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10 reasons why you need your own website? 1) To grow your business Low Cost Marketing Tool A website with your own domain name can be used as low cost marketing tool. You can get a domain name and a web hosting with just less than USD10.00 per month! Putting your website on advertisement channels such as Google and Facebook can be low cost as well, This is because pay per click is upon your budget planning. Compare to high cost conventional marketing methods such as television advertisement, the website operating cost much more lower. Content Marketing You got a business and products? Apply content marketing on it! Get a website for your business, and have a business blog. Post an article every week or more frequent. You may create your website or build your blog by using Wordpress web software, it is SEO and social media network friendliness. Content marketing can let your targeted customers reach you by search engine and social media platform, it is free traffic! Sell Products You can sell your products and services on your own website! Build your e-commerce enabled website with e-commerce such as Shopify, Bigcommerce, volusion, bigcartel, 3dcart and etc. Why selling from your own e-commerce website rather than Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy? Reasons as below.

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10 reasons why you need your own website? 1) To grow your business

Low Cost Marketing Tool

A website with your own domain name can be used as low cost marketing tool. You can get a domain name and a web hosting with just less than USD10.00 per month! Putting your website on advertisement channels such as Google and Facebook can be low cost as well, This is because pay per click is upon your budget planning. Compare to high cost conventional marketing methods such as television advertisement, the website operating cost much more lower. Content Marketing You got a business and products? Apply content marketing on it! Get a website for your business, and have a business blog. Post an article every week or more frequent. You may create your website or build your blog by using Wordpress web software, it is SEO and social media network friendliness. Content marketing can let your targeted customers reach you by search engine and social media platform, it is free traffic! Sell Products You can sell your products and services on your own website! Build your e-commerce enabled website with e-commerce such as Shopify, Bigcommerce, volusion, bigcartel, 3dcart and etc. Why selling from your own e-commerce website rather than Ebay, Amazon, and Etsy? Reasons as below.

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You have more control of your own online store. No customer distractions, only your product will get attention! In Ebay

store, your products need compete with many other competitor products.

Have your own website design to bring out your own individuality. You can build your email list with your own e-commerce website. The

money is in the list! More referrals. Selling from your own site will make it easier for

customers to remember you and your shop and tell others about it. Better SEO. No need to pay membership fees. No fear of suspensions! Your own e-commerce site help you build your own brand name.

Set up your own online payment system Why you need your own online payment system on your website?

You get paid fast. You can make all kind of money. Your customers can pay with their

bank account or any card. Online payment system make your customer easier, they can make

purchase with just click. Online payment increase transactions. Your customer can make payment any location in the world. Operate 24

hr/day.

Conduct online surveys. You need feedback from your customers to design your new products? Put online surveys on your own website or blog. Customers love to give feedbacks. You may offer free voucher or free e-book for your surveyors. Why you need conduct online survey?

Faster

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cheaper More accurate Quick to analyse Easy to use for participants Easy to use for researchers Easy to style More honest More selective More flexible

As a communication tool for your latest products and services update The website of your own can used for latest products and services update. It is fast and immediate. A website, an email list and a social media platform can efficiently and consistently engage with customers. It is more cheaper and faster compare to old communication tools such as television, newspaper, post letter, yellow pages and etc. In website, you can add pictures, sounds and video to your products and services. No brochure will do that. Break through geography or "brick and mortar" constraint With your own website, you can reach your customer any location of the world 24 hour per day. Automated your business Integrating your website with automated tools to serve your customer 24 hour per day. You may use email autoresponder to send follow up email with subscribers. Beside automate customer follow up task, you also can automate customer service task to vendor such as Zendesk.

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2) For self-promotion or job seeking. For this digital age, you need a website or a blog to promote yourself. It will make you look like an expert. What you can present on your own website? You can have a page to describe yourself, such as your graduate university, job experience, skills, back ground, and etc. Another page to put your portfolio. Another page to write your review about your involved industry. You can be creative by uploading a video to describe about yourself. All this can't be done in physical resume. A website of your own to describe you and your experience shows that you are serious about finding a job or opportunity. Put your contact on your website, as this is a way to networking with people of the same industry. A website can let you put creativity on it, use your creativity to impress your desired employer or attract any opportunity.

3) Help you improve your writing skills Have your own website to blog. Blogging can help to enhance your writing skill. You can blog anything, about yourself, your hobbies, your professional, and etc. Good writing skill needed at every industry, whether you are writer, engineer, doctor, lawyer, IT specialist, or any else, you need it to write a report, send an email, write a proposal, all these need good writing skill. Good writing skill can help you earn extra money by doing freelance jobs. By blogging, you can learn how to write to make people easy to understand what you trying to express, and how to write to capture attention of readers. People want to share your article/blog if you are able to write a good article.

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Good writing skill also help to brand yourself. One of the example is Robert Kiyosaki, another Seth Godin. So start to make a good habit of writing.

4) For networking Your website just like a business card. It can promote you to public. When you share your experience, work pieces, articles, reports, videos, creative peices on your website, people with same interest will come find you through the internet by search engine, or social media platform. You can make a forum on your website for people to share idea, or let people to guest blog on your website/blog. All these are creative ways to networking.

5) A show room for your creative work Whether you are writer, artist, photographer, graphic designer, or any other creative professional, your own website can use to display your creative work. The website can showcase your work to potential employers and clients. In addition, you can also sell your work via your website and even let visitors download directly from the site, if you’re selling digital goods. You can combine your personal blog with your published work so that you can share your own voice along with a more professional voice.

6) A Website Can Turn You Into an Expert

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If you have a website which focuses on particular topic or niche, it builds your credibility as an expert on this topic. Even though you don't have the right academic credentials, regularly writing on this subject is evidence that you know what you talking about. When you have large enough readers for your niche, you may start to write a book to make money. You may even be invited to speak as an expert at conferences and seminars. This is also a way to for your personal branding.

7) Your own platform Your website is your own platform. You own your own platform Ownership comes with responsibilities and rewards. Owning your own platform means that it's yours. Nobody can take it. When you don't own your platform it can also mean that those who do own it may run advertising on it over which you have no control. You control your platform When you own your platform you have the ability to control what happens on it and it cannot be taken away from you. When you control your platform you have the ability adjust in the event something goes down. Control also means that you have the ability to add whatever extension, module or plugin that you want to add. You can build and grow your platform This means you can grow as much as you can possibly grow without limitations. You are the authority

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Search engine optimization is within your control when you build your platform on your own domain.The authority that you build belongs to you and your domain, not the service. You are a professional When you're building it on your own domain you have the ability to use your domain for email too. I appreciate Gmail, and have my own account, but it just doesn't quite get the job done for professionalism when your email address is [email protected].

8) A place to learn and teach Your own website is a great place to learn. This is the place where you can experiment, make mistakes, and learn from them. When you read a book of certain topic, you can share it on your website. It could be your review, your insight, a summary, or anything else. Not only the book that you read, may be something you found interesting, or an idea, you can put it on your website. When you share, you won't forget it, it will more impress your mind. You also can learn from visitors who leaves comment on your post. What do you want to learn more about and what can you teach others? Get yourself a website and find out. You’ll be surprised what you learn in the process.

9) Put your travel experiences and photos on your own website You can do this if you have a lot of travel experiences. With a great photography skill, put the great photo on your own website, plus some good writing skill to express your amazing travel experience.

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If your travel website is amazing, it will pull in a lot of readers. Some travelers even earn good amount of cash from their travel website!

10) A place for you to upload file You can upload a file to let people go and download. You can set a password for it.