All Forum Posts by: Brayden Winder

Hey Rauph - Brady with Carrot!

1) We're happy to have you :) It sounds like reaching out to the team to explore options for getting help customizing your site either with our team or one of our parntersin the marketplace might be a good next step.

2) "if having a carrot website really helps me?" vs a Wordpress site...

Mohammad hit the nail on the head.

We get a lot of people moving from a custom Wordpress site to Carrot for two reasons:

1. The hidden costs, time management, and risks of Wordpress are real and often overlooked. I've built on worpress personally. You have separate plugins for form builders, SEO plugins, security plugins, analytics plugins, and so on. The cost adds up, you're on the hook for making sure plugins stay up to date since outdated plugins cause vulnerabilities which is when website hacks happen. You also want to get quality hosting and a quality content management system, plugins for compressing images, etc to keep the site loading fast, mobile-friendly & SEO-friendly.

2. Conversion. It's not just about ranking & SEO. When a seller goes to your website from any sort of marketing you're doing, you want them to convert into a lead. The website needs to be structured properly—the right pages in the right spots, robust & helpful written content, forms that are low-resistance and in the right locations with the right verbiage & fields, again it needs to be mobile-friendly and easy to navigate. Sure you can take the time & money to build out a full Wordpress site from scratch and spend time & money maintaining it, fixing things on your own when they break, but we created Carrot to save you the time & headache so you can focus on generating leads & closing deals. At the end of the day a website that misses the mark and isn't built with conversion in mind to capture leads will cost you more. What's 1 lost deal worth?

I get it, I'm biased because I work for Carrot. But I've built on Wordpress, Wix, and Carrot.

I know my reply is late, but hit us up through chat or hop on a call with our team - we'd love to help get you steered in the right direction!