How does having a website help my business?
Firstly, having a company website exposes your company to
potentially millions of customers all across the globe. It is an opportunity
to showcase your products and services at very affordable rates, 24/7
to potential clients, existing customers and business partners.
Having a professional website instills confidence in your
company's credentials. With the right features, your company website can
value-add to your business by offering support to customers who require
after-hours information. It is a means for them to contact you, learn
more about your business and products or services.
An e-commerce enabled website will allow you to make sales
at any time of the day, 365 days a year. The cost of which is many times
lower than hiring a full-time staff. The rate of people using the internet
to make purchases and shopping decisions is raising exponentially. This
is a market which you can ill-afford to miss out on.
How do potential customers find my site?
More than 90% of your visitors will come from search engines.Very
few people will remember your web address although promotional materials
do help. Therefore, to guarantee good traffic flow to your site, a high
rankings in the major search engines is most desirable. However, this
is not as simple as having a webpage and submitting it to all the search
engines.
All search engines have their own set of rules for determining
which web page is listed at which number for the different searches made.
An indepth knowledge of their workings is required to build your site
up to have a high chance of ranking highly. As such, it is better to engage
professionals to accomplish this. No point having the most wonderful website
but noone knows about it.
What are the benefits of web advertising over conventional
print and media advertising?
Websites allow visitors to interact and find the information
they need to make a decision about you. They can offer more information.
You can make updates to them easily. They are accessible by anyone with
an internet connection. There are no geographical boundaries.
Based on cost alone, the fact that they are available 24
hours a day, 365 days a year make them more cost-efficient than your 1-minute
TV commercial or daily small ad in the local newspaper.