Yes, you can build your own with a “rent-a-site” and there are some good ones out there. A couple of reasons these may not be your best option. 1 – Investing in a professionally designed website is an expense a “grown up business” makes that is part of their marketing budget. It’s an investment in money and time. Investing in your own, professionally designed website shows the world you are a real business and you treat your business as such – you are serious and in the business to make money for the long haul. 2 – With a website from a builder, typically your business does not own the site – the builder company owns your site. You are renting space and renting a platform from them. So, if you decide you want to leave or change or the website company goes out of business, your site disappears. You don’t own your site. All the hard work and the time spent writing content goes away as does your content. Just like leasing a car, you have nothing when the website is gone. 3 – You are limited to what the builder site offers. The website builders have come up in the quality of what they offer in the past few years however you are still limited by only what they provide. It’s great you don’t have to be a rocket scientist or website designer to build one, but you have very few options and you can not add functionality but what they offer. In general, I’d rather see a company have a website builder presence than only a Facebook page to represent their business – falling under the “it’s better than nothing” category. Before making the time commitment to build your own, contact us to for an estimate – you may find it’s not thousands of dollars and would be so worth it to let someone else deal with it!