5 Common Website Mistakes Made By Small Businesses

Upon starting my website design and hosting agency for small local businesses — I found a ton of websites that were just awful. After reaching out to the businesses, I want to put together the 5 common website mistakes made by small businesses.

You can find this on my website and Facebook too!

Introduction

If you have a small business, you are likely making these 5 mistakes. Maybe without even realising it!

Now, when I do reach out to a small business they often get defensive too. I’ve contact some businesses about bad sites and they reply with ‘It’s okay, we handle it ourselves *hangs up* or ‘It doesn’t get us any money anyway’. Both of these are examples of the business viewing their website backwards.

We Handle It Ourselves

If I wanted to be a really good swimmer, would I get help from an electrician or a professional swimmer?

The answer is so simple when I boil it down to that simple example, but so many local businesses fall into the trap of handling the website themselves or worse; having a friend or family member do it.

Unless you have the time to run a business and a website at the same time, or your family or friend are professionals and can do an amazing job, you’re not going to stand a chance against a company that uses divisional labour and specialises in what they actually do.