My roommate and I started a handyman business at the age of 22 while attending college. Starting up a business is always hard work. Especially when you don’t have a lot of experience under your belt. We went door to door hanging up flyers, promoting our service. We must have spent a total of 40 hours just handing out flyers that week. But in the end, it all paid off. In our first two years of operation, we enjoyed a fruitful supply of job offers. And eventually, we started specializing in full scale house remodels. Our business grew strictly from word of mouth. At that time, we had no website

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Ironically, I was attending college studying computer science. I had always loved playing with web scripts and developing websites. One day, as I had plenty of time on my hands, I decided it was time to put up a website for our company. I was very detailed and critical of its development. Everything had to be perfect. And when I had finished, the outcome was beautiful. The website had a powerful, yet simply designed logo. The design of the website complemented our logo brilliantly. The website was search engine friendly. And most importantly, the website’s information and applications was very useful to our users.

After being indexed by all major search engines, we started getting flooded with calls. The face of our company (our website) looked so professional that people thought we were one of the top contractors in the city. The pinnacle of the moment came when we started getting calls and resumes from recently graduated college students looking for professional contracting jobs. Now, I’m not saying we were not capable of being a big business. But at that time, we were just three kids still in college who did a good job remodeling houses.

The Internet has become the ultimate medium for communicating with the world. And if you want the face of your organization to stand out, even if you are not a stand out organization, you need a website that is gracefully elegant with powerful tools. Your website only has 10 seconds before a visitor decides to stay or leave. So make sure you have a good website. There are lots of benefits that can come from it.