If you have a small business website, then I have only one tip for your business this Tuesday: 
Make sure you have your website access details. That means you can log on (or ask someone else to) and access the details of your site.
You wouldn’t rely on someone else opening the door to your business premises whenever you wanted access. You’d make sure you had your own key. The same applies to your website.
Tips Tuesday Website Access Details
Make sure you have the ‘key’ to website access, which is at least the first two things listed below:
- Details of who is hosting your site and logon details (including password). This gives you access to your website.
- Details of who has registered your website domain for you. You may not have access to this (it depends which supplier you chose) but you should definitely know who registered your site and what date your registration runs out.
- Details of access to any CMS (content management system) you may use.
If you’re now thinking – good grief Dawn I have no idea what all that means - then at least believe me when I say that understanding doesn’t really matter. You know you need to know your bank sort code – but you don’t need to understand the details of what the numbers actually mean. You do know you need it and should have a record of it somewhere. Fortunately, the banks tend to include our sort code (and other account details) over just about everything they send us (but that’s’ another story) so it’s easy to find – not so with most web services.
If you don’t know details of your website access, then you’re leaving a very valuable resource in hands that one day might not be so friendly to your businesses.
So please, even if you don’t understand what I mean, make sure you have your website access details – and if you’re not sure what to ask for, I’ll draft the questions for you if you send me an email.
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