Wordpress for Small Business Owners

Posted by Bellrock Brad on March 15, 2008

Most small business owners are probably not looking to hire another employee to start marketing their business on the internet. They also find they do not have a lot of time to have to go and learn some new complicated computer program. They need a web site that markets their business well but allows them to quickly make small changes, like listing a new sales price or changing some words around, on their own. Wordpress offers the capability of user-friendly software that allows the site owner to edit his or her own content.

Wordpress is free blogging software which can also be used to build most any type of Web site that any authorized person can edit. Here is an example of a business site which is referenced as using wordpress but it does not have the look or feel of just being a blog. Yet, because they used Wordpress they can take advantage of the Web-based interface that makes it unnecessary to buy expensive software to make edits to a Web site. If you can use your web browser to read this article or to send email, you can make simple changes to your wordpress business website. Even if you have a professional do the initial design work, you – the business owner – can add pages, edit pages, or change photos – your choices are limitless. Pages on your conventional site can be set up as WordPress pages, or you can design your whole Web site with WordPress.

Since Wordpress is so widely used there are many resources readily available to learn more and find help on building a Wordpress site. Here is a link to a site with a whole series of freely available video tutorials on different things to do to setup Wordpress. If you have the time you might want to go through these, but again as a small business owner you most likely want to quickly get your site basically up and running to promote your business. Then you can make changes and update it as needed.

At Bellrock Internet we are focused on helping you do just that. We will get your business site up quickly using Wordpress, then we will show you how you can make changes and update your site as you want to. Please use our simple contact form if you are interested in getting started.