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Cooking Business Website – Establishing An Online PresenceCreating a cooking business website for your cooking business is the ultimate marketing tool. The internet reaches across the globe with ease, connecting people and businesses wherever there are computers. Using the internet a cooking business owner can reach millions and millions are not even needed to make a profit which can support you as a business owner. Many cooking business owners use the internet to extend their reach even when they have a brick and mortar site. Building Your Own Website Creating a business website however, can give you control over all aspects of your cooking business and also can present your creations to the world. You can have an online catalog for your whole sales customers to peruse if you sell food items or supplies or even if catering is your business. You can either hire someone else to create your website for you at great cost or like an increasing number of business owners including cooking business owners you can learn to create your own, it’s not as difficult as you might think and it is much less costly than outsourcing the work of creating and maintaining the site to a web developer. If you use a web developer to design your site you could pay as low as $1000 and up to tens of thousands of dollars and this doesn’t include hosting the site on a server, this is an extra cost.
Building your website has become easier and easier over the years. You can use what amounts to a website building kit to create a site. The kit will usually contain a choice of templates that you can use to establish the look and feel of your site; you can customize the fonts, colors and style of your site, add your own written content, upload images and publish your site to the web. Of course you have to purchase a domain name and hosting, but the cost is still less than paying a web developer. These kits even allow you to either use html if you know the language or to use regular text. Increasingly there are website building packages that include the cost of registering your domain name and hosting at costs that won’t break the bank. Here is a short video that talks about how you can use one of these complete packages to build your own cooking business website.
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For some great information on starting a cooking business including creating a cooking business website a great reference is: • Restaurant and More by Entrepreneur Magazine
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