10 MAIN REASONS
TO HAVE A WEBSITE:

       CHEAP FORM OF  ADVERTISEMENT - After the initial design of the site - it's  less than $10 per month to have a website! The Internet is being used on a regular basis by millions of people worldwide with more connecting every day. Many of the new users come from countries aroundthe world. They want to buy the "latest and greatest" products. They have money. With the Internet they can become your customer! How much do you think it would cost you to advertise in California, New York and Florida everyday for a year? Compare that to the cost of a website for a year.

         ANSWER REPETITIVE QUESTIONS - Websites are a great way to provide personalized support for your customers with answers to common questions; such as store hours! Easily provide assistance on specific products or services, and a variety of ways in which you can be  contacted. Do all this without answering a phone or hiring additional staff. Every business should have a website to send customers and clients for more information.When it is busy in your store, not all visitors will be able to speak to one of your sales people. Opportunities to cross sell ("did you see that we also sell ...") are lost. But on a carefully constructed website you can make sure that people are exposed to other offers that may interest you. A classic example is Amazon.com, which is very successful with an automated suggestion feature ("Customers who bought this title also bought:...").


         EASILY MAKE CHANGES - If you have produced "paper" catalogs or brochures then you know how difficult and expensive it is to change them. You want to add a new item, or the phone company changed your area code. No, no! What a pain with paper! With your Internet site, changing anything is a simple and inexpensive process.Brochures and flyers only allow for a few lines of communication. A carefully crafted website can guide your clients, suppliers or employees through page after page of information. Another advantage is that you can add audio and video to these pages - something that paper communication tools cannot offer.

         EASIER TO REMEMBER - When you are on the road passing by an advertisement It is easier to remember a website URL than a telephone number - Especially if your not familiar with the area code!

        NO MORE SMUDGES! - Your portfolio will always look it's best! No more smudges or ripped pages to worry about and It can't get shuffled to the side of the desk and mixed in with all the other paperwork for that major design firm            you're trying to land. For the freelance artists, designers, comics, poets, and all other individualists who are trying to get ther name out in the world - the days of paper portfolios are over!

        SOCIETY - In today's fast-paced business world businesses without a web presence will be left behind. Online shopping and searching is becoming the standard and millions search for services everyday on the Internet. With such a vast and active market available through the World Wide Web, a company (No Matter The Size!) would be foolish not to take advantage of the Internet as a business promotional tool. EVERY small or home-based business should consider a website. There are certainly some businesses where a website offers nothing of value but for the vast majority a website can be a very effective sales channel and marketing tool.

        E-Mail - Communicate anywhere in the world with customers and employees and pay NO long distance telephone charges. Create a professional email addressthat is specific to you or your business (such as tech@cgrafiks.com) and eliminate the endless paper trails and waiting days for the post man! For example, you can send an updated proposal to a client across the country - and have results within the same day! Added benefit: you will have an email address Something@Somewhere.com, so you will never have to change addresses again! (Not even in case you decide to witch Internet providers - for instance from Frontier to Charter)

        Reach customers that speak a foreign language Why restrict your market to the "English-speaking" world? Translate your website into a number of languages and offer a choice to users when they come to your home page to further increase your exposure.

        Try new ideas CHEAP! - When you use the Internet, you can try new ideas usually for little invested on your part. It doesn't work, OK, you learned. Modify it your idea. Improve it. At the very least you'll know more than your competitors. Who could imagine that authors would put their books on the Internet? Well, that's what people are trying with the hope that customer's will like what they read enough so that they'll buy the paper version.

        ADVERTISE SPECIALS - Say you just received a new product and you want to advertise a "special." Reaching your customers via the phone, sending a letter, or FAX would be time-consuming and expensive. With the Internet you can send out an e-mail to 500 of your best customers with the click of your mouse. You can put a "SPECIAL" notice on your website advertising the new product.

3 Types of Websites:

1.PERSONAL WEBSITES
One of the most popular types of sites that people choose to build. Usually about their hobbies and interests ; complete with pictures and text.
Many families are no longer in the same geographical area; they may even be spread over several countries... A website can be a great way to keep in contact. Share pictures, movies, stories on a website for all family members to see.

2.BUSINESS WEBSITES
Whether you plan to sell products online or just want to tell customers about your business's services, you can do so with a business website. Mom and Pop operations, small businesses, and large corporations alike are promoting their businesses using the power of a website.

3.WEB BLOGS
Another form of a personal website is the increasingly popular blog or weblog. Blogs are simply an online journal. Some use them for venting, others for sharing stories and even more just a place to pen their thoughts and feelings in cyber space.

TIPS: -

By offering clients access to a website just for them, you can reward them for their loyalty.This website can for instance be used to offer specials, unique tips or other benefits. You can create an online club for Loyal Customers.

Websites allow you to offer Service 365/24/7 !

Websites allow you to present your target audience with something fun. Flash animations. as a quirky way to make a point or explain something, can build a lot of goodwill. Skilful copywriting can be used to solicit a wink and a smile from time to time. Sales is all about emotion, and websites allow you many ways to evoke these in a favourable way. But makesure that the FUN is appropriate, or else you will be evoking powerful negative emotions.

Pre-launch campaigns can be highly effective. Websites can be used to build the buzz, havea few teasers, a countdown clock, press releases and news about the ongoing campaign. You may even show a picture
of just a tiny part of the new product: "can you guess
what it is?"

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