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Why Create A Web SiteThe reasons for creating a web site vary from person to person and company to company. Some people and organisations create web sites to describe interest groups and allow that group to grow extensively online. However, the majority of companies want to expand there client base in order to bring in more money, since profit is the bottom line of a successful business.So the questions you are probably asking are:
How do you increase revenue?The inclusion of your web site address of company stationary is one way to get information across to potential customers without them being force fed sales babble. If a customer is interested they are now more than likely to visit your web site to find out information they want, when they want. It gives the customer a type of power they don’t get from talking to a sales representative. Although, you have to make sure your web site is easy to navigate and that the information a potential customer is interested in is easy to find. You do not want to confuse the customer in a way that they close their web browser and have nothing more to do with your company!Your web site should contain what the customer wants to see, not what you think they want to see. By doing this potential customers will be happy to contact a sales representative for more information or if providing an online payment option buy your product! Designing the web site in a way that makes it search engine friendly, along with optimizing techniques that are provided by SDA Solutions make it easier to get an higher ranking will make it easy for potential customers to view your product/service, not just regionally but nationally and even internationally. How do you reduce expenses?By putting your company information and products/services onto a web site, allows for the company to experiment with a new marketing media. The internet should not become your only marketing plan it should be used as a part of your current plan. Over time with steady growth of ROI the internet can become your major revenue earner, which in turn will lower administration costs and other infrastructural costs you will not necessarily need.Customers buying their products online cuts out a lot of the hassles involved with a sales force competing for a sale. The customer browsing your web site takes no resources whatsoever from your work force, if they then decide to buy then they complete the transaction before needing any involvement from yourselves (delivery, accounts etc) and therefore increasing sales at a lower cost. How do you bring in more customers?This was touched upon in How do you increase revenue. The Search Engine Optimisation undertaken by SDA Solutions during the web design and deployment of your web site, allows for your site to be picked up by the internet search engines. This alone will bring in traffic to your web site.Along with search engines bringing in extra traffic, there are some other means to bring in traffic, such as pay per click advertising. This service is offered by the major search engines. It works by placing your website above the normal search engine listings when a user has searched for the terms you have defined. This is a pre-qualified lead as the user is looking for the products and services your site offers giving a high chance of them purchasing from you. The cost of this service can be anywhere between 10p and 50p a click. Another strategy would be to offer an affiliate program. An affiliate program allows other web sites to advertise your products and services on their site. If a visitor to there site then wishes to buy a product from your website then they are normally forwarded to your site where the transaction is completed. You would then pay a commission to the web site that provided the lead. Each method has its own advantages and disadvantages and these strategies should be researched by you before entering into. SDA Solutions can discuss these methods with you and guide you along the way. How do you bring in more customers?Once you have an online customer base you should have recorded, names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers etc that can be used if the customer has asked to be updated by new products and services. This information can then be used to form marketing campaigns to target existing customers with promotional offers etc.This information provided should encourage you to venture into the internet and SDA Solutions will partner youall the way. |
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