Saturday, November 29th 2008, by Adam Barger

At WebStarts our goal is to make it easy to build your very own free website. Maybe you're wondering how we can offer a free website. We can offer you a free website because we're certain once you see how easy our website builder is to use you'll want to upgrade to one of our pro accounts.

A WebStarts pro account is everything you need not only to have a professional business presentation online, but also to get your business found.

Here's a list of just a few things that come with a WebStarts Pro Account.

A Custom Domain Name

If you're serious about putting your business on the internet the first thing you need is your own domain name. A WebStarts free account let's you share our domain at WebStarts (Example: www.webstarts.com/businessname,  but when you upgrade to a Pro Account you can get your own .com, .net, org, etc. (Example: www.YourBusiness.com). Your own domain name will tell your clients and customers you're saavy enough to have your own web presence.

Matching Custom Domain Names

Once you get your own domain name you'll want your email addresses to match that domain. Having a free email like Yahoo, Hotmail, AOL, and Gmail is great for passing out to family and friends but when it comes to business you really need your email address to reflect your website. Having an email address that matches your business domain name will help remind your customers to check out your website and will also let them know you're in business for the long haul.

Search Engine Submission

You have your domain name and matching emails. Now all you need are visitors to come to your site. Only one problem... nobody knows you exist. Putting your domain name on your business cards, flyers, and other materials is certainly important but you'll really be able to drive traffic to your website by getting good ranking on Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other search engines. When you upgrade to a WebStarts Pro Account we do this for you. We submit your website to Google, Yahoo, and MSN so that it will be found on the search engines.

Mailing List and Lead Forms

Once traffic starts coming to your site you'll want to make the most of it. It's not going to do much good if people come to your website for a few seconds, read some of your material, and then leave. You're going to want to capture their contact data. That will let you send them follow up emails and remind them about your products and/or services. When you upgrade to a WebStarts Pro Account you get access to the our form builder. It let's you create custom lead forms and place them where you'd like them to appear on your website. Further more a WebStarts Pro Account will let you send follow up emails to your leads. This helps you turn more leads into customers.