In light of the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic sweeping the world right now, many people are being forced to look at working remotely. There are also many non-business owners and non-business owners needing to get creative and are turning to online business methods or simply having an interest in getting into online business at this time.

While COVID-19 is very serious, we can also look to see the silver lining and the opportunities to get very innovative in our business or maybe new businesses can be born because we now have a period of isolation which may move you to notice unique opportunities you may have never noticed before.

As an online business owner working remotely, running an online business, that is my online brand agency, House of Branding, and being in online business since 2011, I decided to offer up a quick crash course/ tips for small business owners in Trinidad and Tobago on how to get into online business.

Online business in Trinidad and Tobago may seem mysterious to many nationals and you just don’t know where to begin, you may even think its not possible. But it’s actually very feasiable and we have MANY tools available to do online business.

So I am going to cover an over-simplified version of the steps you need to consider to get into online business or take your current business to incorporate online business methods.

Oh the horror stories on web designers or developers, they seem to be in abundance, I hear them all the time. The reason for this is not always that designers or developers are bad people it’s just that most people don’t know what they are getting themselves into.

They don’t understand what’s “under the hood” of website design because let’s face it unless this is something you do for a living, learnt in school or just have a general knack for you’re not going to know this stuff, it boils down to mainly ignorance - lack of knowledge on the topic. Which is fine until it’s time to get a website built yourself.

The problem is most website providers from my experience are not taking the time to educate their prospective clients, helps to understand what to expect before and after the website design process. Often many service providers are doing this as a hustle for quick money.

So in this post I am going to share 5 Basic Things You Should Know about your website, even if you have one already.

It’s no secret that I am a huge fan and advocate of Squarespace. Like everyone else I tried Wix and I hated it, it just never looked professional and always had an amateur DIY finish. And let’s be real who is going to take you seriously and have over their money if it just doesn’t look professional and legit. No one. Then I tried Weebly and it was great there. I did opt-ins there closed clients and everything but then it came a time when it was time to level up to something more professional.

While I could share with you ALL the reasons to go with Squarespace today I am sticking with 5 Reasons you should build your website on Squarespace:

Lately blogging is a topic I am getting questions about a lot. So in this blog I walk you through some basics of how to blog using my favorite website and blogging platform, Squarespace.

One of the many popular questions I get asked and understandably so is, how much does Squarespace cost? Or the other thing regarding price is that it’s expensive. And when we use the word expensive, expensive is pretty much relative? Relative meaning it’s a subjective thing and it’s about what matters to you. Do you prefer an all in one solution, something that makes your life easier, are on the fence of a website because of how intimidating it is, worried about viruses, hackers, coding, maintenance, having access to support?

So how much does Squarespace cost?

There seems to be a misconception that you cannot create membership websites on Squarespace.