How to Use WordPress for Small Business

Feb. 28, 2011 - PRLog -- How to Use WordPress for Small Business: Lets first take a look at WordPress competitors.

The competition against WordPress are Blogger, Posterous, Tumblr, TypePad, and Movable Type are well known blogging software options in the blogosphere. The popular Google blogging site, Blogger , is for blogging only and cannot be hosted anywhere else, but you do have the ability to have your own domain name.   Blogger is extremely basic, free, and perfect for beginners to get started blogging, but not a good choice for creating a full featured site for your small business.

Posterous, is one of the newest free blogging platforms that launched July 2008. Posterous works primarily by submitting blog post via email, it's very easy to use, but it offers zero customization, which is not a good thing for most small businesses.

Tumblr was launched in 2007, offering a unique spin on blogging by allowing users to post via email, phone, or desktop. One of the major disadvantage of using Tumblr is that it does not have a default built in commenting system like WordPress. For this reason Tumblr is not the best option for any small business trying to communicate with there customers.

TypePad costs $29.95 a month, which is needed in order to customize the website, so it doesn't look like a standard blog. If you need to do advance customization you will need to learn the special TypePad programming language to make these changes.

Movable Type is another choice for your website or blog. Movable Type is also a fully content management system like WordPress.org. In order to use Movable Type for business requires a license fee which ranges between  $99-$1000.
WordPress was released in 2003 by Matt Mullenweg. WordPress is the successor of b2, which was found by Michel Valdrighi. When development was stopped on b2, developers Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, got together and created WordPress.

WordPress has become the preferred choice for website and blog development because of the ease of use and quick installation process, PLUS it's free. Some of the biggest name brands in the world use WordPress for their business website, making it one of the most popular CMS and blogging software in the world.

So why do we love WordPress for our clients:

WordPress is free!
WordPress is open source
WordPress can be used for blogging or full website cms and development.
WordPress is optimized for SEO
WordPress has thousands of extensions (plugins).
WordPress has a massive supportive community.
WordPress allows multiple users per site.
WordPress is easy to update.
WordPress is our No. 1 pick for our own websites and for  our customers as well. Even though WordPress is quick and easy to use, website development can still be time consuming. Also keep in mind that WordPress cannot be used for every situation. There are some projects that might require other solutions.

Here at Quixli we have made it our goal to help small businesses get started with WordPress instantly. Besides providing powerful hosting features for our clients, we have also created a one-stop shop environment for small business to get everything they need to make an impact online.

Contact us today if you have any questions regarding our services.

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