Why Every Startup Needs a Website?

“Do I need a website?”
This is the first question most clients ask……..
When a website development company suggests them to have a website for their business.

If you are also new into the world of startups or you are just thinking about digitizing your business, you might be having the same question in mind.

And it is completely justified:

As a startup, I should focus on getting an office and establishing my product/services.

As an old business, I should look forward to spending money on advertising and marketing?

Then, why would I want to approach a web development services company and spend a huge part of my budget on building a custom website? Just because everyone else is doing it?

Well, not really. While this might be one reason, but there are a lot more factors responsible for it. I have been observing custom website design and development services since last 10 years and has closely witnessed how having a website can impact your business.

So, I have come up with this blog in which I will describe 10 crucial reasons why your startup will need a website. Let read it and know what you can miss by not having a custom website for your business.

10 Reasons Why Your Startup Needs a Website

1. A Website Proves Your Brand Credibility

“Where is your official website?” This is the first question you will hear when you tell people about your startup. In fact, over 90% of people get to hear the same response when they tell people they are startup founders.

The truth is that people have become smart these days. They think 10 times before making any business decision. Over 30% don’t even consider a business if it doesn’t have any website. So, if you want people to think your business is credible, contact a custom website development company and have a website. Only then they will take you seriously.

PS- If you carefully introspect, you would realize that they are not wrong. There are thousands of startup owners out there. They can’t go on trusting everyone and then regretting later on. At their place, you would’ve done the same.

2. Businesses with a Website are Easily Accessible

When it comes to purchasing a product or service, most people prefer a business that’s easily accessible and can be reached whenever they want.

Now, whenever it comes to engaging with a business, over 63% of customers use a company’s official website. The main reason behind this is that a website is where they can find everything about your business, i.e., who you are, what services you sell, and how they can contact you. Also, an official website makes you available 24×7. As a result, they can reach out to you at any hour of the day.

This gives you another reason why your business needs a custom website. The website makes it easy for consumers to reach you and buy your products or services. They can visit your website anytime and make their purchases. You can even keep track of your customers on the site.

3. A website builds a relationship

A website can help you build a strong and long-lasting relationship with your clients. This is how it happens:

• As I have mentioned before, a website makes you appear credible. This builds an initial level of trust with clients and inspires them to do business with you.
• While building a website, we should keep all important user aspects in mind — such as what users like and what features make them stay. This helps in offering a great user experience.

So by having a website, you are establishing trust among customers and offering them an impeccable user experience. So, they stay and come back for more. This is how you score loyal customers who support you and help you grow, which is another big reason why you should contact a web design and development agency to have a website for your startup.

4. You can Showcase Your Products/Services the Best Way Possible

Presentation plays a crucial role if you want people to buy your products or services. This is important, especially if you are a startup where every customer matters. In that case, it’s also important that we can showcase our expertise in the best way possible, and having a website can help in doing that. It gives you creative freedom. You can display your services the way you want. You can use beautiful images, short video tutorials, and downloadable PDF instructions. The sky is the limit to what you can do.

And do you know how all this can help? Customers get what they are looking for. So, they remain hooked and go nowhere else to purchase. This ultimately helps you in establishing a loyal customer base.

5. A website makes your brand more visible

There is a beautiful restaurant near my house. The food is awesome, the service is incredible, and the variety is so wide that you can find just about everything you want to eat. Despite this, the restaurant has very few visitors. Every time I pass by, I see only 7–8 people sitting there and enjoying the food. Reason? Not many people know about it.

Now, not that it is the only restaurant in the city. There are several others. Some of them have even built an official website. As a result, they have been able to acquire more customers despite having average services and average quality food.

That’s the difference in having a website makes. The truth is that a brand without a website is nothing but a small boutique. No wonder how good products you sell, how efficient services you offer — not many people will be able to know about it.

So, if you want your brand to shine and people to know about your business, hire an outsourcing team of web developers to have an official website. You will realize how significantly you have been able to boost your sales and acquire more customers.

6. You can benefit from Google Searches

Having a website can also get into Google’s search listings, thus making it easy for clients to find you.

Now, one thing you might be wondering is: How does it matter? Here’s how:

Back in the old days, when clients had to do business with a company, they used to do a detailed background check and contact every previous client to ask about you. Finally, only after they were sure, they moved ahead.

But the times have changed. Clients have become smart. They no longer want to waste time in running background checks. Instead, they prefer searching on Google. In fact, this is the very first thing they will do after they hear the name of your brand.

Now, if you have a website and have done its proper SEO, it will come in the top searches of Google. Apart from this, people will also be able to find you by using other keywords related to your business. This makes you more popular among folks, and more people are willing to do business with you.

So, if you want your startup becomes famous and clients can easily find you on Google, have a website. The decision will significantly benefit you in the long run.

7. People still judge your credibility by looks

It’s not just me! More than 75 per cent of people have admitted that they judge a company’s credibility by its website design. This means clients are more likely to do business with you if you have an interactive website that keeps them engaged, that builds an initial level of trust, and that proves you are credible.

Now, if you don’t have a website, clients will not even consider you in the first place, let alone trusting you and thinking that they want to do business with you. By not having a website, you would already blow your chances.

So, don’t make a mistake of not having a website.

8. A website is an important part of online marketing

We all know how hectic and time-consuming traditional forms of marketing like the print release, print ads, and flyers are. They cost you a fortune and demand a lot of effort. Still, the results are not up to the mark.

Online marketing, on the other hand, is less expensive and more effective. It can get you more results with less hard work, and hence is a much better alternative if you want to get things done faster.

Now, while online marketing can be an effective option to promote your business, it doesn’t really matter if you don’t have a website. Consider it as a sun around which all the planets revolve. A website will be the final destination where you will be sending your customers from different channels like Social media, blogging, email marketing, and video channels.

And these figures prove how effective these different mediums of online marketing can be:

• Over 2.34 billion (67%) people are active on social media every day
• Companies that blogged 16 times a month received 4.5 times more leads
• Email marketing is 40 times more effective in acquiring customers than any other social media channel
• Video on a landing page can increase conversion rates by 80%.

So, if you want to benefit from online marketing, having a website is a must for your business.

9. You can strategically target your customers through a website

Another best about having a website is that you can not only get people to visit your website but also keep track of following key performance metrics:

• The number of people visiting your website (regular visitors).
• The number of people who have visited your website only once (unique visitors).
• How many times a page was read or visited by users (Pageviews or impressions).
• The number of people who left without reading the page they landed on (bounce rate).
• For how long do people visit your website content (average time on site).

All these stats can help you find out how you can strategically target your customers. You can know what kind of content users like and how you can improve the user experience so that they stay. As a result, your website will be better and more people will visit it. So, you should focus on having a good website.

10. All of your competitors are already having a website

This point might sound cliché, but it makes a lot of sense. You are not alone in the market. There are already thousands of companies selling the same products and services that you are going to sell, and most of them would have also been having their own websites.

This means if I consider all the previously discussed points from this blog, they are already in a beneficial position. They appear more credible in the market, they have already built an initial level of trust with the audience, they are showcasing their products/services in the best way possible, and they are also benefiting from Google searches.

How would you beat them?

Well, for that, you will need to contact a web development services company and have a website first. By not having one, you are already allowing them to dominate the market. No doubt there are some other ways. You can hire a dedicated marketing team and spend a heavy budget on promotions and ad campaigns. But that only results in more efforts and increased costs. You can have a website designed in almost half the budget.

Also, if you have a website, you have a chance to research and incorporate elements that your competitors are missing. You can benefit from their weaknesses.

So, having a website is much better than not having it at all. At least, you can benefit from it.

Bonus Tip

Having a website with good UI/UX is equally important as creating the website itself. If the UI/UX is not good, there will be no use of having it. According to research, an average human being has an attention span of 8 seconds. This means you have 8 seconds to leave an impression of your brand. So, you have to make sure you are leaving the best impression on the user and keeps him occupied so that he stays for a long time.

However, it’s not possible to create a custom website with a good UI/UX without the help of a good custom website development company which has a great experience in offering custom website development services for web development solutions.

Best of luck!

Originally published at https://www.signitysolutions.com/blog/why-startup-needs-website/