Do I Need A Website For My Business?
Although we are a website design and marketing company and this may be the one question we could answer with the most bias, the answer is YES… you need a website for your business. That is, unless you do not do any marketing whatsoever or are not looking for any new clients, or have no information that could be beneficial for your customers to find by means other than by calling, emailing, or writing to you.
Although the web is a fantastic platform to markting your products and services relativly cost-free to a global market, the benefits of a website stretch much further than that. Whether you have been in business for 7 days or 7 decades, on of the first things that you will have come to realize is that your customers or potential customers have a string of common questions that you find yourself answering on a daily basis.
Of course face value and phone-time are essential ingredients in closing the sale; however, for the day-to-day questions which customers may need answering or information they may require access to is only avaialbe to them during business hours, and working from the philisophy of ‘time-is-money’ and ‘money-is-time’ each time you find yourself answering these questions is taking away from the time in your day you could be spending prospecting for new customers or taking care of other business-critial items.
The same thing goes for your customers or vendors. In the time they may spend calling you and requesting a form, you print and fax, they recieve and fill-out by hand and then fax back to you, assuming that their call is answered right away, or answered by the appropriate person to handle their request, they could have visited your website filled the form out online, ordered services, and possibly paid you as well…. or downloaded, filled out quickly and ledgibly on the computer and then faxed or emailed. They would have received outstanding customer service from your website, accessed the document they needed (perhaps also saving for ongoing use) and sent you the most legible copy, and saved that piece of paper.
If you are growing your business, looking for new customers, the web is the first place to start with your marketing efforts. Through our SEO (search engine optimization) techniques we at Design Services pride ourselves on having the search engine marketing of your website at the forefront of our thoughts when designing your website. Combining compelling design with agressive search engine strategies we analyze your products or services, your competition, and the unique aspects of your business and your customers to devise the best strategy for marketing your business both online and offline.
If you spend marketing dollars in the Yellow Pages, then a website is a must to back this up. For each lookup in the yellow pages, there are 2 done on yellowpages.com - and with your advertizement in the book, you get a free listing online, so even with a basic website, you are trippling your exposure by having a website to acompany you ad.
Our pricing is extremely competitive and we can help you market your business to the people you need to reach. Please call us, or fill out a quote request form today, and we will get started with a no-obligation needs assesment.