Name

Website World

Legal name

Website World Communications

Website

https://websiteworld.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Knoxville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Web Design Services: Custom website design and development services for businesses, churches, and organizations. Services include e-commerce development, logo design, and portfolio of completed projects.
2. Web Hosting Services: Self-owned and operated high-performance hosting infrastructure with custom-tuned servers for WordPress and OpenCart. Billed quarterly or annually. Includes email services, DNS management, and server administration.
3. Online Marketing & SEO: Precision-targeted advertising across Google and social media, SEO solutions, and strategic online marketing campaigns for maximum ROI.
4. Social Media Management: Social media promotion and management services integrating brand voice across YouTube, Facebook, and other platforms.
5. 360 Virtual Tours: 360-degree photography services for Google Maps and Facebook integration to improve online business presence.
6. Domain Name Registration: Domain registration and management services through their registrar platform at register.websiteworld.com.
7. Credit Card Processing: Merchant account services enabling real-time credit card transaction processing including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and eCheck. Offered through partnership with NDMS Direct.
8. eBay & Amazon Store Services: eBay and Amazon store setup and optimization services leveraging veteran experience since 1999 (eBay) and 2000 (Amazon).

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

Website World designs, builds, hosts and markets custom websites for small and medium-sized businesses, churches and organizations. Its core offering combines custom web design, managed hosting on company-owned servers, e-commerce development across Shopify, WooCommerce and OpenCart, SEO, paid online advertising, social media management and 360-degree virtual tours, sold as bundled design projects plus recurring hosting and marketing subscriptions.

Product overview

Website World is a web design and hosting company offering a comprehensive suite of digital services centered around its core website design and hosting platform. The product portfolio includes custom website design (website design services), e-commerce solutions (OpenCart, Shopify, WooCommerce), managed web hosting on company-owned infrastructure, domain registration, credit card processing, SEO solutions, online advertising, social media management, logo design, 360 virtual tours, email campaigns, and marketplace stores (eBay/Amazon). All services are delivered in-house by a local Knoxville team led by founder Mike Biddle since 1998, with the company owning and operating its own hosting infrastructure for performance optimization.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Website Design Services

Quantifiable outcome

• Reduced website load time from 17.4 seconds to 2.4 seconds for malware-infected site (Gaim Golf)
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers12 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• NDMS DirectminorGTM or Marketing PartnerNDMS Direct is a merchant services provider. Website World refers customers to NDMS Direct for credit card processing, merchant accounts, and payment gateway services. The partnership enables Website World clients to accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Discover, and eCheck payments through real-time transaction processing.
• Tennessee Website HostingcoreTechnology or IntegrationTennessee Website Hosting (tennesseewebsitehosting.com) is the company's own hosting subsidiary that provides custom-tuned server infrastructure for WordPress and OpenCart. Website World designs and hosts websites and owns/operates its own high-performance, secure server infrastructure as a core differentiator.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Straight North: Web design + SEO + digital marketing services for SMB and mid-market clients. Directly comparable services and customer overlap, with a stronger national footprint than Website World.
• Thrive Internet Marketing Agency: Digital marketing agency providing web design, SEO, social media, and hosting-related services. Closely comparable offering stack and SMB customer base to Website World, though operating nationally rather than from a regional base.
• SmartSites: SMB-focused web design and digital marketing agency with similar website + SEO + paid media offering. Comparable customer profile and one-stop positioning to Website World's Knoxville SMB practice.
• WebFX: Full-service digital marketing agency offering web design, SEO, PPC, and social media to SMBs and mid-market clients. Directly comparable business model — multi-product digital services sold to smaller businesses across the US — but at meaningfully larger scale.
• Blue Fountain Media: Digital agency offering web design, branding, and online marketing. Overlapping services and SMB/mid-market focus, serving as a larger, more brand-recognized analog to Website World.
• Lounge Lizard: Web design and digital marketing agency offering website design, SEO, PPC, and social media for SMB and mid-market clients. Closely aligned service mix and customer segment to Website World.
• Big Drop Inc: Web design and digital marketing agency working with SMBs and growing brands. Similar bundled services (design, development, marketing) to Website World, though skewing to larger clients.

Emerging players

• WP Site Care: WordPress-specific support, maintenance, and hosting service for SMBs. Overlaps with Website World's WordPress hosting, security, and malware remediation offerings, but focused exclusively on the WordPress stack.
• Koombea: Web design and development agency targeting SMBs and startups with custom builds and digital product development. Comparable SMB web design delivery but with a more product/development orientation than Website World's marketing-led mix.

Broad incumbents

• GoDaddy: Mass-market domain registrar, hosting provider, and website builder that competes directly with Website World's hosting, domain registration, and basic web design services as part of a much broader product portfolio aimed at SMBs.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/ActorMikeBiddle
• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/websiteworld
• Facebookfacebook.com/KnoxvilleWebsiteDesign
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/actormike
• Instagraminstagram.com/ActorMike

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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