Today you cannot afford to have a stagnant website. If a consumer visits your site and is not compelled by it within approximately 8 seconds they will click the BACK button and return to the search engines where they will most likely visit your top competitors' website. This is called a BOUNCE. Your site needs to be attractive and professional. It needs to engage your audience. It needs to convey a need to the consumer and give them a reason to stay there and search. It needs to be content rich, full of information, keywords, links and call to actions. It needs to generate you business!
The problem with all of this is YOU need to be out SELLING! Not building websites. Who has time to sit in front of a computer when they need to be out prospecting, building relationships, closing deals? If you are successful and driven, then you don't have time to build yourself a website. That leaves only one solution: Your site needs me!
** Please note I have added some sites that are still in production. These sites are still GREAT EXAMPLES. The reason I have put them "in production" is so that when you go visit them and you find some unfinished pages that you understand beforehand that it is not finished. However some of my newest sites are also some of my best designs! Be sure not to skip them!