How To Take Your Business Online with no HTML - xSitePro

This is migrated from www.rejuvenateyourrestaurant.com/blog.  Since writing this, I have moved my primary website to Hubspot 9 months ago.  I still love xSitepro and find it a outstanding alternative to for those want a DIY low-cost solution.  Depending on your business and goal, it can be an excellent alternative.

Going Online? Is this a list of what you want? 

	You want to create an online presence with your brick and mortar business. (Restaurant or otherwise.)
	You want to connect with your community with Web 2.0, email, and the virtual tools.
	You want to "capture" email addresses thereby setting up a database to do your "guerrilla marketing".
	You want to do so without going to school to learn a new skill set (and yet understand the inner-workings well enough to maximize the benefits).
	You want to keep the costs down and avoid paying high fees for fancy web developers.
	You don't want to rely on someone to build your online presence who may or may not know what your business objectives are.
	You want to have SEO (search engine optimization) without knowing how to program.
	You want to do all of this and have it teachable to someone on your team.
	You want to have opportunity to duplicate success to expand your online presence.
	You want to include videos, photos and audio...again without knowing programming.
	You want to limit your time each week working on Internet marketing or web development.
	Because your time is spent working your business side by side with your staff, time is precious and you have little or no time to do "web development".
	You want have easy maintenance, in house updates created, and control over what is on the Internet.

How can you expect to keep the costs low, not go to school to learn programming, but have it teachable to someone on your team?  You want what the big companies have but are only a small to mid-size business?  Do you truly expect to expand your business with an online presence given these boundaries?  Don't your expectations seem a little high?

Your expectations are not too high.

As an entrepreneur, your expectations must be high for both your business and for those you rely on for products and services.  Fortunately for you, XSitePro website design software not only gives you want you want, it does more.

A snapshot of my screen in xSitePro.

Eric Holmlund introduced xSitePro to me last year in his lessons on his website at www.Ericstips.com.  If you are familiar with Eric, you will know he not only has a good understanding of how things work but has good skill with sharing / education.  XSitePro website design software is not one of those "get it now or the piano will fall on you" marketing companies.  I signed up for a webinar.  (As a perpetual critic, expectations were low, even though Eric recommended it.)  There was not only one webinar, there were three, and each one was packed full of info above expectations.  These tutorials are now part of the resources for you when you purchase the software.  The webinars not only show how the program works in depth step-by-step, but within each step also give the basics of SEO, the Internet, and the methods to streamline going online.  The instructor actually builds a website from scratch ... including how's and why's.  I was sold after the first.  But still I had to research and found dozens of positive remarks from others about the software.  Once I downloaded the program, it proved to have email capturing resources, forms, affiliate tools, clip art, templates, SEO analysis tools, and the list goes on and on.  If you believe that keeping your online marketing in house is the best solution for you, xSitePro not only guides you through the process step by step, but shows you the "why" to do it.  You learn as you do (which is such a familiar formula when training yourself and others).  xSitePro proved to be worth the time and an outstanding value.  (TechSmith'sCamtasia and Snagit are also top of my list.)  I am smarter, faster, bigger and better because of the purchase of xSitePro2 and the value grows as my knowledge grows. 

OK, here's the downside ... I thought I was heading for the gravy train, the easy life and a very big shortcut because xSitePro is a very powerful program.  I believed I was going to boot up and begin to create something wonderful the first day... Mistake on my part.  Do I expect to get into a NASCAR racer and head around the track at 200 miles an hour?  (I teach Magic Marketing but that also takes time.)  EVERYTHING has a learning curve. Yep, even XSitePro website design software.  But only because my expectations and vision are pretty grand and my vocabulary was somewhat limited regarding the Internet.  It is said that every new role requires you to learn 200 new words and once you have learned them, the rest is "cake".

Reminder to Self: There is NO software program that is usable without a learning curve. AND, it seems the more powerful a program is, the tougher it gets to learn.  With all of its power, xSitePro proves to be the opposite of the rule.  It has all the flexibility needed and includes show and tell videos, photo-filled tutorials for step-by-step instructions to have anyone up and running in less time than other programs I have used.  The common sense choices it provides leaves me moving forward without leaning too heavily on the help guides.  xSitePro software is more than a website builder, it is a complete management system which includes tools for email, affiliates, SEO, and much more.  When I began I found it was speaking a language I was not familiar with.  I needed to learn new definitions.  Fortunately, the help section in the software allowed me to search the terms quickly.  Plan on setting aside a "training period" of several hours as you watch the training videos and practice.  xSitePro2 works similarly to word processing programs such as Microsoft Word so you will be surprised at how quickly a website will magically appear (almost magic) under your fingers.

The small learning curve is worth it since it allowed me to learn more than just xSitePro.  It enhanced my awareness and skill level about Internet options.  Don't take my word for it.  Check out their testimonials page.  Still want more?  Refer to Eric's comments on Ericstips.com.  If you get stuck, feel free to connect with me via email, twitter, Linkedin, or facebook.  Of course, the xSitePro2 team has the great support you need already.  Do you want to know more?  Who can tell you better than the company who makes it, teaches it and support it?  Here is the link.  If you do decide to check out XSitePro website design software, be sure to watch the video (on the left screen of xSitePro outcome of more time, energy and profit with xSitePro2).  May all your marketing be magic!  P.S. I am a fan and user of xSitePro2.  I offer this testimonial and the links provided are affiliate links.  If you make a purchase through these links, you help to support the resources you find on this website ... and I thank you. Here again is the link: XSitePro website design software.  The video tells the real story better than I can.  It shows how and why your life can get faster, simpler and easier (and funner).  I continue to be a user and hopefully you, too, will pay it forward to save others grief trying to create a website.