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Why Bizness Web is the Only Website Builder Bizness Apps Resellers Need
Jan 29th
When you start a white label reseller business with Bizness Apps, one of your first projects should be creating a website, if you don’t have one already. Many hosting and domain registration providers also offer website builders, but Bizness Web is specifically built to include everything you need to hit the ground running as an app reseller.
And let’s not forget – it’s totally free! Our resellers don’t have to pay a dime to use it. We just want to make sure that if you need an easy, fast website builder, you’ve got one.
How Does Bizness Web Work?
Bizness Web is very easy to use, and has a guided, step-by-step process that uses a drag-and-drop interface. All you need to do is pick your template, select your site elements, type up some site text, customize a few features and graphics, and you’re pretty much there.
No programming required.
Why is Bizness Web So Great?
Sites made with Bizness Web offer a number of advantages:
• Mobile Optimization. Bizness Web sites are mobile-optimized, so they’ll function well across devices, from desktops/laptops, to tablets, to smartphones, and beyond. You’ll maximize your reach.
• Excellent Uptime. Bizness Web sites are hosted and they work. You don’t have to worry about errors and crashes – your site will be open 24/7 so that you can capture leads whenever they find you.
• SEO-Friendly. Your site will be designed to take advantage of the latest SEO techniques to maximize your Google ranking. The top sites listed for each search term earn the lion’s share of the traffic on the Internet, and Bizness Web will have you poised to climb.
• Social Media Integration. We make it easy for visitors to find you on Facebook, Twitter, and more. Social media is an important aspect of Internet marketing, and your Bizness Web site can be configured to help you make friends and fans.
• Analytics. Understanding where your site visitors come from, what tabs they browse, what times they arrive, and what actions they take can give you a lot of insight into your site design. By evaluating your site analytics with Bizness Web’s built-in functionality, you can improve your site over time and make it more effective.
• Contact Forms. Capturing leads is the name of the game online. Informing visitors about your business is nice, but getting contact details and making connections is the way to generate sales.
Which brings us to the main point: Bizness Web Helps You Make Sales.
Each of the aforementioned features is designed to help you ultimately close deals and book new subscribers for your app business. In the Internet era, a website is a must-have sales tool, and Bizness Web ensures that you nail your site the first time around with ease.
As we said, it’s totally free to Bizness Apps white label resellers, so there’s no risk in trying in out!
SEO Basics – Bizness Web Tips
Nov 6th
The masters of search engine optimization (“SEO”) also tend to be the masters of the Web. So, if your business is online, understanding SEO is critical to your success. This is because the first result in a Google search tends to absorb a third or more of all traffic. For keywords that are searched very frequently, this can mean hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of visitors. In the meanwhile, the sites that are at the bottom of just the first page of search results only get a few percent of all traffic. Sites appearing on later pages get a vanishing percentage of the remainder.
So, how do you avoid this fate, and ensure that your business’s website enjoys a healthy search ranking? Well, in order to maintain the integrity of its search engine, Google does not release the exact algorithm it uses to determine page rankings. Certain basic guidelines have emerged, however, that are tested and true. Follow these SEO fundamentals listed below, and your site will have the greatest chance of ranking up and becoming visible to the majority of the traffic online.
Links
One of the main determinants of your website’s search ranking is the number of links to it found elsewhere on the Web. Each time your site is linked to, especially from credible, well-established, highly-ranked sites, your own rank goes up. There are many easy ways to earn these “backlinks.” Check out the short guide found here for a good list of common methods.
Keywords
The other main determinant of your website’s ranking is the relevancy of it to particular keyword searches. This is not a simple case of using a keyword more often than any other page. That’s called “keyword stuffing,” and Google wouldn’t be a very successful search engine if it couldn’t filter stuffed pages out in favor of quality ones, right?
Anyhow, the first step is to figure out which keywords you want to target. Google offers some tools that can help you out here. Remember, the more popular the keyword, the more competition you’ll face for it.
Then, the next step is to create pages that target that keyword. This guide is very well done and will give you more than you need to get started.
Social
Don’t underestimate the value of the many social platforms you have access to. There are lots of them out there, and each one can give your main website an SEO boost. Stay active, drop links, and also make connections. Those that you meet via social media can also provide you with further backlinks, making social media an SEO bonanza if you play your cards right.
Content
Once you’re done addressing all of the technical points, you need to spend time crafting quality content – articles, posts, and pages that others find useful (as this post hopefully is to you!). With quality content, others will not only gain value from your site, but they’ll perform SEO-boosting activities by linking to it where they can. A really good piece of content can go viral, getting shared by others, who then share it further with more people, and so on. If that happens, congratulations! Your SEO work is pretty much done.
Have any questions or tips? Leave them in the comment section below! SEO is a massively complex topic, and once you dig in, there’s no telling what you might learn.
Looking to create your first website? Check out Bizness Web and get online today!
Resellers Can Create Websites for Free with Bizness Web
Oct 9th
The foundation of any business online is a solid website. For that reason, we don’t leave our app resellers to go it alone when it comes to building theirs. Instead, we offer our app resellers a free tool that makes building a website easy: Bizness Web.
Site Creation
The site creation process with Bizness Web is very straightforward. Using a step-by-step creation and customization wizard, you can have a site up and running in short order. Our drag-and-drop interface also means that no coding is necessary. Everything is kept simple.
To begin, we offer a number of ready-made templates, including templates for app companies. After selecting the template you prefer, you can then customize your site with your own images and text. Most importantly, you can build forms to take in visitors’ contact info so that following up on leads is easy.
Publication and Revision
After your site is complete, you can publish it with the push of a button. If you already have a domain you’d like to use, we can easily load the site to it. Or, if you prefer, you can use an [insert name].biznessweb.com hosted domain. Once published, review your site to make sure that everything is setup the way you want it. If you need to make any changes, your site can be edited at any time through your Bizness Web dashboard.
Benefits of Bizness Web
Bizness Web sites are mobile optimized and SEO friendly, so your prospect audience is maximized. They also integrate well with social media outlets, making promotion seamless, and feature analytics that help you understand where visitors come from and what they do on your site.
And of course, they’re totally free to our app resellers!
If you have the skills, creating a custom website on your own can be a rewarding project. But even if you need a simple placeholder site to put up while building your masterpiece, Bizness Web is a quick way to get your business up and running.
When you’re ready to get started, click here for a step-by-step guide to building a website with Bizness Web.
Bizness Web Officially Launches
Oct 1st
In plain English, what is the point of Bizness Web?
The point of Bizness Web is to make website creation affordable and simple for small businesses.
Why should small businesses care about websites? Do they even need them?
Only if they want to stay in business!
Pretty much every small business needs a website to avoid losing business to their competitors. Web searches for particular industries can easily number in the tens of thousands each month. Small businesses that don’t have websites capture exactly 0% of this lead traffic, while their competitors gobble it all up and laugh at their desks like Bond villains.
How does Bizness Web work?
It’s a drag-and-drop website builder. Users look at a screen that represents a browser, drag in the modules they want to see on their websites (a text box, an image, a contact form), and then they publish the site in minutes. What they see during the building phase is exactly what they get as a finished product.
Does it work on all platforms and devices?
Yep! (We wouldn’t ask this question if we couldn’t say that, of course.) Sites created with Bizness Web work on desktops, smartphones, and tablets seamlessly.
Who are we to design such a thing?
We are Bizness Apps, the world’s leading mobile app development platform for small businesses. With all of our past expertise, we have learned exactly how to provide small businesses with cost effective, easy to use marketing solutions. Bizness Web is designed to complement our existing suite of products, all of which are aimed at small- and medium-sized businesses. If big businesses want to use them too, however, we’re cool with that.
Is there a specific technological feature you want to brag about?
Yes, we call it “responsive design.” It’s what allows Bizness Web sites to function smoothly across all devices after being published just once. As mobile is projected to overtake desktop browsing in the near future, and users punish small businesses that don’t have nice mobile sites, having a website that works well on mobile devices is no longer an option. It’s fast becoming a necessity for businesses that want to do things like “compete,” “generate revenue,” and “stay in operation.”
Is it easy to sign up?
No. Showing a tremendous lack of business acumen, we made it darn near impossible to sign up for the service because we wanted people to have to “earn it.”
Luckily, however, we changed our minds shortly thereafter and implemented this simple process:
1. Register for a free account
2. Choose a beautiful template
3. Upload content and graphics
4. Publish your site
Do you need to be tech-savvy to use it?
Nope. In fact, we hit our testers in their heads with 2x4s, and they each were still able to crank out a good looking website right after that. We got in trouble for the assaults, but it was worth it to demonstrate the ease-of-use of the platform.
What does it cost?
We have 3 packages available:
• Small business ($10/month). Includes one gorgeous, easy-to-create website with SEO optimization, mobile functionality, social media integration, insightful analytics, and other useful features.
• Business ($100/month). Includes 10 websites, along with marketing materials, sales training, a free Bizness CRM account, and other nifty benefits that you can find here.
• White Label Reseller ($200/month). Includes all of the foregoing benefits, but for unlimited websites. You can essentially start your own web design company.
You said you made other stuff. Can you give us a company timeline?
First product: Bizness Apps (June 2010)
Second product: Bizness CRM (October 2012)
Third product: Bizness Web (September 2013)
Who can use Bizness Web?
• Restaurants
• Bars & Clubs
• Lawyers
• Realtors
• Stock Brokers
• Radio Stations
• Gyms & Fitness Clubs
• Auto Dealerships
• Service Contractors
• Hotels & Resorts
• Any Small Business
What does the small business market look like?
It’s massive. There are more than 20 million small businesses in the U.S. alone! Reaching less than 1% of these would be a major accomplishment for Bizness Web.
Why will Bizness Web succeed?
Pretty much every small business should have a website, but only about half do. Most are worried that they don’t have the expertise to create one. We’re going to give them the tools to do it without having to learn anything about web design.
Interested in checking out Bizness Web? Sign up for a free trial account here.
5 Mistakes on Your Small Business Website to Fix Immediately
Sep 30th
It’s critical for a small business to have a website these days, but some make the mistake of thinking that any website is better than no website. While this is true for a clean, simple website, it is still possible to design your website so poorly that it would be better to have no website at all. This is fairly challenging, of course, but if you’re making the following five mistakes, you can get there fast.
If any of these errors are present on your website, fix them ASAP to avoid doing more harm than good with your online presence:
1. Your website doesn’t function
This is by far the worst mistake you can make. If visitors to your website are immediately treated to error messages, broken links, videos that don’t load, images that won’t stay in their designated boundaries, and the like, you need to clean house. Sometimes, this is the result of not testing your site adequately in each of the leading browsers.
Make sure that your site works smoothly and looks the way you want it to across all browsers, so that your visitors have a pleasant first experience with your company. If you don’t, and if things seem broken, they’ll browse to a competing website without delay.
2. There are walls of text
Yes, we realize the irony of complaining about this in the middle of our own pile of text. Our point is not meant to address blogs, however. We’re thinking more of your main sales pages. If your landing looks like a copy of the Declaration of Independence, we salute your patriotism, but feel sorry for your visitors.
First, edit down your copy until you’ve just got your core points, without all the fluff. Your readers will appreciate your focused copy. Then, if you have a lot to communicate, break things up with images and different presentation graphics. It will be more visually interesting and will be a lot more likely to be absorbed by readers.
3. Navigation is confusing
It’s critical to make navigation as clear as possible on your site. Unless you’re going for a uniquely creative presentation that suits your business, the tried-and-true tab system you see on almost every site will do just fine. If you want a lot of different pages, break things up into well-organized tabs and sub-tabs (accessed through drop-down menus) so that visitors can find things on the first try.
Once you have a sensible sitemap in place, make sure all of your links are working and send users to the right place. A speedy and smooth browsing experience is the goal, here. Nothing else will do.
4. Your site is riddled with typos
Nothing says “unprofessional” like visual clutter and spelling mistakes. Take the time to go over your text carefully. If you want some advice from a professional writer: read it out loud, slowly, and do it in a quiet place. (Yes, actually read it out loud!) Also, don’t forget to run spellcheck. Then, have someone else proofread it to make sure there are no mistakes.
Errors in your text will cause people to lose confidence in your business. Pay attention to detail, and you can avoid a major reputational pitfall.
5. There are no clear CTAs (calls-to-action)
Does your website tell all about your business, but then leave readers to figure out the next step on their own? Don’t be coy! Be clear about exactly what action they should take next. This could be creating an account, starting a free trial, reaching out for a free consultation, or something else. Whatever it is, make sure you are explicit and give them a big, clear link to click if they want to move forward.
Want to start over with your website? Click here to learn about a clean, simple, and inexpensive way to have a fresh website up and running in no time!
