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A Neglected Challenge of Business
"Innumerable Web sites and charts and graphs used in business
are just mush to me," said Jim Doane. Font colors and background
colors make the reading impossible for Doane.
He is one of the two in one hundred males (and rare females)...
Building skills in information marketing will boost your business
Yesterday I was sitting on a train going into London when I thought I’d take a look around the carriage just to see what everyone was doing. I wanted to make a mental note because my five year old son always asks me ‘what happened at your work today...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION FILES! Organizing Your Office By Task
Lights, Camera, ACTION FILES! Organizing Your Office By Task Your desk is the most important part of your office. It is a work space, however many people make the mistake of using the desk as a storage space! In order for you to be focused on the...
Presentation Design – Why Is "Well Done" So Rare?
Your job as a presentation designer is to make ideas into visual images. For your presentations to work, the visual images must convey exactly what you want to say and require the least possible effort on the part of your audience to “get it”. The...
Take a Leap! How to Take Your Business to New Heights
Take a Leap! How to Take Your Business to New Heights By Tresaca Hamilton Take a moment to reflect on the current reality of your business. Is it everything you dreamed it would be or is it more like a nightmare? Regardless of the current...
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What is the purpose of a website?
After looking over hundreds of websites over the past year, the one thing I discovered is people are still unsure of what the Internet can do for them. People are generally under the impression that a website is used to take their business to the next level – expand from a local market to a global market. Most people still don’t realize the benefits of a website to a local market – and to a new, small and growing business.
Unless you sell a popular product online, you will not make huge waves with your website. Instead, think of your website as you do your phone number. You can’t start a business without your basics, and your website should be considered a basic part of doing business. Start by building your site using a basic format. Include your products, information about your business and general overviews and articles that pertain to your industry. Keep it simple, clean and well thought out and put together. Then expand as your business expands.
Put your web address on every piece of literature that leaves your business: business cards, brochures and mailers, shopping bags, your voicemail, stickers, invoices and packaging. Anything that can have your information should provide your web address. Then let time work and provide you with customers you could never dream of accessing through traditional marketing.
Let’s consider a gift basket business for a minute. Imagine receiving a phone call for a specialized baby gift basket from a local corporate client. They have a great customer in another state having a baby, and want to show their care and appreciation by sending a basket. You attach a business card to the basket, and add their mailing address to your database. Several months later, this client is back at work, and is putting together a tradeshow for their company.
They remember your company because they were so impressed by your basket, and have been receiving postcards with your product information regularly. They go to your website, see your corporate themed baskets, and select a style suitable for their tradeshow. They place an order for 100 customized baskets. An order you never would have had if you hadn’t had a website.
That is the power of a website. It can drive new clients to your site through referrals and through customer contact. Providing it is well thought out and put together, and has the ability to create the sale, it will help your business tremendously. Don’t worry that you only have a few pages to start. A few carefully crafted pages are much better than a lot of useless information that leaves the viewer lost as to what you do. Start small, and grow as your company does.
Make it a goal to add spend a couple of hours every month adding new information to your site. Add tools and features that make it fun for your visitors. And remember to always ask for the sale. You should ultimately lead people to take action by either contacting you or making a purchase directly online. Adding content is time consuming, but has a very successful outcome. The more time you spend on the Internet, the more you will learn, and the more successful you will be.
About the Author
About the Author Lori Osterberg co-founded http://www.SnapMonkey.com which specializes in an online website building system that allows business owners to take charge of their website at a very affordable price. They also provide website design and marketing training online, through teleclasses, presentation and training sessions. Reach her at 303-522-6348, mailto:info@SnapMonkey.com, or visit Lori’s website at http://www.SnapMonkey.com.
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