Short answer: yes, you do. But let me explain why, because "you need a website" can sound like advice from someone who builds websites for a living. Fair point. So here is the honest version. Facebook is useful. It is free, your customers are already on it, and people can message you directly. If you have been running your business from a Facebook page and it is working, that is not a small thing. A lot of businesses get real work from it. But here is the problem: Facebook owns your page. Not you. They can change the algorithm, reduce how many people see your posts, restrict your account, or change the rules overnight. It has happened to real businesses — pages removed by mistake, accounts restricted during busy periods, organic reach tanked by a platform update. When that happens, there is no helpline. There is no quick fix. You just lose access to your audience. Your website belongs to you. It is your address on the internet, and no one can take it away. More importantly, people find it through Google — and that is where most searches actually start. Not on Facebook. When someone types "electrician in Croydon" or "dog groomer near me" into Google, a Facebook page usually is not what comes up. A website is. And if you do not appear in those results, you are invisible to a whole group of people who are actively looking for exactly what you offer. There is also the credibility piece. Some people, when they cannot find a website for a business, do start to wonder. It is not that you are not legitimate — it is just that a website does a quiet job of saying this is a proper setup. A clean, simple site with your services, location, and contact details does that without you having to say anything. You do not need anything complicated. Five pages covering what you do, who you work with, where you are based, and how to get in touch is genuinely enough to start. You can keep running your Facebook page at the same time — they work well alongside each other. One more thing: Facebook has content rules, advertising restrictions, and formatting limits. Your website has none of that. You can explain your services in as much or as little detail as you like, show your prices if you want to, and lay things out however makes sense for your business. The short version: Facebook is a tool. A useful one. But it is rented space on someone else's platform. A website is yours — and over time, owning your corner of the internet is worth far more than relying on a platform you have no control over.