I have often talked to business people in regard to marketing their needs online. Many individuals do not have websites nor have the knowledge of how to setup a site. When I inquire I am surprised for many do not see the need of having a site. The bigger majority still make use of Facebook and Myspace to gain access. However there is nothing as great as having your own site.

Does a persons social networking site give them an advantage if they are looking for a job? It is still helpful that they should have their own websites. A lot of business is still done using others sites. You may get business by adding your real sites to any of your social networking sites. You too can make use of these sites to get free traffic to your own site by creating your own site and owning it. In case you need to introduce others to your site make it very appealing.

As you use a blog as a website, you are in charge of your own site. Have you visited a site that has not been updated lately? Really, without having someone feeding new information frequently in your site it is obviously not attractive. In reality people know it is old fashioned and outdated.

For this reason it is best to use blog software to run your website. The beauty of this is price. You cant beat about a hundred dollars a year to have a full functional website. Why pay a company thousands or several hundred dollars a year when you can do it all yourself.

Websites are really affordable. I totally understand if you do not know where to start. Thats okay, there are millions of people just like you that do not know where to start but the difference is that those folks end up paying hundred if not thousands to get their site up and running. You should not have to pay more than One hundred and twenty dollars a year for a professional site. Not a free site where you have to include ads on the page.

Did I mention that you can add videos, photos, audio clips and just about anything you want to add? Oh and did I mention that people can easily subscribe to your site using the build in RSS feed. Yes, so now everything you update your site everyone that is subscribed to your site, either gets an email or their feed reader gives them the update automatically.

The best thing about blogging is that you can use the software as a website. Here is what I mean. You can create pages and make your blog appear to be a website. Personally I think that weblogs are better than websites because they are constantly changing so they remain fresh.

I feel WordPress has a better function to schedule posts automatically. In case I prepare about 3 posts in a day there is no need to publish them for I can schedule the postings through the week and they will be done. This makes your work easy and enjoyable.