Entrepreneurs may want to be cautious when starting a new venture, but a corporate website is a necessary first step. It doesn’t have to be expensive, and can grow with the company into a fully featured online business tool.

Whether users seek information or reassurance on your company, your corporate website is the best way to communicate effectively by delivering a message and an image that you fully control.

Features will typically include:

• About us, contact us, about the company, history
• People, the team, employees, biographies, executives
• Products, services information
• Contact us, send a message
• Community, our values, corporate citizenship, standards of conduct
• Terms of use, legal, user agreement, privacy policy

And eventually:

• Employment, jobs, careers, join the team, join us
• Customer support community
• News, in the news, press, publications, brochure
• Investors, ownership
• Downloads, media, library
• Store locator, find a store, find our products, locations
• Links
• Blog

In a technology driven world, no matter how far your target audience is, if they look for your company, products or services, they MUST be able to find you.

For customers, clients, investors or prospects, if you don’t exist on the Web, you do not exist in the World.