No Website? No Problem. Five Easy Options to Get Started
This week, an article on Entrepreneur, Does Your Business Still Need a Website?, raises a great point about businesses and the web:
“In the experimental laboratory that is the Internet, convention-bucking entrepreneurs are using a distributed strategy to build an online presence exclusively with social media and web apps. It’s an approach that has merit in certain situations, if only as a stopgap until a company has the resources to invest in a full-blown website, according to Kirsten Mangers, CEO of WebVisible, an internet marketing firm that develops small-business online marketing strategies built around landing pages. “There’s an immediacy to these kinds of vehicles, an ability to change on a dime to meet changing needs, without having to maintain a 20-, 30- or 40-page website.”
If you’re in need of a website, but both time and money are limited, your company can have a presence on the web without a big investment of your time or your cash. In fact, you can set up a landing page or a blog quickly without any money changing hands. The resulting site can serve as your home on the web until a full-blown website is built, or it can be your permanent online presence, depending on your ultimate business needs. The following five sites are easy to set up and integrate well with your other social media efforts. Read more

Imagine having access to all of your most important business contacts and customers in a dashboard that also pulls in their social media feeds, their shared links, email attachments previously sent to you, and related news articles about them, all in one place. That’s the gist of Gist. Making stronger relationships by learning more about your contacts – before you contact them again.