1. Your Custom Domain Name Online In Minutes One of the hardest things to do when creating your own website is get your domain name working with your website. Just a couple of days ago someone was telling me how they hired a web designer six months ago and he still didn't have his domain name up. He asked me to get a site online using WebStarts and it was done within 10 minutes. I clearly remember the look on his face when he realized I could get his domain name working with WebStarts in minutes when he'd wasted six months waiting for a web designer to do it. Of course the smart web designers use the WebStarts Designer Platform to build websites for their clients.
2. A User Interface Easy Enough For Your To Make Changes To Your Website The value of a website is in it's ability to efficiently communicate up to date information. Twenty years ago you would've had to print out a brochure for your business and every time you want to make an update to it you'd have to print brochures. With a website you can update your information every second --- but only if you know how to use it. WebStarts makes updating your website easy. If you can create a letter in a program like Word than you can publish a website using WebStarts.
3. Forms To Help You Capture Leads One of the biggest mistakes people make when creating a website is failing to capture contact information from their visitors. Most people won't do business the first time they stumble on a website. They'll surf around the internet looking at their options, often times forgetting the names of the websites they visited. If you fail to ask for their contact information there's a good chance they'll forget the name of your website and never come back. On the other hand if you offer them something of perceived value in exchange for their contact information you can follow up and remind them of your business. The WebStarts form app is perfect for this. Not only will it give you the ability to collect contact information from the people who visit your website but it will even store their email addresses and allow you to setup automatic follow up emails, automating one of the most important parts of your business.
4. Matching Custom Email Addresses When I go to a business meeting and someone hands me a business card one of the first things I do is look to see if they have an email address. After all it's a lot easier for me to communicate via email than a phone call because I'm able to better manage my time. If someone hands me that card and they have a free email address like Yahoo, Hotmail, or Gmail I immediately wonder if they're not committed enough to their profession to have an email address with their company domain name. After all, anyone can get a free email address from one of these services and close up shop the next day. Having a custom email address that matches your domain says you're serious about your business and plan to stay around.
5. Instant Credit Card Acceptance At the end of the day doing business is about making money. And to make money you have to have a way to accept payments. Perhaps the easiest way to accept payments is to take credit cards online. This process traditionally takes an application and underwriting process similar to applying for a loan. At WebStarts we've partnered with a company called WePay to let you start accepting credit card payments immediately. When you add the sell products app to you webpage you'll be asked to sign up for a WePay account. WePay then allows you to start accepting payments immediately. Once you fill out your bank information and verify your WePay account they'll begin putting that money right into your account.