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Tips on Using A Web Site
The Web Helper has a few tips for setting up and using a web site to promote your particular business niche:
Before building your web site you may want to read these short FAQ sheets/positiion papers I have prepared. They are based on my 11 plus years helping others build their online businesses.
If you want to start an online "Mom and Pop" Small Businesses you may want to read this on eCommerce before starting.
For those of you who have a "Brick's and Mortar" store already and are considering expanding or adding an online version of their store may want to read this on eCommerce.
Consultants who want to use the Internet as a means to promote their services should consider these points.
Aspiring politicians or issue-advocates who want to use the Internet as a means to promote themselves or their issues should consider these points.
Anyone wanting to promote their web sites aggressively using the pay-per-click search engines should read this comparison between the "Free" search engines and the pay-per-click search engines.
Need a great resource for marketing/promoting your web site? Check out Ad Land Pro which is a Web Promotion Service that has a wide variety of Free and Paid submission services.
Why does your company need a Web site?
An on-line presence for your company is simply a part (an increasingly bigger part!) of your business' overall marketing strategy and effort:
- What are your current advertising and marketing efforts?
- How will a Web site improve both?
- How will a Web site improve the company's overall public image and provide user information?
- How will a Web site keep people coming back?
- How will a Web site save day to day business dollars and resources?
- How will a Web site increase profit?
There are several reasons a Web site will be beneficial to your company:
- You suddenly are on an equal footing, opportunity wise with the largest companies.
- You can reach a potential 80 million Americans and approximately 200 million people worldwide (U.S. Department of Commerce), or reach a strong, qualified market locally. See this article from ZDNet News explaining how you are a business with a global presence.
- You have free demographics and market research gathering capability from both the Internet and from visitors to your Web site.
- You can gather information about your competitors who are on-line as well as information that can help your business in general.
- You can allow customers to access information about your company, obtain product and service information, support, updates , and news.
- You will reduce phone charges, fax charges, paper, mailing costs, printing costs, and office personnel.
- You will participate in a fast-growing, interactive, multimedia environment at a fraction of traditional print and television advertising costs.
- You will increase profit!
Did you know that . . .
- Small businesses who use the Internet have grown 46% faster than those that do not. (American City Business Journals)
- Forty-four percent of U.S. companies are selling online; 36% more say they will do so by the end of the year. (Association of National Advertisers)
- High-tech has driven more than a quarter of all economic growth since 1993. (U.S. Department of Commerce)
- Number of pages on the Web: 800 million. (NEC Research Institute)
- Mediamark Research Inc. has released data which suggests that there are 64.2 million adults going online in the U.S. every month.
- 56 percent of U.S. companies will sell their products online by 2000, up from 24 percent in 1998. (NUA)
- A survey of 30,000 consumers in 30 nations found that the U.S. not only has the fastest-growing number of Internet users, but the largest proportion of e-commerce consumers. (Roper Starch Worldwide)
- 25% of Web users have household incomes exceeding $80,000.00 per year. (A. C. Nielsen)
- 64% of Web users hold college degrees. (A. C. Nielsen)
- On-line usage of the Internet exceeds total rental video play time nationwide. (A. C. Nielsen)
- The largest age group of Internet users is between 25 and 44 years of age. (A. C. Nielsen)
OK. How can WWWHelper help you?
WWWHelper will view your existing business promotional materials, help you design a rough Web site sketch, provide some creative input, and give you a project bid to develop your site. Once you supply any text or images we may need, we will get going! We can simply provide you with a professional presence, or we can do full custom graphic design, multimedia, JAVA, CGI, database solutions, shopping cart mechanisms, secure forms, and more!
What else?
- Once your site is designed, you will need to select a good host. A host is simply a reliable and high-speed network where your Web site physically resides so everyone in the world with Internet access can view it. Click hosting for more information on our superb and very cost-effective hosting services.
- Once your site is developed, you want to make sure that the site is well propagated on-line. WWWHelper will also consult with you to assist the company in conducting on-line research, or in providing other more targeted, intensive on-line advertising efforts.
- We suggest that you advertise your Web site address, Email address, and points about your Web site in all of your promotional materials and business cards. You may want to run ads just for the purpose of promoting your Web site.
- Check out your competition on-line.
- Visit industry related sites and negotiate a listing and/or reciprocal link to your site.
- Don't forget the experts are here to help you! Email us or fill in our information request form for more information or to provide us with a good time to call you.
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