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Choosing A Website Designer

The importance of choosing a local web designer

Nowadays, the internet has influenced and touched nearly every persons life. Our modern world and potential customers are in the habit of using the internet when we need to know something, find out which business offers what, and searching for prices and services every minute, of every day. In essence, this has changed completely the way modern businesses work, and how they can gain more customers.

Stay Local - Shop Local

The importance of choosing a local web designer or web design company, is if you are a Portsmouth based business, then it makes sense to use a Portsmouth based web designer. The top reason being that a local web designer will understand the audience of your business, and he, she or they should be familiar with business competitors in the area already. Even if they may not know every precise company - being local they will have an advantage to find out more about them quickly.

Choosing a local web designer

A good web designer is the one who works with you

A good web designer is the one who works with you, not the one who works FOR you. If you are dealing with a local company, then personal meetings are easier to setup if you need to have face to face discussions. Sometimes, although emails and instant messaging services are useful, a face to face meeting gives you and the web designer a chance to see if you are going to "click".

It's cheaper to use web designers from abroad

In actual fact it doesn't always work out cheaper. It can often be more expensive to use off shore web designers.

If you are using a web designer who is situated a 100 miles away, or even in another country, then your website and business may suffer with delays. There are also language and spelling, or grammar differences when you may be dealing with a web designer in another country. There is a significantly higher chance that a local web designer will build a more effective and useful website for your business in Portsmouth.

Business Checklist

Have you already got a business?
If you already have your own business, what so far have you done to make it work? It may be that you work damn hard and you have a website or advertising program that simply is not cutting the mustard. You don't need to invest thousands of pounds into your advertising or a website, but you do need someone that understands how websites work, and how to get the best from them. When you consider there are millions of websites, you need your website to show up somewhere - preferably near the top of the search engines.
Are you just thinking of starting up a business?
I've run my own business for 30 years plus now, and let me tell you, there are advantages and disadvantages to running your own business. Running your own business (or starting one) demands that you willing to work hard.
If you have a business, how dedicated are you to it?
If you're not prepared to put in long days every week, then really why should we? It's your business, but if you are thinking "build it and they will come" then you are sadly mistaken. You need to discipline yourself, and be prepared to work hard (well at least in the early years) of your business venture.
Do you want to succeed or would you prefer to do as little as possible?
If you wish to do as little as possible, then maybe consider the unemployment business where you can sit down and wait for a hand out. In your own business you need to be prepared to screw over your own mother to get somewhere (of course that is a joke), but you get the point!