Top Ten reasons WordPress for Small Business beats the pants off the rest
I’ve talked a lot about WordPress but I haven’t explained why it’s better than all the typical offerings pitched to small companies (products from Yahoo!, Microsoft, Google, YellowPages.com, CitySearch, and others). Today I’ll do that in just 200 words. To accomplish my goal I’ll just hit the highlights and leave further explanation for later posts.
- It’s the tool the Pros use and there is good reason for that
- Offers you tremendous SEO out-of-the-box – this means FREE search engine marketing
- Easy to write and publish new content with no need for technical knowledge
- It can be a web site, a blog or both
- People like me all over the world are showing you how to use it – for free
- For less than $100 a year you can get an equivalent web site and blog for what you’d pay a designer or programmer $2-$5K for
- It’s really free, (called open source) only pay for web hosting
- Infinite design and feature customization
- Access to WordPress community of contributors numbering over 10,000 to assist with design, programming, training or consulting (size of community drives competitive pricing)
- Geek stuff under the hood helping you without you needing to know Geek