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2-Low staffing costs.
When you have a web site, you can offer your products and services without hiring any extra employees. You won't have to spend any resources on compensating or insuring your new staff members and still be able to maintain the same level of sales and customer service.3-Gain thousands new customers.
Because anyone in the world can see your web site, you will gain customers from other states and countries while you are putting in the same amount of effort and money.4-Save on postage and printing costs.
Think of how many cards you mail out to let customers know about your sale's or Promotions?. All of that can be eliminated by putting the sale information on your web site and inviting your customers to visit it! You can collect your customers' E-Mail addresses and keep in touch with them about special events in your store via E-Mail.5-Create an image of a well established company.
The Internet is a great medium through which you can create any image of yourself you want. It is all in your hands: design a professional web site, add helpful content, and your company will immediately take a step up in the image it represents. No matter how small your business is, with the right tools and a great desire you can make it look like a corporation on the Web!6-Unlimited advertisement.
If you ever advertised in a local newspaper, you know the costs. You are being charged per line, per inch, and per color. On the Web, there is no limit to how much you can put. You can add pictures, articles, newsletters, rates, product images and so much more! With just one web site, you can have almost unlimited advertisement for the same low monthly cost (under $25 a month!)7-Impeccable customer service.
This is a dream of any entrepreneur: "Buy my product and leave me alone". By this I mean that business owners do not like to spend time explaining to customers how to use the product, how to install it, troubleshoot it, clean it, move it, turn it, and whatever else can be done to a purchased item. Let your web site take the worries out!8-A web site will become your best friend in meeting the needs of your customers.
It will answer all their questions. Simply create a page of "Frequently Asked Questions" and include its address on every receipt. This way, before they come to you for help, they will come to your web site for answers.9-Provide an alternate purchasing method.
Many people do not like to shop in the stores, malls and any other noisy places (I am first!). They are afraid of long walks, pressure from sales people, sneezing customers and bumping shopping carts. Once they discover online shopping - they will never go back to the stores unless absolutely necessary. By putting your products online, you satisfy the needs of such customers and therefore succeed in one more niche in your target Market.10-Beat your competition to the top.
Competition online is huge today! There are over 3,000,000 sites on the Web and this number is growing. Still, I see at least 5 businesses a month who are not online and getting a web site is not in their near future plans. Why am I telling you this? Because if THEY don't get a web site - YOU have a better chance at succeeding. Insurance, home improvement, gift shops and other companies are among those I see dragging their feet in putting their businesses online. This means if you do it now, before EVERY company is online, you will be among the pioneers!
