“It’s been said visibility equals opportunity. No matter how great your product, service or business is, if your prospective customer can’t find you on the web, it’s like you don’t exist.”

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Denise Wakeman

• Do you want to expand your business beyond your current customer base?

• Do your prospective clients use the Web to look for your type of products or services?

• Do you sell or offer a service that people research before they buy?
  

• Do your competitors have websites?

• Are your competitors larger than you?

• Do you spend a lot of time explaining your business to prospective clients?

• Do your clients themselves have websites?

• Do you want to reduce your sales and marketing costs?

• Do you find yourself answering the same customer questions, again and again?

• Do you want to increase the effectiveness of your business development activities?

If you answered "Yes" to any of these questions, you need a website.

 

More reasons to have a website:

1. Open your business to the world 24/7, 365 days a year

2. Online brochure / catalog that can be changed at any time

3. Reach new markets with a global audience

4. Improve customer service

5. Present a professional image

6. Sell your products

7. Promote your services

8. Gather information and generate valuable leads

9. Provide instant gratification

10. Great recruiting tool

"Recently, when it became evident that we had drain field problems, I did some research through the internet to find a contractor. The websites that were the most helpful, educational, and easily navigated were the companies we called. I would say that if a 50-something woman with modest computer skills is doing consumer research via website, you can be sure that the vast majority of the population is fine-tuned to this research before buying. Be sure, consumers are doing their research on the web!"

Becky J.

"Over the last five years, our website has been responsible for 41% of our business. Local, national and international customers all use the internet to find us. I believe in this era there is no better marketing investment."

See the website at www.grapeviewpointboatworks.com

Tom Regan, Grapeview Point Boat Works

"Even if you're not planning on selling online, a well-crafted site is essential for any business.

...when it comes to benefiting from a website, size does not matter. I don't care if you're a one-man show or a 10,000-employee corporate giant; if you don't have a website, you're losing business to other companies that do."

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Tim W. Knox