Getting a mobile-optimized website is important for several key reasons: 1) It avoids losing sales as more people search on their smartphones and will skip sites that are hard to view on mobile. 2) It gets your site listed in mobile search engines to reach more potential customers. 3) It extends your reach as smartphones become more affordable and common for internet searches. 4) It follows the trend of mobile usage becoming the norm for online activities.

1. How does your website look on a smartphone?

2. Are you losing sales because people can’t read your on a mobile phone? 10 reasons to get your website phone mobile ready

3. Now that smartphones have become so affordable and increasingly popular, they are being used to search the internet for everything from paying bills to shopping. Following are 10 reasons businesses should have a mobile version of their website or blog

4. Reason #1 Avoid the loss of sales. Of all the reasons that I can think of for a business to have a mobile ready web site, the number one would be to avoid the loss of sales. The last thing you want is for customers to skip over your site and use a competitor’s site because just because it’s easier to see and easier to read.

5. Reason #2Get your site in all of the mobile search engines This one is huge! Did you even know that there was such a thing as mobile search engines. You can only imagine how much increased visibility you can get if your mobile site being listed these search engines.

6. Reason #3Extend Your Reach. Mobile phones have gone down in price making them much more affordable to virtually everyone. What this means of course, is that many people will be searching for your business on their mobile phones, and this number will only increase. Be ready.

7. Reason #4Follow the Trend Getting on the internet using mobile phones is fast becoming the ”norm”. This is one trend you want to get on quickly. It’s an easy trend to get in front of and an easy opportunity to take advantage of.

8. Reason #5:Mobile Apps Mobile Applications have added another dimension to the mobile phone; they allow the user to do everything from play games to balance their check books.

9. Reason #6Facebook About half of Facebook’s visitors come from a mobile phone. If you have a business Facebook account, this makes it easy to engage your customers and to promote to them as well.

10. Reason #7:Mobile Bar Scanning Mobile Applications have added another dimension to the mobile phone; they allow the user to do everything from play games to balance their check books.

11. Reason #8:Most businesses are just now beginning to get it! The avalanche is starting. Now having a mobile ready site is a must have. You’ll be the “go to” business when customers go to search for your type of product or service a year from now, while many of your competitors will be wondering what is going on.

12. Reason #9:Image By having your site show up properly in a usable format, you create an image of being technically savvy. Your customers will feel more confident and sure of your business as a whole. Of course this is the kind of trust you want from your customers.

13. Reason #10:Affordability Right now, fortunately having a mobile version of your site is not going to “break the bank” . There are very affordable solutions. This is one technology change that you can enjoy without a huge investment.

14. Options How to get an attractive version of your website on a smartphone quickly and easily You have two options:

15. Option 1 One way is to do it yourself, by using one of the mobile services and paying a monthly charge. You put up the content yourself. They provide a template and the tools needed for you to create your own mobile site. There is somewhat of a learning curve, but this is a good option for the techie types.

16. Option 2 For the non-techie person, you can simply hand the task over to a mobile version specialist and let them take care of the details. Normally there is a one-time small fee. One that I recommend can be found at: http://www.key1dynamics.com/mobile.html At the time of this writing they were offering a free Facebook business account as well, although I’m not sure if the offer is still available.

17. Both of these options will work. Just make sure that you get your website ready to go, so that people can read it on their phones. The last thing you want to do is lose customers because you avoided this one simple change.