If you watch cable TV or listen to AM radio, you have likely heard about free website offers from companies like GoDaddy and 1and1.

What these commercials fail to mention is the hours it will take through trial and error to build a functional website, but also that the system your site is built on is technologically inferior. 

When the free website offer is up, you will be stuck with a hosting bill for a website that will has extremely limited capabilities. In other words, the free website offer will be a giant waste of time, and leave you stuck with nowhere to go.

Starting with the wrong expectation and technology will kill your chance for success before you even get started online. While building a website has never been easier and more accessible, there are certain skills required to build something that is functional, let alone professional looking. Your website is often the first chance you have to make an impression, and if it looks like crap, what will people think about the rest of your operation?

Instead of building your website on the cheap and getting an inferior product, it is a much better idea to work closely with someone that can help you put together a complete plan for building, growing and marketing your website. In this day and age, there are so many powerful strategies for connecting with your customers, and an expert can help you pick which ones to take advantage of, and then help you implement a winning strategy.

If you are building your site independently with no input from an expert, you are losing out on information that can only be gained through years of experience. A website marketing expert can do more with less, and can help you make the best decisions moving forward, starting with the content management system you pick to run your site.

Here at bizdetail, we use an open source solution called WordPress for a majority of the websites we build, because it is highly flexible and incredibly powerful, so much so that no instant website builder type of product offered for free from godaddy or 1 and 1 could ever compare.  Other developers use the same product, and the advantage of working with us is that we handle the entire building of your site, and can either continue to manage it for you once that process is done, or train you to take over.

Once we have installed your CMS, we build out your site following a website development path that has been established over the course of building hundreds of business websites. Rather than wasting the time teaching yourself what takes many years to master from scratch, hire an expert because it will save you time. There are other people that do what we do, but nobody does it quite like us.

If your are ready to work with someone that has your best interests in mind, give bizdetail a call at 925.963.1377

People that implement unethical business practices hurt the reputation of the online marketing industry, and it is important to shine a light on those that prey on people trying to get found online. 

For example, take this seemingly personalized and unsolicited email from SEO fraudster Milda Jones (also known as  Ben Mulder) that a number of our clients have recently received: 
 

Dear xxxxx team, 

I thought you might like to know some of the reasons why you are not getting enough Social Media and Organic search engine traffic for xxxxx.com

1. Social profile is not available in top Social media websites. 

2. Your site has 1 Google back links, this can be improved further. There are many additional improvements that could be made to your website, and if you would like to learn about them, and are curious to know what our working together would involve, then I would be glad to provide you with a detailed analysis in the form of a WEBSITE AUDIT REPORT for FREE. 

Our clients consistently tell us that their customers find them because they are at the top of the Google search rankings.  Being at the top left of Google (#1- #3 organic positions) is the best thing you can do for your company’s website traffic and online reputation. 

Sounds interesting? Feel free to email us or alternatively you can provide me with your phone number and the best time to call you. 

Best Regards,

Milda Jones SEO Consultant
jones.seofreeservice@gmail.com

(315) 332-1942

PS1: This is onetime email and you may ask us to “REMOVE” you from our mailing list.

PS2: I found your site from online advertising but did not click.

PS3: We operate 24 x7. I will be happy to send you links to price list,client rankings, client testimonials, “How we are different from others?”, and “Why should you choose us?” on receiving a response from you

The most obvious aspect this is a scam is the fact that Milda Jones doesn’t provide a link to her own website, which is funny considering she wants to promote yours. A quick google search of the name and phone number reveals a slew of other people that have received the same email, non of which seem to have taken Mrs. Jones up on her offer.  I wonder why!

The funny part of this whole thing is that both of the clients that received this email have websites that rank really well, and both have vibrant social networking campaigns, so the scare tactics approach employed by Milda/Ben is actually a complete failure.

If you have received this email from Milda Jones/Ben Mulder, and you would like to chat with someone that can help you launch the website and marketing campaign of your dreams, give bizdetail a call at 925.963.1377 

Truth be told, we can ground you in the fundamentals of what it takes to build a website that does your business justice, generating leads and sales in the process. Consider how you just found us, we can do the same for you!