How to choose a website building platform for your coaching website

Are you searching for the best website building platform for your coaching website?

A website building platform is the foundation of your coaching website and plays a significant role in running a successful online coaching business and leading in your niche.

However, choosing the right platform can be confusing. There are numerous website builders to choose from.

Let’s explore the following in this post.

• What is a website building platform
• Best website builders
• Our favourite website building platform

What is a website building platform?

Plenty of people have built websites before.

Fortunately, some caring people thought about others and converted their website development process into a platform for others to use and build their own websites.

A few went even further and made their website development process open-source so others can use and even improve it as a community for the benefits of all of us.

In short, a website development platform saves you time and cost. You don’t have to invent the wheel again. Using a website building platform such as WordPress gives you the grey structure of your website in minutes.

You only have to create content, customise the design if you want to and start publishing in a few hours.

Best website builders

Some of the popular website builders are as follows.

Squarespace. Best for designers and creatives.

Wix. Easy to start.

WordPress. Hosted option is easy to start but the self hosted gives you massive power and flexibility.

Shopify. E-commerce solution if you are starting out.

BigCommerce. E-commerce solution for large businesses.

You can have a look at the current statistics of content management usage below.

Our favourite website building platform for a coaching website

Self hosted WordPress is our favourite content management system for a coaching website because of the following reasons:

• Open-source
• Fully customizable
• A huge selection of plugins
• Easy to find support
• Google loves WordPress
• Over 40% of the web is using WordPress

Feel free to send us an email if you want to discuss more about WordPress.

Conclusion

It is important to explore your options before you choose your website platform because it plays an important role in your online coaching success.

If is easier to build a house from scratch than repairing a badly constructed one.

Feel free to get in touch with us, if you need help in choosing the right website development platform that fits your long-term coaching goals.