Our new budget websites are custom designed, professionally built and search engine friendly. They cost less than many "template website" services but they are worth a lot more. We automate the process from payment to site content collection and we build your site for you. We'll also be there for you if you have a problem or need to ask us a question.
If you outgrow a standard "template website", you would have to find a web design firm, negotiate prices and features, and start all over again. When you buy our Small Business site you can upgrade to a premium site as a preferred Richmond Media client anytime. We will discount your upgraded site by the FULL PRICE you paid for your Small Business site.
Let's compare our Small Business products to template sites. Template sites can seem inexpensive until you get started. Then you realize that you get what you pay for. You buy the service, then add your own content and realize it is not as easy as described and you will probably have to add additional services or assistance to accomplish your goals.
What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, you probably aren't a web designer. You look at a beautiful template, made with professional pictures, then you take pictures with your digital camera, and most likely won't get the same results that you saw in the advertisement. You may also find yourself locked in a contract with a company that owns your domain name. They do this in order to keep generating their income. Most of these companies supply you with very little customer support. If they do, most likely they will charge more fees.
When you buy our Small Business site, we take your pictures and process them, fix color, resize and do the same things we do for our premium sites. So with Richmond Media, you get a professional graphic artist putting your site together. Template companies don't care if you don't know how to build a website. We do.
Once you're done creating your site, you upload it, and you wait for the world to beat down your Home page's door. If you're lucky, the template allows you to add "keywords" to the page code to help search engines find your site. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters, Google has not used keywords in years. You're taking a generic template designed for ANYONE and using an obsolete method looking for hits. Search engine optimization (SEO) is a specialty of ours. When you buy our Small Business site, we add code that Google uses to find your site and list it under the right category, like meta descriptions and optimized page titles. We also look through your submitted text and add keywords to the text on your page to help you find LOCAL customers. If you're a Virginia hair salon, it doesn't matter to you if somebody in Nebraska finds your site. Template companies don't care. We do.
Small Business website design options are shown below. All design scan be completely configured and modified with your text and photos. These examples show design layout, with "sample" businesses. Any design can be modified for any type of business.
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Our process is automated to save us time and you money, but we personally oversee your website's creation at every point in the process. We will not let you make mistakes, and we will call you if we think you're making one, of if we are unsure about what you want.
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