Recommendations on building a website ?

Good morning. I am looking for advice on building a website or software to sell beef. 🄩. Barn 2 door and I did not click. The sales guy was way too slimy for me. Thanks
Good decision, we briefly talked with barn 2 door and decided it wasn’t for us either,
Can’t really be of any help about a website. My wife had a friend that did that sort of thing and she built a website for wife’s bed and breakfast farmstay.
I reckon just check with people that build websites.
 
With my asking price of $12 per pound I need to look a little more professional.
Is that hanging weight? I still don’t see where a web site is needed unless you are processing 25 or more a year and that will help with to many phone calls. Are you selling wagyu and if you are actually selling it for that price we need to talk. From what I have found with the Wagyu around here those people willing to pay those prices only want the prime cuts and could care less about the rest of it.
 
B2D blow my phone up from time to time. Quite annoying.

I went the FB route and am considering a website.

Find some websites that look like what you'd like to have and find someone to build it for you. That'd be the best way to go IMO.
 
When people contact me from Facebook or from the word of mouth around town or the sign out front, they always ask for a website to see our farm.
Was thinking about one also. We only do 5-7 animals a year, so far.

As of now we have to direct them to my wife's Instagram page.
 
When people contact me from Facebook or from the word of mouth around town or the sign out front, they always ask for a website to see our farm.
Was thinking about one also. We only do 5-7 animals a year, so far.

As of now we have to direct them to my wife's Instagram page.
websites can be done fairly inexpensively but if you do it you need to get a visually attractive one, not one that looks like it's cobbled together, so I'd suggest not letting just anyone do it. Put some nice pictures on it, doesn't have to be all close ups of cattle, just some nice pics of the farm with cattle in the pasture and some close ups. Websites aren't for you they are for your customers so you need a website in place that visualizes what the customer would like to see and look at. They also aren't overkill, they make you accessible to buyers and attract a higher end buyer who is probably not going to be as concerned about price as they are product, it will allow you to sell into the future and always have a list of customers waiting a lot of which will give you a deposit . We don't sell cattle like that but are probably going to do it soon. I do have other businesses and they alleviate a large part of the problems in growing a business, mainly finding customers with money willing to pay and the ability to have a data base you can reach out and turn on and off when you need them. You can find designers and builders on Fiverr.com or I use a friend that is a website builder by trade
 
Good morning. I am looking for advice on building a website or software to sell beef. 🄩. Barn 2 door and I did not click. The sales guy was way too slimy for me. Thanks
Before I got back into farming, I was a zombie in the corporate world and building websites was one of the things I did. I was a heavy equipment auctioneer and built my own site, as well as a few others for other auctioneers. It was one of those things that I had no formal training in, but had to do it in order to keep up.

My advice to you comes from some 20 years of marketing experience. It is no longer cost effective for small businesses to own websites. It is costly no matter what. Unfortunately, Facebook is far more effective at reaching, building, and growing a customer base, as well as being, by FAR, most cost efficient. You're looking at between $100-$300/month, depending on how many potential customers you want to reach. Most already know how to navigate FB, so there's no learning curve.

If you don't want FB (I personally don't have an account but I did when I ran my business), I recommend using WordPress, which has excellent customer service & helpline reps. It's moderate in difficulty if you're new to building, but is easier to figure out than most. You're cost will be high to start up, and you'll be around $300-$1500/month(depending on your customization), reaching far less customers and potential customers.

70% percent(could be higher today) of business owners rely solely on FB to market their business due to the high success rate in business marketing.

Anyhow, it's a long, boring post, but the numbers don't lie. I wish you the best of luck whichever way you go.
 
Good morning. I am looking for advice on building a website or software to sell beef. 🄩. Barn 2 door and I did not click. The sales guy was way too slimy for me. Thanks
I would go with Shopify for any retail merchandise. If you go with a "traditional" site, you'll still have to build your ecommerce or use Shopify to sell online.

Beyond your ecommerce, how much content are you going to have? Buildify for Shopify is a drag and drop editor that lets you add a Home page, landing pages and more to your shopify showcase store front.

Shopify Online Store Builder
 
It's moderate in difficulty if you're new to building, but is easier to figure out than most.
How long has it been since you built a Wordpress site? I've been with Wordpress off and on since 2004 or 2005, hand coding CSS, Javascript, and XHTML. There's no way, would call the modern Wordpress "moderately difficult" for a beginner these days. Just getting through templates and plugins is overwhelming.

If the primary function of the site is for selling, I recommend a selling platform over a blog platform. It's way easier to add a few pages to a storefront than add a storefront to a blog. There's also less to break.

You're spot on about marketing on facebook.
 
Good morning. I am looking for advice on building a website or software to sell beef. 🄩. Barn 2 door and I did not click. The sales guy was way too slimy for me. Thanks
I should add that a mailing list and newsletter will be a far more valuable asset than your website. Newsletter platforms are very user friendly these days and you can start it before you even have your site launch.

I would 100% start a mailing list FIRST ... Like yesterday. I'd be happy to point you in the right direction to get started.
 
Try computer groups already set up that sell in your state, from the farm or hit a few local events. Websites make folks search. FB can be easier.
 

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