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Website Woes

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Websites as a way to reach customers have their pros and cons.  A website is a great way to put all your marketing information in one place that can be accessed anytime by anyone with a phone.  But you do have to maintain it and keep things up-to-date.  If you like marketing it's not that bad.   From a long time I have been an abysmal marketer of my business. I'd rather install 100 ten-foot fence posts than have to do marketing.  For this reason it was only last year that I finally decided to set up a website .  I looked at how others are doing it and noticed that just about everyone uses a website building and hosting service offered by large companies like WordPress and Squarespace. I looked at how these sites were working under the hood and then I looked at what they were charging and how much they controlled everything and decided to build my own website.  At first I planned to buy the rights to a web template I liked and then just change the the pictures, colors, and text