Website Ideas and Examples
Get inspired by getting ideas and examples to help you create or update your small business website. And learn about ways you can get your small business online without a website.
Industry award winning websites
Just like if you were building or updating a new home, you'd look at magazines and floor plans to get ideas for what you want in your home, you should do the same thing in "collecting ideas" you want to use on your website.
Award-winning Websites
- The Webby Awards honors two winners for websites, interactive advertising, online film and video and mobile web. Members of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences select the nominees as well as the winners. The online community votes to determine the winner of the People’s Voice Award.
- Award Winning Marketing - lists awards for overall marketing that include websites.
More examples of websites to get ideas and examples
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Time Magazine does a great job and finding and featuring new and interesting websites on The 50 Best Websites of 2011
- Online companies that sell or include templates post a lot of examples you can look through
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Do a Google search of your competitors
- include your type of business or industry to see more relevant examples
- How to Do a Competitive Audit has more ideas
More inspiration!
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Advertising Ideas and Examples
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Business Card Ideas and Examples
- Direct Mail Ideas and Examples
- Email Marketing Ideas and Examples
- Flyer Ideas and Examples
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Advertising Jingles
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Packaging Ideas and Examples
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Tagline Ideas and Examples
- Viral Marketing Ideas and Examples
How to get your small business online without a website!
You may want to do these things even if you have a website. Or, you may choose that doing these things listed below will be "good enough" and you don't need to create a website.
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Create a free business listing on Google, Yahoo and Bing.
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Google has ~ 70% of people using it for searches so sign up there!
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Websites don't work like the phone book "white pages". You don't automatically get listed. You have to proactively do something.
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Google Tools for Small Business Marketing has more ideas about what they offer for local companies
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Create a free business listing on different Internet "Yellow Pages"
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Create a free business listing on Facebook and LinkedIn
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Facebook - learn how you can create a Facebook Fan page and Facebook Group (it's free!). Facebook Marketing How-to Guide
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LinkedIn - this is the most popular business-to-business online networking site. How to Market Yourself & Your Company on LinkedIn
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Other places you can get a free listing for your business
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Yelp
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MerchantCircle.com
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Local.com
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Manta.com
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