If you’re starting a marquee hire business you should have a website. It’s not essential, to start with you’ve probably got more things on your mind but you should certainly get one sooner rather than later.

What should you put on a website?

• Photos and lots of them. People will visit your website wanting an idea of what you do. Photos are the easiest way to do this.
• Make all wording reassuring. People want to know you’re reliable and will turn up with their marquee.
• It’s up to you whether you put a full price list online, certainly some ideas of prices will help.
• Contact details
• Keep it simple, clean and tidy. Don’t start putting loads of special effects or use coloured backgrounds -keep the background white or a very light colour and only use special effects if they’re functional (slide shows for example).

My next couple of articles will be about getting your website up the search rankings. If you want to do this you’ll need to be able to change several things – the title, description, and a few other features which some website design programs don’t allow you to do.

Thanks for reading

Spencer

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