How Your Website And E-mail Address Affects Your Marketing

One of my personal pet peeves is how few people in my business take the very simple step of registering a domain name and putting up even the simplest of websites to show that they are in business. This comic from The Oatmeal sums it up for me:

We live in an age where being web savvy is a requirement for pretty much every job out there. Without a reasonable business card website, your own domain name and some professional looking business cards, how do you expect people to take you seriously?