Entrepreneurs have a lot of tools available to them when it comes to their website. One of the most powerful tools is WordPress. If someone says it cannot be done with WordPress, they either have no imagination or lack the skills to make any website project happen. I’m going to make a very bold statement that every entrepreneur should use WordPress and I will tell you why.
Before I get into explaining out my bold statement, I want to make sure that if you are an entrepreneur, you need to get out of whatever ways you are stuck in. If it helps your business in the end, you should become more open-minded. It is hard to learn anything new if you are not open to it. People like to say something is tough and give up easily because they were already closed to the idea before giving it a chance. How can your business thrive if you apply that same mentality to other areas, and not just your online business?
What Is WordPress? Short Sweet Pitch for the Entrepreneur
WordPress is a content management program that allows you to use your website without having to fool with your theme or takes gobs of time to update. Whether it is you or someone you hired, you can quickly create pages, blog articles, upload and sell products, interact with customers, and even collect leads. Oh, and it is easy to learn to use.
Practical Business Uses for WordPress
WordPress can do a lot of things. However, this is for entrepreneurs. So, here is the list of practical business uses for WordPress:
- Landing pages and Squeeze pages
- Contact forms for lead generation and list building
- Solely List building
- e-Commerce – Digital downloads
- e-Commerce – Products
- Membership Sites (digital downloads, information, products, etc…)
- Product or Informational Forums
- Small niche cost per click and advertising sites
- Applications specific to your business
- Reservations and event sales
- Auction and freelance bidding sites
- Bill payment and credit card processing companies
- Website Directory for businesses
- Adult Pay Per View Sites
- Portfolio site for Construction, Photography, Web Design, Interior Design, and more
- Video membership site
- Website for local, corporate, or international businesses
- A site that is mobile responsive
And this is just a small portion of the long list of what WordPress can do for nearly any business niche. Now there are other way to use WordPress, but these are uses that are either commonly used or ways that if you are newer to WordPress as an entrepreneur that you can build an online business.
Really, instead of asking what can WordPress do for you… why not ask, what YOU can do with WordPress? WordPress is available for anything you need it to do. Like I wrote earlier, aside from the list I shared, WordPress can do a lot more!
You do not have to have a static site and install a bunch of different scripts to get what you need. You can install WordPress, some plugins that do what you need and have one central location to manage your entire website! Wow… pretty cool, huh? 🙂
Learning How To Use WordPress
Learning WordPress does depend on how willing you are to learn something new. Not everyone has the patience or may be open-minded. There are free video tutorials out there to help you learn WordPress.
It is a lot easier than opening up a PHP or HTML file and manually coding your new content into your website. Aside from that, there are great themes you can buy, and even affordable designers to help you brand your online business uniquely.
Even if you want to do it yourself, there tutorials and information is available for free and also for purchase. Relying on services with selecting, drag, and drop elements together to make your site is limited. And some are even expensive… requiring you to even use their hosting. They boast that your site will be different from others, but if you look closely at their available portfolio, most of the sites have an extremely similar look.
With WordPress, you can brand yourself successfully and uniquely, and in the end have less maintenance. This is making your website work for you while you do what needs to be done, networking and connecting with people who might be interested in what your business is all about.
Do you use WordPress in a unique way? Do you have a site that is not entirely on WordPress, and wonder if WordPress can do it? Are you still skeptical?
A lot of people and business owners actually trusted WordPress.
It’s the main platform they trust ever since. Because of the many features of WordPress like their good plugins and user friendly environment, many business owners find it more reliable than any other blog platforms.
i think your post should be why online entrepreneurs shd use wordpress rather than why entrepreneurs shd use….. but still grt write up..i lilked it….
WordPress is a powerful tool for all the web applications plus its a great article about why should every entrepreneur us wordpress, joomla and drupal both are also great tools but for blogs most prefer to use wordpress…
Excellent Your Website really amazing its very interesting stuff getting impressed by seeing your blog thank you very much for such a blog i will be coming back for new updates in your website!!
Hey Nile,
I’m not using any WordPress site but seriously considering having one for myself. WordPress has so many benefits so I certainly don’t want to miss them at all.
awesome website with quality content and informative subjects
thanks for the info! I find it very useful
Hi Nile.! Thanks for sharing this blog and i always see that you always come up with new stuff with ideas..!!
i am using wordpress but i don’t know such information you mentioned Thanks !
I was a newbie to WordPress some time ago, I only thought that there are the “grey” type of themes, that are really “bloggy”, however later a friend of mine showed that it can look just as a normal website, which is great! Easy updating, easy navigation, etc. I believe that WordPress will stand strong both in near and far futre due to its ability to adapt to one’s need. Still using it and will continue to. 🙂 Great post, good read.
veritana.lt
it really a good and informative article i would like to say that theme of your blog is really awesome and logo also very good,
thanks for sharing such a nice article !!
Hi,
WordPress now is my basic platform. It’s great piece of software and all those available plugins make it best tool so far. Thanks for this nice post!
Kamil
Hi Nile …
Absolutely agree with you nile. But i am stiill blogspot flatform for my blog and I like that cuz blogspot is free and simple to use .
Best regards
Great and very informative post. This is probably the most useful post. I have read on any blog. I guess I know who I’m going to start following. Thanks for share this post.
Its very informative and well written by author. Its gives inspiration to all entrepreneur.
Yes,you are right every entrepreneur should use WordPress has it has a lot of plugins and awesome themes which can help us to make our site wow and help us to earn a good amount of money.
Nile, that’s a good list of things you can do on WordPress. Interesting to know that “adult pay per view sites” can also be made using WordPress. Really interesting.
Hi Nile,
wow, what a great list of uses for WordPress!
A few years I learned how to create a website from scratch, using code in a computer course.
When I came across WordPress I was amazed how much this platform provides, never mind the extra possible plugins. I felt I had arrived at a candy store, spoiled for choice.
Thank you for sharing this.
Cheers,
Yorinda
I can’t imagine working with any other platform than WordPress. I will admit however, that when I first tried my hand at blogging, I made the same goof a lot of newbies do and set up my site on WordPress.com because of course it was free. Hey, I didn’t know the different – it was all WP to me! Fortunately it didn’t take long for me to figure out the benefits of growing my blog on a self-hosted site, so I didn’t lose much time.
interesting and useful information for sure, gan Greetings,,
Nile,
Love this article. Someone at a local Networking event told me he did a little research on WordPress and feels that it’s a poor man’s web design tool. I told him: “Shhhh. Don’t tell that to the Wall Street Journal, cause they use WordPress.” LOL. Wow, some people are still stuck in their old ways and so sadly misinformed. Here’s a link: http://wordpress.org/showcase/the-wall-street-journal-law-blog/
If you want to shut a naysayer right down, tell them to google: “Fortune 500 Companies using WordPress.” Doh!
And that’s what’s so freakin’ cool about WordPress. If you are a home-based business owner, a small business owner or a Fortune 500 company, the exact same FREE WordPress installation is all you need to look like a champion — especially if you got a WordPress Web Designer like Nile Flores to Kick it Up a Notch!
~ Jupiter Jim
I’ve had people do that and still do it. I find myself as Matt Mullenweg termed it “a WordPress evangelist” because literally it is like a miracle happened when people realize how much WordPress can do for them.
Hello Nile,
I went to college in Southern Illinois! I agree…WordPress is THE best for online publishing. Thanks for your evangelism. Makes my job easier to have an article to share with some of the folks I’m working with.
Blessings,
Lisa
Hi Lisa! Sweet… I did not go to college in this area, but I did graduate high school from Southern Illinois… Belleville East. I ended up going north for college. I am a proud WordPress evangelist. 🙂 Thank you for stopping by and commenting. 😀
HI – thanks for the info – found out about you thru JupiterJim.com Marketing Website and FB page….thanks so much!
Linda
i am stuck with drupal
i wish i can this sometime soon
I’m using wordpress for years now, what I like about is it can be learned easily and aside from that it’s free. A business startup can use free wordpress themes and when their business grow bigger, business owners can purchase premium themes.
Hi Nile – a great post. I regularly advise coaching clients to use WordPress if they need a quick and easy way to get their websites up and running (although I have to admit a few of them even find the wordpress backend overwhelming!)
I have a webcomic blog that is entirely based on wordpress so it’s as versatile for displaying cartoons and images (e.g. for portfolio sites) as it is for text-based content.
WordPress is only the Best CMS that provides you the solutions to every online problem that you face in other CMSs.
A lot of plugins, That make it easy for you to do everything you want to do with your web.
Thanks Ileane for Sharing.
I’m having a great time using WordPress, I love the simplicity of it especially the widgets! But I have also had some past experience using html so I cannot say the same for those who are just starting out online. Still, I think wordpress is worth the learning curve!
I am not using wordpress. I am using blogger platform since 2009 but I am launching my second blog and it will be on wordpress
I am using WordPress and I wanted to launch my second blog and it should be WordPress.Now I have to reconsider a lot about my site. Thanks anyway
Nice post. Once I started online I started learning HTML, and later on moved on to CMS programs. I probably tried most of them on different projects. WordPress is honestly the most flexible to work with and editing small snippets of PHP has not been hard for me to learn. WordPress is honestly the best!
WordPress is the best tool for web design I think. It’s so easy to use and you can customize it in almost any way.
i am using wordpress and it is the best platform to start your website with. it gives you lots of options to customize your blog as well as free themes and great plugins. so these things make wordpress the best platform for blogging
I tried to use drupal and yoomla but I decided for WordPress. This is the best CMS – for me. WordPress is easy to use and costumize it.
WordPress is awesome and can be very beneficial to any business man or woman.
I’m a writer and I use WordPress for my personal portfolio and blog – found it really easy to set up and update – definitely a great tool for those that are not overly tech-savvy.
WP is great and it is not very hard to learn. If you build a site for a client they do not have to reinvent the wheel in order to update their page.
Hi Nile
I must say you’ve hit the right topic.There are many reasons to own a blog for the company.It helps in crawling your website faster.I have been writing a blog for quite some time and I have seen a significant improvement in rankings and the traffic.Thanks to WordPress for making blogging so easy to every user.
Thanks
Maria
Entrepreneur should use wordpress. WordPress makes blogging too much simple. We don’t have to bother about the codes, the lanuages like html, php. So we can use it for our easiness.
I totally do not understand this stuff. I’ve been blogging for a while, commenting, etc. and am finding little to no traction. I believe that our content is well above average and still cannot find any help. WordPress seemed to be a great option, but the widgets just seem to promise more than are delivered. They also crash all the time. It’s so frustrating. But thanks.
Aside from commenting and blogging, what else are you doing with your site. What other engaging are you doing- both online and offline for your business?
Hi,
Wordpress was really useful for entrepreneur for giving more powerful and impressive services on using wordpress. I already used wordpress for making my own blogs for several years and all my blogs was really attractive.
Thanks
It is appropriate time to make some plans for the future and it is time to be happy. I have read this post and if I could I wish to suggest you some interesting things or tips. Maybe you could write next articles referring to this article. I want to read even more things about it!
Nice post nile you had provided such nice useful information.I think worpress is good platform who doesn’t know about html coding.It provide such nice features as blogging platform…# simple steps which can boost your blog traffic
I like your posts very much thank you 🙂 I agree with you. although for a newbie blogger, an obvious choice would be the free platform of Blogspot, as the website grows, the features and the quality needs to improve and wordpress does it best! And i just love the plugins available for wordpress. 🙂
I think WordPress is a big revolution in the blog industry.
Hi Nill
Its a realy nice blog post
Thanks for share your knowledge
WordPress is a well-structured and high-powered machine. You can download themes, yes. But I would suggest finding a company that builds sites customized to you and your companies needs, with a CMS WordPress back end. That way you get the beautiful site you envisioned, but in an easy-to-maintain system.
Ever since I started blogging, I have been a WordPress follower but now after reading this informative post I’m in love with WordPress. Thank you so much,
Hi,
WordPress now is my basic platform. It’s great piece of software and all those available plugins make it best tool so far. Thanks for this nice post!
WordPress has been the easiest and most functional CMS I’ve seen/used since I started freelancing. It’s become a true open source tools and should be used by many. It can do as much as any other platform out there ie. Drupal, Joomla etc. but so much more user friendly. I’m a huge advocate for WordPress because of it’s simplicity and ease of use. Ver informative article and great to know about it’s use of SEO.
Regards
Paul
Hi Niles,
Great job calling our attention to many WordPress benefits. When I started my business four years ago, my business coach suggested that I create a WordPress blog right away and I did. I recall her telling me that blogging with WordPress was a great way to increase traffic to my store and make more sales. She told me to find out what my readers want and give it to them, listen to what my existing customers need and write about it in my blog, write information that is relevant to my industry, and to add content in blog posts that provides solutions to my existing customers’ problems. Glad that I heeded her advice.
Nice post. I probably tried most of them on different projects. WordPress is honestly the most flexible to work with and editing small snippets of PHP has not been hard for me to learn. Once I started online I started learning HTML, and later on moved on to CMS programs. WordPress is honestly the best!
very nice work admin …..keep it your writing skills are just awesome keep updating my site and With blogs everything can be possible and creativeness is unlimited. We never get bored to read new ideas.
wordpress when comparing with others CMS is relatively user friendly and one of the most common among bloggers.There is a variety of plugins to make blogging easier.
One main reason is that you should not WordPress is tthat you have to purchase an highly expencive Hosting if you can afford it then WordPress is the most suitable option for you…Also have to face down time problems if traffic is hight….but hosting expencive sucks man i am going back to blogger….
Hi Zeeshan! You can use WordPress.com and it is free. As for hosting and using the WordPress.org free and open source version, you are looking at the wrong web hosts if they are expensive. There are a lot of great web hosts that are not that expensive….in fact many are very affordable for even as low as $5 a month (some are even lower.) I am fairly sure you are still new to blogging… so don’t give up yet.
Blogger is not a great choice and if you want to talk about down time… you cannot force Google to get your site back up. You have no choice and have to wait. You are also limited in being able to sell or have certain advertisements, AND you have to adhere to their terms of service.
While there are some good suggestions here that are applicable to most entrepreneurs, I don’t think WordPress is the right choice for everyone. Especially for those who are new to earning money online, for many users it will be easier to gain control of the Blogger platform for a niche blog. That has been my experience, at least. I started off with Blogger, tried out WordPress after reading posts of more successful bloggers like yourself, and then I ultimately switched back to Blogger.
Unfortunately, you are held up with Google Blogger’s terms of service. You cannot have affiliate links. You cannot have certain 3rd party ad platforms. Yu are not suppose to accept sponsored post opportunities or paid endorsements. You can only have Adsense.
Free services have a lot of limitations, and when they are down, you are at their mercy and don’t have a phone support system to rely on, or support that will answer you through live support to tell you when you might be back up. I’ve used Blogger, and it is okay but if I were to downgrade, I’d do Squidoo or Tumblr or WordPress.com. In another post, Blogger versus WordPress, WordPress hands down in a side by side comparison beats Blogger.
You get full control of your software and your website with WordPress.
I totally agree- WordPress is the real deal- whether you are at the beginning or already have some blogging experience you could not choose better- It has a multitude of free themes optimized for SEO, for mobile, a lot of handy, free plugins and great support!
I too have been using word press since the last few months and i’ve got to give you that its a platform with the most number of customisations available. You can simply take your site to the next level
I think WordPress is easier and simple platform and all the search engines love WordPress that way every blogger love WordPress
WordPress has been the easiest and most functional CMS I’ve used since I started freelancing. It’s become a true open source tools and should be used by many. It can do as much as any other platform out there ie. Drupal, Joomla etc. but so much more user friendly.
Yeah, i also just wordpress and JUST wordpress, because its easy to use and have lots of good stuff/plugins. Cheers
Wp is nice but man you have to stay current with the onslaught of updates for core or plugins and hope it doesn’t break your site. Mostly its OK but sometimes I’ve had to rollback.
I think wordpress comes with great features, and you have a variety of plugins to optimize your site according to your needs. So wordpress is the best opportunity for your blog.
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hi!,, Excellent Your Website really amazing its very interesting stuff getting impressed by seeing your blog thank you very much for such a blog i will be coming back for new updates in your website!!
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Hi Nile,
Definitely WordPress has unlimited uses, and it’s also very easy for anyone to create whatever websites they want.
I’ve recently created a membership website using WordPress and it works like a charm.
Also the huge number of plugins that are available, further extend the use of WordPress. What I like most is that with time you start to learn a bit of PHP and CSS , and make little customizations to your theme.
Great post, very detailed.
Have a great day Nile, cheers.
~Philip
Hi Nile,
you are 100% correct about wordpress, it is fantastic!
I set up my own account just following your guide and i feel my knowledge of wordpress is vastly better, all because of you.
Thanks so much,
Chris
I actually just finished coding a wordpress from scratch. It was the first time I had actually coded anything and it was super easy. I highly recommend giving it a shot.
One word of advice though, Javascript is really hard to get working properly so for more complicated things you might have to find a plugin. BUT, be careful with how many plugins you install because they can really slow down your site.
In the future, I’ll probably use Twitters “bootstrap” for landing pages and just integrate the wordpress blog. it’ll lead to faster loading on main pages while still having a well organized blog section.
We have a wordpress plugin attached to our website and I am slowly starting to blog a little more frequently.
Thanks for the info and I am sure it will help improve my blogging skills 🙂
I love, love love it! Wouldn’t consider using anything else at this time or for the past 4 years. On top of everything which WordPress facilitates with easy there is a wonderful WordPress community of passionate people 🙂
I really love WordPress because it helps you optimize your website. It is easy to navigate and have pre-installed plugin that you can use to make your blog or website become more interesting, ct achy and informative.
Hi! Thank you for this awesome post! 🙂 Im a newbie blogger, and as of now, i’m with blogger. After going through yours and many other good sites i’m going to jump to wordpress very soon! 🙂 And yes, i’ve tried it with all the fancy plugins and stuff and one can surely say its an awesome platform for an entrepreneur! 🙂
Hi Nile,
Yes I completely agree with you that WordPress is the best. According to me its best because we can simply customize it. Many themes and plugins are available to to make our work easy. So WordPress is best.
Thanks for publishing this.
Regards
Kshitij Jain
nice article Nile,
wordpress is the king of CMS like drupal, tumblr etc. it has more than 50% share if this field.
most important thing about wordpress is its huge support of plugins and themes,
I think every blogger must use wordpress for the decent blogging experience
As wordpress provides us a very easy to use interface for blogging. There’s nothing to do with languages. So everyone can start their own blog without having much knowledge of languages.
Earlier WordPress was just a blogging platform. There were no extra features available to customize, to give better look, etc., but now WordPress has revolutionary changes which makes it quite useful for every Internet marketer.
Thanks Ileane for Sharing.
I use WordPress to build sites for all my clients. It’s an awesome system, very flexible and easy to use. It’s not only for making blogs, it can power websites that have the classic look many business owners are after. The big advantage for them is that they can change their texts without having to pay me each time to do it.
People need to understand that WordPress is not just for blogging anymore, it’s a platform that limitless possibilites. Blogging is just one of the perks. I know I use it to manage our law firms website as well as post new blogs. It’s a great all-in-one resource!
As the title of this post Why Every Entrepreneur Should Use WordPress. I have lot of reason base on this question.
Because WordPress is CMS base, It is easy to use rather then other CMS like Joomla, Magento and few others.
WordPress is a powerful tool for all the web applications plus its a good article about why should every entrepreneur us wordpress.
Ya clinton,I also love word press too much.I like WordPress and one of the reason for this is WordPress plugins.For every task there is a plugin available in WordPress.
Great and very informative post. It’s great piece of software and all those available plugins make it best tool so far.
i am new to blogging things
so i use blogger and ready to move to self hosted wordpress because everybody recommend it
usually people think that wordpress is merely a way for blogging but they don’t know that it’s more than that. Your post will tell them what is the power of wordpress sites and how it can be useful for enterpreneurs too.
WordPress is just a love for everyone. It really makes thing easier for everyone, especially for the marketers and entrepreneur. I am totally agreed with you that why everyone should use WordPress for their major works.
Yes, I am agree with you. I am very love wordpress, easy to use and have so many plugin.
Because WordPress makes it super easy to create a website, tons of people are doing just that, but unlike self proclaimed geeks like me, they aren’t aware of some of the simple things that you must do to secure your site. So be careful guys..
Great article.
Yes, I always tell my clients to use WordPress. One of my client, use some software than wordpress. Although his company is media and magazine in Singapore, there are lots of restrictions while the websites does not have wordpress. For example, it is not easy to put blog articles on the website for updating Singapore magazine news, luxury watches, and men’s fashion. At this moment, I hope I can discuss with him and change his mind!
On the other hand, my own business is using wordpress. It is indeed easy to set up online store, but it is also easy to have plug in for funny tweets on Twitter. As one of my job is to blog funny tweets on Twitter for my funny cool tshirt design, WordPress makes my blogging much easier and simple.
Tony
Of course, WP is the first thing that comes to your mind when you think of a CMS. Also, Not only entrepreneurs, even the websites of many of the famous personalities and actors run on WordPress.
Yaa you told right that Every Entrepreneur Must use wordpress as it gives better control and one f the Examples is Matt Cutts Who Use WordPress on his own blog.