1. If you have a business you can be seen by the world instead of just your local community.

2. A website allows you to showcase your products for everyone to see.

3. A website helps you promote your services and can reach a much wider audience.

4. A website could help you promote an event, your ideas, political campaign, a birth or wedding. With our membership tools you can choose who see certain pages so send out invites to friends and family about an event or share wedding pictures.

5. You can even promote yourself and start up a journal/blog to ventilate some of your thoughts and concerns.

6. A website enables you to sell to the world which a huge plus for obvious reasons.

7. Keep an interest in your website, a well-managed and marketed website is often updated with useful info and product offerings gives clients and web surfers the ideal reason to keep coming back to you.

8. Saving costs, a website can be great for saving costs especially with eCommerce when using our business GOLD package to integrate your stock on your site with your accounting system. Also you can provide downloadable documents on your site instead of having to mail out things every time you change something in your product range.

9. If you are a business, a website is essentially a shop front that can easily be changed to the current business image you have. It offer the potential of being a 24/7 salesman - except that you don't have to pay an extra salary.

10. You are competing with your competitors because with 70% of businesses having a website, really how can you afford not to have one to compete with them. You will be open to people to view 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and 365 days of the year, now that's certainly a huge bonus to a business. People are more likely now to search online than reach for the yellow pages or phone directory enquiries.

11. You will be open to people to view 24 hours per day, 7 days per week and 365 days of the year, now that's certainly a huge bonus to a business.

12. People are more likely now to search online than reach for the yellow pages or phone directory enquiries.

13. It's much more professional these days to have a website so having one portrays your company with moving with the times and giving out a professional image.

14. With our value for money prices, a website doesn't have to cost the earth no more.

15. Get feedback from your clients, it's essential that a business is staying in touch with its customers to survive to getting feedback done through a contact form or comments is a very valuable asset.

16. Testing your products and services, introducing new products and services on your website is a fast, easy and cheap method to test new products and services.

17. Build a community around your product or service, having an online forum or bulletin board, can be a great help in building an online community and keep the interest around what you do.

18. Answer Frequently Asked Questions, it can become tiresome answering the same questions over and over, with your website you can post a FAQ page to cover lots of answers customers be need to know, saving you time and money.

19. Run promotions, bonus entitlements or contests. All these can be achieved with you site saving lots on paperwork and instantly available to lots more people.

20. Lastly a website can make things easier for you and your customers or site viewers. It's fun to have from a personal aspect to share things and connect out to people. For a business is has become an essential marketing tool that could help you survive and beat of competition.

Is it worth the hassle?

Well that is gonna be the burning question and only you can answer it. But look into how it maybe would be beneficial to you having your own site.