{"id":2591,"date":"2011-07-29T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T02:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2012-02-23T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T05:08:18","slug":"having-a-website-helps-more-than-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2011\/07\/having-a-website-helps-more-than-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Having a website helps more than you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a title=\"Websites for the NZ economy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/business\/news\/article.cfm?c_id=3&amp;objectid=10741168\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand study<\/a> has just shown that businesses with a website are helping their economy &#8211; or more to the point, businesses without a website are missing an opportunity to help themselves and their local economy.<\/p>\n<p>So do you have a website?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why its good to have a website\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/04\/do-you-have-a-website\/\">I&#8217;ve written before about the value of a website<\/a>, and I think it&#8217;s importance has only increased with the growth of social media and mobile access and apps, but I hadn&#8217;t thought of it as a major factor for a national economy. Results showed businesses with an online presence had significantly more sales and profits &#8211; who&#8217;s going to argue with increased profits!<\/p>\n<p>As great as it is to grow your business with a website, I found it staggering that 70% of those without a website have no intention of getting one. I understand that not everyone is comfortable with technology (but you can get people to set it up and mange it for you) and time is a big factor for small business (hey, I have four kids and a business!) but a basic online presence is just so important.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next week or so, I will do some posts about how to get your business online to help business owners who are feeling a bit overwhelmed with it all &#8211; and to help the Australian economy!<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions about getting online, now is a great time to ask!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand study has just shown that businesses with a website are helping their economy &#8211; or more to the point, businesses without a website are missing an opportunity to help themselves and their local economy. So do you have a website? I&#8217;ve written before about the value of a website, and I think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,321,59],"tags":[1307,1309,1308,245],"class_list":["post-2591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-info-tools","category-marketing","category-web-content","tag-economy","tag-get-online","tag-profits","tag-website"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2591\/revisions\/2603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}