At Sioux City’s The Creative Start, we know what it takes to make a website successful on the World Wide Web. We know how to structure web pages to make them compatible with Google, Yahoo, Bing, and MSN to help your website climb up on the search engines. This gives you an advantage over other websites in your field as you will have greater visibility to website viewers and a superior opportunity to get potential clients for your business.

We design and develop custom websites that fit your style and your business. We cater to you, the customer, to give you a unique website that is unlike any other and that is sure to help you stand out from your competition. Each website is tailor made for you and your business, both in appearance and functionality. Through the course of the design process we involve our customers to get their input and ideas and what best works for them and their company and/or business. Our attention to detail is what makes our designs stand out from any other website design company in Sioux City, Iowa.

You create ads and choose keywords, which are words or phrases related to your business.
Get keyword ideas

Your ads appear on Google

When people search on Google using one of your keywords, your ad
may appear next to the search results. Now you’re advertising to an
audience that’s already interested in you.

You attract customers

People can simply click your ad to make a purchase or learn more
about you. You don’t even need a webpage to get started – Google will
help you create one for free. It’s that easy!

Ask us on how to get $100 in Free Advertising

This is why The Creative Start is offering a Special on any custom websites to celebrate Spring. So act now and give us a call or shoot us an email. Remember to enjoy the weather, smell the flowers, and get yourself a new website!

Call us today at 712-574-1693 or email info@thecreativestart.com and make sure to mention why you like Spring!

• “I’m just a tiny business…Why would I need to have a website?”
• “Designing a website sounds like too much work…Would it be worth it?”
• “I don’t know how to make one and heard it costs a lot to have a website.”
• “Why bother? My customers probably won’t even look at it.”

1. Giving new contacts an easy way to learn more about you. When you go out networking and meet a new prospect, how can they get more information about you? Calling to follow up—along with leaving voice mails and playing phone tag—is certainly more work for many new contacts than just jumping online. Visiting your website may help a new prospect to learn more about you, easily, on their terms. And that may help you convert more leads to sales.

2. Making updates easier and less expensive than printed materials. Instead of updating text, redesigning a marketing piece, trying to make new copy fit the new layout, and then printing (and paying for) new material, all you have to do is rewrite your copy and integrate it into your website.

3. Providing a place for all the information you need to answer prospects’ questions. Printed materials limit the amount of space that you can devote to text, product photos, or informational graphics. A web page can include more content than would fit on a letter-sized piece of paper, especially because readers can scroll down if you have more to say. It doesn’t take a significantly larger investment to add two pages, rather than one, to a website. This is not to say that your website should go on forever, but you can take the real estate you need without worrying about the cost involved in printing a larger format document or more pages.

4. Making your company look professional and established, while extending your brand. A website can help your business make a full and positive first impression. Instead of prospects who are disappointed that it’s difficult to find out more about your business, you’ll have happy potential customers who can easily get their questions answered. And if they get those answers from an attractive, well-written, easy-to-use website, they are more likely to form a good opinion of your company. That good opinion can go a long way toward making a new prospect feel comfortable about your expertise and credibility and want to hire you.

5. Helping you find and connect with new clients. Creating a website can extend your marketing reach beyond your city—and sometimes outside of your own country. If you have a product or service that you can deliver over the phone, online, or even by mail, you can open up new territories that you’d otherwise have to reach by direct mail. Just think of all the new clients who could become available to you.

And through search engine optimization(learn more here), your website can be there when your prospect is actually looking for the product or service you offer. It’s easier to make a sale to a prospect that wants or needs what you offer rather than trying to convince them that they need what you have.

6. Enabling you to hit the business goal you’re reaching for. For example, your website can also help you sell products and services with an online shopping cart, grow your contact list through a newsletter sign-up, answer journalists’ questions through a press room, or educate potential clients through an articles section. There are many other things that a website can do for you—so talk to your designer about your specific business goals and creating a website that will get you there.

These are just a few of the benefits your business can gain from a website. Of course, it takes an investment of time and money to get a website designed, coded, hosted, and occasionally maintained. But when you think of the project in terms of the payback you’ll get, you can see that creating a simple website is well worth the effort.

As time goes by twiddling your thumbs and checking for that flood of traffic to your website, you begin to realize that it isn’t coming. Then it hits you…people have to know my website is there in order to visit it! So you go over to Google and Yahoo! and search your business. You don’t see anything on the first few pages. You feel a little disappointed, but then realize your site is pretty new. Then you do a search by your business name, expecting to see your new site in the first position…and that’s when the panic sets in…

Uh Oh. Not only is your site not in the first slot, it’s not even on the first page! For your own name! What’s going on here? You start to wonder what did these guys do to make my website not work on Google?

Calm Down! Before you have to start breathing into a paper bag, realize that getting listed takes time. With millions of websites out there and more uploaded every day, the search engines browse all the sites and add them to their data banks and update their listings if the site already exists. But even though the Search Engines are fast they can only get through so many sites a day. It may take a while to locate and scan your new website.

But there are some options to shorten the time it takes to be listed in the major search engines!

• Submit your website - Tell Google and the other search engines that you’re there! Look for the “Submit Your Site” links on their sites and follow the instructions. Though these aren’t guaranteed ways to get listed, they’re free, they only take a few minutes and every little bit helps.
• Link up your website - Search engines follow links to navigate around the Internet. If your site is not linked to other sites, you’ve greatly reduced the chance that a search engine will find it naturally. Make sure that other sites—business directories, article libraries, your clients—link to yours and you’ll get found more quickly.
• Break down and pay - Some engines, such as Yahoo, also have paid inclusion plans. For a fee, they’ll visit your site immediately and list you promptly. If your business—a storefront, for example—depends on attracting visitors, you’ll want to pay for a listing.
• Update your website - The search engines love blogs, newsletters, and updates. Blogs give them exactly what they want, which is new text-based information. If you start a blog that also links to your site, you’ll be more likely to lead the search engines right to you.
• Go the extra mile - Getting advanced SEO optimization is usually an addition to your web design, but if being ranked on Search Engines is a goal for your business paying the extra will pay off in the end!