Your website is a direct reflection of you and your business. It is a 24/7/365 marketing piece, salesperson, lead-generator, customer support center, catalog, shop, and more. It might actually be your whole business.
It can’t be down.
Preventative maintenance keeps your website in tip-top shape. It helps keep it safe, fast, looking good, and functioning properly.
The question is, do you want to maintain your website yourself, or shall we do it for you?
Answering the questions below may help you decide if our Peace-of-Mind Website Maintenance Plan is for you.
Observation
Do you look at your website at least once a week?
Logging In
Do you log into and work on your website weekly?
Your Time
How busy are you?
What do you like doing with your time?
How valuable is your time?
Do you have better things to do with your time?
Do you even want to perform weekly website maintenance tasks?
Updates
Do you know what needs to be updated on your website? What is important, critical, a red flag, or not a big deal?
Do you know how to perform updates and the proper order?
Do you know if a plugin is obsolete?
Are you tracking your updates?
Supervising Users
Do you know who your users are? Do they have the proper permissions? Are they hackers? Do they need to be removed?
Problems
Can you tell if a problem is caused by human error, a plugin or theme conflict, or your website host?
Do you know how to troubleshoot issues?
Forms
Do you test your forms often?
In Summary…
As a business owner, you can certainly maintain the website yourself. Some of you already do. If fact, I have a blog post right here that explains how to maintain your WordPress website yourself.
However, if you do not want to deal with it, we would love to take care of all the maintenance tasks for you. We have over ten years of experience working with WordPress websites. This experience is extremely helpful in the event your website has an issue that needs expert care. Preventative maintenance can reduce or eliminate future headaches, downtime, and lost revenue.