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		<title>10 Reasons Why WordPress is the Best Choice</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why WordPress is the Best Choice for Small Business Owners and Big Company Websites alike I love WordPress, and other small business owners and marketers should love it, too. Over the past three years, it has become my web design platform of choice. &#8220;Why?&#8221; You might ask&#8230;. Simply because a WordPress website can do everything an old-fashioned website [...]]]></description>
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<h1>Why WordPress is the Best Choice for Small Business Owners and Big Company Websites alike</h1>
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<p>I love WordPress, and other small business owners and marketers should love it, too. Over the past three years, it has become my web design platform of choice.</p>
<p>&#8220;Why?&#8221; You might ask&#8230;.</p>
<p>Simply because a WordPress website can do everything an old-fashioned website can do, and about 100 times more.</p>
<h2>10 Reasons Why WordPress is the Best</h2>
<p><span id="more-971"></span>Here are ten excellent reasons <b>why WordPress is the Best</b> platform for web design, blogging, social media &#8212; whatever. If you are looking for a website, you should choose a WordPress as your publishing platform, period:</p>
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<li><strong>Easy to use</strong> &#8211; If you can operate Microsoft Word, you can probably use WordPress.</li>
<li><strong>Flexible</strong> &#8211; Wordpess themes can be easy to modify, and hundreds of plugins and widgets make it easy to customize your website/blog.</li>
<li><strong>Full-fledged content management system</strong> — although it&#8217;s thought of as a blogging platform, it’s really so much more.</li>
<li><strong>No software required</strong> – Do you have a mini laptop and wireless connection? Blog from the airport in between planes.</li>
<li><strong>Design it once and forget it</strong> &#8212; and you can blog to your heart&#8217;s content for years without ever going out of style. </li>
<li><strong>Easily add an e-commerce</strong> &#8211; it&#8217;s easy to accept credit cards via Google Checkout, Paypal, or accept credit cards via Authorize.net</li>
<li><strong>Completely customize your site</strong> &#8211;  start with a theme like Hybrid or Flexibility and modify the theme so it&#8217;s uniquely yours.</li>
<li><strong>Achieve top search engine visiblity</strong> &#8212; optimize it for search engines and get your prospects to call you when they have a need. </li>
<li><strong>Get social / learn more about your customers and prospects</strong> &#8211; because a blog is designed to be more interactive than a static website, and can integrate with Linked-in, Facebook, and Twitter.</li>
<li><strong>Trick it out</strong> &#8211; with Hundreds and hundreds of plugins to customize the functionality of your website/blog so that it fits your unique needs! Plugins are truly one of the reasons <i>Why WordPress is the Best</i>.</li>
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<p>These are 10 excellent reasons <u>Why WordPress is the Best</u>. Not to mention that it&#8217;s <em>cheaper, easier to implement, and easier to maintain</em>.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.lesproctordirect.com">If you are still not convinced Why WordPress is the Best, and looking for even more reasons, I&#8217;d be happy to oblige, please contact me today.</a></h3>
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