100 Reasons Why
WordPress Is Good
For Business
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Community SupportThere are many community support groups you can
join to find answers including: the official WordPress
forum, or the official forum for the Theme, or plugin that
you are struggling with.
Open Source
Original source code is made freely available and
may be redistributed and modified. Meaning it is
being constantly developed, or improved, by a
huge community of WordPress Developers.
BlogBlog is short for weblog, or a log of ideas,
opinions, and information that is on the web.
Price
You can do everything but host your site for
FREE! WordPress.org is free, you can use free themes,
and free plugins, and design it yourself for free.
CMSCMS or Content Management Solution more commonly
known as a website. That means you do not need to
think of your website and your blog as being in different
locations.
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Easy To UseWordPress is as easy to use as any website building software that is out there. And
the WordPress community is constantly coming up with new themes and plugins to
create a complete Drag N Drop set up so it is even easier.
Landing PageWordPress makes creating Landing Pages quite simple with the help of a Contact
Form plugin.
SafeWordPress takes security very
seriously.
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FlexibleWordPress has more than
enough power to accommodate any businesses
needs.
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Free UpdatesThey release free updates on
a regular basis.
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Social Media
Easily publish your content to your social media channels.
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LeadsThere are so many tools that
are built specifically for turning your WordPress site into a lead generation machine.
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ReferralsEven better than leads are
referrals and WordPress can power your referral generation
as well.
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FormsForms are the life blood of Lead Capture and come in many shapes, sizes, and
configurations and they all work on WordPress.
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Idx IntegrationMost IDX (internet Data
Exchange) Services offer a plugin to integrate their
service with your WordPress website.
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JetpackJetpack is a plugin that is developed by Automattic which is the company that is run
by Matt Mullenweg the original creator of WordPress.
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Multi MediaWordPress allows you to upload and host: .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .pdf, etc....
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TutorialsWP Beginner offers over 200 step by step tutorials, if you are up for a course you
could try a site like WP 101.
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Multi UserYou can add as many users to your WordPress install as you feel necessary and assign each user to 1 of 6 different user levels.
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Super Admin – somebody with access to the site network administration features and all other features.Administrator – somebody who has access to all the administration features within a
Editor – somebody who can publish and manage posts including the posts of other users.
Author – somebody who can publish and manage their own posts.
Contributor – somebody who can write and manage their own posts but cannot publish them.
Subscriber – somebody who can only manage their profile.
Mobile FriendlyMobile visitors and desktop visitors are about equal these days and mobile keeps
growing making it more important than ever for a website to be mobile friendly to
accommodate smartphones and tablets.
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26 Transferable
You can transfer or migrate your WordPress website relatively easy.
27 Limitless
There is no limit on how many blog posts, menu pages, image galleries, videos, or plugins you
can add to a WordPress website. Sky is the limit.
28 Page Templates
Most themes will come with an assortment of Page Templates.
29 Searchable
WordPress has a built-in site search functionality, making it easy for visitors to find what they
are looking for on your site.
30 Create Membership Site
Membership sites are very popular and a great way to monetize a websites. There are
different membership site requirements and many plugins to address them.
31 Add Testimonials
In order to get buyers to trust you online it has become increasingly more important to add
your past clients testimonials on your site and it is easy to do with WordPress.
32 Create Support System
Clients like to know that someone will be there to support them after the sale. Want the ability
to manage your customer base with a support ticketing system you can do with a WordPress
website.
33 Publicize Your Posts
Automate your social media sharing with this option. Publicize allows you to link your accounts
to send out your post automatically once published.
34 Seasoned
WordPress is over ten years old. And has been updated, upgraded, and built up each year to
bring it to the top of the blogging platform pyramid.
35 Popular
WordPress is the most popular web publishing system on the planet with over 24% of all
websites powered by WordPress. This number keeps growing each year. This is good news
as it ensures that the platform will continue to get developed.
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Build CommunityWordPress has the features and plugins to make the establishment of a community convenient and easy, by communicating with visitors in the comments section, building a Q&A section, or sharing your blog posts on social media.
43 EcommerceWordPress + ECommerce = Awesome. There are some really great plugins out there that will turn your site into an online shopping mall.
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Choose Your HostingWordPress.org is what is called self-hosted. That means that no hosting is provided, and that is the way we like it. This is what allows us to have 100% ownership and customizationability. (Attention folks at Websters Dictionary…yes, that is a new word)
45 FreshnessThe combination of easy access, ease to use, and blogging functionality make it simple to keep your WordPress site fresh.
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Schedule PostsEven if you write a post at night and want to wait for it to go live until the morning, WordPress has the ability to schedule your posts to be delivered when ever you like. You can even back date them if you wanted to.
47 Add Content By AppWordPress has an app that you can download in both Google Play and iTunes. Once you have the app installed on your phone you can create content, check your stats, view your site on mobile, and check comments.
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WidgetsWhenever I hear this word I think of Road Runner and Acme Widgets. They seemed to send whatever the coyote needed, and WordPress widgets are similar. You can use the widget space on each theme to add whatever functionality you would like to see on your site.
49 Easy To AccessNo matter where you are in the world you are as long as you have internet access you can login to your WordPress website.
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Growth PotentialThe ability to create an online
marketing platform that is “Exponentially Expandable” offers tremendous peace of
mind for you and your growing business.
Become The ExpertUltimately you are positioning yourself as the Expert of that
subject.
LocalityWordPress can help you optimize your business
locally.
Author BoxYou might not need an author
box if you don’t have a website that you can publish but with WordPress you get
can have both.
Auto Save WorkAutosave feature that saves your work every 3 seconds.
TypographyOne of the most significant design upgrades of sites
recently is through the use of Typography.
Menu ManagementWordPress gives you the ability to create and adjust
your menus with a simple to use Drag N Drop tool.
MultilingualWordPress is currently
developed in 160 languages. You can use a
plugin like Polyang or Google Translate.
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66 Chat
World people like instant answers and a chat window can help your business connect with
your clients.
67 Fundraising
With the growth in popularity of sites like GoFundMe you may be looking for a website that
can handle fundraising.
68 Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate Marketing is a popular method for monetizing blogs so I suppose WordPress was
made for it.
69 Q&A
Perhaps you have stumbled upon one of the top Q&A sites Yahoo Answers or Quora on your
web journeys.
70 FAQ
If they are Frequently Asked Questions it may be a good idea to give the answer on your
website and you can do that easily with WordPress.
71 Monetizing With Ads
Want to monetize your website with ads like Google Adsense, Chitika, Bidvertiser and
Clicksor? You can do it very effectively with a WordPress website.
72 Podcasts
Podcasts have become very popular over the last few years as a way to market your business
or product.
73 Mobile App
More people access the internet on their phone than on their desktop now, and they use Apps
more than a browser when on their phone.
74 Book Publishing
You may not have even thought of using your website to publish a book but if you wanted to
you could do it with WordPress.
75 Password Protect Content
This is actually a default feature of WordPress to be able to password protect individual Pages
and Posts.
A/B TestingThey only way you can really know if a red button or a yellow button will be more
effective on your landing page is to do an A/B test.
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Editorial CalendarThis will help you build and keep up a targeted content marketing campaign.
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Multi Site
If you are in the market for a website that allows you build a blogging network or
have a need to build multiple versions of a parent website, WordPress has it.
ParallaxWith todays full width designs, adding a parallax effect can add a special flare to a
website and it can be done on WordPress .
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Heat MapsHeat maps are good for know what your website visitors are interested in.
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DirectoryWith WordPress you can build a site to compete with City Search, or just a list of local businesses you recommend on your website.
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ClassifiedsAre you ready to become the next CraigsList or maybe running a neighborhood website and want to be able to sell services and promote garage sales.
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GalleryIf you want to display a gallery of your products, your portfolio, or just your favorite art you can do it with WordPress.
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SliderIf you do you can easily add a slider with WordPress.
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90ShortcodesA shortcode is a WordPress-specific code that lets you do nifty things with very little effort.
91CloneIf you use a premium managed WordPress host such as WP Engine you can clone a site in seconds.
92Sticky ScrollingThis allows you to put content that you want your visitors to see in the viewing area at all time.
93 Drag N DropMany WordPress developers have taken note of this and are building in more and more Drag N Drop functionality.
94SyndicateThere are many places you plug your RSS feed and syndicate your content out.
95Spam BlockerIf you have a commenting system on your website you will have spam. If you have WordPress you will need access to a spam blocker.
96Pop UpsPop ups have been proven to be the most effective means for converting on websites.
97ButtonsDepending on which them you are using, you will have the ability to add stylish buttons and unique call to action to a WordPress site.
98AnimationYou have probably noticed websites that have little moving parts on them this is usually done using CSS3 Animation.
99IconsYou can easily use icons with WordPress.
100EmbedsWordPress built in easy to use embed functionality for Youtube, Twitter, Flickr, Spotify, Slideshare, Instagram, Vine and other media sources.
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