Importance of your Small Business Website (Webinar) with Ryan Miller

Have you taken a look at your digital home base (your website) and determined if it’s working for you or against you? Or does your company not even have a proper presence online? Let’s take the first steps towards a fix.

In this workshop we’ll look at examples of what makes a good website, help you objectively audit yours, and create a plan to revamp, re-build, or create your website.

We’ll share some of the best DIY tools for website creation, discuss commerce options as well as best practices for working with a freelancer, agency or designer to build your project.

You’ll leave with best practices around usability & accessibility, design choices, and tips to get the most out of even the most basic website setup.

Ryan Miller connects big ideas, communities, stories, and people. Currently he’s the Director of MVCC’s ThINCubator, an incubator/co-working space in Utica, NY that exists to foster a culture of entrepreneurship. He’s worked with over 400 entrepreneurs, want-repreneurs, students, makers, hackers, refugees and seasoned business owners to solve problems, build businesses and create opportunity.

He’s also the founder of Rust Belt Startup where he has over 20 years of creating websites, media, podcasts and marketing strategies for rust-belt businesses (and beyond). Most recently, he’s created a series of online courses and toolkits for entrepreneurs designed to help them build their new ventures, and his own podcast (Rust Belt Startup), features conversations with entrepreneurs, artists, educators and those who are living unconventional lives in unconventional locations.

Ryan is a Figure-outer-er. He’s part-time storyteller, aspiring wine snob, traveler, singer/songwriter and connector. Learn more at ryancmiller.com, rustbeltstartup.com, and thINCubator.co