Be number one in politics or in business with WordPress

Regardless of the party platform that you like most, more politicians are building their website platforms with WordPress in their appeal to voters like you. In fact, about 40% of the US Congress, US Senate, and Gubernatorial races and state parties use WordPress.  No single alternative (including Joomla, Drupal, or Expression Engine) comes even close. Overall, WordPress accounts for about 20% of the top million websites across all categories.

Why is WordPress the platform of choice?

It’s first for the same reasons that Added Value Web Services uses it as our preferred platform. Namely, it is:

• Quick and easy to use – Frequent content additions and changes can be made by non-technical staff and published quickly
• Powerful, yet flexible – Websites and subsections of sites can be formatted to fit the needs of their users.
• Many options – There are so many ways to add Search Engine Optimization to make it more likely that the content will be used.

According to Alan Slutsky, director of platform services at Automattic, “[WordPress] allows politicians and candidates a beautiful, fully integrated website that has all of the backbone you need for politics — social features, mailing list signups, voter contact tools… Politicians are coming to WordPress because it’s incredibly easy to use, it’s very flexible, it’s free, it’s open-source and it’s a language that a lot of people speak. As more technologists are coming into politics, they’re using the most intuitive tools — and that’s WordPress.”

Why is this important to you?

Even if politics is not your business, you must connect closely with your customers if you want to stay competitive in your marketplace. A WordPress custom website built by Added Value Web Services can be designed to match your business requirements and your customers’ needs.

• Contact us today to find out more.
• Click on the infographic for a closer look at how WordPress powers political websites. (source)