Description: If you want to grow your small to medium-size business, you need to rank well in online search results. As many as 90% of customers check online reviews before making a purchase,? and 98% of web users choose a business that is on the first page of their search result.? To most Internet users, if you aren’t there, you don’t exist. Yet in 2012, only 42% of small businesses had a website,? and today many businesses are unable to build trust with online customers because their websites are incomplete, with limited information and unruly designs.

Source: Expertise.com

Date: June 1, 2015

Link: http://www.expertise.com/optimizing-your-website-what-every-small-business-should-know/

Questions for discussion:

• What does this report say to small business managers about communications with customers online?
• What other online strategy would you recommend to each of the managers of the companies profiled in the report?