Would you like to expand your market base and look for new customers?
Would you like to have people access your products or services more readily?
Would you like your customers to be able to communicate with you easily at their convenience?
Would you like greater exposure in the market place?
Would you like to stay in regular touch with your customers?

If you answered "yes" to any of the above questions, then you should consider having a business website. The Internet is now considered to be the one big reference book where people go to research products and services, and find information. People are expecting to find all kinds of information online – plus communicate, shop, and discover what they did not know before.

According to Ketchum's, What Are You Doing Online? (http://www.ketchum.com/), people are online searching, sharing, hearing, seeing, spending, and saving. The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports (http://www.pewinternet.org/) more people are seeking information online – whether that be school research, training, work related, government, religious, health, or commerce. Seventy-one percent of Internet users look to online references for the latest market and trend information. As a business owner you need to consider the implications of how potential customers will find your business and communicate with you. Search engines remain the number one way of navigating the Internet.

Advantages for having a web presence include the ability to answer questions by providing a set of FAQ’s (frequently asked questions) for your products and services. Visitors can contact you via various methods – email, webform, chat, blog, etc. Small businesses look really big – playing on the same level with a web presence. Costs of having a website are low compared to other marketing methods, easy to update, and you have access to the global market.

Future trends point to more and more business going online. Customer-based product promotion, Web-site optimization, alternative payment methods, mergers. and "product discovery" are the big online retail trends, according to a recent Forrester Inc. research report.

So, do you need a website? Can you gain from a website? Only you can answer that question.

Your website can enable you:

 -- Reach a global market in a very cost-effective manner
 -- Enhance your customer service by providing product and service information 24 hours a day, seven days a week
 -- Get news out fast about new products and special offers
 -- Publish pictures of your products, clients, projects, whatever – remember “a picture is worth a thousand words”!
 -- Sell directly to customers through your website (ask about our e-Commerce solutions) and offer a choice of payment methods
 -- Reduce your communications, customer service and administrative costs by using e-mail and providing Frequently Asked Questions and Answers (FAQ), order forms and inquiry forms on-line
 -- Run a guestbook or electronic bulletin board to collect customer feedback
 -- Run competitions, offer prizes, discount coupons, free gifts...
 And so much more…

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