Do you even need a website in 2020 and are they still relevant for smaller
businesses now in short absolutely yes whether you're a restaurant or a yoga
studio or even a social media marketing agency a website is a great way for you
to show your potential clients what services you offer how to contact you
and even sell products directly online but this can be something which is
very daunting to new start business owners who don't have any web experience
they're not techy and you don't even know where to begin on creating a
website it can be really daunting task and that's why in this video I'm gonna show
you in less than 15 minutes everything you need to know step by step to create
your first website today now firstly I want to say thank you to Wix for
sponsoring this video and supporting the channel now we don't know what Wix is
it's an online templated website builder and AI platform with over 500
industry-specific templates and a drag and drop editor which makes for
uncomplicated web designing exactly the way you want it so for context in this
video I'm going to be making a digital marketing agency website or social media
agency website but regardless of what business industry you are in you can
literally follow these steps to create a website for yourself today it's also
important to know if you're one of my regular subscribers and you're in the
digital marketing space it's not detrimental to your agency if you don't
create a website right away in fact it was months after I launched my agency
that I actually launched my website but that being said it is an exceptional way
for you to get your clients to contact you inbound and also show them what
services you have to offer so without further ado what we're going to do is
we're going to flip round onto the Mac but if you want to go and click the link in
the description go over to wix.com if you want to follow this tutorial today
and you can start creating your website right now but let's get started cool so
we are on wix.com right now and what we want to do straightaway is go over to
the top right hand corner and hit sign in ok so we want to create an account
or we can click get started in the middle here so get started or sign in it
will do the exact same thing and we want to create our account i'm going to go ahead
and create a new account today so I'm gonna put a email address in here click
sign up so if you're new to the platform you just want to follow the on-screen
instructions so we're gonna hit let's do it
we want to create a website for ourselves it should be a business site
in this instance we're gonna create a agency website and I
have never done this before okay let's presume that I'm an absolute beginner
okay we then gonna get the option to use the
Wix AI platform okay so we can have artificial intelligence build
the basis of our website for us but we're actually going to choose a
template today by all means you should play around with this feature so we're
gonna choose a template on the right hand side and it's gonna bring us
through to the template selections so we have many options here we're on
businesses and services right now but if you're in health and wellness or travel
and tourism landing pages restaurants beauty and all these sub niches
underneath okay we have so many options as I said there's over 500 templates to
choose from but we're gonna keep this nice and simple we're gonna go on
business and we're actually gonna be in advertising and marketing we can either
select that here or we're gonna do that over here so advertising and marketing
that see what we have got this is going to bring up all the relevant templates
although of course you can use absolutely any of the templates on Wix
and you just need to change the text and change the layout so it doesn't
matter what template you start off with you can you can adapt it for whatever
industry you're working in so let's use this one this looks
like it looks like a nice one to use so we just want to hit edit ok so when we're on
the editor for word the first time we get the option to watch some training
videos which we can go through we're gonna skip that because I want to show
you actually how you can do this today okay so to use this editor you just need
to understand how to use the navigation bar on the left hand side here and the
tools on the right many of this will be familiar you've ever used any kind of
design software in the past or even any kind of word processing tool for that
matter so if we go from the left and work our way down we're gonna go on
menus and pages first this is where we can look at the way of different pages
on our website and these obviously are gonna change depending on what template we are
using but we've got works we've got branding we've got an about page and we
even got a booking page on it which we'll come onto later on this but if
you're building an agency based website and you're a new start all you really need is
a home page and about page and a contact page or you can even have that all in
one website or one page you don't have to have a navigation bar you could just
have that all you could have the about you could have your services and then
you can have contact us if you want a really simple layout or if you've got a
existing agency with existing clients you
want to create a testimonial page let's say we we want to do that with an
existing agency we hit add page here and all we would do is we would type in
testimonials and it's as simple as that we have a new web page built out okay so
we've been brought to this new page we can now edit this page on Wix if we go over
to the left we can change the background if we want to so we can change the color
we can change the color of the background we could do site colors and
hit change I really like this feature actually this is where we can
look at your different color palettes this is great if you're looking for
inspiration for your website maybe you haven't even chosen your logo yet I mean
I mean look at this this is a really lovely color scheme it's a great place
just find inspiration for colors that you may have not even thought about
before we're not going to do that for now though we're just going to get rid
of that and we're gonna add something to this page so the plus icon here over to the left we
can add anything we want onto the page whether it's text images buttons a
gallery videos a navigation bar social icons a contact form I mean the
possibilities are endless and what I recommend you doing is many of the
things I'm gonna be going through in this video today you can you could spend
ages looking into them and playing around with him and tweaking little
things and getting creative and that's that's your job to do after this video
after you followed this tutorial I just want to give you an idea of exactly how
you can do this okay so how to use the functionality and the creative side of
things and actually managing everything for your website that's your choice to
play around with and I really encourage you playing around with all the
functionality of Wix after you've gone through this training so let's say we're
doing a testimonial page and maybe you want to add a heading so we could just
click heading there or we could simply drag heading so we can go add and we
could drag this onto the page and we can move this anywhere we want okay so no
coding needed we can drag this around if we want to delete this go over to the
tools we click the trash icon very self-explanatory if we want to duplicate it
we could duplicate it just by clicking the icon next to it and let's get rid of
that and let's move this header let's move it up here and let's do testimonial
okay and some testimonials we can change the font this is very similar to any
other word processor change the font size bold change the alignment anything
like that and we can get rid of that so let's just say we're doing this here now
I'd recommend using a maximum of three fonts per website okay because you want
this to be brand continuous you want it to look clean and I'd also
recommend you using a maximum of three colors okay to keep this like clean I
like a simplistic design and it's just an easy way if maybe you're not so
designed savvy for you to look design savvy
okay free font max three colors max really then we so again if we go on
add here and what are we going to do for the testimonial page maybe there's a
video testimonial so we can go to video and we could do video upload we could
drag this onto here we could integrate it straight from YouTube or Vimeo we
could drag the video testimonial on to this page and maybe for people who can't
actually watch the video we might want to add another heading okay so we could
have header two and this could be like it quote like so we're gonna do this for
a company called Eagle Marketing by the way you can marketing did such a great
job of our marketing okay that's probably not a likely quote we might want to make
sure this looks a little bit better by maybe lining it in the center maybe not
doing it like that kind of a center like this kind of center so it looks a little
bit cleaner there of course we want to change it so there's a really really
simple testimonial page one thing I also really like to point out on the add here
is the the container section because we can actually add entire sections onto
our website so for example if we wanted like a get in touch on here we could
drag this on and we could add an entire section on to our website okay I don't
do the title I want to drag the whole section I can just drag this down
underneath the video and I can move this all back up okay and we can format this
all nice and easily so there we go and we have our getting touch
section now so we've got a testimonials and then people can get in touch
afterwards with whatever contact details we want to put there but that's what I
quite like about that with it's like individual templates inside of a
template all these different ones where you can obviously change all the design
to all of these so have a look around container I think this is a really
great thing we even got one for testimonials here see that so
testimonials where you can drag some quotes from somebody straight onto a
website we can change the images we want to change these images click on the
image hit change image it's as simple as that
once we do that we can either drag the image onto here or we can hit upload
media and drag it straight from our computer close that change all the
titles if we want to get rid of this column that we've just added we can click that
and hit delete it's gonna get rid of it and then we just need to move everything
back to how it was but you can see even if you
make a mistake how easy it is to just correct it cool so that's us making a
testimonial page we can also add apps if we want on the left hand side here so we
can feed things like a subscriber app comments a Facebook Likes if you've got a
Facebook page you can have a pop-up which says hey like our Facebook
page some kind of a form or a booking form or a live chat have a look around
at all the applications as loads of them on here lots of agency owners use an app
called calendly for their scheduling if you type in calendly at the top here you
probably integrate another calendar here we go calendar and you can have bookings
for a strategy call directly through to your website in fact I actually think
this template has a booking system already built into it so we'll see if we
can find that in a minute then we've got media so again we can drag
any of our media onto here so our videos or images or even stock images we've got
access to on here but also we can add a blog if you were a marketing agency on
your blog could be a really great way for you to build authority and then we
have a booking form okay so booking manager we're actually gonna go onto
that I think there was one built into this website already so we'll have a
look at that let's go back over to our home page now we don't actually just
have to select our pages from here we can also select our pages from the top
left here for a quick reference so go back over to our home page and let's say
we want to actually start editing this website so I'm going to change the
logo right now I'm going to delete this text I'm gonna delete that register
trademark click add go an image upload image and we're gonna use a Golden Eagle
Marketing this is the example we're gonna be using let's make this smaller
and let's get that straight in on at the navigation bar make that the right size there we
go now we've got these green colors it's not brand continuous with what we're
trying to achieve here so we want to make sure that we can change the colors
and so if we want to change that so we're using this template we want to
change the colors used here we can click on any of these buttons and we can hit
change text but we want to hit change design if you want to change the layout
of these buttons and we can go around this again you want to play around with
this depending on what design aesthetic you want but we're going to click
customize design we're going to go on fill color and opacity go on the
green and we are going to change the color so what we're going to do is we're
going to hit change colors hit this little button here and we have the
ability to change this we can obviously do this from a hex code if we want to we
can change it to the exact color of the logo but I would say something like this
is pretty similar so there we go we hit add done close that and we would do the
same for every other individual element on the website okay so we can change the
the colour of this strategy call there for example as well
now this strategy call this is actually a built in booking system as far as I'm
aware on this template itself so to click on this yes it is so we have the
option to manage different services now this booking system is not just used
obviously for marketing agencies this can be if you're a personal trainer this
could be for scheduling in a free transformation session or a personal
training session you can even charge for these so it could be an optician and it
could be a eye checkup or something like that so to do this I mean we click
on settings and we can change a design and all of that as always I mean you can
change the design aesthetic of absolutely anything on these templates
but we want to hit manage services and what we're gonna do is we are going to
be able to actually edit this service we can add other things on if we want to we
could for example have a a paid strategy call if we wanted to but if you're an agency
owner I recommend you just having a free one so we've got services on
the side on here hit these three buttons hit edit and there's a couple of things
you want to make sure you do if you're setting this up do your strategy call
title change the description session probably around 15 minutes is about
right and we don't want any fee you could put a price in here though you
could put a custom price or fixed price and charge people for it depending on
whatever you're trying to build with this website for location business
address but really if you're an agency owner you want to do add video
conferencing that's going to enable us to actually get a link sent over to the
person who books are calling with us and they can click that link and have a
video conferencing and have a video conferencing link with us we can have a
video meeting via zoom zoom.com so here we can integrate our zoom account if you
don't use zoom go on zoom.com and you can really easily have video conferences
with potential clients video meetings and you just hit connect there and
link your account up so save now there's loads of other functionality on here
there's lots of other things that you can do but very simply what I'm just
going to show you as if we go onto the calendar and hit more actions here you
can sync this with your Google Calendar so you can make sure that this is synced
across all of your platforms another thing you want to do is set work
hours so you want to make sure that if you're an agency owner you're not busy
you're not free all day okay so you don't want to be free 10:00 a.m. to 6:00
p.m. you want to add different times in here and maybe put like for example 9:00
a.m. - for example 10:00 a.m. and then we could also set 11:00 a.m. to 11:30
a.m. so we're setting our intermittent time throughout the day so it looks like
we're busier than we are as a new agency owner you don't want to look like
you're free all day it's not gonna look professional so gonna hit save and yeah
we're gonna come off this for now okay so you again you can use this booking
platform however you want to you can add payments on there depending on what
business you're running but that's already built into this template that is
a premium feature so I'm going to be running through how you actually use
premium and yeah how are you upgrade to that and the cost implications of that
in a moment but let's just say we are finished editing this website okay
all we really need to do is change the images and I would recommend you
changing these images you don't want to stick with the template images you want
to ensure that you use something different because you don't have the
exact same images as loads of other websites out there so you want to ensure
that you change the text you change the images and yeah you make this your own
you personalize it as much as possible if you want to change the image all we
do is click change image there okay but let's just say we're finished
editing this website and very very easy to do and we want to publish this right
now okay so all we need to do is we can do site and we could hit publish
or we could go publish in the top right hand corner here if we hit publish now when
we have published its gonna publish onto a Wix domain name but we want to make
sure that we have a professional domain name for our business so we can over
upgrade our account here or we can do this straight from the editor and
connect a domain name so we want to have something like the Golden Eagle Marketing
if we can find something like that so we go over to settings at the top here we
can click connect domain name and if we already own a domain name because we
bought it elsewhere we can either connect it straight
through to Wix by clicking connect a domain name you already own or we can
buy a new domain straight from Wix so let's see if we can
find anything simple which is relevant so can we get Golden Eagle
Marketing we could do Golden Eagle Marketing .net and then we have the
option to either upgrade to a yearly plan on Wix and we can get the domain
name for free or we can just buy the domain name itself separately okay so
it's completely your choice whatever works best for your business if I click
up right now just and run you through some of the options as the upgrade
options because of course if we do want to have a booking system we will need to
have a premium account and it's again your choice to weigh up what works out
best for you for your business I'm not gonna advise you on what option you
should take because it depends on your business or your website and what you're
trying to achieve out of this if you want a booking system then you're gonna
want to have a business or e-commerce one it's gonna have to be one of these
options weigh up everything underneath here if it's just a normal website you
don't need the booking system or e-commerce then you can be any of these
ranging all the way down to three pounds per month but you will have to pay
additional for your domain name which will end up depending on the domain name
be around 10 pounds per month if it's a simple domain name so that is very very
simply how you can create a website for your agency today and literally with
no experience whatsoever from a template and any other business for that instance
let's go over to the beautiful website that we we have actually just created
let's go back onto that and hit preview now of course in any given circumstance
I would spend a lot more time absolutely building this website out but
I just wanted to show you exactly what Wix it's capable of and just how easy it
is for you to create a website even if you have no experience whatsoever this
doesn't have to be a daunting task and so many people spend a lot of time
procrastinating when they first launched their business about what their website
is going to be like what they need to include on it and building a website
from a template is it just relieves absolutely all of that stress and it
means you don't have to worry about that and you can focus on getting it out of the
way getting your website done so you can ensure that you're spending your time
signing up client so you can ensure you're spending your time driving
revenue into your business instead of building out all of the mechanics okay
you can get something built very very easily very quickly and you can build
something up yourself without having to stress out about code
and without having to pay somebody for thousands of pounds to do it for you so
guys that is the end of this video I hope you have enjoyed it please do share
it with somebody else who will get value from it
if you have any questions whatsoever drop me down a comment below and whether
that's about Wix or about building an agency website and everything that
entails I'll get back to absolutely everybody and if you're ready to start
building your website today you've got all the tools you need after this video
click the link in description and visit wix.com right guys I'll see you all very very
soon thank you so much for watching Cheers