best choice for you.
4 Comments
Jennifer on September 4th, 2010
I use work press for my website and though im still learning it is a great tool 
Kim Novak Proctor on September 4th, 2010
Thanks for the comment, Jennifer! Congrats on your woman-owned business. If you need any help navigating the world of WordPress, just let me know. We are currently offering a special on Facebook ads which can help you increase your “likes” and target your audience — all for as little as $5 a day!!!
Kim Novak Proctor on September 5th, 2010
Thanks for the comment, Thomas. Congrats and wishing you much success on your business. Your website looks great!!!
Thomas @ FavTrip on September 3rd, 2010
Great article. I was going to say until I read that very last sentence, the other BIG part about WordPress that is such a huge advantage – it’s so CHEAP.
I’m a 30yo combat veteran, a single Dad – if I can be successful online, anyone can, haha.