Good question! Where to start....

Firstly... there are so many website builders that promote "beautiful" or "professional" designs as their main selling point. This does appeal to our natural instincts to like shiny things.

But sadly, your visitors don't care so much about beauty or how much of an expert you are.

Your visitors ONLY care about what problem you can solve for them. The more value you can give them, the more likely they will trust you and buy from you.

So, how are we different? Sure we have "beautiful" designs. But that is secondary to power of leveraging our deeply integrated tools to provide value to your customers though their entire customer journey. The journey of Visitor > Lead > Customer can take minutes to months depending on the product, and you want to hold their hand at every single step.

You can only do that if you capture someone's email as a lead, and hold their hand with a drip-feed email campaign until they know, like and trust you in order to become a customer.

Okay so in short, how are we different? There are very few if any Website Builders out there who deeply integrate full-featured Ecommerce, Sales Funnels & Core Websites like us.

You'll have to try it to see what we mean. WARNING: It will wreck you for any other website or sales funnel builders.

Step One: Choose a Website Template & Customize It

Getting your website is as easy as choosing a template, getting use to the easy drag & drop website builder controls, setting up your brand colours & logo, editing text and images then finally connecting your domain. All our templates are optimized for conversions from the get go.

There are videos & tutorials which will walk you through the website building process.

Step Two: Add Your Products

If you want to sell products online (physical, digital or a service), SME Sitebuilder has an integrated ecommerce feature to either sell many of your products in a shopfront OR write highly targeted product pages and sell them via funnels.

You can create your online stores in minutes without getting into code or third party integrations.

Step Three: Track Your Sales

All online sales are tracked with analytics for everything!

If you want to sell physical products offline, there is also an integrated CRM platform where you can store contact information of all your potential customers who have shown interest in your product. This makes it easy for you to send them a drip feed email campaign via SME Sitebuilder's email marketing tool.

There are many website templates, all designed by professional designers that will suit your industry & convert visitors into leads or customers. From fashion to fitness or food to finance, we have everything covered.

SME Sitebuilder solves two big problems facing founders of small businesses:

Problem one: Enables everyday businesses to use powerful growth tools they didn't know they needed right out of the box.

Problem two: Avoids the need to have multiple subscriptions & learning curves for 5+ different platforms: Website Builder, Salefunnel Builder, Email Autoresponder, Ecommerce, CRM & Appointment Setting. These could easily be $600+ per month, over $7k a year. Minimizing time & cost expense

The website & sales funnel builder are the exact same builder, allowing you to intuitively move from one to the other.

SME Sitebuilder was built with the idea that a website shouldn't just be a pretty thing with your brand name on it. A website needs to be deeply integrated into your business, it should be your best salesperson that never sleeps.

It should facilitate your customer better than any customer support agent. It should be your most valuable asset that you see the biggest ROI on.

The only way to do that is too deeply integrate all the core business tools so they all work together in a synergistic, symbiotic way that doesn't involve business owners banging their heads against the wall trying to get all these platforms to talk to each other.

A website builder is an online software that helps create websites, landing pages or sales funnels for businesses fast. Usually these are fully managed solutions, this means you don't have to know about hosting, plugins, costly website maintenance or techno babble like HTML, PHP & Javascript. These are common ailments of websites hosted on Wordpress CMS.

You simply pay one monthly or annual fee, the website builder service takes care of all of that.

Generally, to get started with a website or funnel builder you start with a template, then you can customise it with an easy to use drag and drop tool.

There are many drag and drop website builders to choose from, the best way to choose one is to understand what tools you need to provide your visitors & customers with the best support & experience up front, before you create your website. Because a website is just the tip of the iceberg, there are many other tools you need for your business to flourish.

And if you're like me, before long you are managing 5-6+ software interfaces and mostly subscriptions just to deliver that seamless experience to your visitors & customers.

Website builders have brought the internet revolution to the everyday person.

Absolutely! Although the banking system hasn't changed much in the last 20 years, the internet revolution has continued its exponential growth! There are over 547,200 new websites created each day!

Now, literally, anyone can create their own online business WITHOUT being a programmer or tech wiz, as long as they have access to a computer and an internet connection. Oh and be willing to follow step-by-step videos!

It's the 21st century! The time is now!

Well, it depends on what your goal is. If you are starting the next big tech startup or novel Idea with highly elaborate and unique features that solve complex problems, then it is unlikely anything will have that feature off the shelf. So yes, in that situation you would have to pay someone to custom develop it.

Website builders have literally brought down the cost of building a website 1,000 fold in the last decade.

They have given everyday people the opportunity to build a business online on minimum wage without any programming skills.

Here are the key benefits of using a website builder:

- Cost is affordable on minimum wage

- No computer programming skills needed

- More complex features are becoming available

Yes, a website is your storefront online. You need to have one to grow a business through the internet world.

It's not enough anymore just to have a website for the sake of having one. In order to stay competitive, you need a website plus essential systems to increase productivity and sales.

SME Sitebuilder is perfect for small businesses and gives them:

- Easy drag and drop website builder

- Sales Funnel builder

- Email Automation

- Sales funnels

- CRM

Which as you'll learn, these are the exact tools small businesses need to grow into big ones.

If you only have a website, you are leaving money on the table and probably burning out.

I'm not sure where I heard this, but here is the definition of a business that I strive to operate under:

"A business is a set of systems that consistently generate an return on investment"

This doesn't just apply to operations, because without sales there are no operations.

So if you apply this philosophy of systems to your website and sales, what would a system look like?

This is a system to capture interested prospects and cultivate trust and turn them into an interested customer with you having to invest your time (which you can never earn back by the way) following them up.

Sadly, many businesses see websites as just another business cost, in other words a liability.

Well, I am here to tell you that that couldn't be further from the truth. When setup and integrated with the right tools it can be your most powerful sales person & support agent that never sleeps, all for the cost of a meal out each month.

But you need the core 4 tools to make that happen:

- Website

- Sales Funnel

- Email Autoresponder

- CRM

Without them, you'll always be trading your time doing:

- Chasing work

- Following up with leads

- Loosing track of conversations

- Answering questions

- Collecting payments over the phone

These things can easily be a full time job & more not including operations!

If you have seen other website builders with a Free tier plan, beware it's not what it seems. This is a marketing tactic to get you into their ecosystem so they can market to you, and upsell additional features.

Most of them don't allow you to connect a custom domain to the free tier website anyway, so you are never actually a real business website until pay to you unlock that feature.

It really is simple. You can easily do it in about 2 hours, with website builder included in SME Sitebuilder.

You just have to follow this website builder tutorial where we show you step-by-step how to build your website using any of the 150+ website & sales funnel templates available.

What are some essential tools that small businesses need?

You need a website builder for the website, but that's only one piece of the puzzle. You need essential systems to help you grow your business. For example:

- Email automation to build relationships with customers

- Sales funnels to convert website visitors into leads & sales

- CRM to keep track of customer interactions

I'm going to be a bit controversial here.

No, a website alone does not increase your business. You could have the best website in the world, you could have the best product or service in the world. But the reality is, if you don't get the right eyeballs on your website then there can't be a business.

A website is like a windmill.

Without wind, it can't pump water out of the ground.

Similarly, a website can't generate leads or sales without traffic.

SME Sitebuilder helps you systematically generate leads and sales with systems at the lowest price point possible. It eliminates the management & subscription costs of at least 5 tools, giving you back more money & time to focus on bringing in more traffic.

So once you have created your website, your role as the business owner is to generate traffic through SEO, Social Media or Paid Ads. There are many ways to generate traffic, and if you master that, you'll be successful in any business venture you work on.

We believe in you!

Once your website is ready to go live, our plans start at $27 per month, for a 20 page website, 100 email subscribers & one sales funnel. You can also sell up to 5 products (physical or digital) and even host your own online course for up to 25 members.

Check out our pricing page for more information.

It depends who you ask, and which website builder. There are SO many website builders these days. The thing is, these days you need much more than just a website to stand out online. You need additional tools to affectively capture peoples attention and hold it over a period of time to build trust before they buy from you.

In a world where attention span has dropped to less then a gold fish, the tools & systems you invest in online can make or break your business.

At the very least, your business should have a website, sales funnel, email autoresponder & CRM. That way you can setup systems once to sell for you 24/7.

You can easily spend $600 per month with all these systems, and bang your head against the wall trying to get them to play nice together.

Or you could invest in SME Sitebuilder which has all that built in. Sure it might not have all the bells and whistles of each individual app, but it has the core basics for 10x less cost.

We are a big fan of the KISS methodology. Keep It Simple Stupid. Something I have to remind myself every day because I tend to overcomplicate things.

Yes, to go live you can connect any custom domain by updating the DNS settings. Full instructions given inside the website settings.

The really cool thing is, if you get a plan that allows multiple funnels, you can connect each on to a custom domain if you wanted.