Is It Possible to Run a Business Without a Website?
Yes. Plenty of businesses run on word of mouth, a Google Business Profile and a Facebook page. The catch is that each of those lives on someone else's platform, laid out their way and under their rules, and none of them tells your whole story in one place you control.
What Can I Use Instead of a Website?
Free listings come first: a Google Business Profile, a Facebook page, Yelp, Nextdoor and Apple Business Connect all cost nothing to create yourself. If you want a site of your own for little money, a website builder such as Wix or Squarespace lets you build one yourself. We compare that with hiring someone in our Wix vs web designer guide.
What Is the Difference Between a Website and a Facebook Page?
A website sits on your own domain, a name you keep, and it says what you choose, laid out for your business. A Facebook page lives on Facebook, in Facebook's layout and under its rules, and it can't move anywhere else.
Many businesses use both: the Facebook page for news and photos, and the website for services, prices, hours and a simple way to reach you. A website can show your Facebook posts too.
Do I Need a Website If I Have a Google Business Profile?
Your Google profile is the most important free listing you have, and a website makes it stronger. The profile shows the basics; the website gives customers the rest: every service, your prices, your photos and a form that reaches you. Your profile can link straight to it.
What Should a Small Business Website Include?
- What you do and where you do it, in the first thing a visitor reads.
- Your services and prices, or at least a starting price.
- Your hours and a phone number customers can tap to call.
- A contact form that reaches you quickly.
- Real photos of your work and your place.
- Privacy and terms pages, which any site that collects customer details should have.
Every site we build includes your services, prices, hours and photos, a contact form, and privacy and terms pages. What it costs is in our website cost guide.
If You Decide You Need One
We build it for $599 after one visit to your business, live within 8 to 14 days, then keep it current from $49 a month. Your domain, your content and your leads stay yours, even if you leave.