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10 Reasons Why Companies Should Start Doing Business Online
With the rapid down fall of world economy and dot-com companies in recent years many brick-and-mortar companies and new start-ups ask themselves: To Be Online or Not to Be Online?
Not long time ago, I read a comment of a well-known industry...
3 High-Impact Fixes For Your Marketing Woes
Copyright 2005 Cutts Group, llc
How many times has your competitor gotten one over on you? The feeling of being left behind just eats away, until you do something about. The problem is that we often feel that we’ve got to come up with some grand...
It Pays To Be An Ace
On Jan 1st 2005 a new online payment processor and wealth-building system will be arriving on the Internet. PayAce’s CEO Pedro Dispenza kindly took time out to answer some questions about this new service. Interviewed by Bryan Small 2004 [Bryan]...
Managers, Got a Grip on Your PR?
What are you trying to do with your business, non-profit or association public relations program? Get a little publicity for a service or product? Or, perhaps, you’re doing what you really should do, persuade your key external stakeholders to...
Marketing the Government for Profit
Steps and tips on marketing your business to the government. Fact: Federal, state and local governments buy over $450 billion combined in goods and services each year. Part of that can be yours if you know how to get it. Fact: Federal...
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Do You Really Need A Website To Succeed
Rosalind wants to share her inspirational poetry with a wider community. Alas, poor Rosalind lives in a remote town.
Jonathan is a graphics artist who settled in a mountain resort community after he left college. He would like to start a graphics business in this new location but office space in local buildings is far too expensive and his meager advertising budget wouldn't attract enough customers to get started.
Merle was a secretary at a college for many years. She retired recently. She misses the interaction with students. And spends her time surfing the Internet. She has an idea for starting a business matching students with other students in her community who are looking to share housing. And thinks the Internet would be a perfect avenue to reach out to them and attract clients.
What do they have in common?
- They need to reach a wider audience.
- They have a product or service to sell.
- They have a talent to promote.
- Their funds are very limited.
If you can relate to a few of the above and answered "Yes" this sounds exactly like me!
Well, you need a website!
Thanks to modern technology, the rapid
advancement of the Internet, computers, and peripheral equipment, the Internet offers individuals an avenue to inexpensively market, promote, or sell a product, service, or business. People across the planet will have immediate twenty-four hour access to your website.
In fact, anyone with an Internet connection and a few basic computer skills can easily build a website for free or very inexpensively.
So, what are you waiting for?
Having a website is a convenient and cost effective way to market your business and reach a larger consumer base. Once it was thought having a business on the Internet was out of reach for the average person. That is certainly no longer true! Make it your goal to build a website here and now!
BB Lee is Editor/Publisher of SmallBizBits Home Based
Business Newsletter. Subscribe Now and receive a free ebook!
Visit http://www.geocities.com/smallbizbits
BB Lee is the editor and the publisher of SmallBizBits Home Based Business Newsletter. And a published free lance writer.
smallbizbit@yahoo.com
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