10 good reasons for having a web site
Click on the list below for a few ideas
1. To communicate your ideas
Find customers
Find investors
Exchange information
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2. To streamline your business
Use graphic illustrations to prevent misunderstandings
and to aid their choices
Receive enquiries by email directly to the department responsible
Receive and acknowledge orders even when closed
Customers make informed enquiries, saving time and mistakes
Have remote staff write in orders on line with no need to have
another at base do it for them
Have remote staff update data on line
Save embarrassing waste of time calls
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3. To sell on line
Establish a world wide customer base
Receive orders when out of working hours
Assured of payment
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4. To educate
Empower customers with the knowledge to make
informed enquiries
Offer guidelines on the pitfalls of your industry or profession
Show customers how to measure bespoke items for themselves
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5. To inform a targeted audience
Use password protected areas to keep remote
staff updated
“Members only” areas to provide published and downloadable
documents
Search facilities for technical staff wherever they are
Job vacancies
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6. To inform the world at
large
News pages for press releases
“How to order” pages
Who to speak to
When you are open
Where you are
How to get there
Dispel myths (“I thought I would not be able to afford that”)
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7. To conduct market research
Message board to find out what the world is
thinking
Feed back form for ideas and suggestions
Find out where your “hits” are coming from
Find out the search phrases most used to find you
Find which areas of your site (and therefore your business) interest
most visitors
Find which areas of your site turn people off
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8. To improve your profile
Set out your stall to a potential audience measured
in hundreds of millions
Customers will increasingly expect you to have a web site
Customers will increasingly expect you to have a web site that
informs, educates and provides convenience
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9. To provide convenience
to your customers
Be “open” 24 hours a day 7 days a
week
Make ordering and enquiries easy - even for someone in a different
time zone
All the information they need a few clicks of the mouse away
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10. Level the playing field
between your business and larger competitors
A clean professional site will project your
company's image in a positive way, even if you can only afford
meagre accomodation.
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Contact: sales@newmandesignltd.co.uk
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