A website is the most important marketing tool for your online business, which allows you to have your business controlled by yourself. With your own website you can provide any information for your business and promote your products or services in any way you want. Compared with other third platforms, this is the most obvious advantage to use your own website.

If you want to extend you business, building a website and setting up your business online may be a good choice. A website will help you to:

1. Open an online shop for 24 hours a day, 30 days a month, and 12 months a year. You don’t need to stay in your store all the whole day, while your customers can still shop in your store whenever you are in sleep, playing video games, or even travelling abroad, etc.

2. Attract much more customers from all over the world. As everybody from anywhere can find your products online, what a crazy income stream you will get if your products can be easily delivered to other states or even other countries! For those merchants who provide info products, there are even no transport costs at all!

3. Provide more information about you business. You can provide any information like prices, descriptions in any format such as texts, pictures, audios and videos, so that your customers can learn more details of the products. This can make you and your products more believable.

4. Improve communications with your customers. You can install a sample guest book or a forum to allow your customer give their feedbacks and suggestion. Therefore they can feel more satisfied and you can also improve your products from their feedbacks.

If you want to join in affiliate programs and make money by getting commissions or referral fees, you also need to have a website to promote the products or services.

Although you can promote the products or services by email, blog or CPC marketing, a website is much more preferred. Many affiliate programs and advertisers don’t accept affiliates who use email marketing and blogs without a top domain name. And with your own website you can apply most of the affiliate programs.

Why don’t have your own website built even you know you will get so many benefits from it?

Don’t worry about the cost. You can create your website at a very low price. What you need to pay is just a few dollars (no more that 100 USD) for a domain name and hosting service for a whole year. And NOT to mention the technique. You can learn the techniques in a short time. With the help of CMS (Content Management system), you can set up your website in just few minutes. If you want to improve your website later, you can go deeper and learn while doing.