If  you’ve  been  watching the news and reading the papers, and finding yourself continually asking this question, you may need to  rethink your  strategy.  Although building a web site can seem  incredibly  foreign  to most of us, it really isn’t that difficult  or expensive.

Yet it is critical because, even at a minimum, web sites are like business cards these days (although they can  be  far more than that) in that they represent your business  to  the world at large. Even if you’re thinking “our business is locally-based, how can the ‘world wide web’ really be relevant to me?” Read on because that could be misleading.  Think of it this way, if you don’t have a web site, chances are your  competitors do.   Let’s  take a look at some numbers to examine just what that could mean to you.

And the number of small business web sites are on the rise.

Clearly  this  means  it  is becoming more and more likely that your competitors will be getting online if they aren’t already. In fact, if you compete against larger businesses this is in fact is even  more  so.

Know the relevance of a web site in helping your business succeed!