As a small local business, why do we need a website?

The simple answer is you can't afford not to have a website... for advertising, for customer service and for your image. Your clients and prospects demand it.

Advertising: Your website gets delivered 24 hours a day all around the world. The Internet is some of the most cost efficient advertising you can buy. With a web site you can have as much information displayed to your customers as you want. It’s the only way to go nowadays.

Customer service: How many times per day do you or a member of your staff answer the phone and give the exact same information, over-and-over? A website can provide "friendly" customer service. The customer doesn’t have to wait on the phone to listen to a recording or hopefully a person to talk to. They feel as though they are in control when they are gathering information from your website. They decide what information they are going to bring up and when they want it. And they can go back to it and reread it any time they want.  A website can not only improve your sales, but it can reduce your costs as well.

Image: Your website is a reflection of your company. A professional, user-friendly, and informational website, can provide an excellent first impression.  It can make your small business appear more competent than your toughest competitors.

What information do you need to design my website?

To design your website properly, we need to immerse ourselves in your business.  We want to learn as much as possible regarding your operation and objectives.

We need info about your business, your products, and your clients.  We also want any brochures, advertisements, letterhead, logo and color scheme. If you don't have a logo, we can develop one for you.

Also, it is helpful if you can steer us to your competitors sites as well as identifying websites with a style/flair the particularly appeals to you.

The more information the better.

Will my website be found when someone searches (Google's) for my services?

Many webmasters go to great lengths to craft wonderful web sites, putting little or no thought into being found by search engines.  Search Engine Optimization is an art.  Google uses more than 100 different characteristics about each web page in indexing and ranking a page.  These items include: title, key words, page content, links to the page, revision date, and much, much more.  For detailed info on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) read our white paper Search Engine Optimization.

How much will it cost?

It all depends; however, below is out standard price structure. 

A basic website consisting of up to 6 pages costs $800.  Properly done, this can be sufficient for many small businesses. 

A slightly more elaborate website consisting of up to 18 pages costs $1500.  This works well for businesses that need to display multiple products and/or services.

A Storefront, Ecommerce website, is much more involved and costs $2400 and up, dependant on the number of products, images, database provided, etc.

Find out how Seashore Web Design can make your web design project a success.
Call us at (609) 822-5672 or use our online contact form.