subject: 5 Reason Why To Use Wordpress For Small Business Website ? [print this page] 1.) WordPress is the most powerful and flexible personal publishing platform available today. This means it can be easily extended to add functionality and thus can be any kind of site a small business might want. It can be a portfolio site, it can be an email marketing site or a specialized social network. You can add a product catalog and run an e-commerce business with it. It can be used for event scheduling. It can be used to deliver video and podcasts. And yes, it can be a blog.
2.)There are lots of proprietary website systems out there that one can use to build a website. However, those proprietary systems are dependent on you continuing to use the service provider. You can't pick up your Hubspot website and take it to your own internet host. You can't take those site builder sites anywhere else. A Go Daddy "Website Tonight" website has to stay at Go Daddy.
Once you commit to them all of your hard work stays with them. With WordPress you can control who you work with. If you start a WordPress site with Go Daddy and later decide you don't like them you can easily transfer your site to another host without losing any of the work you've already put into it.
3.) It's constantly being updated. As online technology and trends continue to change keeping up with the latest and greatest new thing can be very difficult if you are doing your own thing when it comes to websites. The beauty of the WordPress software is the team of developers and users alike that keep it up to date, provide a never ending flow of new themes and plugins, and help prevent malicious attacks from the unfortunate reality of hackers. I'm sure you've come across websites that look, even to the novice, to be hopelessly out of date. This won't happen with WordPress as it is stunningly simple to change the look and feel of your site whenever you feel the urge.
4.) It's free. That's right, free. The WordPress software is available at no charge to anyone who would like it. It's Open Source software that is being used by millions and millions of people worldwide. To have your own self-hosted website the only real costs you incur are that of a domain name, maybe $10 a year, and a small hosting account which might cost $10-$15 a month. That's it.
5.)WordPress is always evolving : WordPress started out as a blog engine, but it has become so much more. With each new release new possibilities are added. And since it is "Open Source" there are thousands of developers writing plugins to extend its functionality.
Bonus :- $1 Billion Groupon Website Started With Wordpress :- Andrew Mason founder and CEO of Groupon started his "6 billion dollar Google sought business with WordPress. Isn't that amazing ? While I was reading his interview with Andrew Warner who produces the video show Mixergy one thing which I always believed got more firm "Potential of wordpress platform for the small and new business websites".
